Nebraska Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers - US States Trivia
What is Nebraska's state capital?
A: Lincoln.
What is the Nebraska state mammal?
A: White-tailed deer.
What is Nebraska's largest city?
A: Omaha.
In what year did Nebraska become a U.S. State?
A: 1867.
In what year did French-Canadian explorers, the Mallet
brothers traverse the territory of Nebraska?
A: In 1739, .
What is the Nebraska state insect?
A: European
honey bee.
In 1819, what fort did the US establish as the first
Army
post west of the Missouri River?
A: Fort Atkinson.
What is the Nebraska state tree?
A: Cottonwood.
How many time zones does the state have?
A: Two.
What is the Nebraska state grass?
A: Little bluestem.
Due to the Homestead Act, settlers migrated into Nebraska
by the thousands to claim their free land granted by
who?
A: The federal government.
What is the Nebraska state beverage?
A: Milk.
Nebraska is located in what "Alley"?
A: Tornado Alley.
Because hardly any trees grew on the prairies, many of the
first settlers built their homes out of what?
A: Sod.
What is the Nebraska state fossil?
A: Mammoth.
On what day did Nebraska become the 37th state to join the
Union?
A: On March 1, 1867.
What was the name of the last major
battle between the
Pawnee and the Sioux, on August 5, 1873?
A: The battle of Massacre Canyon.
What is the Nebraska state motto?
A: Equality Before the Law.
During the 1870s to the 1880s, Nebraska experienced a large
growth in population and by the 1880s, Nebraska's population had soared to more
than how many people?
A: 450,000 people.
What is the Nebraska state
dance?
A: Square dance.
According to the 2010 census, Omaha had a population of
what?
A: 408,958.
What is the Nebraska state Flower?
A: Goldenrod.
Omaha has a long history of civil rights activism and in
1912 African Americans founded the what?
A: Omaha chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People.
What is the Nebraska state gemstone?
A: Blue agate.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded for Nebraska?
A: −47 °F at Camp Clarke on February 12, 1899.
Nebraska is bordered to the north by what State?
A: South Dakota.
What state borders Nebraska to the east?
A: Iowa.
What is the Nebraska state rock?
A: Prairie agate.
What state borders the state of Nebraska to the west?
A: Wyoming .
How many counties does the State of Nebraska have?
A: 93.
Nebraska is split into two major land regions: the
Dissected Till Plains and the what?
A: Great Plains.
What is the point with the highest elevation in Nebraska?
A: Panorama Point, at 5,424 feet.
What is the Nebraska state slogan?
A: Nebraska, possibilities...endless.
What is the highest temperature that the state of
Nebraska's has ever recorded?
A: 118 °F at Minden on July 24, 1936.
What is the Nebraska state fish?
A: Channel catfish.
In Nebraska, 89% percent of the cities have fewer than how
many people?
A: 3,000.
As of 2010, how many cities and villages were there in
Nebraska?
A: 530.
What was Nebraska's gross state product in 2010?
A: $89.8 billion.
What is the Nebraska state song?
A: "Beautiful Nebraska".
In 2004, where did Nebraska rank as far as per capita
personal income with the other states?
A: 25th.
Who created Kool-Aid in 1927, in the city of Hastings,
Nebraska?
A: Edwin Perkins.
What is the name of the world's largest
train yard in North
Platte, Nebraska?
A: Union Pacific's Bailey Yard.
Vise-Grips were invented by who in
1924, and was
manufactured in De Witt until 2008?
A: William Petersen.
What is the Nebraska state bird?
A: Western meadowlark.
