Q 01/05

What is the official state flower of Idaho?

A) Lavender

B) Sunflower

C) Wild Rose

D) Syringa

Answer · why

D) Syringa

Syringa, a shrub with fragrant white blossoms like the mock orange's, has been Idaho's state flower since 1931; Native Americans made bows, arrows and...

Q 02/05

Which bird is recognized as Idaho's official state bird?

A) Mountain Bluebird

B) Western Tanager

C) American Robin

D) Northern Flicker

Answer · why

A) Mountain Bluebird

The Mountain Bluebird, Idaho's state bird since 1931, hovers over open fields more than any other bluebird, then drops onto the insects it spots in th...

Q 03/05

What is the official state tree of Idaho?

A) Western White Pine

B) Douglas-fir

C) Ponderosa Pine

D) Quaking Aspen

Answer · why

A) Western White Pine

The Western White Pine (Pinus monticola) was adopted as Idaho's state tree in 1935; the species was devastated in the 20th century by white pine blist...

Q 04/05

Idaho is known by what nickname, reflecting its geological riches?

A) The Potato State

B) The Mountain State

C) The Silver State

D) The Gem State

Answer · why

D) The Gem State

Idaho produces 72 varieties of precious and semi-precious stones, which earned it The Gem State; the unofficial rival nickname is, inevitably, the Pot...

Q 05/05

Boise is home to one of America's largest communities of which European people, known in Idaho as shepherds?

A) Sardinians

B) Basques

C) Scots

D) Greeks

Answer · why

B) Basques

Basques arrived from the 1880s and became known as shepherds; the boarding houses they built in Boise grew into today's Basque Block, where the Jaiald...