Q 01/05

What is the official state motto of New Hampshire?

A) Live Free or Die

B) Liberty and Union

C) Freedom and Unity

D) Hope Springs Eternal

Answer · why

A) Live Free or Die

Live Free or Die. Too ill to attend an 1809 reunion of Bennington veterans, a Revolutionary War general sent the line in a written toast, and the stat...

Q 02/05

Which city is the capital of New Hampshire?

A) Nashua

B) Keene

C) Concord

D) Manchester

Answer · why

C) Concord

Concord. The town was called Rumford until 1765, when it was renamed to mark the peaceful end of a bitter boundary dispute with the neighbouring town ...

Q 03/05

What is the most populous city in New Hampshire?

A) Manchester

B) Portsmouth

C) Rochester

D) Concord

Answer · why

A) Manchester

Manchester. It was plain Derryfield until 1810, when it took the name of the English mill city that canal builder Samuel Blodget had hoped it would ri...

Q 04/05

As the ninth state to ratify the Constitution, New Hampshire did what?

A) Added ten amendments

B) Put it into effect

C) Elected Washington

D) Chose the capital

Answer · why

B) Put it into effect

Put it into effect. Article VII needed only nine of the thirteen states, so the new government could go ahead while Virginia and New York were still a...

Q 05/05

Roughly how long is New Hampshire's Atlantic seacoast, the shortest ocean coastline of any state?

A) 5 miles

B) 18 miles

C) 60 miles

D) 200 miles

Answer · why

B) 18 miles

18 miles. That is the open Atlantic shore alone; follow every tidal inlet and bay, as federal chartmakers do, and the shoreline stretches to 131 miles...