Hidden Treasures of the Blue Ridge Quiz

Match one from column A with one from column B
Answers at the bottom of this page...no cheating!

Questions:

 1. Where can one find a large painting of the first president of Washington College and one of Virginia Tech’s Burruss Hall?

 2. Where can one peek inside an octagonal rest-room designed by a famous Virginian with red hair for his summer home?

 3. Whose poetry has BRT printed more than once: George Washington, Patrick Henry, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart, or Jubal A. Early?

 4. Which woman traveled with Indians along the Kanawha River?

 5. Where can one drive and find two old colleges side-by-side whose histories intertwine with the Civil War?

 6. What is the oldest woman’s college in Virginia?

 7. Where can you visit the collection of books by the author of “Goodnight, Moon”?

 8. What famous general attended WestPoint and is buried next to Carter Glass in Lynchburg?

 9. What Valley town hosts “Teas with the First Ladies” every summer?

10. Where can you have a tour of a frontier home filled with American antiques, listen to chants on a stone bench in a little “Benedictine Abbey” and buy books on gardening?

11. Where can you find a buffalo ranch and shop?

12. What famous frontier soldier and explorer lived in Winchester?

13. Where is the new Museum of the Shenandoah Valley?

14. What Battlefield was the place where many young boy soldiers died?

15. Where is the Woodrow Wilson Museum?

16. Where is the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum?

17. Where can you find old issues of BRT?

Answers:

A. Mary Draper Ingles

B. Staunton

C. Laura Ingalls Wilder

D. Hollins University

E. Hotel Roanoke

F. Willa Cather

G. Claudius Crozet

H. Jubal Anderson Early

I. Strasburg

J. Buffalo Springs Herb Farm

K. Raphine

L. Riner

M. Daniel Morgan

N. Jeb Stuart

O. Poplar Forest

P. Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins

Q. Winchester

R. New Market

S. Farmers Market

T. Lexington

U. blueridgetraditions.com

V. Mary Baldwin College

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Answers:
1.E; 2.O; 3.N; 4.A; 5.T; 6.D; 7.P; 8.H; 9.I; 10.J; 11.L; 12.M; 13.Q; 14.R; 15.B; 16.D; 17.U.