Q 01/05

Maryland, chartered in 1632, was named for Henrietta Maria, the wife of which English king?

A) Henry VIII

B) James I

C) Charles I

D) Charles II

Answer · why

C) Charles I

Charles I granted the charter in June 1632 to Cecil Calvert, whose father had asked for it but died weeks before it was sealed; the colony was named f...

Q 02/05

What is the capital of Maryland?

A) Baltimore

B) Frederick

C) Annapolis

D) Rockville

Answer · why

C) Annapolis

Annapolis, not much bigger Baltimore, has been the capital since the 1690s, when royal governor Francis Nicholson moved the government there and laid ...

Q 03/05

Maryland held out until 1781 before ratifying which document?

A) Articles of Confederation

B) US Constitution

C) Bill of Rights

D) Declaration of Independence

Answer · why

A) Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation needed every state, and Maryland refused until 1781, once bigger states agreed to give up their western land claims; it ...

Q 04/05

The Province of Maryland was chartered in 1632 primarily as a haven for which persecuted group?

A) Quakers

B) Puritans

C) Huguenots

D) Catholics

Answer · why

D) Catholics

Catholics were a minority even in their own haven: most of the labourers and servants on the first two ships in 1633 are said to have been Protestant,...

Q 05/05

Maryland's varied landscapes, from Appalachian mountains to Atlantic beaches, earned it what nickname?

A) The Patchwork State

B) The Everything State

C) America in Miniature

D) The Sampler State

Answer · why

C) America in Miniature

America in Miniature is the tourism office's favourite line: the ninth-smallest state is said to hold almost every kind of natural feature except a de...