Q 01/05

What is the capital of Maine?

A) Augusta

B) Portland

C) Bangor

D) Lewiston

Answer · why

A) Augusta

Portland was the original capital until 1832, and the state's Supreme Judicial Court still keeps its principal office there.

Q 02/05

Maine is the only U.S. state that borders exactly how many other states?

A) Two

B) One

C) Three

D) Four

Answer · why

B) One

New Hampshire is its only neighbour by land; the rest of its border is Canada and the Gulf of Maine.

Q 03/05

Which two Canadian provinces border Maine?

A) Nova Scotia and Quebec

B) New Brunswick and Ontario

C) New Brunswick and Quebec

D) Ontario and Quebec

Answer · why

C) New Brunswick and Quebec

It also shares a maritime border with Nova Scotia across the Gulf of Maine.

Q 04/05

Maine became a state in 1820 as part of which famous political bargain?

A) The Compromise of 1850

B) The Northwest Ordinance

C) The Connecticut Compromise

D) The Missouri Compromise

Answer · why

D) The Missouri Compromise

Maine entered as a free state to balance Missouri's admission as a slave state the following year.

Q 05/05

Before statehood, Maine was part of which state?

A) Massachusetts

B) New Hampshire

C) New York

D) Vermont

Answer · why

A) Massachusetts

Mainers voted to secede from the Commonwealth and were admitted as a new state in 1820.