Alabama is a state in the Southeastern area of the United States, bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. With a total of 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of inland waterways, Alabama has more than any other state.
Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the “Heart of Dixie” and the “Cotton State”. The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state blossom is the camellia. Alabama’s capital is Montgomery, and its largest city by population and area is Huntsville. Its most established city is Mobile, established by French colonists in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana. Greater Birmingham is Alabama’s largest metropolitan area and its financial focus.
1 Alabama has a monument to something that made life difficult for local farmers. What is it?
Answer: boll weevil
2 What is one Alabama state nickname?
Answer: Heart of Dixie
3 Which of these colors are on the flag of Alabama?
Answer: Red and White
4 What is the largest river in Alabama?
Answer: Tennessee River
6 The city is the largest city in the Shoals area of the state. Birthplace of W.C. Handy, the “Father of the Blues.
Answer: Florence
7 What is the capital of Alabama?
Answer: Montgomery
8 The world’s first electric trolley system opened in this city in 1886.
Answer: Montgomery
9 What rank is Alabama in size among the US States?
Answer: 30th
10 Name Alabama’s state gemstone.
Answer: star blue quartz
11 Birmingham, Alabama, is known as what?
Answer: Magic City
12 Which isn’t an attraction in Montgomery, Alabama?
Answer: Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
13 Which river has the most metropolitan areas bordering it?
Answer: Tennessee River
14 Which of these four tourist attractions has the most visitors?
Answer: The U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville
15 The woman whose likeness is on the Alabama state quarter is also the first Socialist to be depicted on any state quarter. Name her.
Answer: Helen Keller
16 What is Alabama’s state song?
Answer: “Alabama”
17 In what year did Alabama gain statehood?
Answer: 1819
18 What was the claim to fame of Alabama senator Dixon Lewis of Montgomery?
Answer: he was so fat he had to have his seat specially made
Alabama Trivia Facts
19 Which of these famous people was not from Alabama?
Answer: Fred Astaire, dancer
20 Which city is situated on the Alabama River?
Answer: Montgomery
21 What three minerals were found in abundance in the mountains around Birmingham, Alabama?
Answer: Iron Ore, Coal, Limestone
22 Which of these mountains is in Alabama?
Answer: Mount Cheaha
23 Tallapoosa River, and the Alabama River all flow into which other rivers before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico?
Answer: Mobile-Tensaw
24 What is the name of this city, having one of the nation’s largest collections of antebellum homes?
Answer: Selma
25 Which is NOT an Alabama river?
Answer: Choctaw
26 What was the capital of the Alabama Territory?
Answer: St. Stephens
27 Alabama boasts the longest ______ east of the Mississippi.
Answer: a natural bridge
28 What was the hottest temperature recorded in 1925, on record in Alabama?
Answer: 112F
29 What was found in Russell Cave in Bridgeport, Alabama, in 1953?
Answer: prehistoric human remains
30 Which Alabama city is home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center?
Answer: Huntsville
31 Which of these water ports is the northernmost of Alabama?
Answer: The port of Decatur
32 The Mobile-Tensaw River Delta flows into which bay?
Answer: Mobile Bay
33 Which major European car manufacturer built their first assembly factory in Alabama?
Answer: Mercedes Benz
34 The Alabama Music Hall of Fame and Museum is in Muscle Shoals. Which celebrities are Alabama natives and inductees into the Hall of Fame?
Answer: Dinah Washington, Emmylou Harris, and Lionel Richie
35 What is the state tree?
Answer: Southern Longleaf Pine
36 Since becoming its own territory, how many capitals has Alabama had?
Answer: 5
Alabama Trivia Questions and Answers
37 What famous composer was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873?
Answer: W. C. Handy
38 What is the state nut of Alabama?
Answer: Pecan
39 What is Alabama’s state flower?
Answer: camellia
40 The Alabama Gulf Coast is also known as what?
Answer: Redneck Riviera
41 The “Quad Cities” or “Shoals” area is split in two by which major river?
Answer: Tennessee River
42 What is the nickname of Huntsville, Alabama?
Answer: Rocket City
43 What is Alabama’s state saltwater fish?
Answer: Tarpon
44 Who was the first governor of Alabama?
Answer: William Wyatt Bibb
45 The Kymulga Room in DeSoto caverns was used as a ______ during Prohibition.
Answer: speakeasy
46 Which of these state parks is not in Alabama?
Answer: Old Fort Harrod State Park
47 What is the tallest mountain in Alabama?
Answer: Cheaha Mountain
48 What is Alabama’s state flower?
Answer: Camellia
49 Which river has created a diverse “River Heritage” region in South-Central Alabama?
Answer: Alabama River
50 Which of the following is not an Alabama distinction?
Answer: The first woman in the U.S. elected as Governor
51 The University of Alabama sits along which river?
Answer: Black Warrior River
52 When did the University of Alabama first open?
Answer: 1831
53 What city was Alabama’s capital from 1826 to 1846?
Answer: Tuscaloosa
Alabama Fun Facts
54 Something happened in Elmore County, Alabama that formed a crater almost five miles wide; what was it?
Answer: meteorite impact
55 The oldest Mardi Gras celebration in America is held in what Alabama city?
Answer: Mobile
56 What is Alabama’s state rock?
Answer: Marble
57 Which waterway provides a vital shortcut for eastern river traffic seeking a way to the Gulf without having to go an extra 1,000 miles down the Mississippi?
Answer: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
58 In order, what are Alabama’s official state nuts, insects, gemstones, and minerals?
Answer: Pecan, Monarch butterfly, star blue quartz, hematite
59 Which of these is a nickname for Alabama?
Answer: Yellowhammer State
60 When Auburn University first opened what was it called?
Answer: East Alabama Male College
61 Which city is known as ‘Rocket City USA’?
Answer: Huntsville
62 The Alabama Space and Rocket Center is in what city?
Answer: Huntsville
63 How would a meteorologist describe Alabama’s climate?
Answer: Humid subtropical
64 The first capital of the Confederate States of America was in what Alabama city?
Answer: Montgomery
65 What species is the state fossil of Alabama?
Answer: Whale
66 Which Georgia river flows to divide a metro area between two states?
Answer: Chattahoochee River
67 What is the “Trail of Tears”?
Answer: The forced emigration march of eastern American Indian tribes to western lands
68 Fort Payne is the home of what famous musical group?
Answer: Alabama
69 In what year was the first state archival agency organized?
Answer: 1901
70 Who won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814?
Answer: Andrew Jackson
71 Why was the yellowhammer chosen as the state bird?
Answer: Because of the yellow cloth on Confederate soldiers’ uniforms
In July 2025, which former Alabama football coach won a Sports Emmy for his work with ESPN?
Answer: Nick Saban
In which category did Nick Saban win the Sports Emmy 2025?
Answer: Quarterback
Guatemala is currently the top producer of Cardamom, a spice which is used most often in Alabama kitchens. True or false?
Answer: True
The death of Phillip Reeder in Irondale, Alabama, falls under which rule?
Answer: Homicide
What was the reason that led to the death of Phillip Reeder? What method did the police officer follow?
Answer: Knee on the neck
Which city’s council cast its vote to submit a tax rebate application for the university beach development?
Answer: Northport
Do you know what the university beach development is about?
Answer: It’s a student housing project.
Alabama school-zone law has been changed recently. Do you know what is the maximum fine?
Answer: $3000
Do you know what the speed limit Alabama school zone where children are present?
Answer: 15 mph
Recently, the ICE arrested the Birmingham father. Do you know what the reason was behind that?
Answer: His documents was not completed.
“Heart of Dixie”, which state came to mind after reading this line?
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