South Dakota is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large piece of the population with nine reservations currently in the state and have historically dominated the area. South Dakota is the seventeenth largest by area, but the fifth least populous, and the fifth least densely populated of the 50 United States. As the southern part of the previous Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. They are the 39th and 40th states admitted to the union; President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the statehood papers prior to signing them so that nobody could perceive which became a state first.
Here we have gathered some informative South Dakota trivia questions for you to enjoy and get some information.
46 How many large Indian reservations are located in South Dakota today?
Answer: Seven
47 How many of South Dakota’s counties are completely within Indian reservations?
Answer: Five
48 What South Dakota county ranked as the poorest county in the United States in the year 2009?
Answer: Ziebach
49 In 1995, a study by the Census Bureau discovered that 58% of homes on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation did not have a what?
Answer: Telephone
50 The second-largest single employer in South Dakota is what?
Answer: Ellsworth Air Force Base
51 South Dakota is the sixth leading producer in the country of what energy-related product?
Answer: Ethanol
52 The annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, a five-day event, is one of the largest in South Dakota.
Answer: Tourist events
53 How many miles of highways, roads, and streets does South Dakota have?
Answer: 83,609
54 What is the South Dakota State nicknames?
Answer: Mount Rushmore State
55 What are the two major interstates that pass through the state?
Answer: Interstate 90, and Interstate 29
56 What is the largest railroad now in South Dakota?
Answer: The BNSF Railway
57 South Dakota is one of the few states in the country that does not have any what?
Answer: Amtrak service
58 What are the names of South Dakota’s largest commercial airports in terms of passenger traffic?
Answer: The Sioux Falls Regional Airport and Rapid City Regional Airport
59 What is the second-largest city in South Dakota?
Answer: Rapid City
60 How many TV stations are there in the state that are currently broadcasting?
Answer: Nine
61 The first television station in the state, KELO-TV, began airing Captain 11, an afternoon children’s program in 1955 and it ran until 1996, making it the what?
Answer: The longest continuously running children’s television program in the country
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