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.
4 Maine is known as The Pine Tree State and what other nickname?
Answer: Vacationland
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?
Answer: Field 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?
Answer: Italian
7 Maine was the _____ state to join the Union.
Answer: 23rd
8 What is Maine’s state animal?
Answer: Moose
9 How many counties are there in Maine?
Answer: 16
10 Rockland, Maine is known best for its annual celebration of which festival?
Answer: Lobster
11 This dessert consists of creamy white frosting sandwiched between two chocolate cake-like cookies. What is this dessert known as in Maine?
Answer: whoopie pies
12 Which is NOT a county in Maine?
Answer: Augusta
13 What is the state fish of Maine?
Answer: Landlocked Salmon
14 What is the capital of Maine?
Answer: Augusta
15 The Seashore Trolley Museum is located in which Maine town?
Answer: Kennebunkport
Maine trivia facts
16 What is the state insect of Maine?
Answer: Honeybee
17 What is the only interstate highway in Maine?
Answer: I-95
18 In 2001, what movie was partly filmed in Rockland, Maine?
Answer: In the Bedroom
19 Besides the common brown color, hot dogs of what color can be found in Maine?
Answer: red
20 Who is the only vice president whose official residence was in Maine?
Answer: Hannibal Hamlin
21 Of which county in Maine is Rockland located?
Answer: Knox
22 What is the deepest lake in Maine?
Answer: Sebago Lake
23 What star appears on Maine’s flag?
Answer: North Star
24 Who wrote the state song of Maine?
Answer: Roger Vinton Snow
25 What is the only state that borders Maine?
Answer: New Hampshire
26 Which Pulitzer Prize-winning poet came from Rockland, Maine?
Answer: Edna St Vincent Millay
27 “New England’s longest and tallest log flume ride” is located in which Maine amusement park?
Answer: Funtown U.S.A
28 What is the approximate average annual snowfall (in inches) in Augusta, Maine?
Answer: 75
29 Where is Maine’s largest state fair held?
Answer: Bangor
30 What Mainer invented ear muffs?
Answer: Chester Greenwood
Maine History Quiz
31 Rockland was discovered by Lermond. What was his first name?
Answer: John
32 The annual La Kermesse Franco-Americaine Festival takes place at the end of June in which Maine city?
Answer: Biddeford
33 In Maine, what is the average temperature in July?
Answer: 80 degrees F
34 What is the largest city in Maine?
Answer: Portland
35 Who built the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse?
Answer: W.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?
Answer: Maine Guides
37 What is the average temperature of Maine in January?
Answer: 15 degrees F
38 Which of the following is NOT a town in Maine?
Answer: London
39 In addition to seafood, what other industries have played a prominent part in the development of Rockland?
Answer: ship building, tourism , lime production
40 What type of racing events are held at Scarborough Downs?
Answer: harness racing
41 What is the approximate average temperature (degrees Fahrenheit) in Augusta, Maine in the month of January?
Answer: 17
42 How many state parks are there in Maine?
Answer: 30
43 Local dialects: what is a dooryard?
Answer: Area of one’s property nearest the door
44 What Mainer was known as “The Lily of the North?
Answer: Lillian Nordica
45 What is Maine’s second-largest city?
Answer: Lewiston
Maine trivia quiz
46 What is the average annual precipitation in Maine?
Answer: 41 inches
47 Whose diary gives a rate view of ordinary life in Maine just after the American Revolution?
Answer: Martha Moore Ballard
48 It is said that this man’s dying word was, “Moose!”?
Answer: Henry David Thoreau
49 Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of what region?
Answer: New England
50 What is Maine’s largest town by population?
Answer: Brunswick
51 Maine is the number one exporter of what agricultural product?
Answer: Low-bush blueberries
52 Where was the first European settlement in Maine in 1604, by the French?
Answer: Saint Croix Island
53 Maine is the only US state whose name has exactly one what?
Answer: Syllable
54 Who established the first English settlement in Maine?
Answer: The Plymouth Company in 1607
55 What is Maine’s State fish?
Answer: Land-locked salmon
56 Before 1820 Maine was part of the what?
Answer: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
57 Based in Maine, the Jackson Laboratory is the world’s largest supplier of what?
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