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55+ Nebraska Trivia Questions

BY Ambreen Zahra

Nebraska is a state in the Midwestern district of the United States. It is lined by South Dakota toward the north; Iowa toward the east and Missouri toward the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas toward the south; Colorado toward the southwest; and Wyoming toward the west. It is just a triply landlocked U.S. state.

Native people groups, including Omaha, Missouria, Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and various branches of the Lakota (Sioux) clans, lived in the locale for thousands of years before European exploration. The state is crossed by many historic trails, including that of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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Nebraska Trivia Questions

  1. The name Nebraska is from an Indian word meaning “flat water”?
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True
  1. Nebraska’s state motto is “Equality Before the Law”?
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True
  1. What is the state bird?
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Western meadowlark
  1. What is the state tree?
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Cottonwood
  1. What is the state gem?
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Blue agate
  1. What is Nebraska’s state fossil?
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Mammoth
  1. What is the state rock?
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Prairie agate
  1. What is Nebraska’s state grass?
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Little bluestem
  1. Nebraska has both a state poet and a state poet laureate.
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True
  1. What is Nebraska’s state song?
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Beautiful Nebraska
  1. Where is Nebraska’s highest point?
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Panorama Point
  1. Where is Nebraska’s geographic center?
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Custer
  1. What is the average temperature in July?
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76 degrees F
  1. What is the average temperature in January?
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23 degrees F
  1. Where was Nebraska’s state fair held in the 20th century?
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Lincoln

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Nebraska State Trivia

  1. What is Nebraska’s state capital?
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Lincoln
  1. What is the Nebraska state mammal?
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White-tailed deer
  1. What is Nebraska’s largest city?
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Omaha
  1. In what year did Nebraska become a U.S. State?
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1867
  1. In what year did French-Canadian explorers, the Mallet brothers traverse the territory of Nebraska?
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In 1739
  1. What is the Nebraska state insect?
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European honey bee
  1. In 1819, what fort did the US establish as the first Army post west of the Missouri River?
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Fort Atkinson
  1. What is the Nebraska state tree?
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Cottonwood
  1. How many time zones does the state have?
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Two
  1. What is the Nebraska state grass?
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Little bluestem
  1. Due to the Homestead Act, settlers migrated into Nebraska by the thousands to claim their free land granted by who?
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The federal government
  1. What is the Nebraska state beverage?
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Milk
  1. Nebraska is located in what “Alley”?
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Tornado Alley
  1. Because hardly any trees grew on the prairies, many of the first settlers built their homes out of what?
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Sod

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Nebraska trivia quiz

  1. What is the Nebraska state fossil?
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Mammoth
  1. On what day did Nebraska become the 37th state to join the Union?
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On March 1, 1867
  1. What was the name of the last major battle between the Pawnee and the Sioux, on August 5, 1873?
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The battle of Massacre Canyon
  1. What is the Nebraska state motto?
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Equality before the Law
  1. During the 1870s to the 1880s, Nebraska experienced a large growth in population and by the 1880s, Nebraska’s population had soared to more than how many people?
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450,000 people
  1. What is the Nebraska state dance?
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Square dance
  1. According to the 2010 census, Omaha had a population of what?
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408,958
  1. What is the Nebraska state Flower?
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Goldenrod
  1. Omaha has a long history of civil rights activism and in 1912 African Americans founded the what?
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Omaha chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  1. What is the Nebraska state gemstone?
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Blue agate
  1. What is the lowest temperature ever recorded for Nebraska?
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−47 °F at Camp Clarke on February 12, 1899
  1. Nebraska is bordered to the north by what State?
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South Dakota
  1. What state borders Nebraska to the east?
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Iowa
  1. What is the Nebraska state rock?
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Prairie agate
  1. What state borders the state of Nebraska to the west?
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Wyoming

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Nebraska facts trivia

  1. How many counties does the State of Nebraska have?
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93
  1. Nebraska is split into two major land regions: the Dissected Till Plains and the What?
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Great Plains
  1. What is the point with the highest elevation in Nebraska?
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Panorama Point, at 5,424 feet
  1. What is the Nebraska state slogan?
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Nebraska, possibilities…endless
  1. What is the highest temperature that the state of Nebraska has ever recorded?
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118 °F at Minden on July 24, 1936
  1. What is the Nebraska state fish?
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Channel catfish
  1. In Nebraska, 89% percent of the cities have fewer than how many people?
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3,000
  1. As of 2010, how many cities and villages were there in Nebraska?
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530

54. Vise-Grips were invented by who in 1924, and were manufactured in De Witt until 2008?

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William Petersen
  1. What is the Nebraska state song?
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“Beautiful Nebraska”
  1. In 2004, where did Nebraska rank as far as per capita personal income with the other states?
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25th

57. What is the Nebraska state bird?

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Western meadowlark
  1. What is the name of the world’s largest train yard in North Platte, Nebraska?
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Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard

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