Pennsylvania Quiz Questions
1. What are the state colors?
Answer: Blue & Gold
2. What is the state animal?
Answer: White Tailed Deer
3. What is the state flower?
Answer: Mountain Laurel
4. What is the state tree?
Answer: Hemlock
5. What is Pennsylvania’s nickname?
Answer: The Keystone State
6. What does Pennsylvania mean?
Answer: Penns Woods
7. What is the state fish?
Answer: Brook Trout
8. What is the state bird?
Answer: Ruffled Grouse
9. What is the state insect?
Answer: Firefly or Lightening Bug
10. What is the state beverage?
Answer: Milk
11. What is the state dog?
Answer: Great Dane
12. What is Pennsylvania’s most valuable mineral?
Answer: Coal
13. How many counties are in Pennsylvania?
Answer: 67
14. What is Pennsylvania’s motto?
Answer: Virtue, Liberty & Independence
15. How does Pennsylvania rank in size among the 50 states?
Answer: 33rd
16. How many state parks are there in Pennsylvania?
Answer: 117
17. How many school districts are there in Pennsylvania?
Answer: 501
18. Where is the oldest gas station in the United States located?
Answer: Altoona, PA
19. The first drive-in gas station was located in?
Answer: Pittsburgh
20. The first US coast-to-coast highway in the US was?
Answer: Route 30
21. What year did Pennsylvania become a state?
Answer: 1787
22. What is the highest point in Pennsylvania?
Answer: Mount Davis
23. What is the lowest elevation in Pennsylvania?
Answer: Delaware River
24. How long is a Pennsylvania Governor elected for?
Answer: 4 years
25. Who was the only US President from Pennsylvania?
Answer: James Buchanan
26. What is the capitol of Pennsylvania?
Answer: Harrisburg
27. What is the name of the river at the state capital?
Answer: Susquehanna
28. In Pennsylvania how old must you be to vote?
Answer: 18
29. How many senators does Pennsylvania have?
Answer: 2
30. Where is the oldest golf course in America?
Answer: Clarion
31. Pennsylvania is officially called a?
Answer: Commonwealth
32. What state is located directly north of Pennsylvania?
Answer: New York
33. Who was Pennsylvania’s only woman governor?
Answer: Hanna Penn
34. What is the second largest city in Pennsylvania?
Answer: Pittsburgh
35. What two states are located West of Pennsylvania?
Answer: West Virginia & Ohio
36. What state in the US has the most covered bridges?
Answer: Pennsylvana
37. What PA Governor was the first to be Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security?
Answer: Tom Ridge
38. What Pennsylvania city was home to famous movie actor Jimmy Stewart?
Answer: Indiana
39. Before Harrisburg, what two PA cities were state capitals?
Answer: Philadelphia & Lancaster
40. What Pennsylvania city was named as the capital of the US for one day?
Answer: Lancaster
41. What two Pennsylvania counties have more deer than people?
Answer: Cameron & Potter
42. What famous person actually designed Philadelphia?
Answer: William Penn
43. Who gave Penn’s Woods to William Penn?
Answer: King Charles II of engleand
44. What is the PA county with the least population?
Answer: Forest
45. What is the name of William Penn’s home?
Answer: Pennsbury Manor
46. What is another name for the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania?
Answer: Great Pennsylvania Northern
47. What does “Pennsylvania Dutch” really mean?
Answer: Pennsylvania German
48. Where was the United State’s first major nuclear power plant accident?
Answer: Three Mile Island
49. What PA town was the first ever to be illuminated by electricity in 1881?
Answer: Philipsburg
50. What writing instrument was invented in Philadelphia?
Answer: Pencil with Attached Eraser
51. Pennsylvanian Andrew Carnegie is best known for what industry?
Answer: Steel
52. The first white settlers in Pennsylvania were of what nationality?
Answer: Swedish & Dutch
53. What two rivers join to form the Ohio River: Allegheny & Monongahela
54. What river in Pennsylvania flows North?
Answer: Monongahela
55. The first and only surrender by George Washington occurred at where in 1758?
Answer: Fort Necessity
56. What did Pennsylvanian Christopher L. Sholes invent?
Answer: Typewriter
57. What Pennsylvanian established the first ire company in the United States?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
58. The first what in the United States was established in 1731?
Answer: Public Library
59. The “Big Mac” hit of McDonalds originated in what Pennsylvania city?
Answer: Uniontown
60. What sport was played in Pittsburgh in 1903 for the very first time?
Answer: World Series
61. What was the name of Ben Franklin’s journal?
Answer: Poor Richards Almanac
62. What is the name of Pittsburgh’s popular football team?
Answer: Steelers
63. Can you name the famous golfer from Latrobe, PA?
Answer: Arnold Palmer
64. What time zone is Pennsylvania located in?
Answer: Eastern
65. What waterfalls is called “The Niagara of Pennsylvania”?
Answer: Bushkill Falls
66. There are only 3 other states in the United States that are a Commonwealth besides PA, what are they?
Answer: Virginia, Massachusetts & Kentucky
67. The United States Articles of confederation were adopted in what Pennsylvania city?
Answer: York
68. What musical instrument did Anthony Faas patent in 1854 in Pennsylvania?
Answer: Accordian
69. What famous Pennsylvanian woman made the first United States flag?
Answer: Betsy Ross
70. What form of public transportation first began in Philadelphia in 1884?
Answer: Taxi
71. What Somerset County town did Flight 93 crash near on September 11, 2001?
Answer: Shanksville
72. Can you name 2 branches of the PA Legislature?
Answer: Senate & House of Representatives
73. After what war did England take control of Pennsylvania?
Answer: French and Indian War
74. What world book known all over the world was first published in Pennsylvania around 1743?
Answer: The Holy Bible
75. John Bartram established this first in the US at Philadelphia in 1728?
Answer: Botanical Grden
76. Who was the famous Dr. that discovered the polio vaccine in 1952 at the University of Pittsburgh?
Answer: Dr. Jonas Salk
77. What amusement ride was invented by George Ferris of Pittsburgh?
Answer: The Ferris Wheel
78. What world famous winter festival is celebrated in Pennsylvania every February 2nd?
Answer: Groundhogs Day
79. What Pennsylvania city did Washington’s soldiers spend the winter of 1777?
Answer: Valley Forge
80. What famous ice cream treat originated in Latrobe, PA in 1904?
81. What famous house located at Bear Run was built by Frank Lloyd Wright?
Answer: Falling Water
82. What is the name of the second house build by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954?
Answer: Kentuck Knob
83. Philadelphia had the first department store in the United States what was the name of it?
Answer: Wannamaker’s
84. The first natural Republican convention was held in 1856 in what Pennsylvania city?
Answer: Pittsburgh
85. The game of bingo was first introduced in the United States in what Pennsylvania city?
Answer: Pittsburgh
86. Bubble Gum first originated in Pennsylvania in 1928 in what city?
Answer: Philadelphia
87. The very first beauty salon opened in what Pennsylvania city?
Answer: Philadelphia
88. What is Philadelphia’s nickname?
Answer: city of Brotherly Lover
89. Monroe county was named after what U.S. President?
Answer: James Monroe
90. What U.S. President retired to live on a farm in Pennsylvania?
Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower
91. What did Pennsylvanian native Robert Fulton invent?
Answer: Steamboat
92. What was the first radio station in the United States?
Answer: KDKA in Pittsburgh
93. What famous Central Pennsylvania landmark was on the German top 10 hit list to be sabotaged during WWII?
Answer: The World Famous Horseshoe Curve
94. What is known as the Slowest Roller Coaster in the world?
Answer: Johnstown’s Incline Plane
95. What is the name of a Russian Prince that became a priest and came to Central PA and started a Catholic Colony, there is a state park and a mountain town named after him?
Answer: Prince Gallitzin
96. What is the name of the area in Bedford County, PA that is known to defy gravity?
Answer: Gravity Hill
97. What is known through the Allegheny Mountains as “The Wall that Heals”?
Answer: The Viet Nam War Memorial in Altoona, PA
98. During the Revolutionary War, what city hid the Liberty Bell?
Answer: Allentown
99. What was the first magazine in the United State published in Philadelphia?
Answer: The American Magazine
100. What National Engineering Landmark in Pennsylvania was destroyed by a F1 tornado July 21, 2003?