The 60+ Most Amazing Trivia Questions About Virginia

Posted on the 14 June 2021 by Smithonepa

Virginia is a state of the U.S in the region of Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. The name of the state was given in the honor of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The official name of the state is ‘Commonwealth of Virginia’ also known as ‘the birthplace of a nation’. The capital city of the state is Richmond. The city is also famous as home to the first women-run bank in the United State. Moreover, the first successful electric street of railway transit agency ‘The Union Passenger Railway was also formed in Richmond, Virginia.

Furthermore, Virginia Beach is the most populous city of the state that is the world’s longest stretch of pleasure beach. Learn more about this U.S state in the given 60+ Virginia Trivia Questions, which will definitely help you to increase your knowledge and might also help in your studies.

Virginia Trivia Questions

1. What is the official name of Virginia?

Show AnswerCommonwealth of Virginia

2. In which region of the United States, Virginia is located?

Show AnswerIn the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern region

3. What is the capital of Virginia?

Show AnswerRichmond

4. Which is the most populous city of the state?

Show AnswerVirginia Beach

5. What was the population of Virginia in 2020?

Show AnswerOver 8.65 million

6. What percent of the total population of the state lives in the Baltimore- Washington Metropolitan area?

Show Answer36 percent

7. Which is the largest metro in Virginia?

Show AnswerWashington-Arlington-Alexandria

8. What is the total area of the state?

Show Answer110,785.67 square kilometer

9. What is the rank of Virginia in terms of area in the list of the U.S states?

Show Answer35th

10. What is the rank of Virginia in terms of population among other U.S states?

Show Answer12th

11. What is the rank of Virginia in terms of income in the list of the U.S states?

Show Answer10th

12. What is the official language of Virginia?

Show AnswerEnglish

13. What other languages are spoken in the state?

Show AnswerSpanish 6 percent and other 8 percent

14. What percent of the world’s internet traffic does Virginia handle?

Show Answer70 percent

15. How many major Civil War battles were fought in Virginia?

Show Answer120

West Virginia Trivia Questions

16. Which world’s largest office building is situated in Virginia?

Show AnswerThe Pentagon

17. When the construction of the Pentagon started?

Show AnswerSeptember 11, 1941

18. Which airline crashed into the building?

Show AnswerAmerican Airlines Flight 77

19. When the plan was crashed?

Show AnswerSeptember 11, 2001, during the terrorist attack.

20. Which is America’s most popular horse breed in Virginia?

Show AnswerThe First Quarter Horse

21. Which is the oldest college building of the U.S situated in Virginia?

Show AnswerThe Wren building

22. What is the rank of Virginia among the wine producers?

Show Answer5th

23. How many wineries does Virginia have?

Show Answer250

24. When Virginia had the first Thanksgiving?

Show AnswerIn 1619

25. Which is the world’s longest stretch of pleasure beach?

Show AnswerVirginia Beach

26. What does Virginia also known as?

Show AnswerThe Birthplace of a Nation

27. What is the major cash crop of Virginia?

Show AnswerTobacco

28. How many U.S Presidents born in Virginia?

Show AnswerEight

29. How many U.S President’ wives belonged to Virginia?

Show AnswerSix

30. How many U.S Presidents are buried in Virginia?

Show AnswerSeven

Richmond Virginia Trivia Questions

31. What is the nickname of the state?

Show AnswerOld Dominion

32. Which is the state tree?

Show AnswerDogwood tree

33. Which is the state flower?

Show AnswerThe blossom of the Dogwood tree.

34. Where had the first peanut grown in the U.S?

Show AnswerVirginia

35. When Virginia was admitted to the Union?

Show AnswerJune 25, 1788

36. What is the state motto?

Show AnswerThus Always to Tyrants

37. Which is the first successful electric street railway transit agency?

Show AnswerUnion Passenger Railway

38. Where the Union Passenger Railway formed?

Show AnswerAt Richmond

39. When the Union Passenger Railway formed?

Show AnswerIn 1888

40. How many capitals Virginia has had?

Show AnswerThree

41. Where the Atlantic headquarter of NATO located?

Show AnswerIn Norfolk

42. Which is the world’s largest bridge-tunnel complex?

Show AnswerThe Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel

43. Where the world’s only oyster museum is located?

Show AnswerOn Chincoteague Island

44. What does President Thomas Jefferson called his own home?

Show AnswerMonticello

45. Who designed the Monticello?

Show AnswerPresident Jefferson himself.

Trivia Virginia Beach

46. What does President George Washington’s home called?

Show AnswerMount Vernon

47. Where Mount Vernon is located?

Show AnswerIn Virginia

48. Where Patrick Henry made his speech ‘Give me Liberty or Give me Death’?

Show AnswerIn St. John’s Church in Richmond

49. Which is the highest point in Virginia?

Show AnswerMount Rogers

50. What is Virginia’s state bird?

Show AnswerCardinal

51. What percent of the state is forested, according to the state’s forestry department?

Show Answer62

52. Which city of Virginia is home to the world-famous historic district?

Show AnswerWilliamsburg

53. Where did the first women-run bank start in the U.S?

Show AnswerIn Richmond, Virginia

54. What is the postal abbreviation of the state?

Show AnswerVA

55. What are the major industries in Virginia?

Show AnswerAgriculture, Aerospace, Mining, Technology, and Military

56. In honor of whom, the name of the state was given?

Show AnswerQueen Elizabeth I of England

57. What is the state’s lowest point?

Show AnswerThe Atlantic Ocean at sea level

58. What is the number of counties of the state?

Show Answer95

59. Which famous basketball player belonged to Virginia?

Show AnswerAllen Iverson

60. Which state of the U.S is sometimes called ‘The Mother of Presidents’?

Show AnswerVirginia

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