Q 01/05

What is the capital city of California?

A) Los Angeles

B) Sacramento

C) San Diego

D) San Francisco

Answer · why

B) Sacramento

Sacramento became the capital in 1854 only after the legislature had tried three other towns; Benicia, the third, lasted barely a year.

Q 02/05

What is the official state nickname of Florida?

A) The Sunshine State

B) The Golden State

C) The Aloha State

D) The Silver State

Answer · why

A) The Sunshine State

The Sunshine State has been the official nickname since 1970, yet no part of the country has more thunderstorms: parts of the peninsula hear thunder o...

Q 03/05

Which Kentucky city hosts the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs each May?

A) Louisville

B) Lexington

C) Frankfort

D) Bowling Green

Answer · why

A) Louisville

Louisville's race was founded in 1875 by Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr., grandson of the explorer William Clark, who modelled it on England's Epsom Derby ...

Q 04/05

The northern mockingbird is the official bird of five US states. Which of these is one of them?

A) Georgia

B) Florida

C) Alabama

D) Louisiana

Answer · why

B) Florida

The other four are Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas; South Carolina used to be a sixth before switching to the Carolina wren.

Q 05/05

What is the capital of Rhode Island, the smallest US state by area?

A) Providence

B) Newport

C) Warwick

D) Hartford

Answer · why

A) Providence

Providence only became the sole capital in 1900; before that the legislature alternated its sessions with Newport, and earlier still it rotated among ...