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USA States Trivia

© Copyright 2001, Jim Loy

Here are a few trivia questions. Some are a little tricky:

  1. Which is the largest state?
  2. Which is the smallest state?
  3. Which state is the farthest north?
  4. Which state of the contiguous (connected) 48 states is farthest north?
  5. Which state is farthest south?
  6. Which state of the contiguous 48 states is farthest south?
  7. Which state is farthest west?
  8. Which state of the contiguous 48 states is farthest west?
  9. Which state is farthest east?
  10. Which state of the contiguous 48 states is farthest east?
  11. How many states contact the St. Lawrence River (border on or have it run through them)?
  12. In what state is the Grand Canyon?
  13. Which state is closest to Bermuda?
  14. Which state or states (besides Alaska and Hawaii) borders the fewest number of other states?
  15. Which state or states borders the greatest number of other states? Take a wild guess.
  16. What four states touch at one point?
  17. Which of the Great Lakes is entirely within the USA?

Answers:

  1. Which is the largest state? Alaska.
  2. Which is the smallest state? Rhode Island.
  3. Which state is the farthest north? Alaska.
  4. Which state of the contiguous 48 states is farthest north? Minnesota. Some people would guess Maine, which is quite a ways farther south than the northern points of five of the states. Minnesota juts up toward Canada at one point.
  5. Which state is farthest south? Hawaii (the Hawaiian Islands).
  6. Which state of the contiguous 48 states is farthest south? Florida. Some people would guess Texas.
  7. Which state is farthest west? Alaska.
  8. Which state of the contiguous 48 states is farthest west? Washington. I mistakenly typed "California."
  9. Which state is farthest east? This is not easy to answer. On a map of the USA, Maine would seem to be the farthest east. But, which place on the earth is farthest east? The answer to that would seem to be, the 180th line of longitude, which goes through Alaska. So Alaska is farther east than almost anywhere else on earth, including Maine.
  10. Which state of the contiguous 48 states is farthest east? Maine.
  11. How many states contact the St. Lawrence River (border on or have it run through them)? One, New York
  12. In what state is the Grand Canyon? Arizona. A few people guess Colorado, probably because the Grand Canyon is part of the Colorado River.
  13. Which state is closest to Bermuda? North Carolina.
  14. Which state or states (besides Alaska and Hawaii) borders the fewest number of other states? Maine touches only one other state.
  15. Which state or states borders the greatest number of other states? Missouri and Tennessee each border eight states.
  16. What four states touch at one point? Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
  17. Which of the Great Lakes is/are entirely within the USA? Lake Michigan.

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