Main Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of
what region?
A: New England.
What is Maine's largest town by population?
A: Brunswick.
Maine is the number one exporter of what
agricultural
product?
A: Low-bush blueberries.
Where was the first European settlement in Maine in 1604,
by the French?
A: Saint Croix Island.
Maine is the only US state whose name has exactly one what?
A: Syllable.
Who established the first English settlement in Maine?
A: The Plymouth Company in 1607.
What is Maine's State fish?
A: Land-locked salmon.
Before 1820 Maine was part of the what?
A: Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Based in Maine, the Jackson Laboratory is the world's
largest supplier of what?
A: Genetically purebred mice.
On what date was Main admitted to the Union as the 23rd
state?
A: On March 15, 1820.
What is the State flower?
A: White Pinecone and Tassel.
What is the smallest town in Maine by population?
A: Frye Island, a resort town .
What is the State bird?
A: Black-capped Chickadee.
Of all the US states, Maine has the highest percentage of
what?
A: French Americans.
Where was the Strong Wood Products plant, the largest
toothpick manufacturing plant in the United States which produced 20 million
toothpicks a day, located?
A: In Strong, Maine.
Where does Maine rank in population in relation to the
other US states?
A: It's the 41st most populous.
What is Maine's State fossil?
A: Pertica Quadrifaria.
What is Maine's State cat?
A: Maine Coon.
As far as crime rates go, many people think Maine is the
what?
A: Safest state in the U.S.
Maine is the northernmost state in New England and Main is
also the what?
A: The largest.
Maine is the only state to border exactly one other state.
What is the state that it borders?
A: New Hampshire .
What is the State gemstone?
A: Tourmaline.
What is the easternmost city in the United States and
located in Maine?
A: Eastport .
What is Maine's smallest city by population?
A: Eastport .
What is Maine's most northern point?
A: Estcourt Station.
In Maine, what is the largest lake located entirely in New
England?
A: Moosehead Lake.
What is Maine's State herb?
A: Wintergreen.
Mount Katahdin is the northern terminus of the what?
A: Appalachian Trail.
Machias Seal Island and North Rock, off Maine's easternmost
point, are claimed by both the U.S. and what other country?
A: Canada.
What was the population of Maine on July 1, 2013?
A: was 1,328,30.
What is the State insect?
A: European honey bee
Main is home to the Old Sow, the largest "what" in the
Western Hemisphere?
A: Tidal whirlpool.
As far as population goes, Maine has the lowest population
density of any U.S. state where?
A: East of the Mississippi River.
How much of Maine's land is covered by
forest?
A: 83%.
What is Maine's State mammal?
A: Moose.
Maine has the highest percentage of
people that speak what
language while at home?
A: French.
What is the State dessert?
A: Blueberry pie .
How many miles of coastline does Maine have?
A: Almost 230 miles.
What is the State soft drink?
A: Moxie.
What is the largest municipality in Maine by population?
A: The city of Portland .
What is is the easternmost piece of land in the contiguous
48 United States?
A: West Quoddy Head.
Maine's geomorphology was shaped primarily by "what" at the
end of the last ice age?
A: Heavy glacial activity.
Somes Sound in Maine is the only "what" on the eastern
seaboard?
A: fjord.
What is the State song?
A: State of Maine Song.
Bubble Rock, a "glacial erratic", is a large boulder
perched on the edge of what mountain in Acadia National Park.?
A: Bubble Mountain .
Maine's record all
time high temperature is what?
A: 105 °F, set in July 1911, at North Bridgton.
What is the average number of
tornadoes in Maine, per year?
A: Less than 2.
What is the record low temperature for Maine?
A: −50 °F, at Big Black River, in January
2009.
The French established a Jesuit mission on Penobscot Bay in
what year?
A: 1609.
Where did the French establish a Jesuit Mission in 1613?
A: On Mount Desert Island.
What is the State tree?
A: Eastern White Pine.
What was Maine's original capital before it was moved to
Augusta in 1832?
A: Portland.
How many navy ships have been named "USS Maine" in honor of
the state?
A: Four.
Where is the mean population center of Maine?
A: Kennebec County.
What are Maine's two largest airports?
A: The Portland International Jetport in Portland, and the Bangor International
Airport in Bangor.
How many counties does Main have?
A: 16.
What is Maine's State berry?
A: Wild Blueberry.
