Q 01/05

What is Nebraska's most populous city, sitting on the Missouri River?

A) Kearney

B) Omaha

C) Lincoln

D) Grand Island

Answer · why

B) Omaha

Omaha is Nebraska's largest city by a wide margin: the 2020 census counted about 486,000 residents inside the city limits, well ahead of any other cit...

Q 02/05

Nebraska became the 37th state on March 1 of which year?

A) 1854

B) 1859

C) 1861

D) 1867

Answer · why

D) 1867

Nebraska was admitted as the 37th state on March 1, 1867, two years after the Civil War ended, after Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson's veto...

Q 03/05

The name Nebraska comes from Otoe and Omaha words meaning what?

A) Wide sky

B) Great plain

C) Flat water

D) Land of corn

Answer · why

C) Flat water

Flat water is the meaning of the Otoe and Omaha words behind the state's name; both describe the wide, shallow river that crosses the whole state from...

Q 04/05

What makes the Nebraska Legislature unique among US state legislatures?

A) It is unicameral and nonpartisan

B) Members are chosen by lottery

C) It has no governor's veto

D) It meets only every four years

Answer · why

A) It is unicameral and nonpartisan

It is unicameral and nonpartisan: voters approved a 1934 amendment merging the house and senate, and the single chamber, whose members are titled sena...

Q 05/05

How many members does the Nebraska Legislature have, making it the smallest in the country?

A) 40

B) 21

C) 49

D) 35

Answer · why

C) 49

Nebraska's single chamber has 49 senators, the fewest of any state legislature; they serve four-year terms and, since a 2000 amendment, are limited to...