2. What noted dictionary maker’s birthplace can be visited in Hartford? [Answer]
3. Bristol has a museum for what colorful fairground rides? [Answer]
4. What important naval items are based at Groton? [Answer]
5. What major white-collar industry is associated with Hartford? [Answer]
6. What pro hockey team plays its home games at the Hartford Civic Center? [Answer]
7. What very old Bible could you see in Yale University’s Rare Book Library? [Answer]
8. What historic river flows through the center of Connecticut? [Answer]
9. What boring household items are made very interesting in a Bristol museum? [Answer]
10. What’s the distinction of the Lake Compounce Festival Park in Connecticut? [Answer]
The First State, Delaware
1. Why does Delaware call itself the First State? [Answer]
2. What tree connected with Christmas is the state tree? [Answer]
3. What tiny colorful bug is the state’s official insect? [Answer]
4. Why is Rehoboth Beach called the “Summer Capital”? [Answer]
5. What noted chemical company do we associate with Wilmington, Delaware? [Answer]
6. Delaware has the fewest counties of any state. How many? [Answer]
7. Treasures of the Sea in Georgetown displays what type of item from the ocean bottom? [Answer]
8. The Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes honors what ethnic group? [Answer]
9. The famous DuPont family of Delaware got their start by producing what product? [Answer]
10. The Delmarva Peninsula is divided among Delaware and what two other states? [Answer]
The Sunshine State, Florida
1. What popular tourist attraction opened in 1971? [Answer]
2. What (as if you couldn’t guess) is Florida’s chief industry? [Answer]
3. What city is only ninety miles from Havana, Cuba? [Answer]
4. What Spanish explorer who visited the state is commemorated by two county names? [Answer]
5. What city is Florida’s “Speed Beach”? [Answer]
6. To ride the Incredible Hulk and the Dragon Challenge roller coasters, where would you go? [Answer]
7. In terms of area, the nation’s largest city is what metropolis? [Answer]
8. What county is named for a large (and rare) sea mammal? [Answer]
9. What city hosted the Cigar Bowl for small-college football teams? [Answer]
10. What warm, sunny city is named for a cold, cloudy city in Russia? [Answer]
The Peach State, Georgia
1. What world-famous novel (which made a world-famous movie) is set in Georgia in the 1860s? [Answer]
2. What famous hiking trail has its southern end in Georgia? [Answer]
3. What valuable item caused a rush to Dahlonega in 1828? [Answer]
4. What is the most commonly used street name in Atlanta? [Answer]
5. What historic city has twenty-two park-like “squares” that delight tourists? [Answer]
6. Warm Springs has the Little White House. What president built this as a vacation home? [Answer]
7. What Civil War general led a destructive march through Georgia in 1864? [Answer]
8. What two famous English preachers are connected with colonial Georgia? [Answer]
9. Augusta is the site of what famous golf tournament? [Answer]
10. What sports arena is often called “The Ted”? [Answer]
The Aloha State, Hawaii
1. What notorious attack occurred at 7:55 A.M. on December 7, 1941? [Answer]
2. Besides pineapple, what is the state’s chief farm product? [Answer]
3. What ethnic group outnumbers white residents in the state? [Answer]
4. What popular 1970s TV series always ended with the words “Book ’em”? [Answer]
5. Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s last queen, wrote what popular song? [Answer]
6. What business (as if you couldn’t guess) is the state’s prime moneymaker? [Answer]
7. The nene, the state bird, is what sort of bird? [Answer]
8. Hawaii is the only state to grow what drinkable crop? [Answer]
9. In 1901 who founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company? [Answer]
10. The Big Island, Hawaii, has volcanic sands of what distinctive color? [Answer]
The Gem State, Idaho
1. What (as if you couldn’t guess) is Idaho’s chief farm product? [Answer]
2. Why is Idaho the Gem State? [Answer]
3. What beautiful valley is Idaho’s main year-round recreation area? [Answer]
4. What city takes its name from the French les bois (“the woods”)? [Answer]
5. What kind of races are held at Idaho’s annual Oktubberfest? [Answer]
6. What town shares its name with a formerly communist nation’s capital? [Answer]
7. What kind of sculpting is featured in Sun Valley’s Winterfest? [Answer]
8. The famous River of No Return goes by the name of a fish. What? [Answer]
9. What ancient vehicles are raced at the fairgrounds in Jerome? [Answer]
10. What valuable mineral would you find in the gravel of Idaho City? [Answer]
Land of Lincoln, Illinois
1. Scarface was what notorious Italian gangster of Chicago? [Answer]
2. What worldwide fast-food chain has its headquarters in the posh suburb of Oak Brook? (Hint: arch) [Answer]
3. What president is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield? [Answer]
4. If you are riding the CTA’s “L” trains, where are you? [Answer]
5. What religious group’s temple ruins can be seen in Nauvoo? [Answer]
6. Wheaton College’s museum of evangelism is named for what evangelist? [Answer]
7. North Michigan Avenue, a key Chicago shopping area, has what nickname? [Answer]
8. If you are watching the Power play in Chicago, what sport are you watching? [Answer]
9. Galena has the home of what Civil War general and (later) president? [Answer]
10. Chicago Zoological Park is not in Chicago but in what suburb? [Answer]
The Hoosier State, Indiana
1. What notable auto race was first held in 1911? [Answer]
2. What type of vehicles race in the Little 500 in Bloomington? [Answer]
3. What well-known state college is in West Lafayette? [Answer]
4. Berne is named for the capital of Switzerland. What sort of people settled the town? [Answer]
5. Holiday World amusement park is found in a town with an appropriate name. What? [Answer]
6. South Bend is home to what world-famous Catholic college? [Answer]
7. Valparaiso has an annual festival devoted to what munchable item? [Answer]
8. Two Indiana residents, both with the same last name, became president. Who were they? [Answer]
9. What holiday weekend is the Indianapolis 500 held? [Answer]
10. The Squire Boone Caverns in Indiana were discovered by what famous frontiersman? [Answer]
The Hawkeye State, Iowa
1. WHO radio in Des Moines launched the public career of what future president? [Answer]
2. What noted washer and dryer manufacturer has its home in Newton? [Answer]
3. What Western movie hero was born in Winterset in 1907? [Answer]
4. What county is noted for its covered bridges? (Hint: Eastwood) [Answer]
5. The Dutch town of Pella has a spring festival honoring what flower? [Answer]
6. What revolutionary invention had its birth at Iowa State University in the 1930s? (Hint: chip) [Answer]
7. Iowa, which has no coast, has a town with what oceanic name? [Answer]
8. What Wild West character’s home can be visited in Bettendorf? [Answer]
9. The Pufferbilly Days in Boone focus on what form of transportation? [Answer]
10. The National Rivers Hall of Fame is in what riverside town? [Answer]
The Sunflower State, Kansas
1. What familiar cowboy song is the state song? (Hint: buffalo) [Answer]
2. What famous cow town was the hometown of Dwight Eisenhower? [Answer]
3. What is the most notorious building in Leavenworth? [Answer]
4. What antibooze crusader’s home can be visited in Medicine Lodge? [Answer]
5. What adorable rodent has a state park named for it in Norton? [Answer]
6. The Boot Hill Museum is in what legendary town? [Answer]
7. What city is the country’s largest producer of aircraft? [Answer]
8. The annual Huff ’n’ Puff Rally in Topeka involves what form of recreation? [Answer]
9. What antislavery radical has a memorial in Osawatomie? [Answer]
10. McPherson has a June festival honoring what Celtic instrument? [Answer]
The Bluegrass State, Kentucky
1. What world-famous race is the Run for the Roses? [Answer]
2. What noted country singer was born a coal miner’s daughter? [Answer]
3. What metal do we associate with Fort Knox? [Answer]
4. In Bowling Green what popular American sports cars are manufactured? [Answer]
5. What president’s boyhood home is found near Hodgenville? (Hint: log cabin) [Answer]
6. What noted fast-food entrepreneur is buried in Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery? [Answer]
7. What famous racetrack is located at 700 Central Avenue in Louisville? [Answer]
8. What well-known boys’ organization has a museum in Murray? [Answer]
9. Old Fort Boonesborough was named for what pioneer? [Answer]
10. What county was named for the ruling family of France in the 1700s? [Answer]
The Pelican State, Louisiana
1. What football match is played in the Superdome on New Year’s Day? [Answer]
2. What season, celebrated riotously in New Orleans, runs from January 6 to Shrove Tuesday? [Answer]
3. Gumbo is a food associated with what style of cooking? [Answer]
4. If you are having dinner in the Big Easy, where are you? [Answer]
5. What French emperor sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. in 1803? [Answer]
6. A crawdad, a popular ingredient in Louisiana cooking, is what sort of creature? [Answer]
7. What name is given to New Orleans’s picturesque old section? [Answer]
8. What town calls itself the “Capital of French Louisiana”? [Answer]
9. Southern Louisiana has a pine forest area called the Ozone Belt. Where did it get this name? [Answer]
10. What colorful Louisiana politician of the 1930s had the nickname Kingfish? [Answer]
The Pine Tree State, Maine
1. What edible sea creature is celebrated at an annual festival in Rockland, Maine? [Answer]
2. What stunning national park is found on Mount Desert Island? [Answer]
3. How did the Calendar Islands get their name? [Answer]
4. Bangor has a thirty-one-foot statue of what legendary lumberjack? [Answer]
5. Maine’s northernmost city is named for what hoofed animal of cold areas? [Answer]
6. Kennebunkport gained fame as the summer home of what recent president? [Answer]
7. What exactly is the Headlight in Portland? [Answer]
8. What Viking explorer is thought to have landed on Monhegan Island around the year 1000? [Answer]
9. What famed mail-order clothing firm has its headquarters in Freeport? [Answer]
10. What noise would you hear in the Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park? [Answer]
The Old Line State, Maryland
1. What baseball legend’s birthplace is a museum in Baltimore? [Answer]
2. What jet, often in the news, has its home at Andrews Air Force Base? [Answer]
3. What famous federal college is in Annapolis? [Answer]
4. What horse race dominates Baltimore life each May? [Answer]
5. What pro baseball team plays its home games at Camden Yards? [Answer]
6. What familiar Christmas tune is the state song sung to? [Answer]
7. Smith Island was named for what famous English pioneer? [Answer]
8. What archaic pastime is the state sport of Maryland? [Answer]
9. What famous boundary line was established in 1767? [Answer]
10. What great naval hero is buried in the chapel of the U.S. Naval Academy? [Answer]
The Bay State, Massachusetts
1. What famous rock on the Massachusetts coast weighs seven tons? [Answer]
2. If you are walking the Freedom Trail, what historic city are you touring? [Answer]
3. What Pilgrim leader became, in 1631, the first elected official in America? [Answer]
4. What noted woman poet’s home can be visited in Amherst? [Answer]
5. What Massachusetts-born president was the first with a middle name? [Answer]
6. What lovely tree, almost destroyed by disease, is the state tree? [Answer]
7. Who, in April 1775, set out on a historic ride from his house at 19 North Square in Boston? [Answer]
8. Where do the Boston Red Sox play their home games? [Answer]
9. Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720, is the oldest building on what historic college campus? [Answer]
10. What well-known fruit was developed in Concord in 1848? [Answer]
The Wolverine State, Michigan
1. A Frenchman named Cadillac founded what city? [Answer]
2. Grand Rapids has a museum devoted to which Republican president? [Answer]
3. What is the only Great Lake that does not touch Michigan? [Answer]
4. How did Detroit get the nickname Motown? [Answer]
5. Battle Creek Sanitarium was the birthplace of what familiar breakfast food? [Answer]
6. Dearborn has a museum devoted to what noted auto king? [Answer]
7. On what holiday does Detroit hold its famous Santa Claus Parade? [Answer]
8. Where can you walk on “singing sand”? [Answer]
9. What ethnic group established the town of Holland? [Answer]
10. What major political party was founded in Jackson in 1854? [Answer]
The North Star State, Minnesota
1. What colossal shopping center is in Bloomington, Minnesota? [Answer]
2. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing is better known by what corporate name? [Answer]
3. What mythical lumberjack had his home in the logging camps of Minnesota? [Answer]
4. What football team plays home games in the Hubert Humphrey Metrodome? [Answer]
5. Who participates in the John Beargrease Marathon? [Answer]
6. What popular singer and movie star has a museum in Grand Rapids? (Hint: Oz) [Answer]
7. What peas-and-corn company do you associate with Le Sueur, Minnesota? [Answer]
8. What national park is named for early French explorers of the region? [Answer]
9. What famous hospital would you find in Rochester? [Answer]
10. What wild-voiced water bird is the state bird? [Answer]
The Magnolia State, Mississippi
1. What world-famous rock-and-roller was born in Tupelo? [Answer]
2. What Gulf Coast city is the site of the Seafood Industry Museum? [Answer]
3. Greenwood has a museum devoted to which important southern crop? [Answer]
4. What state shares the Gulf Islands National Seashore with Mississippi? [Answer]
5. Meridian has a museum devoted to the Father of Country Music. Who was he? [Answer]
6. What riverside town was the Gibraltar of the Confederacy? [Answer]
7. What Nobel Prize–winning author’s home is Rowan Oak in Oxford? [Answer]
8. Which river is the “singing river”? [Answer]
9. The historic road known as the Natchez Trace connected Natchez, Mississippi, with what Tennessee city? [Answer]
10. If you are in the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race, where are you? [Answer]
The Show Me State, Missouri
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sp; 1. St. Louis’s tallest structure is not an office or residence but a metal semicircle. What is it? [Answer]
2. What Missouri town is often called Nashville West? [Answer]
3. What greeting card company is Kansas City’s most famous corporation? [Answer]
4. What sports-minded religious organization is headquartered in Kansas City? [Answer]
5. What noted author’s home could you visit in Hannibal? [Answer]
6. St. Joseph was the eastern end of what famous mail service? [Answer]
7. What city was, in 1904, the first U.S. site of the summer Olympics? [Answer]
8. What name do most Missourians call their state capital? [Answer]
9. Where would you find a museum devoted to Confederate guerrillas? [Answer]
10. What type of item is featured in Memoryville USA? [Answer]
Big Sky Country, Montana
1. Whose last stand is reenacted at the Little Big Horn Days in Hardin? [Answer]
2. What did Montana do with freeway speed limits in 1995? [Answer]
3. In what national park can you enjoy a snowball fight in midsummer? [Answer]
4. What metal—appropriate for the state—covers the capitol dome in Helena? [Answer]
5. In the Governor’s Cup Race each February, what sort of runners participate? [Answer]
6. What kind of people train at Montana’s Smokejumper Center? [Answer]
7. What material is the Top of the World Bar carved from? [Answer]
The Big Book of American Trivia Page 15