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Montana Trivia Questions With Answers About The US State of Montana
What is the Montana state slogan?
A: Big Sky Country.
What is the origin of the state of Montana's
name?
A: It's derived from the Spanish word montaña (mountain).
Where does Montana rank in size in comparison to the other
US States?
A: 4th.
What is the Montana state flower?
A: Bitterroot.
Montana is home to the largest ICBM field in the United
States covering how many square miles?
A: 23,500.
Which Montana lake is the largest natural freshwater lake
in the western United States?
A: Flathead Lake.
On January 15, 1972, what was the location of the most
extreme recorded temperature change in a 24-hour period in the United States
when a chinook
wind blew in and the temperature went from −54 to 49 °F ?
A: Loma Montana.
Warmer weather, attacks by beetles, and mismanagement has
led to a substantial increase in what?
A: The severity of forest fires.
In World War II, Native Americans from the Crow Nation
became what?
A: Code Talkers.
What is the Montana state bird?
A: Western Meadowlark.
How many named mountain ranges does Montana have?
A: 77.
Montana's economy is primarily based on what?
A: Agriculture.
The largest mining operations in Montana were located in
the city of Butte, which silver deposits and gigantic what?
A: Copper deposits.
Montana's Glacier National
Park, is commonly known as what?
A: "The Crown of the Continent".
How many square miles does Montana have in area?
A: 147,040.
Montana is slightly larger than which Asian country?
A: Japan.
All of the land in Montana east of the continental divide
was part of the what?
A: Louisiana Purchase.
What is the largest reservoir in Montana?
A: Fort Peck Reservoir on the Missouri river.
What is the Montana state ballad?
A: Montana Melody.
What are the only two cities with populations over 50,000
in Montana?
A: Missoula and Great Falls.
What is the highest recorded temperature measured in
Montana?
A: 117 °F at Glendive on July 20, 1893, and Medicine Lake on July 5,
1937.
The state of Montana is the largest what?
A: Landlocked U.S. state.
What was the first permanent settlement in what today is
Montana?
A: St. Mary's near present day Stevensville in 1841.
What state borders Montana to the south?
A: Wyoming .
What is the Montana state fossil?
A: Duck-billed Dinosaur.
In World War II, there were about 30 documented cases of
what?
A: Japanese balloon bombs landing.
What Plateau is the largest continuous land mass with an
elevation of over 10,000 feet high in the U. S.?
A: Beartooth Plateau.
There are how many named lakes and reservoirs in
Montana?
A: Over 3,223.
What is the highest point in the state?
A: Granite Peak, at 12,799.
What is the Montana state
butterfly?
A: Mourning Cloak.
For the war effort in World War I, Montana's Remount
station in Miles City provided 10,000 what?
A: cavalry horses.
Paleontologist Jack Horner brought the
Hell Creek Formation
to the world's attention and it is now a major source of what?
A: Dinosaur fossils.
Montana 450 miles named rivers and creeks that are known
for their "blue-ribbon" what?
A: Trout fishing.
What is the Montana state mammal?
A: Grizzly Bear.
Montana's rivers drain into what three major bodies of
water?
A: The Pacific Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and Hudson Bay.
Gold output in Montana from 1862 through 1876 reached how
many dollars?
A: $144 million.
Where do Montana's three watersheds divide?
A: Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park.
What was it that created Quake Lake in 1959?
A: A landslide during the 1959
Yellowstone
Earthquake.
How many dams are there on the Missouri River?
A: 10.
The Yellowstone River is the longest "what" in the United
States?
A: Undammed river.
Fort Peck Reservoir is contained by the world's second
largest what?
A: Earthen dam.
What is the Montana state grass?
A: Bluebunch Wheatgrass.
About what percentage of Montana is covered in
Forests?
A: Approximately 25 percent.
Where was the first gold discovered in Montana?
A: Gold Creek near present day Garrison in 1852.
Montana has the population of what type of
animal in the
lower 48 states?
A: Grizzly bear.
How many federally endangered species is the state of
Montana host to?
A: Five: Black-footed ferret, Whooping Crane, Least Tern, Pallid sturgeon and
White sturgeon.
The State of Montana contains portions of Yellowstone
National Park including three of the park's what?
A: Five entrances.
What is the Montana state fish?
A: Blackspotted Cutthroat Trout
How many acres of wilderness are in the National Wilderness
Preservation System established by the Wilderness Act of
1964?
A: 3,300,000.
What is the coldest recorded temperature for Montana?
A: −70 °F near Rogers Pass On January 20, 1954.
The climate is getting warmer in Montana and the glaciers
in Glacier National Park have receded and are predicted to do what in a few
decades?
A: Melt away completely.
What is the Montana state nickname?
A: Treasure State.
Winters are warmer, and have fewer cold spells that used to
killed off the what ?
A: Bark beetles, which are now attacking the forests of western Montana.
Where was the richest gold placer digging discovered?
A: Alder Gulch, where the town of Virginia City was established.
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided what to settlers?
A: Free land up to 160 acres.
The Desert Land Act of 1877 allowed settlement of arid
lands in the west and gave 640 acres to settlers for $.25 per acre and a
promise to what?
A: Irrigate the land.
In World War I, how many Montanans died?
A: 1500.
In Montana, the 1918 Influenza epidemic killed how many
people?
A: over 5,000.
Montana was the only one of the 48 US States during World
War II to not have a " what" named after it?
A: Battleship.
What is the only city in Montana with a population over
100,000?
A: Billings.
What is the Montana state tree?
A: Ponderosa Pine.