Pennsylvania Trivia Quiz With Answers - US States Trivia Quizzes
Pennsylvania borders what state to the southeast?
A: Delaware.
What is the Pennsylvania State Song?
A: "Pennsylvania".
What US state shares a boarder with Pennsylvania to the
southwest?
A: West Virginia.
What four cities have the highest populations in the state?
A: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, and Erie.
What is the state capital of Pennsylvania?
A: Harrisburg.
How much coastline does Pennsylvania have along Lake Erie?
A: 51 miles.
What is the State Insect?
A: Pennsylvania Firefly.
Pennsylvania is one of the 13 original founding states of
the what?
A: United States.
From north to south how long is the state of Pennsylvania?
A: 170 miles.
What state does Pennsylvania border to the south?
A: Maryland.
How wide is Pennsylvania from east to west?
A: 283 miles.
How big is Pennsylvania in square miles?
A: 46,055.
Where does Pennsylvania rank as far as its size with the
other states?
A: It's the 33rd largest state.
How many other U.S. States does Pennsylvania border?
A: Six, New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and
Ohio.
Pennsylvania is the only one of the original 13 colonies
that does not what?
A: Border the Atlantic Ocean.
How many recorded tornadoes were there in Pennsylvania in
2011?
A: 30.
Between 1730 and 1764, the Pennsylvania Colony made its own
paper money due to a shortage of actual
gold and
silver. What was the paper
money called?
A: Colonial Scrip.
What is the Pennsylvania State Beverage?
A: Milk.
The Masters-Penn mansion housed Pennsylvania's governor in
the early 1770s and later it was the presidential mansion for what two
presidents?
A: George Washington and
John Adams.
On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania became the second state
to do what?
A: Ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What is the State Tree?
A: Eastern Hemlock.
What was the name of the first college to be established in
the United States?
A: Dickinson College of Carlisle.
Pennsylvania accounts for what percentage of all of the
wooded area in the country?
A: 9%.
Which state borders Pennsylvania to the west?
A: Ohio.
James Buchanan was the only bachelor President of the U. S.
and the only one to be born in what state?
A : Pennsylvania.
What is the Pennsylvania State Fish?
A: Brook Trout.
About how many Pennsylvanians served in the Union
Army?
A: An estimated 350,000.
Pennsylvania was the location of the first commercially
drilled oil well, drilled by who, in 1859, near Titusville?
A: Edwin Drake.
According to the U S Census Bureau, the population of
Pennsylvania was how many people on July 1, 2013?
A: 12,773,801.
What is the Pennsylvania State Fossil?
A: Phacops rana.
In 2010 what percentage of Pennsylvania's population was
estimated to belong to an organized religion?
A: 53.8%.
Where does Pennsylvania's economy rank compared to the
worlds countries?
A: It is the 18th largest in the world.
What is the State Dog?
A: Great Dane.
What company is the largest private employer in
Pennsylvania?
A: Wal-Mart.
In what city was the first nationally chartered bank in the
U.S., the Bank of North America, founded?
A: In Philadelphia in 1781.
Where does Pennsylvania rank with the other states in
agricultural production?
A: 19th.
What is the State Game bird?
A: Ruffed Grouse.
In what year was Casino
gambling was legalized in
Pennsylvania??
A: In 2004.
How many constitutions has Pennsylvania had during its
statehood?
A: Five. 1776, 1790, 1838, 1874, and 1968.
What is the State Flower?
A: Mountain Laurel.
How many electoral votes does Pennsylvania hold?
A: 20.
Pennsylvania is divided into how many judicial districts?
A: 60.
Pennsylvania is the only state does not have a tax on what?
A: Gas drilling.
In Pennsylvania, counties, municipalities, and school
districts all levy taxes on what?
A: Real estate.
How many counties does the state of Pennsylvania have?
A: 67.
With a population of 738, what is the smallest city in
Pennsylvania?
A: Parker.
How many public school districts does Pennsylvania have?
A: 500.
In 1988, Pennsylvania's General Assembly passed Act 169,
allowing parents or guardians to do what with their children?
A: Home school them.
The University of Pennsylvania was the first university in
the United States and founded the America's first what?
A: Medical school.
What distinction does the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts have?
A: It's the first and oldest art school in the United States.
What was the first pharmacy school in the United States.?
A: The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
The country's first zoo was established where?
A: Philadelphia.
A museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania is the only building in
the world devoted to what magician?
A: Harry Houdini.
All the state's 121 state
parks feature free what?
A: Admission.
In Erie is the biggest indoor water park on the East Coast.
What is it's name?
A: Splash Lagoon.
What is the State Animal?
A: White-tailed deer.
How many licensed hunters are there in Pennsylvania?
A: About one million.
How many major airports are located in the state and what
are their names?
A: Seven, Philadelphia International, Pittsburgh International, Lehigh Valley
International, Harrisburg International, Erie International, University Park
Airport and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International.
Where does the port of Pittsburgh rank in size compared to
other states?
A: It is the second largest inland port in the U. S.
Where was Little League Baseball was founded?
A: In Williamsport.
Where does Arnold Palmer hail from?
A: From Latrobe.
Pennsylvania manufactures more what than any other state??
A: Pretzels and potato chips.
What company introduced the pretzel?
A: The Sturgis Pretzel House.
D.G. Yuengling & Son, which is the country's oldest
brewery, has been brewing beer where since 1829?
A: Pottsville.
What is the State Motto?
A: "Virtue, liberty, and independence"
