60+ Very Informative and Interesting Massachusetts Trivia Questions
BY Ambreen Zahra
Massachusetts is the 6th state to join the Union. It attained statehood on February 6, 1788. The five bordering states of Massachusetts are Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Boston is the capital city and the largest and populous city in Massachusetts. Moreover, the official name of the state is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Furthermore, the state is home to the first American railroad, the first free American public school, and the first American public library. In addition, the top university in the world ‘Harvard’ University was the first North American university situated in Massachusetts. If you want to learn more about the official state flower, bird, reptile, song, poem and much more information regarding the state then continue reading. We have enlisted the most popular 60+ Massachusetts trivia questions to make the task easy and interesting for you.
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Massachusetts Trivia Questions
1. What is the official name of Massachusetts?
Answer: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2. What is the capital of Massachusetts?
Answer: Boston
3. What is the state bird?
Answer: Chickadee
4. What is the official nickname of the state?
Answer: The Bay State
5. What was the name of the state before statehood?
Answer: Province of Massachusetts Bay
6. Which is the largest metro in the state?
Answer: Greater Boston
7. How much is the total area of Massachusetts?
Answer: 27,337 square kilometers
8. What percent of the area is covered with water?
Answer: 26.1 percent
9. What is the rank of the state based on the area?
Answer: 44th
10. What is the highest peak point in the state?
Answer: Mount Greylock
11. What is the position of the state in the population-based ranking?
Answer: 16
12. What is the official language of the state?
Answer: English
13. What other languages are spoken in Massachusetts?
Answer: Spanish, Chinese, and Portuguese
14. What is the state reptile?
Answer: Garter Snake
15. Which is the state sport of Massachusetts?
Answer: Basketball
Massachusetts Trivia Facts
16. When the first Thanksgiving happened in Massachusetts?
Answer: In 1621
17. Where the first Thanksgiving occurred?
Answer: Plymouth
18. Where is the first public park in America?
Answer: Boston, Massachusetts
19. What is the name of the park?
Answer: Boston Common
20. When the park built?
Answer: In 1634
21. When the first basketball game played in the state?
Answer: In 1891
22. Where the first basketball game played?
Answer: Springfield
23. Where is the first American railroad?
Answer: Quincy
24. Which is the most populous city in the state?
Answer: Boston
25. How many communities in the state have less than 1000 population?
Answer: 27
26. How many communities in the state have more than 40,000 populations?
Answer: 38
27. Which is the longest river in the state?
Answer: Charles River
28. Which is the lowest elevation in the state?
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean at sea level
29. How many counties does the state have?
Answer: 14
30. Where the birth controlling pills invented?
Answer: Clark University, Worcester
Massachusetts History Trivia
31. Where the American Revolution began?
Answer: Lowell
32. What are the two largest New England cities in Massachusetts?
Answer: Boston and Worcester
33. Where the Basketball Hall of Fame located?
Answer: In Springfield
34. Which is the first University established in North America?
Answer: Harvard
35. Where The Boston Tea Party take place every year?
Answer: Boston, Harbor
36. What is the date of the celebration of the party?
Answer: December 16
37. When driving license and registration plate began in Massachusetts?
Answer: In June 1903
38. What does the holiday on the 3rd Monday of April in Massachusetts called?
Answer: Patriot’s Day
39. How many cities are there in Massachusetts?
Answer: 43
40. Who first vulcanized rubber in 1839?
Answer: Charles Goodyear
Massachusetts Geography Trivia
41. Who invented the first sewing machine?
Answer: Elias Howe
42. What is the official state dessert of Massachusetts?
Answer: Boston cream pie
43. What are the key cities of Massachusetts?
Answer: Boston, Springfield, Salem, Cambridge, Plymouth, and Worcester
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