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North Dakota Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
North Dakota was the 39th state admitted to the Union on what date?
A: November 2, 1889.
Which two Canadian provinces border North Dakota on its northern border?
A: Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
What U.S. State borders North Dakota to the east?
A: Minnesota.
What state borders North Dakota to the south?
A: South Dakota.
What state shares North Dakota's western border?
A: Montana.
What city is North Dakota's state capitol?
A: Bismarck.
What is the biggest city in North Dakota?
A: Fargo.
North Dakota is the 3rd least "what" when compared to the
other states?
A: Populous.
The primary public universities are located in what two
cities?
A: Grand Forks and Fargo.
Geogr bases near what two cities?
A: Minot and Grand Forks.
In North Dakota, what is marked with a stone marker in
Rugby, North Dakota?
A: The "Geographic Center of the North American Continent".
How big is North Dakota in square miles?
A: 70,762.
What is the North Dakota State bird?
A: Western Meadowlark.
What is the highest elevation in the state?
A: White Butte at 3,506 feet.
In the United States, Lake Sakakawea is the third largest
what?
A: Man-made lake.
What is the North Dakota State fish?
A: Northern pike.
What is the name of the largest natural lake in North
Dakota?
A: Devils Lake.
President Benjamin Harrison, signed proclamations
admitting North and South Dakota to the United States on what date?
A: November 2, 1889.
As of July 1, 2013, what was the population of North
Dakota?
A: 723,393.
The word "Dakota" is a corruption of a Sioux Indian word
that means what?
A: "allies" or "friends".
What is the North Dakota State horse?
A: Nokota horse.
Native American social gatherings, called "powwows", are an
important aspect of Indian culture, and occur regularly where?
A: Throughout the State.
Powwows were held most commonly in the spring, to
celebrate the beginning of new life and the end of the what?
A: Winter cold.
What is the North Dakota State flower?
A: Wild Prairie Rose.
One of the biggest powwows in the United States, the United
Tribes International Powwow, is held each September in what city?
A: Bismarck.
A powwow comes with
parades and
dancers and it is
traditional for male dancers to wear regalia decorated with beads, quills and
what?
A: Eagle feathers.
What is the North Dakota State tree?
A: American Elm.
Some of the Germans who had settled in Russia for
generations were unhappy and in the nineteenth century how many immigrated to
the U.S. by 1900?
A: About 100,000.
North Dakota has the greatest number of "what", per capita,
of any other state?
A: Churches.
What is is the largest industry in North Dakota?
A: Agriculture.
What is the North Dakota State fossil?
A: Teredo Petrified wood.
North Dakota is the fastest growing state in U.S. by what
measure?
A: GDP.
Bank of North Dakota in Bismarck, is the only "what" in the
country?
A: State owned bank.
What is the North Dakota State grass?
A: Western Wheatgrass.
What percentage of North Dakota's land area is in farms?
A: About 90%.
With the third largest in the nation, how many acres of
cropland does North Dakota have?
A: 27,500,000.
North Dakota is the largest producer in the country of
what?
A: Many cereal grains.
What are the North Dakota State nicknames?
A: Roughrider State, Flickertail State, Peace Garden State, Sioux state.
North Dakota is the leading producer of many oilseeds
including what percentage of the U.S. canola crop?
A: 92%.
The state is the second leading grower of sugar beets, which
are grown in the what?
A: Red River Valley.
What is the North Dakota State slogan?
A: Legendary.
North Dakota is the largest producer of what natural and
sweet product in the country?
A: Honey.
In what year was oil was discovered near Tioga, North
Dakota?
A: In 1951.
What is the North Dakota State song?
A: North Dakota Hymn.
By 1984, how many barrels of oil was being produced in
North Dakota??
A: 53 million barrels of oil a year.
How much oil do the reserves of the Bakken Formation hold?
A: Up to 400 billion barrels.
What is the North Dakota State dance?
A: Square Dance.
North Dakota is the second largest producer of oil in the
country with an average of how many barrels per day being produced?
A: 575,490 barrels per day.
How many hospitals does North Dakota have?
A: 44.
What is the North Dakota State fruit?
A: Chokecherry.
In North Dakota, which insurance company is the largest
medical insurer in the state?
A: Blue Cross Blue Shield .
The North Dakota Interstate Highway system, is paved in
what material instead of blacktop, because of the extreme weather conditions it
is exposed to?
A: Concrete.
What is the North Dakota State beverage?
A: Milk.
In what North Dakota city is world's largest statue of a
Holstein cow located?
A: New Salem.
What city in North Dakota has the world's largest statue of
a bison?
A: Jamestown.
Fort Yates is located on the Standing Rock Indian
Reservation and claims to be the burial place of Hunkpapa Lakota leader known as
who?
A: Sitting Bull.
How many public colleges and universities does North
Dakota have?
A: 11.