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Hard US States Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our us states set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The hard round covers Latin mottos, small-town capitals like Montpelier and Jefferson City, the exact order in which Arizona, New Mexico and Vermont joined, and a few official state symbols that almost nobody has memorised.
14 hard us states trivia questions with answers
Montpelier is the capital of which state?
Answer: Vermont It is the least populous state capital in the country.
Augusta is the capital of which state?
Answer: Maine Georgia has a city called Augusta too, but its capital is Atlanta.
Which state was admitted in 1912 as the forty-eighth state?
Answer: Arizona It completed the contiguous forty-eight, decades before Alaska and Hawaii.
Which state entered the Union as the forty-seventh state, weeks before its neighbour?
Answer: New Mexico New Mexico joined in January 1912 and Arizona followed in February.
Which state has the one-word motto Eureka?
Answer: California The Greek word means I have found it, a nod to the gold rush.
The Beehive State is a nickname for which state?
Answer: Utah The beehive stands for industry and appears on the state flag and seal.
Jefferson City is the capital of which state?
Answer: Missouri It was named for Thomas Jefferson and laid out specifically to be a capital.
Acadia National Park is located in which state?
Answer: Maine It sits largely on Mount Desert Island along the Atlantic coast.
The Chesapeake Bay retriever is the official state dog of which state?
Answer: Maryland The breed was developed along the bay to retrieve waterfowl in cold water.
Which state was admitted in 1791 as the fourteenth state, the first after the original thirteen?
Answer: Vermont It had governed itself as an independent republic for fourteen years beforehand.
Which state's motto is Ad astra per aspera?
Answer: Kansas It translates as to the stars through difficulties.
Crater Lake is found in which state?
Answer: Oregon It fills the caldera of a collapsed volcano and is the deepest lake in the country.
The Ocean State is a nickname for which state?
Answer: Rhode Island Narragansett Bay reaches deep inland, so no part of the state is far from salt water.
The bluebonnet is the official state flower of which state?
Answer: Texas It is a lupine that carpets roadsides across the state each spring.
Answer key
- Vermont
- Maine
- Arizona
- New Mexico
- California
- Utah
- Missouri
- Maine
- Maryland
- Vermont
- Kansas
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- Texas
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