Wyoming Trivia
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100 free Wyoming trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
60 free Wyoming trivia questions with answers. Wyoming has the fewest people of any state and more than its share of firsts: the first national park, the first national monument, the first women voters, jurors and governor. This quiz covers the Cowboy State in 100 questions, from Old Faithful and the Grand Teton to the Oregon Trail, Fort Laramie, the Johnson County War, Butch Cassidy's prison stretch and the Teapot Dome scandal. You will also get the things locals argue about: why Casper is misspelled, which tribes share the Wind River Reservation, where the coal comes from, what the bucking horse on the licence plate is called, and where Brokeback Mountain was really filmed. The early questions suit anyone who has driven through on I-80; the later ones will only be answered by people who know their trona from their bentonite. Every answer has been checked against a documented source and each question shows its citation and a short explanation after you answer.
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Q 01Roughly how many people live in Cheyenne, Wyoming's capital and most populous city?
65,000
Cheyenne had about 65,000 residents at the 2020 census, ahead of Casper at roughly 59,000; the whole state has fewer people than the city of Denver.
Q 02Wyoming joined the Union in 1890 as which numbered state?
44th
Wyoming became the 44th state on 10 July 1890, a week after Idaho entered the Union as the 43rd.
Q 03Wyoming ranks where among the US states by population?
Last, the least populous
Last, the least populous state is Wyoming: fewer people live there than in Vermont or Alaska, although it ranks tenth-largest by area.
Q 04Wyoming's official nickname, the Equality State, comes from what 1869 decision?
Giving women the vote
Giving women the vote came first in Wyoming Territory: Governor John Campbell signed the suffrage act on 10 December 1869, and Albany County seated women jurors in March 1870.
Q 05Who became the first woman to serve as governor of a US state, taking office in Wyoming in January 1925?
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Nellie Tayloe Ross won a special election after her husband William died in office, took the oath on 5 January 1925, and later directed the US Mint for 20 years.
Q 06Esther Hobart Morris became the first American woman to hold what office in 1870?
Justice of the peace
Esther Hobart Morris was appointed justice of the peace for South Pass City in February 1870; her statue has stood in the Capitol's Statuary Hall since 1960.
Q 07Yellowstone, the world's first national park, was created in which year?
1872
President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone Act on 1 March 1872, a year after Ferdinand Hayden's survey documented the region's geysers.
Q 08Roughly what share of Yellowstone National Park lies within Wyoming?
96%
Some 96% of Yellowstone lies in Wyoming; the rest is a narrow 3 percent strip in Montana along the north and west edges and about 1 percent in Idaho.
Q 09Roughly how many geysers are found in Yellowstone National Park?
More than 500
Yellowstone has more than 500 geysers, the largest concentration on Earth, among at least 10,000 hydrothermal features including hot springs, mudpots and fumaroles.
Q 10Old Faithful, the first geyser in Yellowstone to be given a name, erupts on average about how often?
Every 92 minutes
Old Faithful erupts on average every 92 minutes, with intervals ranging from about 60 to 110 minutes; the 1870 Washburn expedition named it, and eruptions reach up to 185 feet.
Q 11The bison of Yellowstone Park hold what distinction?
Oldest and largest public herd in the US
Yellowstone's bison are the oldest and largest public herd in the US: the park is the only place in the country where bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times, and the herd numbers several thousand.
Q 12Devils Tower became the first US national monument in 1906 under which president?
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower the first national monument on 24 September 1906, months after signing the Antiquities Act; the Lakota call it Bear Lodge, and climbers are asked to stay off it in June.
Q 13Which 1977 film used Devils Tower as the setting for its climactic scenes?
Q 21Which animal is Wyoming's official state mammal?
American bison
The American bison, the animal on the state flag, became Wyoming's official mammal in 1985; the state bird is the western meadowlark and the gemstone is jade.
Q 22Which dinosaur is Wyoming's official state dinosaur?
Triceratops
Triceratops, the horned Cretaceous herbivore whose fossils turn up in Wyoming's Lance Formation, was named the official state dinosaur in 1994.
Q 23The bucking horse and rider that has appeared on Wyoming licence plates since 1936 is a registered what?
Trademark of the state
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind made Devils Tower the landing site for its alien mothership; the tower's columns of phonolite porphyry cooled from magma about 40 million years ago.
Q 14What is the highest mountain in Wyoming?
Gannett Peak
Gannett Peak, in the Wind River Range, is Wyoming's highest summit and carries the largest glacier in the American Rockies; the Grand Teton is second.
Q 15How tall is the Grand Teton?
13,775 ft
The Grand Teton stands 13,775 ft, the second-highest summit in Wyoming, rising about 7,000 feet above the floor of Jackson Hole.
Q 16Jackson Hole is a valley between the Teton Range and which other range?
Gros Ventre
The Gros Ventre Range closes the valley on the east; 'hole' was mountain-man slang for a big valley, and this one was named for fur trapper David Jackson.
Q 17Which Federal Reserve bank hosts the annual August symposium at Jackson Hole?
Kansas City
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, whose district includes Wyoming, has hosted the symposium at Jackson Lake Lodge since 1982; Fed chairs have used its speeches to signal policy shifts.
Q 18The National Elk Refuge outside Jackson shelters roughly how many elk each winter?
7,500
About 7,500 elk winter on the refuge in a typical year; Boy Scouts have gathered the shed antlers for auction since 1968, and Jackson's town-square arches are built from them.
Q 19In which year was the first Cheyenne Frontier Days held?
1897
Cheyenne Frontier Days debuted in September 1897 as a one-day celebration; nicknamed 'The Daddy of 'em All', it serves more than 100,000 free pancakes over its week.
Q 20Wyoming's official state sport is what?
Rodeo
Rodeo became Wyoming's official state sport in 2003, fitting for the state whose license plates have carried a bucking horse and rider since 1936.
Wyoming holds the Bucking Horse and Rider as a registered trademark of the state, licensed through the Secretary of State to businesses and the University of Wyoming; the design was first stamped on plates in 1936.
Q 24The University of Wyoming's athletic teams go by which name?
Cowboys and Cowgirls
The Cowboys and Cowgirls wear brown and gold; their War Memorial Stadium, at 7,220 feet, is the highest-elevation stadium in top-division college football.
Q 25The name Wyoming derives from a Munsee word meaning roughly what?
At the big river flat
Wyoming comes from the Munsee Delaware xwé:wamənk, 'at the big river flat', the name of Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley, which Ohio congressman James Ashley proposed for the new territory.
Q 26Which two other states, like Wyoming, are bordered entirely by straight lines?
Colorado and Utah
Colorado and Utah are the other two; on a map Wyoming looks like a rectangle, but the meridians converge, so its north edge is slightly shorter than its south.
Q 27How many states share a border with Wyoming?
Six
Six states touch Wyoming: Montana to the north, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Utah and Colorado to the south, and Idaho to the west.
Q 28What was the lowest temperature ever recorded in Wyoming, at Riverside in February 1933?
-66 °F
Riverside Ranger Station hit -66 °F on 9 February 1933; the state's record high, 114 °F, was set at Basin in July 1900.
Q 29How many counties does Wyoming have?
23
Wyoming has 23 counties; the most populous, around Cheyenne, has about 100,000 residents, while Niobrara County has fewer than 2,500.
Q 30Wyoming produces more of which fuel than any other state, mostly from the Powder River Basin?
Coal
Coal: Wyoming mined 375.8 million short tons in 2015, about 42 percent of the national total, nearly all of it from the Powder River Basin's surface mines.