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1. What two colors make up the New Mexican flag?
Answer: Red/Yellow
2. What is Roswell best-known for?
Answer: Aliens
3. Where does the Rio Grande originate?
Answer: Colorado
4. What town hosts the World’s Greatest Lizard Race?
Answer: Lovington
5. A major event occurred near Alamogordo in 1945. What was it?
Answer: First atomic device exploded
6. What was the principal color of New Mexico’s original flag?
Answer: blue
7. New Mexico’s legislature has defined the “state question”. What is it?
Answer: Red or green?
8. How many miles further east is New Mexico’s eastern border with Oklahoma compared to Texas?
Answer: About 2 miles
9. What is the name for the type of rock, made up of compacted ash?
Answer: tuff
10. One of the world’s best preserved volcanic calderas is the Valles Caldera, located in which mountains?
Answer: Jemez
11. What year was Santa Fe established?
Answer: 1610
12. Rockhound State Park is located on the flanks of the Little Florida Mountains near which city?
Answer: Deming
13. The first nuclear weapon of any kind was detonated in New Mexico. What was the date that this occurred?
Answer: July 16 1945
14. Which major river flows through the center of New Mexico?
Answer: Rio Grande
15. What vegetable is Hatch, New Mexico famous for?
Answer: Green Chile
16. Lots of dinosaur fossils are found in which wilderness area?
Answer: Bisti
17. The world’s first Atomic Bomb was tested in New Mexico. Where was it manufactured?
Answer: Los Alamos
18. Which National Monument is located close to Los Alamos and White Rock?
Answer: Bandelier National Monument
19. What animal is Capitan best known for?
Answer: A bear
20. What attraction is located northeast of Taos?
Answer: Capulin Volcano National Monument
21. Who was New Mexico’s first United States senator?
Answer: Thomas Catron
22. What’s the state flower of New Mexico?
Answer: Yucca
23. Which volcanic region is home to the flow?
Answer: El Malpais National Monument
24. White Sands National Monument encompasses miles and miles of pure white gypsum sand dunes. How many square miles is it?
Answer: 275
25. Which month does the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Fiesta take place?
Answer: October
26. What is New Mexico’s state tree?
Answer: Pinon
27. What is Ruidoso Downs famous for?
Answer: Horse races
28. One of the country’s oldest apple orchards is located in what town?
Answer: Manzano
29. What is the scientific name of New Mexico’s state bird?
Answer: Geococcyx californianus
30. What is the longest river that runs through New Mexico?
Answer: Rio Grande
31. Which mountain range is in new mexico?
Answer: Capitan
32. The first area in the world to be designated a wilderness area was in New Mexico. What is the area that holds this honor?
Answer: The Gila mountains
33. What were the first Indians to occupy the land which is now New Mexico?
Answer: Folsom Paleo-Indians
34. What is the state animal?
Answer: Black Bear
35. What is Carlsbad famous for?
Answer: Caverns
36. Carlsbad is a small city in the southeastern part of New Mexico. What is it most widely known for?
Answer: Underground caves
37. Who designed the present New Mexico State capitol (a.k.a. The Roundhouse)?
Answer: W.C. Kruger
38. What year was New Mexico’s first newspaper published?
Answer: 1834
39. One of the chief turquoise producing areas in North America is outside what town?
Answer: Cerrillos
40. One very important stone tool in the Western Hemisphere is named for where it was first discovered in New Mexico, what is the town name?
Answer: Clovis
41. Governor Lew Wallace wrote which famous novel?
Answer: Ben Hur
42. What is the state gem?
Answer: Turquoise
43. What year was New Mexico admitted to the Union?
Answer: 1912
44. In 1947 a famous event was reported to have occurred in Roswell. What was it?
Answer: Crash landing of a UFO
45. Where were the words “I am become death, the shatterer of worlds” most famously uttered in New Mexico?
Answer: Jornada del Muerto Valley
46. What is the HIGHEST point in New Mexico?
Answer: Wheeler Peak
47. Energy production, including uranium mining, is a major part of the economy in which region of New Mexico?
Answer: Colorado Plateau
48. Where can you find the world’s largest solar telescope?
Answer: Sunspot
49. In 1912 New Mexico became the ________ State?
Answer: 47th
50. What is the state insect?
Answer: Tarantula hawk wasp
51. What is the LOWEST point in NM?
Answer: Red Bluff Lake
52. What is true about the New Mexico capitol building?
Answer: It is round
53. Who was depicted in New Mexico’s first donated statue?
Answer: Dennis Chavez
54. What New Mexican national park is home one of the world’s most famous caves?
Answer: Carlsbad Caverns
55. Which river carves a 600-foot deep canyon into the Great Plains before leaving the state to continue its 760-mile journey to the Arkansas River?
Answer: Canadian River
56. Which famous company found its creation in Albuquerque but later moved?
Answer: Microsoft
57. During World War II, two New Mexico regiments endured the ______in the Philippines.
Answer: Bataan Death March
58. Which of the following celebrities resided in Roswell at one point?
Answer: Demi Moore, Peter Hurd, John Denver
59. New Mexico is known as the:
Answer: Land of Enchantment
60. New Mexico ranks fifth in area of the fifty United States. How does New Mexico stack up for mean elevation?
Answer: Fourth
61. What is the name of the outlaw that resided in Lincoln County, New Mexico?
Answer: Billy the Kid
62. Dinosaur tracks are one of the major attractions at which State Park?
Answer: Clayton Lake
63. New Mexico is only what percent desert?
Answer: 30%
64. Which famous hotel baron is from New Mexico?
Answer: Conrad Hilton
65. Which state borders New Mexico to the north?
Answer: Colorado
66. Sandia Peak, standing 10,378 feet high, overlooks which New Mexico city?
Answer: Albuquerque
67. What is the only county in New Mexico named after a vice president?
Answer: Colfax County
69. What is the striking, 2000-foot tall volcanic neck exposed near Farmington, New Mexico?
Answer: Shiprock
70. New Mexico has a very rich history. Which famous individual in history did NOT at some time make his home in New Mexico?
Answer: Wild Bill Hickok
71. What does the Zia symbol represent on the New Mexican flag?
Answer: Sun
73. What is the date of Mexican Independence day?
Answer: 16th September
74. Where is the largest university in the world?
Answer: The National University of Mexico.
75. What are the names of Mazatlan’s main islands?
Answer: Deer Island, Bird Island, Wolf Island
76. How many taxis are in operation in Mexico City?
Answer: 100,000 taxis
77. What is Huatulco known for primarily?
Answer: Beaches. There are many beaches in the area, uncrowded, unspoiled and beautiful.
78. What state is Puerto Vallarta in?
Answer: Jalisco
79. What was the occupation of the man who led the Mexican war for independence?
Answer: A priest, commonly known as Father Hidalgo.
80. How many years did the war for independence last?
Answer: 11-years
81. How many airports can be found in Mexico?
Answer: 1,714
82. This delicious traditional dish is made with a corn dough (masa) wrapped around meat or other fillings, which is then wrapped in corn husks and steamed. Can you name this Mexican favorite?
Answer: Tamales
83. True or False: Mexico’s Independence Day is a national holiday?
Answer: True, government offices, schools, banks, and most workplaces will close.
84. How long do Mexican Independence Day celebrations go on for?
Answer: 2-days
85. The official Mexican flag features 3 colors; which color represents independence?
Answer: Green
86. Near Xalapa is Mexico’s highest mountain. What is the name of this snowcapped peak?
Answer: Pico de Orizaba
87. What does a traditional holiday piñata have to have?
Answer: A round center with 7 spikes (representing the 7 deadly sins), a stick (to represent virtue), and candy inside (to represent gifts from God).
88. Which U.S. state does Tijuana share a border with?
Answer: California
89. What traditional Christmas plant is native to Mexico?
Answer: Poinsettia
90. What is the westernmost city of Mexico?
Answer: Tijuana
91. The Selva Zoque region of Mexico, important for its large expanses of tropical forest and its biodiversity, is located in Oaxaca and which two other states?
Answer: Chiapas and Veracruz
92. On what date do people open Christmas gifts in Mexico?
Answer: Chiapas and Veracruz
93. Christmas eve is when the real celebration happens in Mexico and when the festive meal is served. In addition to turkey, what other 2 dishes are traditionally served?
Answer: Bacalao and Romeritos
94. Cancun is home to which of the following beautiful soccer stadiums, home to FC Atlante?
Answer: Estadio Olímpico Andrés Quintana Roo
95. Well, what about the valleys mentioned in the national anthem – which of these is the common name for the valley where Mexico City is situated?
Answer: Valley of the Damned
96. What Christmas decorations are more popular than trees in Mexico?
Answer: Nativity scenes, known as Nacimiento.
97. Mexico is home to the largest ever angel ornament, it was made out of 2946 old what?
Answer: Beer bottles
98. What does Cinco de Mayo commemorate?
Answer: Mexico’s victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862
99. What does a red rose mean in Mexico?
Answer: Love and fidelity
100. Which major resort city is situated in the Mexican state of Guerrero?
Answer: Acapulco
101. What is the time zone of Mexico?
Answer: UTC -6
102. What is the name of the Mazatlan Airport?
Answer: Aeropuerto Internacional General Rafael Buelna
103. Which famous actress was born in Mexico?
Answer: Salma Hayek
104. Is Mexico all desert?
Answer: Mountains cover much of Mexico
105. Who was Frida Kahlo’s husband?
Answer: Diego Rivera
106. In which sea is Isla Mujeres located?
Answer: Caribbean Sea
107. When was Mexico City built?
Answer: 1521
108. A short 200km day trip from Cancun finds a visitor reveling in the beauty of El Castillo, a structure within which of the New Seven Wonders of the World?
Answer: Chichen Itzaxas
109. How many ethnic groups are there in Mexico?
Answer: 56 Amerindian and diverse foreign ethnic groups
110. What is the Median age in Mexico?
Answer: 28.6 years
111. Within the Cancun hotel zone there is also a lesser known Mayan ruins complex famous for its tame iguanas. What is the name of this tourist spot?
Answer: El Rey Ruins
112. Which mountain range does Puerto Vallarta lie near?
Answer: Sierra Madre Occidental
113. Mexico is located in one of the most seismically active areas of the world named
Answer: The Pacific Ring of Fire
114. What was Lila Downs’ first album?
Answer: Ofrenda
115. What is the oldest Mexican soccer team?
Answer: Club de Fútbol Pachuca
116. Which Mexican singer is nicknamed “El Charro de Huentitán”, “El Ídolo de México”, and “El Rey de la Música Ranchera”?
Answer: Vicente Fernández
117. What is the national fish of Mexico?
Answer: Cutthroat Trout
118. Which British author wrote ‘Under the Volcano’?
Answer: Malcolm Lowry
119. Who is the highest-paid soccer player in Mexico?
Answer: Santa Cruz (Cruz Azul)
120. Which author wrote ‘The Death of Artemio Cruz’?
Answer: Carlos Fuentes