BUSS Round 1 - Kansas BEATS Arkansas

[ironman]

Kansas


Capital City: Topeka
State Bird: Western Meadowlark
Famous Kansans:
Barry Sanders, Football Player
Bob Dole, Politician
Dennis Hopper, Actor
Walter Johnson, Baseball Player
Amelia Earhart, Aviator

Quick Facts
- A ball of twine in Cawker City measures over 38' in circumference and weighs more than 16,750 pounds and is still growing.

- A grain elevator in Hutchinson is 1/2 mile long and holds 46 million bushels in its 1,000 bins.

- South of Ashland, the Rock Island Bridge is the longest railroad bridge of its kind. It measures 1,200 feet long and is 100 feet above the Cimarron River.

- At Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, waterbeds for horses are used in surgery.

- Kansas won the award for most beautiful license plate for the wheat plate design issued in 1981.

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Arkansas


Capital City: Little Rock
State Bird: Mockingbird
Famous Arkansans:
Maya Angelou, Poet
Johnny Cash, Singer
Dizzy Dean, Baseball Player
John Grisham, Author
Douglas MacArthur, General
Scott Joplin, Musician

Quick Facts
- Elevations in the state range from 54 feet above sea level in the far southeast corner to 2,753 feet above at Mount Magazine, the state's highest point.

- North Little Rock offers one of the nation's largest municipal parks.

- The community of Mountain View is called the Folk Capital of America. The little town preserves the pioneer way of life and puts it on display for visitors at the Ozark Folk Center State Park from March through October.

- Arkansas contains over 600,000 acres of lakes and 9,700 miles of streams and rivers.

- The state contains six national park sites, two-and-a half million acres of national forests, seven national scenic byways, three state scenic byways, and 50 state parks.

[bronxxbomber]

Got to go with home of the Little Rock .

[logan]

it's the "barry" factor for me kansas

[Shadow of the Sun*]

I have driven through Kansas multiple times to get to Colorado from St Louis to go skiing and have been pulled over for speeding multiple times. No way the Kansas cops get my vote.

[acsguitar]

Kansas is the most boring state ever...That and north dakota

[daullaz]

The roads in Arkansas are beyond horrible. So Kansas for me.

[3 run homer]

Wizard of Oz is cool so Kansaw for me

[slomo007]

How is Arkansas getting ANY votes?

That state is HORRIBLE.

[Holy Hand Grenade]

These states suck, but Kansas sucks more. At least Arkansas has a Hot Springs and Little Rock isn't such a bad town. Now that William Burroughs is dead, there is literally nothing in Kansas. It could disappear tomorrow and I don't think anyone would notice.

My suggestion for Kansas: We remake it into the nation's junkyard. Any waste, toxic or otherwise, heads there to die. Now that's some Intelligent Design.

[acsguitar]

Slick Willy Clinton is from Arkansas that makes it cool