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55+ Nebraska Trivia Questions

Posted on the 31 May 2022 by Smithonepa

Nebraska is a state in the Midwestern district of the United States. It is lined by South Dakota toward the north; Iowa toward the east and Missouri toward the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas toward the south; Colorado toward the southwest; and Wyoming toward the west. It is just a triply landlocked U.S. state.

Native people groups, including Omaha, Missouria, Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and various branches of the Lakota (Sioux) clans, lived in the locale for thousands of years before European exploration. The state is crossed by many historic trails, including that of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Here we have gathered some informative Nebraska trivia questions for you to enjoy and get some information.

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Nebraska Trivia Questions

  1. The name Nebraska is from an Indian word meaning “flat water”?
Show AnswerTrue
  1. Nebraska’s state motto is “Equality Before the Law”?
Show AnswerTrue
  1. What is the state bird?
Show AnswerWestern meadowlark
  1. What is the state tree?
Show AnswerCottonwood
  1. What is the state gem?
Show AnswerBlue agate
  1. What is Nebraska’s state fossil?
Show AnswerMammoth
  1. What is the state rock?
Show AnswerPrairie agate
  1. What is Nebraska’s state grass?
Show AnswerLittle bluestem
  1. Nebraska has both a state poet and a state poet laureate?
Show AnswerTrue
  1. What is Nebraska’s state song?
Show AnswerBeautiful Nebraska
  1. Where is Nebraska’s highest point?
Show AnswerPanorama Point
  1. Where is Nebraska’s geographic center?
Show AnswerCuster
  1. What is the average temperature in July?
Show Answer76 degrees F
  1. What is the average temperature in January?
Show Answer23 degrees F
  1. Where was Nebraska’s state fair held in the 20th century?
Show AnswerLincoln

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Nebraska State Trivia

  1. What is Nebraska’s state capital?
Show AnswerLincoln
  1. What is the Nebraska state mammal?
Show AnswerWhite-tailed deer
  1. What is Nebraska’s largest city?
Show AnswerOmaha
  1. In what year did Nebraska become a U.S. State?
Show Answer1867
  1. In what year did French-Canadian explorers, the Mallet brothers traverse the territory of Nebraska?
Show AnswerIn 1739
  1. What is the Nebraska state insect?
Show AnswerEuropean honey bee
  1. In 1819, what fort did the US establish as the first Army post west of the Missouri River?
Show AnswerFort Atkinson
  1. What is the Nebraska state tree?
Show AnswerCottonwood
  1. How many time zones does the state have?
Show AnswerTwo
  1. What is the Nebraska state grass?
Show AnswerLittle bluestem
  1. Due to the Homestead Act, settlers migrated into Nebraska by the thousands to claim their free land granted by who?
Show AnswerThe federal government
  1. What is the Nebraska state beverage?
Show AnswerMilk
  1. Nebraska is located in what “Alley”?
Show AnswerTornado Alley
  1. Because hardly any trees grew on the prairies, many of the first settlers built their homes out of what?
Show AnswerSod

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Nebraska trivia quiz

  1. What is the Nebraska state fossil?
Show AnswerMammoth
  1. On what day did Nebraska become the 37th state to join the Union?
Show AnswerOn March 1, 1867
  1. What was the name of the last major battle between the Pawnee and the Sioux, on August 5, 1873?
Show AnswerThe battle of Massacre Canyon
  1. What is the Nebraska state motto?
Show AnswerEquality before the Law
  1. During the 1870s to the 1880s, Nebraska experienced a large growth in population and by the 1880s, Nebraska’s population had soared to more than how many people?
Show Answer450,000 people
  1. What is the Nebraska state dance?
Show AnswerSquare dance
  1. According to the 2010 census, Omaha had a population of what?
Show Answer408,958
  1. What is the Nebraska state Flower?
Show AnswerGoldenrod
  1. Omaha has a long history of civil rights activism and in 1912 African Americans founded the what?
Show AnswerOmaha chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  1. What is the Nebraska state gemstone?
Show AnswerBlue agate
  1. What is the lowest temperature ever recorded for Nebraska?
Show Answer−47 °F at Camp Clarke on February 12, 1899
  1. Nebraska is bordered to the north by what State?
Show AnswerSouth Dakota
  1. What state borders Nebraska to the east?
Show AnswerIowa
  1. What is the Nebraska state rock?
Show AnswerPrairie agate
  1. What state borders the state of Nebraska to the west?
Show AnswerWyoming

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Nebraska facts trivia

  1. How many counties does the State of Nebraska have?
Show Answer93
  1. Nebraska is split into two major land regions: the Dissected Till Plains and the what?
Show AnswerGreat Plains
  1. What is the point with the highest elevation in Nebraska?
Show AnswerPanorama Point, at 5,424 feet
  1. What is the Nebraska state slogan?
Show AnswerNebraska, possibilities…endless
  1. What is the highest temperature that the state of Nebraska’s has ever recorded?
Show Answer118 °F at Minden on July 24, 1936
  1. What is the Nebraska state fish?
Show AnswerChannel catfish
  1. In Nebraska, 89% percent of the cities have fewer than how many people?
Show Answer3,000
  1. As of 2010, how many cities and villages were there in Nebraska?
Show Answer530

54. Vise-Grips were invented by who in 1924, and were manufactured in De Witt until 2008?

Show AnswerWilliam Petersen
  1. What is the Nebraska state song?
Show Answer“Beautiful Nebraska”
  1. In 2004, where did Nebraska rank as far as per capita personal income with the other states?
Show Answer25th

57. What is the Nebraska state bird?

Show AnswerWestern meadowlark
  1. What is the name of the world’s largest train yard in North Platte, Nebraska?
Show AnswerUnion Pacific’s Bailey Yard

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