Nevada Quiz Questions
1. What is the highest recorded temperature for Nevada?
Answer:125 °F in Laughlin on June 29, 1994
2. What is the coldest recorded temperature for Nevada?
Answer:−52 °F set in San Jacinto in 1972
3. What is the Nevada State grass?
Answer:Indian ricegrass
4. The southern third of the state, where the Las Vegas area is located in the southern third of Nevada and is in what desert?
Answer:The Mojave Desert
5. Where does Nevada rank for population among the states?
Answer:35th
6. What is the Nevada State fossil?
Answer:Ichthyosaur
7. What does Nevada have by far the most of per capita in U.S.?
Answer:Hotel rooms
8. Where did the name Nevada come from?
Answer:The Spanish explorers named it Nevada which means snowy
9. Before the Europeans showed up, what is now Nevada was inhabited by what three Native American tribes?
Answer:The Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe
10. Nevada has a domestic partnership registry that enables gay couples to enjoy the same rights as who?
Answer:Married couples
11. What is the Nevada State fish?
Answer:Lahontan cutthroat trout
12. On what date did Nevada become the 36th state?
Answer:On October 31, 1864
13. What kind of laws is Nevada known for?
Answer:Its libertarian laws
14. In Nevada prostitution employs roughly how many women?
Answer:Aproximatly300
15. What turned Nevada into the popular tourist destination that it is today?
Answer:The establishment of legalized gambling and lenient marriage and divorce proceedings
16. What is the Nevada State colors?
Answer:Silver and blue
17. Nevada is the only state where prostitution is what?
Answer:Legal, though it is illegal in Clark County and Washoe County which contain Las Vegas and Reno, respectively
18. What is Nevada’s largest employer?
Answer:The tourism industry
19. Nevada is the world’s fourth largest producer of what type of metal?
Answer:Gold
20. Nevada allows for use of “what” for medical reasons?
Answer:Marijuana
21. What city is the capital of Nevada?
Answer:Carson City
22. Why is Nevada known as the “Battle Born State”?
Answer:It achieved statehood during the Civil War
23. What nationality were the first Europeans to explored the region?
Answer:The Spaniards
24. What is the Nevada State flower?
Answer:Sagebrush
25. What is the average yearly rainfall for Nevada?
Answer:About 7 inches
26. Nevada is well known for having the harshest penalties for what type of offenders in the US?
Answer:Non-alcohol drugs
27. What is the Nevada State bird?
Answer:Mountain Bluebird
28. Nevada is divided into how many counties?
Answer:17
29. What county in Nevada has the most people?
Answer:Clark County
30. What is the Nevada State march?
Answer:“Silver State Fanfare” by Gerald G. Willis
31. Las Vegas is Nevada’s most populous city, has been the “what” since the county was created?
Answer:The county seat
32. Nevada became the 36th U.S. State in the Union on what date?
Answer:October 3, 1864
33. What is permitted in casinos, hotel rooms, tobacco shops, and brothels?
Answer:Smoking
34. What is the Nevada State metal?
Answer:Silver
35. In Nevada gambling was outlawed in 1909 as part of a nation-wide anti-gambling crusade, but Nevada again legalized gambling on what date?
Answer:March 19, 1931
36. How big is the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of the city of Las Vegas in square miles?
Answer:Approximately 1,350 square miles
37. When was the last atmospheric test conducted at the Nevada test site?
Answer:On July 17, 1962
38. What is the Nevada State precious gemstone?
Answer:Virgin Valley black fire opal
39. As far as crime is concerned, in 2008, Nevada had the third highest what in the country?
Answer:Murder rate
40. When was the underground testing of weapons discontinued?
Answer:September 23, 1992
41. What is the Nevada State semiprecious gemstone?
Answer:Nevada turquoise
42. What percentage of Nevada’s land is owned by the federal government?
Answer:Over eighty percent
43. According to the Census Bureau the population of Nevada was what on July 1, 2013?
Answer:2,790,136
44. The California Gold Rush of the 1850s brought thousands of Chinese miners to what county?
Answer:Washoe county
45. What is the Nevada State slogan?
Answer:“The Battle Born State”
46. The 2000 Census revealed that 16.19% of the state’s residents over 5 years old speak what language at home?
Answer:Spanish
47. What is the Nevada State artifact?
Answer:Tule Duck Decoy
48. In 2004, 6,800,000 ounces of gold were mined in the state, worth $2.84 billion, and it amounted to 8.7% of what?
Answer:The world gold production
49. In 2008, the state had the highest rate of what in the country?
Answer:Robbery and motor vehicle theft
50. What percentage of Nevada’s 484,000 acres of cropland is used to grow hay, for feeding livestock ?
Answer:Over 90%
51. What is the Nevada State song?
Answer:“Home Means Nevada” by Bertha Raffetto
52. In Nevada, the U.S. Route 50 is also known as what?
Answer:“The Loneliest Road in America”
53. Nevada does not have a continuous interstate highway linking its two major what?
Answer:Population centers
54. Nevada is one of only a few states in the country that allows Semi trucks with what ?
Answer:Three trailers
55. What is the Nevada State reptile?
Answer:Desert Tortoise
56. Where does a 4-mile long monorail provide public transportation?
Answer:In the Las Vegas area
57. What are the two major airports serving Nevada?
Answer:McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, and Reno-Tahoe International Airport
58. As far as taxation goes, Nevada has no what?
Answer:Personal income tax or corporate income tax
59. What is the Nevada State rock?
Answer:Sandstone
60. Interestingly enough, since Nevada does not collect income data it can’t share the data with who?
Answer:The feds or the IRS
61. Nevada voters enacted a smoking ban that outlaws smoking where?
Answer:In most workplaces and public places
62. Smoking is permitted in bars if the bar does not do what?
Answer:Serve food
63. What is the Nevada State animal?
Answer:Desert Bighorn Sheep
64. About how many people of Nevada lives in Clark County?
Answer:Three-quarters
65. What is the capital of Nevada?
Answer:Carson City
66. What is Nevada officially known as?
Answer:Both
67. What is the official state animal of the State of Nevada?
Answer:Desert Bighorn Sheep
68. What is the meaning of Nevada?
Answer:A snow-covered mountain range
69. Who was the first governor-general of Nevada?
Answer:Henry G. Blasdel
70. What is the state flower of Nevada?
Answer:Sagebrush
71. Who designed Nevada’s state flag?
Answer:Governor John Sparks
72. What is the national language of Nevada?
Answer:Spanish
73. Nevada is the world’s fourth largest producer of what metal?
Answer:Gold