New Jersey Quiz Questions
1. What is the motto of New Jersey?
Answer: Liberty and Prosperity
2. What was the name of the state before statehood?
Answer: Province of New Jersey
3. When did the state get admitted to the Union?
Answer: On December 18, 1787
4. What is the rank of the state to join the Union?
Answer: 3rd
5. In which region of the U.S, the state of New Jersey is located?
Answer: The Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region
6. What is the state capital of New Jersey?
Answer: Trenton
7. Which is the most populous city in the state?
Answer: Newark
8. What is the nickname of the state?
Answer: The Garden State
9. Which is the largest metro in the state?
Answer: Greater New York
10. Which is the largest city in New Jersey?
Answer: Newark
11. How much is the total area of the state?
Answer: 22,591.38 square kilometers
12. What percent of the total area is covered with water?
Answer: 15.7 percent
13. What is the rank of the state based on the area?
Answer: 47th
14. Which is the highest elevation point in New Jersey?
Answer: High Point
15. What is the rank of the state based on population?
Answer: 11th
16. What is the rank of the state according to population density?
Answer: First
17. What is the official language of the state?
Answer: None
18. Which language is mostly spoken in the state?
Answer: English (69.4 percent)
19. What are other languages used in the state?
Answer: Spanish, Indic, Chinese, Korean, and many others.
20. What is the state animal of New Jersey?
Answer: Horse
21. What is New Jersey’s state university?
Answer: Rutgers University
22. What is the state song of New Jersey?
Answer: I’m From New Jersey
23. What percent of New Jersey’s population lives in an urban area?
Answer: 90 percent
24. How are the counties of New Jersey classified?
Answer: As metropolitan areas
25. Which state has the most diners in the world?
Answer: New Jersey
26. Which state has the most shopping malls in one area around the world?
Answer: North Jersey
27. How many shopping malls are there in an area?
Answer: Seven in a 25 sq. miles radius
28. New Jersey is the largest producer of what among the U.S states?
Answer: Chemicals
29. Where is the largest seaport in the U.S?
Answer: Elizabeth, New Jersey
30. Where is the world’s longest boardwalk?
Answer: Atlantic City, New Jersey
31. Where was the first Indian reservation?
Answer: In New Jersey
32. What is the thing offered only in New Jersey’s public schools among the U.S states?
Answer: Child abuse prevention workshop
33. Where the first baseball game was played?
Answer: Hoboken, New Jersey
34. Which is the second largest industry in New Jersey?
Answer: Tourism
35. How many counties are there in New Jersey?
Answer: 21
36. What is the state bug of New Jersey?
Answer: Honeybee
37. What is New Jersey’s state seashell?
Answer: Knobbed Whelk
38. Which is the oldest seaside resort in the United State?
Answer: Cape May, New Jersey
39. In which state of the U.S most battles were fought during the Revolutionary War?
Answer: New Jersey
40. Which inventor’s lab was in Menlo Park, New Jersey?
Answer: Thomas Edison
41. Where is the world’s largest water tower?
Answer: New Jersey
42. Which is the state flower of New Jersey?
Answer: The violet
43. Which state was the first to sign the Bill of Rights?
Answer: New Jersey
44. When did Cheerleading start?
Answer: In 1869
45. Where does it start?
Answer: In Princeton
46. What is the state dance of New Jersey?
Answer: Square Dance
47. In which city cars are more stolen than in any other city in the U.S?
Answer: Newark
48. Which city of the U.S is home to a volcano?
Answer: Beemerville
49. The street names for the game Monopoly come from which city?
Answer: The Atlantic City
50. Where did the first Drive-In movie theater open?
Answer: In Candem
New Jersey Geography Trivia
51. How many companies related to software are there in New Jersey?
Answer: Nealy 2,700
52. What part of the Statue of Liberty situated in New York belongs to New Jersey?
Answer: The water surrounding the statue
53. In which city of New Jersey the famous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton took place?
Answer: Weehawken
54. When did the duel take place?
Answer: On July 11, 1804
55. How many of the eight cast members of Jersey Shore’s belonged to New Jersey?
Answer: Only two
56. New Jersey owes much of its cuisine to whom?
Answer: To the Jewish and Italian immigrants.
57. Which president was shot twice by an assassin in Washington D. C.?
Answer: President James Garfield
58. What is New Jersey’s state dinosaur?
Answer: Hadrosaur
59. What percent of the state area is covered with forest?
Answer: 45 percent
60. What is the Jersey Devil?
Answer: Folklore