Kentucky Trivia Questions And Answers
Kentucky is one of how many states formed as a
commonwealth?
A: 4.
What is Kentucky's official state bird?
A: Cardinal.
What did the Governor of Kentucky deploy to end the Black
Patch Tobacco Wars?
A: The Kentucky Militia.
In June 2007, the speed limit on rural portions of Kentucky
Interstates was raised from 65 to how many miles per hour?
A: 70.
What is the official state motto?
A: "United We Stand Divided We Fall".
Kentucky was one of the border states during what?
A: The Civil War.
How many counties does Kentucky have?
A: 120.
Originally a part of Virginia, Kentucky became the 15th
state to do what?
A: Join the Union.
Where does Kentucky rank in population with respect to the
other states?
A: 26th.
How did Kentucky get its nickname, the "Bluegrass State"?
A: It's based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures.
What is Kentucky's official sate
butterfly?
A: Viceroy Butterfly.
Kentucky hosts one of the biggest races in American
horse
racing called the what?
A: The Kentucky Derby.
Where does Kentucky rank in goat farming?
A: 5th nationally.
What is the official state fruit?
A: The Blackberry.
Which two of Kentucky's major cities are located in the
Bluegrass Region?
A: Louisville and Lexington.
On January 30, 1900, what Governor was mortally shot by an
assassin while walking to the State and died of his wounds?
A: Governor William Goebel.
What is the official state
dance for Kentucky?
A: Clogging.
Kentucky has the world's longest what?
A: Cave system at Mammoth Cave
National Park.
What is the official state horse?
A: Thoroughbred.
The state of Kentucky has the highest per capita number of
"what" in the US?
A: Deer and turkey.
How many states share a border with Kentucky?
A: Seven.
What is Kentucky's official state gemstone?
A: Freshwater Pearl
Which US state lies to the east?
A: West Virginia.
Old Louisville hosts the St. James Court Art Show which is
the what?
A: The largest outdoor art show in the United States .
Which state borders Kentucky to the south?
A: Tennessee.
Governor William Goebel is the only governor of a U.S.
state that has been assassinated while what?
A: Still in office.
What is the official state fossil for Kentucky?
A: Brachiopod.
What river forms Kentucky's northern border?
A: The Ohio River.
A vigilante wing, the "Night Riders", terrorized and burned
several tobacco warehouses in what cities?
A: Hopkinsville and Princeton.
Kentucky's official state mineral is what?
A: Coal.
Hundreds of what kind of farms are located in Kentucky's
Inner Bluegrass region?
A: Horse farms.
ln Kentucky, the average annual rainfall is how many
inches?
A: 46 inches.
What was the highest temperature ever recorded in Kentucky?
A: 114 °F at Greensburg on July 28,
1930.
The birthplace of Abraham Lincoln is in Hodgenville and
hosts the annual what?
A: Lincoln Days Celebration.
What is the official state beverage?
A: Milk.
What was the lowest ever record temperature in Kentucky?
A: −37 °F at Shelbyville on January 19, 1994.
Kentucky has the only domestic site for enriched uranium
rods which are produced at what plant?
A: The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
What is the official state rock for Kentucky?
A: Kentucky Agate.
Lake Cumberland in Kentucky is the largest artificial lake
east of the Mississippi in terms of what?
A: Water volume and surface area .
Kentucky is the only state that is bordered on three sides
by what?
A: Rivers, the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Big Sandy River.
The official state tree is what?
A: Tulip Poplar.
Except for Alaska, Kentucky has more navigable miles of
what than any other state?
A: Water.
Kentucky has been part of a successful wildlife
reintroduction project after restoring what population, that had been extinct
from the area for over 150 years?
A: Elk.
The state of Kentucky stocked what type of birds in the
1950s that had long been extinct there??
A: Wild turkeys.
What is Kentucky's official state flower?
A: Goldenrod.
In 2013 in Hart County, Kentucky, what was shot by a
hunter, a first in modern
times?
A: A gray wolf.
Where is the only place in the Western Hemisphere that a
"moon-bow" can be regularly seen?
A: Cumberland Falls, Kentucky.
Black Mountain is Kentucky's what?
A: Highest point.
How many miles of shoreline does Lake Cumberland have?
A: 1,255 miles .
What are the two recognized Indian tribes in Kentucky?
A: The Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky and the Ridgetop Shawnee.
What is Kentucky's official state song?
A: "My Old Kentucky Home".
Who was the first elected Governor of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky?
A: Isaac Shelby.
During the 19th century, which Kentucky city was a major
slave market and departure port for slaves?
A: Louisville .
Kentucky was officially a "neutral" state during the Civil
War due to what?
A: Union sympathies of some of the Commonwealth's citizens.
The Black Patch Tobacco Wars was a vigilante action
resulting from the tobacco industry monopoly, which forced tobacco farmers to
sell their tobacco at what?
A: Low prices.
Kentucky is one of five U.S. states that elects its state
officials in what?
A: Odd-numbered years.
Kentucky was the site of the first commercial what in the
United States?
A: Winery.
Kentucky is served by six How many major interstate
highways does Kentucky have?
A: Six. I-24, I-64, I-65, I-69, I-71, and I-75.
In the nineteenth century Louisville was a major port for
what?
A: Steamships.
What is the largest county in Kentucky?
A: Pike County.
Bowling Green is Kentucky's third-largest city and the
location of the only plant in the world that assembles the what?
A: Chevrolet Corvette.
What is the official Kentucky state fish?
A: Kentucky Spotted Bass.