Nebraska Quiz Questions
1. The name Nebraska is from an Indian word meaning “flat water”?
Answer: True
2. Nebraska’s state motto is “Equality Before the Law”?
Answer: True
3. What is the state bird?
Answer: Western meadowlark
4. What is the state tree?
Answer: Cottonwood
5. What is the state gem?
Answer: Blue agate
6. What is Nebraska’s state fossil?
Answer: Mammoth
7. What is the state rock?
Answer: Prairie agate
8. What is Nebraska’s state grass?
Answer: Little bluestem
9. Nebraska has both a state poet and a state poet laureate?
Answer: True
10. What is Nebraska’s state song?
Answer: Beautiful Nebraska
11. Where is Nebraska’s highest point?
Answer: Panorama Point
12. Where is Nebraska’s geographic center?
Answer: Custer
13. What is the average temperature in July?
Answer: 76 degrees F
14. What is the average temperature in January?
Answer: 23 degrees F
15. Where was Nebraska’s state fair held in the 20th century?
Answer: Lincoln
16. What is Nebraska’s state capital?
Answer: Lincoln
17. What is the Nebraska state mammal?
Answer: White-tailed deer
18. What is Nebraska’s largest city?
Answer: Omaha
19. In what year did Nebraska become a U.S. State?
Answer: 1867
20. In what year did French-Canadian explorers, the Mallet brothers traverse the territory of Nebraska?
Answer: In 1739
21. What is the Nebraska state insect?
Answer: European honey bee
22. In 1819, what fort did the US establish as the first Army post west of the Missouri River?
Answer: Fort Atkinson
23. What is the Nebraska state tree?
Answer: Cottonwood
24. How many time zones does the state have?
Answer: Two
25. What is the Nebraska state grass?
Answer: Little bluestem
26. Due to the Homestead Act, settlers migrated into Nebraska by the thousands to claim their free land granted by who?
Answer: The federal government
27. What is the Nebraska state beverage?
Answer: Milk
28. Nebraska is located in what “Alley”?
Answer: Tornado Alley
29. Because hardly any trees grew on the prairies, many of the first settlers built their homes out of what?
Answer: Sod
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30. What is the Nebraska state fossil?
Answer: Mammoth
31. On what day did Nebraska become the 37th state to join the Union?
Answer: On March 1, 1867
32. What was the name of the last major battle between the Pawnee and the Sioux, on August 5, 1873?
Answer: The battle of Massacre Canyon
33. What is the Nebraska state motto?
Answer: Equality before the Law
34. During the 1870s to the 1880s, Nebraska experienced a large growth in population and by the 1880s, Nebraska’s population had soared to more than how many people?
Answer: 450,000 people
35. What is the Nebraska state dance?
Answer: Square dance
36. According to the 2010 census, Omaha had a population of what?
Answer: 408,958
37. What is the Nebraska state Flower?
Answer: Goldenrod
38. Omaha has a long history of civil rights activism and in 1912 African Americans founded the what?
Answer: Omaha chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
39. What is the Nebraska state gemstone?
Answer: Blue agate
40. What is the lowest temperature ever recorded for Nebraska?
Answer: −47 °F at Camp Clarke on February 12, 1899
41. Nebraska is bordered to the north by what State?
Answer: South Dakota
42. What state borders Nebraska to the east?
Answer: Iowa
43. What is the Nebraska state rock?
Answer: Prairie agate
44. What state borders the state of Nebraska to the west?
Answer: Wyoming
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45. How many counties does the State of Nebraska have?
Answer: 93
46. Nebraska is split into two major land regions: the Dissected Till Plains and the what?
Answer: Great Plains
47. What is the point with the highest elevation in Nebraska?
Answer: Panorama Point, at 5,424 feet
48. What is the Nebraska state slogan?
Answer: Nebraska, possibilities…endless
49. What is the highest temperature that the state of Nebraska’s has ever recorded?
Answer: 118 °F at Minden on July 24, 1936
50. What is the Nebraska state fish?
Answer: Channel catfish
51. In Nebraska, 89% percent of the cities have fewer than how many people?
Answer: 3,000
52. As of 2010, how many cities and villages were there in Nebraska?
Answer: 530
53. Vise-Grips were invented by who in 1924, and were manufactured in De Witt until 2008?
Answer: William Petersen
54. What is the Nebraska state song?
Answer: “Beautiful Nebraska”
55. In 2004, where did Nebraska rank as far as per capita personal income with the other states?
Answer: 25th
56. What is the Nebraska state bird?
Answer: Western meadowlark
57. What is the name of the world’s largest train yard in North Platte, Nebraska?
Answer: Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard
58. Where is Nebraska located?
Answer: The USA
59. What is Nebraska?
Answer: A state
60. Which state borders Nebraska to the north?
Answer: South Dakota
61. How many inhabitants are there in Nebraska?
Answer: 1.9 millions
62. What is the capital of Nebraska?
Answer: Lincoln
63. What is the largest city in Nebraska?
Answer: Omaha
64. What is Nebraska’s state number?
Answer: 37th
65. Who is the current governor?
Answer: Pete Ricketts
66. How many counties are there in Nebraska?
Answer: 93
67. What is the Nebraska state song called?
Answer: “Beautiful Nebraska”