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55+Maine Trivia Questions

Posted on the 27 May 2022 by Smithonepa

Maine, the northeasternmost U.S. state, is known for its rough coastline, oceanic history, and nature areas like the rock and spruce islands of Acadia National Park. Moose are plentiful in Baxter State Park, home to Mt. Katahdin, the endpoint of the Appalachian Trail. Lighthouses such as the red striped guide at West Quoddy Head, dab the coast, as do lobster shacks and sandy beaches like Ogunquit and Old Orchard.

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

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Maine trivia questions

1 What year was Rockland, Maine founded?

Show AnswerJuly 28, 1848

2 In which town is the Desert of Maine located?

Show AnswerFreeport

3 What is Maine’s state bird?

Show Answerchickadee

4 Maine is known as The Pine Tree State and what other nickname?

Show AnswerVacationland

5 Author Stephen King paid for a professional-quality Little League baseball diamond behind his house in Bangor, ME. What is the nickname that the locals call it?

Show AnswerField of Screams

6 The ingredients in this sandwich are salami or ham, cheese, chopped onions, tomatoes, green peppers, pickles, black olives, olive oil, salt, pepper, and a freshly baked roll. What do Mainers call this sandwich?

Show AnswerItalian

7 Maine was the _____ state to join the Union.

Show Answer23rd

8 What is Maine’s state animal?

Show AnswerMoose

9 How many counties are there in Maine?

Show Answer16

10 Rockland, Maine is known best for its annual celebration of which festival?

Show AnswerLobster

11 This dessert consists of creamy white frosting sandwiched between two chocolate cake-like cookies. What is this dessert known as in Maine?

Show Answerwhoopie pies

12 Which is NOT a county in Maine?

Show AnswerAugusta

13 What is the state fish of Maine?

Show AnswerLandlocked Salmon

14 What is the capital of Maine?

Show AnswerAugusta

15 The Seashore Trolley Museum is located in which Maine town?

Show AnswerKennebunkport

Maine trivia facts

16 What is the state insect of Maine?

Show AnswerHoneybee

17 What is the only interstate highway in Maine?

Show AnswerI-95

18 In 2001, what movie was partly filmed in Rockland, Maine?

Show AnswerIn the Bedroom

19 Besides the common brown color, hot dogs of what color can be found in Maine?

Show Answerred

20 Who is the only vice president whose official residence was Maine?

Show AnswerHannibal Hamlin

21 Of which county in Maine is Rockland located?

Show AnswerKnox

22 What is the deepest lake in Maine?

Show AnswerSebago Lake

23 What star appears on Maine’s flag?

Show AnswerNorth Star

24 Who wrote the state song of Maine?

Show AnswerRoger Vinton Snow

25 What is the only state that borders Maine?

Show AnswerNew Hampshire

26 Which Pulitzer Prize winning poet came from Rockland, Maine?

Show AnswerEdna St Vincent Millay

27 “New England’s longest and tallest log flume ride” is located in which Maine amusement park?

Show AnswerFuntown U.S.A

28 What is the approximate average annual snowfall (in inches) in Augusta, Maine?

Show Answer75

29 Where is Maine’s largest state fair held?

Show AnswerBangor

30 What Mainer invented ear muffs?

Show AnswerChester Greenwood

Maine history Quiz

31 Rockland was discovered by Lermond. What was his first name?

Show AnswerJohn

32 The annual La Kermesse Franco-Americaine Festival takes place at the end of June in which Maine city?

Show AnswerBiddeford

33 In Maine, what is the average temperature in July?

Show Answer80 degrees F

34 What is the largest city in Maine?

Show AnswerPortland

35 Who built the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse?

Show AnswerW.H. Glover Company

36 What was the name of the minor league baseball team that played its home games in Old Orchard Beach in the mid-1980s?

Show AnswerMaine Guides

37 What is the average temperature of Maine in January?

Show Answer15 degrees F

38 Which of the following is NOT a town in Maine?

Show AnswerLondon

39 In addition to seafood, what other industries have played a prominent part in the development of Rockland?

Show Answership building, tourism , lime production

40 What type of racing events are held at Scarborough Downs?

Show Answerharness racing

41 What is the approximate average temperature (degrees Fahrenheit) in Augusta, Maine in the month of January?

Show Answer17

42 How many state parks are there in Maine?

Show Answer30

43 Local dialects: what is a dooryard?

Show AnswerArea of one’s property nearest the door

44 What Mainer was known as “The Lily of the North?

Show AnswerLillian Nordica

45 What is Maine’s second largest city?

Show AnswerLewiston

Maine trivia quiz

46 What is the average annual precipitation in Maine?

Show Answer41 inches

47 Whose diary gives a rate view of ordinary life in Maine just after the American Revolution?

Show AnswerMartha Moore Ballard

48 It is said that this man’s dying word was, “Moose!”?

Show AnswerHenry David Thoreau

49 Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of what region?

Show AnswerNew England

50 What is Maine’s largest town by population?

Show AnswerBrunswick

51 Maine is the number one exporter of what agricultural product?

Show AnswerLow-bush blueberries

52 Where was the first European settlement in Maine in 1604, by the French?

Show AnswerSaint Croix Island

53 Maine is the only US state whose name has exactly one what?

Show AnswerSyllable

54 Who established the first English settlement in Maine?

Show AnswerThe Plymouth Company in 1607

55 What is Maine’s State fish?

Show AnswerLand-locked salmon

56 Before 1820 Maine was part of the what?

Show AnswerCommonwealth of Massachusetts

57 Based in Maine, the Jackson Laboratory is the world’s largest supplier of what?

Show AnswerGenetically purebred mice

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