Free Massachusetts Trivia Questions With Answers
Which US state borders Massachusetts to the west?
A: New York.
How many miles of interstates and other highways are there
in the state of Massachusetts?
A: 31,300 miles.
What is the Massachusetts state
marine mammal?
A: Right whale.
Where does Massachusetts rank in size among the states?
A: It's the 7th smallest.
The state of Massachusetts was the first to form a Black
regiment with white officers, and it was called the what?
A: The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
Where was George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United
States born?
A: In Milton, Massachusetts in 1924.
What is the Massachusetts state fossil?
A: Dinosaur track.
In Massachusetts how many counties are there?
A: 14.
Massachusetts is located along the Atlantic Flyway, a major
route for what?
A: Migratory waterfowl.
Massachusetts has two separate metropolitan areas: Greater
Boston in the east and what in the west?
A: The Springfield metropolitan area.
How much of Massachusetts' population lives in Greater
Boston?
A: Approximately two-thirds.
What is the Massachusetts state bird?
A: Chickadee.
Where in Massachusetts was the site of the colony founded
in 1620 by the Pilgrims who come to America on the Mayflower?
A: Plymouth.
Massachusetts is the home of what university founded in
1636, and the oldest institution of higher learning in America?
A: Harvard University.
What was the name of the United States' first college for
women, opened in 1837?
A: Mount Holyoke College,
The Olympic sport of
basketball was
invented in what
Western Massachusetts city?
A: Springfield.
The oldest college in the US is Harvard University, founded
in Massachusetts in what year?
A: The year 1636.
What is the Massachusetts state fish?
A: Cod.
As of 2005, how many
farms were located in the state?
A: 7,700.
In 2004, Massachusetts was the first state to
legally
recognize what kind of marriage?
A: Same-sex marriage.
What is the "official" name of the state of Massachusetts?
A: The "Commonwealth of Massachusetts".
What is the Massachusetts state beverage?
A: Cranberry juice.
What is the area of Massachusetts in square miles?
A: 10,555 .
What is the largest city in the state?
A: Boston.
What percentage of the state is covered in
forest?
A: Around 62%.
What is the Massachusetts state song?
A: All Hail to Massachusetts.
The gray wolf, elk,
wolverine, and eastern cougar are
animals that have become locally "what" in Massachusetts?
A: Extinct.
Located in Holyoke is what hall of fame?
A: The Volleyball Hall of Fame.
How many NBA Championships have the Boston Celtics won?
A: Seventeen.
In 2005, what percentage of the population of Massachusetts
spoke English?
A: 79%.
Large numbers of the indigenous people in the northeast of
what is now the US were killed by epidemics and from 1617 to 1619, smallpox
reportedly killed what percentage of the Massachusetts Bay Native Americans?
A: 90%.
What is the Massachusetts state dog?
A: Boston terrier.
The pilgrims established their settlement at Plymouth in
1620, and developed friendly relations with what native American Indian tribe?
A: Wampanoag.
In 1630, Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony
in what is now what city?
A: Boston .
Massachusetts was the first state to pass compulsory what?
A: School attendance laws.
What is the Massachusetts state cat?
A: Tabby cat.
In 1636, Roger Williams founded what colony?
A: Rhode Island.
George Washington took over what would become the
Continental Army and his first victory was the Siege of what city in the
winter
of 1775–76?
A: Boston .
How many Superbowls have the New England Patriots won?
A: Three.
Bostonian John Adams, was known as the what?
A: "Atlas of Independence".
What is the longest interstate in Massachusetts?
A: Interstate 90.
John Adams was an important figure in both the struggle for
independence and the formation of the new what?
A: United States.
What is the Massachusetts state horse?
A: Morgan horse.
How many Stanley Cups have the Boston Bruins won?
A: Six.
John Adams succeeded George Washington as US President,
and his son, John Quincy Adams, would go on to become the what?
A: Sixth President.
What is the Massachusetts state
game bird?
A: Wild turkey.
During World War II, what percentage of the US armaments
were produced in Massachusetts?
A: 3.4 percent.
The Kennedy family, prominent in Massachusetts
politics in
the 20th century, included John F. Kennedy, who was a US president in
1963 when
he was what?
A: Assassinated.
What is the Massachusetts state Reptile?
A: Garter snake.
What is the Massachusetts state insect?
A: Lady bug.
Robert F. Kennedy, another member of the political family,
was a presidential candidate before his assassination in what year?
A: In 1968.
Where in Massachusetts is the famous Kennedy Compound
located?
A: At Hyannisport on Cape Cod.
In 1987, Massachusetts got federal funding for the Central
Artery/Tunnel Project, the biggest federal highway project ever approved, and
commonly known as what?
A: The Big Dig.
In 2013, the population of Massachusetts was estimated to
be what?
A: 6,692,824.
Who is the Massachusetts state artist?
A: Norman Rockwell.
Massachusetts, after Wisconsin, is the second-largest
producer of what agricultural product?
A: Cranberries.
In what year was Massachusetts ranked as the most energy
efficient state in the union?
A: In 2011.
What is the major airport in the state?
A: Logan International Airport.
Massachusetts is home to The Mather School, founded in
1639, and it is America's oldest public what?
A: Elementary school.
How many times have the Boston Red Sox won the World
Series?
A: Eight.
What is the Massachusetts state tree?
A: American Elm.