New Jersey was the third state to join the Union on December 18, 1787. It is located in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the nation. Trenton is the capital city of the state while the largest and most populous city is Newark. The state is also known as the Garden State. Moreover, the motto of the state is Liberty and Prosperity.
Furthermore, 15.7 percent of the total area (22,591.38 square kilometers) of the state is covered with water. In addition, the state is home to the largest seaport in the U.S and the world’s longest boardwalk. Learn more about the state in these 60+ New Jersey Trivia questions we have collected for you and arranged in the easiest way.
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New Jersey Trivia Questions
1. In which region of the U.S, the state of New Jersey is located?
Answer: The Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region
2. What is the state capital of New Jersey?
Answer: Trenton
3. Which is the most populous city in the state?
Answer: Newark
4. What is the nickname of the state?
Answer: The Garden State
5. What is the motto of New Jersey?
Answer: Liberty and Prosperity
6. What was the name of the state before statehood?
Answer: Province of New Jersey
7. When did the state get admitted to the Union?
Answer: On December 18, 1787
8. What is the rank of the state to join the Union?
Answer: 3rd
9. Which is the largest metro in the state?
Answer: Greater New York
10. Which is the largest city in New Jersey?
Answer: Newark
11. How much is the total area of the state?
Answer: 22,591.38 square kilometers
12. What percent of the total area is covered with water?
Answer: 15.7 percent
13. What is the rank of the state based on the area?
Answer: 47th
14. Which is the highest elevation point in New Jersey?
Answer: High Point
15. What is the rank of the state based on population?
Answer: 11th
New Jersey Trivia Facts
16. What is the rank of the state according to population density?
Answer: First
17. What is the official language of the state?
Answer: None
18. Which language is mostly spoken in the state?
Answer: English (69.4 percent)
19. What are other languages used in the state?
Answer: Spanish, Indic, Chinese, Korean, and many others.
20. What is the state animal of New Jersey?
Answer: Horse
21. What is New Jersey’s state university?
Answer: Rutgers University
22. What is the state song of New Jersey?
Answer: I’m From New Jersey
23. What percent of New Jersey’s population lives in an urban area?
Answer: 90 percent
24. How are the counties of New Jersey classified?
Answer: As metropolitan areas
25. Which state has the most diners in the world?
Answer: New Jersey
26. Which state has the most shopping malls in one area around the world?
Answer: North Jersey
27. How many shopping malls are there in an area?
Answer: Seven in a 25 sq. miles radius
28. New Jersey is the largest producer of what among the U.S states?
Answer: Chemicals
29. Where is the largest seaport in the U.S?
Answer: Elizabeth, New Jersey
30. Where is the world’s longest boardwalk?
Answer: Atlantic City, New Jersey
New Jersey State Trivia
31. Where was the first Indian reservation?
Answer: In New Jersey
32. What is the thing offered only in New Jersey’s public schools among the U.S states?
Answer: Child abuse prevention workshop
33. Where the first baseball game was played?
Answer: Hoboken, New Jersey
34. Which is the second largest industry in New Jersey?
Answer: Tourism
35. How many counties are there in New Jersey?
Answer: 21
36. What is the state bug of New Jersey?
Answer: Honeybee
37. What is New Jersey’s state seashell?
Answer: Knobbed Whelk
38. Which is the oldest seaside resort in the United States?
Answer: Cape May, New Jersey
39. In which state of the U.S. most battles were fought during the Revolutionary War?
Answer: New Jersey
40. Which inventor’s lab was in Menlo Park, New Jersey?
Answer: Thomas Edison
New Jersey Trivia and Fun Facts
41. Where is the world’s largest water tower?
Answer: New Jersey
42. Which is the state flower of New Jersey?
Answer: The violet
43. Which state was the first to sign the Bill of Rights?
Answer: New Jersey
44. When did Cheerleading start?
Answer: In 1869
45. Where does it start?
Answer: In Princeton
46. What is the state dance of New Jersey?
Answer: Square Dance
47. In which city cars are more stolen than in any other city in the U.S.?
Answer: Newark
48. Which city in the U.S. is home to a volcano?
Answer: Beemerville
49. The street names for the game Monopoly come from which city?
Answer: The Atlantic City
50. Where did the first Drive-In movie theater open?
Answer: In Candem
New Jersey Geography Trivia
51. How many companies related to software are there in New Jersey?
Answer: Nealy 2,700
52. What part of the Statue of Liberty situated in New York belongs to New Jersey?
Answer: The water surrounding the statue
53. In which city of New Jersey the famous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton took place?
Answer: Weehawken
54. When did the duel take place?
Answer: On July 11, 1804
55. How many of the eight cast members of Jersey Shore’s belonged to New Jersey?
Answer: Only two
56. New Jersey owes much of its cuisine to whom?
Answer: To the Jewish and Italian immigrants.
57. Which president was shot twice by an assassin in Washington D. C.?
Answer: President James Garfield
58. What is New Jersey’s state dinosaur?
Answer: Hadrosaur
59. What percent of the state area is covered with forest?
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