North Dakota Quiz Questions
1. Which is a Native American tribe located within North Dakota?
Answer: Mandan
2. North Dakota and South Dakota were signed into the union by President Benjamin Harrison on November 2, 1889. Which state was signed in first?
Answer: No one knows for sure
3. What college is located in Grand Forks?
Answer: University of North Dakota
4. Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota. What strange phenomenon occurred there in 1953?
Answer: UFO Sightings
5. How many states border North Dakota?
Answer: three
6. When did North Dakota become a state?
Answer: November 2, 1889
7. Agriculture is North Dakota’s primary industry. What is its principal crop?
Answer: Wheat
8. In what month are Catfish Days traditionally held?
Answer: August
9. North Dakota became the 39th state on November 2, 1889. Another state became a state that day putting the United States “Over the Hill” with its 40th state. Which was it?
Answer: South Dakota
10. What is North Dakota’s state bird?
Answer: Western meadowlark
11. What Canadian provinces are immediately north of the state?
Answer: Manitoba and Saskatchewan
12. What river creates the boundary between North Dakota and Minnesota, while also flowing north?
Answer: Red River
13. In western North Dakota, there is a huge concentration of coal. How much is estimated to be there?
Answer: 400-600 billion tons
14. A state park is only about 20-25 miles away from Grand Forks, what is the name of this park?
Answer: Turtle River State Park
15. What flower does North Dakota grow more of than any other state?
Answer: Sunflower
16. What is the state flower?
Answer: Wild prairie rose
17. What river forms the eastern border of the state?
Answer: Red
18. Which US President is most associated with North Dakota, which is why North Dakota’s only National Park is named after him?
Answer: Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
19. A US president moved from New York and settled in the Badlands of North Dakota (then the Dakota Territory) and ranched cattle. Who was he?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
20. What is the name of the Grand Forks local newspaper?
Answer: Grand Forks Herald
21. When you go to a bar or restaurant in North Dakota you can have a beer, but what snack is against the law for you to have at the same time?
Answer: Pretzels
22. What is the state fish?
Answer: Northern pike
23. What scenic attraction symbolizes the enduring friendship between the people of the United States and Canada?
Answer: International Peace Garden
24. Which North Dakota city has an airbase?
Answer: Minot
25. In what year was Grand Forks big flood?
Answer: 1997
26. In North Dakota there is an Air Force Base, the Minot Air Force Base, which is located a few miles outside Minot’s city limits. What is the base’s motto?
Answer: “Only the Best Come North”
27. What is North Dakota’s state grass?
Answer: Western wheatgrass
28. Which of these is most important for North Dakota’s economy?
Answer: agriculture
29. Which lake is the largest lake of North Dakota?
Answer: Lake Sakakawea
30. What is the record for the lowest temperature in North Dakota?
Answer: -60 degrees Fahrenheit
31. Which branch of the military has an institution located near Grand Forks?
Answer: Air Force
32. Lewis and Clark, What animal did they first encountered in North Dakota?
Answer: Grizzly Bear
33. What is North Dakota’s most precious resource?
Answer: soil
34. What albino animal is known for its spiritual significance to many Native American tribes, and is located in Jamestown, North Dakota?
Answer: Buffalo
35. What is the official state language of North Dakota?
Answer: English
36. What is the name of the river which separates North Dakota and Minnesota?
Answer: Red River
37. Who was famous singer was born in North Dakota?
Answer: Peggy Lee
38. What is the state tree?
Answer: American elm
39. What is the largest city in the state?
Answer: Fargo
40. Which North Dakota city, county seat of Cass County, became the name of a major motion picture?
Answer: Fargo
41. The word “Dakota” is derived from the Sioux language. What does “Dakota” mean in Sioux?
Answer: Friend
42. _____ Grand Forks is located in Minnesota. What comes before Grand Forks?
Answer: East
43. How many wildlife refuges were there in North Dakota in 2006?
Answer: 63
44. What is the state beverage?
Answer: Milk
45. North Dakota received national attention for what natural disasters in 1997 and 2009?
Answer: Flooding
46. Ride ‘um Cowboy! What is North Dakota’s oldest PRCA (Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association) rodeo?
Answer: Killdeer Mountain Roundup
47. When was the first season the Ralph Engelstad Arena was used?
Answer: 2001-2002
48. What motto is on the Coat of Arms of North Dakota?
Answer: Strength from the Soil
49. What is the name of the state song?
Answer: “North Dakota Hymn”
50. In 2011, what one natural commodity caused a boom within the state of North Dakota?
Answer: Oil
51. In 2006 the U.S. Mint released the North Dakota State Quarter! What’s on the reverse of the ND quarter?
Answer: Two buffalo
52. What is the major highway which crosses the North Dakota and Minnesota border from Grand Forks into East Grand Forks?
Answer: Highway 2
53. What is the average temperature in January?
Answer: 7 degrees F
54. Where the North Dakota state fair held?
Answer: Minot
55. Which river drains about sixty percent of North Dakota?
Answer: Missouri
56. What is North Dakota’s highest point?
Answer: White Butte
57. Where is North Dakota’s geographic center?
Answer: Sheridan
58. What is the average daily temperature in July?
Answer: 80 degrees F