Missouri Quiz Questions
1. Where does Missouri rank in so far as population is concerned compared to the other states?
Answer: It is the 18th most populous state
2. In 1812 Missouri was rocked by what earthquake?
Answer: The New Madrid earthquake
3. How many counties are there in Missouri?
Answer: 114
4. What is the flagship institution and largest university in Missouri?
Answer: The University of Missouri in Columbia
5. As of 2001, with the second-largest number in any state after Texas, how many farms does Missouri have?
Answer: 108,000
6. In 2010 how many households were there in Missouri?
Answer: 2,349,955 households
7. What is Missouri’s capital city?
Answer: Jefferson City
8. In which year St. Louis was founded by French settlers from New Orleans?
Answer: 1764
9. What is now Missouri was acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the what?
Answer: Missouri Territory
10. On what date was Missouri admitted into the union?
Answer: On August 10, 1821
11. What is the name of Missouri’s only nuclear power plant?
Answer: The Callaway Plant in Callaway County
12. Who established the wine industry along the Missouri River?
Answer: Nineteenth-century German immigrants
13. The 2010 Census found that Missouri had a population of how many people?
Answer: 5,988,927
14. The 2011 Joplin tornado was the first EF5 tornado to hit Missouri since what year?
Answer: 1957
15. The planters, (farmers 20 or more slaves), were concentrated in the counties known as what?
Answer: “Little Dixie”, in the central part of the state
16. The state of Missouri is named for the what?
Answer: Missouri River
Missouri trivia facts
17. What metal does Missouri produce more of than all of the states?
Answer: Lead
18. How many other states does Missouri border?
Answer: Eight
19. What state borders Missouri on the north?
Answer: Iowa
20. Which U.S. State borders Missouri on the south?
Answer: Arkansas
21. What are the two largest rivers flowing through Missouri?
Answer: The Mississippi and the Missouri River
22. What is the highest temperature recorded in Missouri?
Answer: 118 °F at Warsaw and Union on July 14, 1954
23. What is the lowest temperature ever recorded for Missouri?
Answer: −40 °F at Warsaw on February 13, 1905
24. The 2011 Joplin tornado, destroyed roughly 1/3 of the city of Joplin, killing how many people?
Answer: 159
25. Archaeological digs along Missouri’s rivers show that there was continuous habitation for how many years?
Answer: Over 7,000
26. Most practiced subsistence farming before the Civil War. The majority of Missouri farmers who had slaves had how many slaves?
Answer: Less than five slaves each
27. St. Charles, just west of St. Lou What city was the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Answer: St. Charles
28. In 1821 Missouri was admitted to the Union as a what?
Answer: Slave state
29. St. Charles was the first, and temporary capital of Missouri, but was moved to what city in 1826?
Answer: Jefferson City
30. In the early 1830s, Mormon migrants began settling near Independence and soon conflicts over “what” arose between the ‘old settlers’ and the Mormons .
Answer: Religion and slavery
31. What is Missouri’s state Land mammal
Answer: Missouri mule
32. Irish and German immigrants were not sympathetic to what?
Answer: Slavery
Missouri state trivia
33. Many of the Irish and German immigrants settled in cities, and created a network of what?
Answer: Catholic churches and schools
34. Where does Missouri rank in production of hogs compared with the other states?
Answer: 6th
35. Where is the state ranked in the country for the cultivation of rice?
Answer: 4th
36. Where is Monsanto, one of the largest gene companies in America , located?
Answer: It’s based in St. Louis
37. In 2012, Missouri had roughly 22,000 MW of electrical generating capacity, 82% of which was produced by burning what?
Answer: Coal
38. MetroLink the only urban light rail/subway system operating in Missouri and it connects the city of St. Louis with where?
Answer: Suburbs in Illinois and St. Louis County
39. Missouri and Kansas have a sports rivalry between the University of Missouri and what other university?
Answer: University of Kansas
40. The rivalry between University of Missouri and the University of Kansas is the oldest college rivalry west of the what?
Answer: Mississippi River
41. The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame can be found in what city?
Answer: Springfield
42. What is Missouri’s state rock?
Answer: Mozarkite
43. What Saint Louis University basketball star was selected in the first round of the NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1998?
Answer: Larry Hughes
44. What is the state bird?
Answer: bluebird
Missouri history trivia questions
45. Table Rock Dam, completed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1958, is on what river?
Answer: White
46. What is the name of the river that runs through Lesterville?
Answer: Black River
47. what is the birthplace of Harry S. Truman?What town is it?
Answer: Lamar
48. Closer to Knob Lick, Missouri I came to a town named Bonne Terre. I took an underground tour there of a ___ mine, whose product was used in batteries.
Answer: lead
49. What frozen custard stand has only two locations in St. Louis?
Answer: Ted Drewes
50. The name “pilot” is applied to many prominent features in Missouri. This indicates that pioneers used these features for what purpose?
Answer: Land navigation
51. Rolla is the capital seat of which county?
Answer: Phelps
52. Which of these famous monuments is located in St. Louis?
Answer: The Gateway Arch
53. Several antebellum homes still stand in Jefferson City and were present to see the arrival of which Confederate general’s army during the Civil War?
Answer: Sterling Price
54. Which Branson comedians is known for his catchphrase, “What a country!”?
Answer: Yakov Smirnoff
55. Arthur Bryant’s serves heavenly ________________.
Answer: barbecue