8. What great American river has its source in Three Forks? [Answer]
9. What Native American practice is commemorated at Buffalo Jump State Monument? [Answer]
10. In what once lawless town can you visit the notorious Robbers’ Roost? [Answer]
The Cornhusker State, Nebraska
1. What tree-planting holiday was first observed on April 10, 1872, in Nebraska? [Answer]
2. The college baseball World Series is held in what city? [Answer]
3. Lincoln, Nebraska, has the hall of fame for what trivial pastime? [Answer]
4. You can ride a wagon train in Bridgeport, Nebraska, that travels on what famous western trail? [Answer]
5. What renowned author of frontier novels has a museum in Hastings? [Answer]
6. How does Nebraska’s legislature differ radically from other states’? [Answer]
7. What famous presidential candidate of the early 1900s was first elected to Congress from Nebraska? [Answer]
8. What president’s statue is on the capitol grounds in Lincoln? [Answer]
9. North Platte was hometown of what noted Wild West showman? [Answer]
10. What president of the 1970s was born in Omaha? [Answer]
The Silver State, Nevada
1. The tallest building in Las Vegas is (naturally) what type of building? [Answer]
2. Not surprisingly, what is Nevada’s state metal? [Answer]
3. What resort lake on Nevada’s border takes its name from a Washo tribe word for “big water”? [Answer]
4. Boulder City is the only Nevada town where what activity is not legal? [Answer]
5. The state capital was named for what famous frontiersman? [Answer]
6. Who (or what) owns 90 percent of Nevada’s land? [Answer]
7. It is “gambling” in the rest of the U.S., but what is it in Nevada? [Answer]
8. Nevada’s first non–Native American settlement was made by what religious group? [Answer]
9. What is distinctive about the rodeo held every July in Fallon? [Answer]
10. What chilly natural phenomenon can be found in Great Basin National Park? [Answer]
The Granite State, New Hampshire
1. What appropriate name is given to the mountain range that includes Mount Washington, Mount Adams, and Mount Jackson? [Answer]
2. The Connecticut River separates New Hampshire from what state? [Answer]
3. What great American play is set in fictional Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire? [Answer]
4. What Ivy League college, founded as a Native American school, is found in Hanover? [Answer]
5. They are called mountain “passes” in most places, but in New Hampshire they’re called what? [Answer]
6. What colony was New Hampshire part of from 1623 to 1679? [Answer]
7. What great New England poet’s farm can be visited in Derry? [Answer]
8. What warmhearted movie with Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn was filmed on Squam Lake? [Answer]
9. What makes the state so important in presidential election years? [Answer]
10. What man born in New Hampshire in 1804 was known as “Handsome Frank”? [Answer]
The Garden State, New Jersey
1. What beach resort do we associate with the Miss America pageant? [Answer]
2. In 1893 what inventor established a motion picture lot at his lab in West Orange? [Answer]
3. What famous river crossing is reenacted at Trenton every Christmas? [Answer]
4. Though Trenton is the capital, Drumthwacket, the governor’s home, is in what college town? [Answer]
5. What popular seaside candy was introduced at Asbury Park? [Answer]
6. For two months in 1784 what city was the temporary capital of the U.S.? [Answer]
7. What sports field did Alexander Cartwright lay out for the first time in 1846 in Hoboken? [Answer]
8. What agency for helping the blind become mobile is headquartered in Morristown? [Answer]
9. Pepperidge Farm breads, Prego sauces, and V8 juice are marketed by what famous soup company headquartered in New Jersey? [Answer]
10. What city has a similar name as a province of Canada? [Answer]
Land of Enchantment, New Mexico
1. What is the state bird (even though it doesn’t go “beep-beep”)? [Answer]
2. What big city is seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico’s most populous? [Answer]
3. The Old Spanish Trail ran from Los Angeles to what city? [Answer]
4. The state has the nation’s highest percentage of what ethnic group? [Answer]
5. The famous Philmont Ranch is operated by what boys’ association? [Answer]
6. What famous cavern was once named Bat Cave? [Answer]
7. One of the state’s most visited sites has a name meaning “beans.” What is it? [Answer]
8. What are the main items on display at the Million Dollar Museum? [Answer]
9. The majestic waterfall near Carlsbad is named for what famous chief? [Answer]
10. The College of Santa Fe has its theatre center named for what gracious red-haired movie queen of the 1940s? [Answer]
The Empire State, New York
1. What city has been called City of Brotherly Shove? [Answer]
2. If you are riding the Maid of the Mist boat, where are you? [Answer]
3. What New York street was originally a cow path running through the “bouweries” (farms)? [Answer]
4. What redheaded TV comedienne hailed from Jamestown? [Answer]
5. What implement of execution was first used in Auburn Prison in 1890? [Answer]
6. What household product is associated with Corning, New York? [Answer]
7. What New York City transport used to be called “the world’s greatest five-cent ride”? [Answer]
8. What persecuted French religious group founded the town of New Palz? [Answer]
9. What game began in America when John Reid formed the St. Andrews Club in Yonkers in 1888? [Answer]
10. What enormous statue arrived in New York in 214 packing cases in June 1885? (Hint: torch) [Answer]
The Tar Heel State, North Carolina
1. What two great Americans have a memorial at Kill Devil Hills? [Answer]
2. What (now controversial) plant is North Carolina’s chief crop? [Answer]
3. What is the distinction of Virginia Dare, born on Roanoke Island in 1587? [Answer]
4. What college town is known as the City of Medicine? [Answer]
5. What slang expression comes from the name of Buncombe County? [Answer]
6. What awesome 250-room chateau was built in Asheville by the Vanderbilts? [Answer]
7. Bath was the occasional home of what infamous pirate? [Answer]
8. What famous event took place in 1590 on Roanoke Island? [Answer]
9. Horn in the West is an outdoor drama telling the tale of what famous American backwoodsman? [Answer]
10. What part of the state is the Graveyard of the Atlantic? [Answer]
The Sioux State, North Dakota
1. What large, edible flower is a key crop in North Dakota? [Answer]
2. Who receives all the state’s profits from gambling? [Answer]
3. What tree, almost destroyed by disease, is the state tree? [Answer]
4. Bismarck, the capital, was named for the chancellor of Germany. Why? [Answer]
5. What author of best-selling westerns was a North Dakota man? [Answer]
6. The annual Norsk Hostfest honors what immigrant group? [Answer]
7. The Fork Union Trading Post commemorates what frontier trade? [Answer]
8. What ill-fated army man was the commander of Fort Abraham Lincoln? [Answer]
9. Fargo has a museum devoted to what baseball legend? [Answer]
10. What lovely garden sits astride the U.S.-Canada border? [Answer]
The Buckeye State, Ohio
1. Canton, Ohio, has the Hall of Fame of what major sport? [Answer]
2. Ohio has what vegetable j
uice as its state drink? [Answer]
3. Ohio’s shoreline stretches 262 miles along what Great Lake? [Answer]
4. What bar soap that floats was invented in Cincinnati? [Answer]
5. Ohio State University and the state capitol are both in what city? [Answer]
6. Cleveland is the site of what music museum, opened in 1995? [Answer]
7. A replica of whose bicycle shop is in Dayton’s Carillon Park? [Answer]
8. Rubber companies Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone, and General Tire are all in what city? [Answer]
9. What pleasant city once had the nickname Porkopolis? [Answer]
10. Evangelist Charles Finney was president of what prestigious Ohio college? [Answer]
The Sooner State, Oklahoma
1. What was the original name for the territory that became Oklahoma? [Answer]
2. What universally loved comic was known as Oklahoma’s Favorite Son? [Answer]
3. What evangelist founded a university, named for himself, in 1963? [Answer]
4. What hearty American dish is featured in a Tulsa cook-off every September? [Answer]
5. What hulking frontier beast is the state animal? [Answer]
6. Berwyn changed its name to honor what cowboy actor and singer? [Answer]
7. Fort Sill has the burial place of what infamous Apache leader? [Answer]
8. What country singer made Muskogee world-famous with his “Okie from Muskogee”? [Answer]
9. Okmulgee is the world center for what type of nut? (Hint: pies) [Answer]
10. Shawnee was the hometown of what world-famous Native American athlete? [Answer]
The Beaver State, Oregon
1. What famous lake occupies the base of a volcano? [Answer]
2. What commodity first attracted settlers to Oregon? [Answer]
3. What major city was founded by Methodist missionary Jason Lee? [Answer]
4. What town is named for an early fur trade entrepreneur? [Answer]
5. What foreign power fired upon Fort Stevens in 1942? [Answer]
6. What remarkable piece of metal was found in 1913 by George Armstrong? [Answer]
7. What popular seasonal flower is a key product of Brookings? (Hint: eggs) [Answer]
8. Depoe Bay claims it is the world capital for watching what sea creatures? [Answer]
9. The lovely Fleet of Flowers Ceremony on the coast honors what people? [Answer]
10. What sea creatures could you see in the caverns near Florence? [Answer]
The Keystone State, Pennsylvania
1. Flight 93 National Memorial commemorates what dramatic event? [Answer]
2. What all-American sport was first played professionally at Latrobe in 1895? [Answer]
3. What glowing bug is the state insect? [Answer]
4. What emblems did the Pennsylvania Dutch paint on barns to ward off evil spirits? [Answer]
5. About half of all Pennsylvanians live in what two cities’ metro areas? [Answer]
6. In 1859, what natural resource was struck sixty-nine feet below Titusville? [Answer]
7. Moravians seeking religious freedom founded what biblically named town? [Answer]
8. What film star saw a museum opened in his honor in 1995 in his hometown of Indiana? (Hint: it’s a wonderful life) [Answer]
9. What globe-trotting evangelist’s statue is on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania? [Answer]
10. Who claimed that the new colony would be a “holy experiment”? [Answer]
Little Rhody, Rhode Island
1. The (domestic) state bird is named for the state. What is it? [Answer]
2. What colonial pastor established Providence as “a shelter for persons distressed in conscience”? [Answer]
3. What Ivy League school was named for a donor who contributed $5,000? [Answer]
4. What is the full official name of the state? [Answer]
5. The smallest state has the shortest state motto, only four letters. What? [Answer]
6. What kind of fruit is a Rhode Island Greening? [Answer]
7. What seaport became the summer place for the rich after the Civil War? [Answer]
8. The first church of what denomination was founded in the state? (Hint: water) [Answer]
9. Narragansett holds a winter competition for what unlikely water sport? [Answer]
10. What Christian group’s three-hundred-year-old church could you visit in Newport? [Answer]
The Palmetto State, South Carolina
1. What resort town is the state’s most popular beach area? [Answer]
2. The state bird, named for the state itself, is what? [Answer]
3. What war began with the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861? [Answer]
4. What all-male college became the center of a national controversy in 1995? [Answer]
5. What three-hundred-year-old city was the first city in the U.S. to have a chamber of commerce? [Answer]
6. Who was the state named for? [Answer]
7. What industrial town is the Textile Center of the World? [Answer]
8. Parris Island is training ground for which branch of the U.S. military? [Answer]
9. What conservative Christian college bills itself as the “world’s most unusual university”? [Answer]
10. What plant, used to make a blue dye, was a major crop for many decades? [Answer]
The Coyote State, South Dakota
1. What enormous sculpture did Gutzon Borglum begin in 1927? [Answer]
2. What (formerly) wild town was home to such characters as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane? [Answer]
3. What edible game bird, imported from Asia, is the state bird? [Answer]
4. What future national park was discovered because it whistled? [Answer]
5. How did Mobridge get its name? [Answer]
6. Whose faces would you see on a six-thousand-foot mountain in the Black Hills? [Answer]
7. What state was admitted to the Union the same day as South Dakota? [Answer]
8. What huge building, done in Byzantine architecture, is decorated with colored corn? [Answer]
9. Near Mt. Rushmore is a wax museum honoring what group of men? [Answer]
10. The town of Lead was actually a center for mining what? [Answer]
The Volunteer State, Tennessee
1. What breed of horse do we associate with Tennessee? [Answer]
2. What famous home is in Memphis at 3797 Elvis Presley Boulevard? [Answer]
3. The 1982 World’s Fair “Energy Turns the World” was held in what mountain city? [Answer]
4. What “leisure” crop is the leading cash crop of Tennessee? [Answer]
5. What large city is situated on picturesque Lookout Mountain? [Answer]
6. Gatlinburg is the “Gateway to” what famous national park? [Answer]
7. In 1977 Congress officially designated what city as Home of the Blues? [Answer]
8. In 1776, Tennessee became a county of what eastern state? [Answer]
9. What large denomination has many of its national offices in Nashville? [Answer]
10. What present-day radio show began in 1925 as the “WSM Barn Dance”? [Answer]
The Lone Star State, Texas
1. Texas, known as a friendly place, has what one-word state motto? [Answer]
2. What hero served as Tennessee governor in the 1820s and Texas governor in the 1850s? [Answer]
3. What leader, born in 1793, has been called the Father of Texas? [Answer]
4. Former Texas Ranger John Reid became what masked Western hero? [Answer]
5. Beginning in 1821, what nation did Texas belong to? [Answer]
6. What pro baseball team plays in Arlington Stadium? [Answer]
7. Austin has a museum devoted to what short-story author, known for his “twist” endings? [Answer]
8. Aside from Hawaii cities, the nation’s southernmost city is what? [Answer]
9. What were the citizens of Corsicana drilling for when they struck oil in 1894? [Answer]
The Beehive State, Utah
1. What enormous Utah church has 375 people in its choir? [Answer]
2. What religious leader had more than twenty-five wives? [Answer]
3. What lake is so salty that only one species of shrimp lives in it? [Answer]
4. The Beehive State has what appropriate one-word state motto? [Answer]
5. What communication system arrived in Salt Lake City in 1860? [Answer]
6. What national park is named for rock domes that resemble the U.S. Capitol? [Answer]
7. What distinctive color are the windswept sand dunes near Kanab? [Answer]
8. What kind of material is sculpted in Park City’s annual sculpture contest? [Answer]
9. What bird is honored in a monument in Salt Lake City? [Answer]
10. The Bonneville Salt Flats are used for what type of sport? [Answer]
The Green Mountain State, Vermont
1. What laid-back president was born on the Fourth of July in Plymouth, Vermont? [Answer]
2. What wild (and edible) grass is the state flower of Vermont? [Answer]
3. The Connecticut River separates Vermont from what state? [Answer]
4. Rutland has a museum devoted to what popular New England sweet? [Answer]
5. The small town of St. Albans was raided by what nation’s soldiers in 1864? [Answer]
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