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Easy US States Trivia Questions
The easy questions from our us states set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The easy questions are the ones most people half-know: the Sunshine State, the Lone Star State, the largest and smallest states, where Mount Rushmore sits, and a handful of the better-known capitals like Austin, Denver and Honolulu.
14 easy us states trivia questions with answers
Which state is nicknamed the Sunshine State?
Answer: Florida The nickname has been on Florida licence plates since the 1940s.
The Golden State is a nickname for which state?
Answer: California It refers to the 1849 gold rush and to the state's golden poppies.
Austin serves as the capital of which state?
Answer: Texas Houston and Dallas are both larger, but the seat of government sits in Austin.
The Grand Canyon lies almost entirely within which state?
Answer: Arizona The Colorado River cut the canyon through the northern Arizona plateau.
Which state covers the largest area?
Answer: Alaska Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas.
Which state has the smallest area?
Answer: Rhode Island Despite the name it is not an island; the state is mostly mainland.
The Lone Star State is which state?
Answer: Texas The single star comes from its flag as an independent republic in the 1830s.
Mount Rushmore was carved in which state?
Answer: South Dakota The four presidential heads are cut into a granite face in the Black Hills.
Denver is the capital of which state?
Answer: Colorado It sits at roughly a mile above sea level, hence the Mile High City nickname.
Which state was the most recent to be admitted to the Union?
Answer: Hawaii Hawaii became the fiftieth state in 1959, a few months after Alaska.
Which state was the first to ratify the United States Constitution?
Answer: Delaware Delaware ratified in December 1787, which is why it calls itself the First State.
The Empire State is a nickname for which state?
Answer: New York The nickname predates the skyscraper that borrowed it.
Which state shares a land border with only one other state?
Answer: Maine Maine touches only New Hampshire; its other land border is with Canada.
Honolulu is the capital of which state?
Answer: Hawaii It sits on the island of Oahu, not the largest island in the chain.
Answer key
- Florida
- California
- Texas
- Arizona
- Alaska
- Rhode Island
- Texas
- South Dakota
- Colorado
- Hawaii
- Delaware
- New York
- Maine
- Hawaii
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