The 60+ Most Amazing Trivia Questions about Virginia
BY Ambreen Zahra
Virginia is a state of the U.S in the region of Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. The name of the state was given in the honor of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The official name of the state is ‘Commonwealth of Virginia’ also known as ‘the birthplace of a nation’. The capital city of the state is Richmond. The city is also famous as home to the first women-run bank in the United State. Moreover, the first successful electric street of railway transit agency ‘The Union Passenger Railway was also formed in Richmond, Virginia.
Furthermore, Virginia Beach is the most populous city of the state that is the world’s longest stretch of pleasure beach. Learn more about this U.S state in the given 60+ Virginia Trivia Questions, which will definitely help you to increase your knowledge and might also help in your studies.
Virginia Trivia Questions
1. What is the official name of Virginia?
Answer: Commonwealth of Virginia
2. In which region of the United States, Virginia is located?
Answer: In the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern region
3. What is the capital of Virginia?
Answer: Richmond
4. Which is the most populous city of the state?
Answer: Virginia Beach
5. What was the population of Virginia in 2020?
Answer: Over 8.65 million
6. What percent of the total population of the state lives in the Baltimore- Washington Metropolitan area?
Answer: 36 percent
7. Which is the largest metro in Virginia?
Answer: Washington-Arlington-Alexandria
8. What is the total area of the state?
Answer: 110,785.67 square kilometer
9. What is the rank of Virginia in terms of area in the list of the U.S states?
Answer: 35th
10. What is the rank of Virginia in terms of population among other U.S states?
Answer: 12th
11. What is the rank of Virginia in terms of income in the list of the U.S states?
Answer: 10th
12. What is the official language of Virginia?
Answer: English
13. What other languages are spoken in the state?
Answer: Spanish 6 percent and other 8 percent
14. What percent of the world’s internet traffic does Virginia handle?
Answer: 70 percent
15. How many major Civil War battles were fought in Virginia?
Answer: 120
West Virginia Trivia Questions
16. Which world’s largest office building is situated in Virginia?
Answer: The Pentagon
17. When the construction of the Pentagon started?
Answer: September 11, 1941
18. Which airline crashed into the building?
Answer: American Airlines Flight 77
19. When the plan was crashed?
Answer: September 11, 2001, during the terrorist attack.
20. Which is America’s most popular horse breed in Virginia?
Answer: The First Quarter Horse
21. Which is the oldest college building of the U.S situated in Virginia?
Answer: The Wren building
22. What is the rank of Virginia among the wine producers?
Answer: 5th
23. How many wineries does Virginia have?
Answer: 250
24. When Virginia had the first Thanksgiving?
Answer: In 1619
25. Which is the world’s longest stretch of pleasure beach?
Answer: Virginia Beach
26. What does Virginia also known as?
Answer: The Birthplace of a Nation
27. What is the major cash crop of Virginia?
Answer: Tobacco
28. How many U.S Presidents born in Virginia?
Answer: Eight
29. How many U.S President’ wives belonged to Virginia?
Answer: Six
30. How many U.S Presidents are buried in Virginia?
Answer: Seven
Richmond Virginia Trivia Questions
31. What is the nickname of the state?
Answer: Old Dominion
32. Which is the state tree?
Answer: Dogwood tree
33. Which is the state flower?
Answer: The blossom of the Dogwood tree.
34. Where had the first peanut grown in the U.S?
Answer: Virginia
35. When Virginia was admitted to the Union?
Answer: June 25, 1788
36. What is the state motto?
Answer: Thus Always to Tyrants
37. Which is the first successful electric street railway transit agency?
Answer: Union Passenger Railway
38. Where the Union Passenger Railway formed?
Answer: At Richmond
39. When the Union Passenger Railway formed?
Answer: In 1888
40. How many capitals Virginia has had?
Answer: Three
41. Where the Atlantic headquarter of NATO located?
Answer: In Norfolk
42. Which is the world’s largest bridge-tunnel complex?
Answer: The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel
43. Where the world’s only oyster museum is located?
Answer: On Chincoteague Island
44. What does President Thomas Jefferson called his own home?
Answer: Monticello
45. Who designed the Monticello?
Answer: President Jefferson himself.
Trivia Virginia Beach
46. What does President George Washington’s home called?
Answer: Mount Vernon
47. Where Mount Vernon is located?
Answer: In Virginia
48. Where Patrick Henry made his speech ‘Give me Liberty or Give me Death’?
Answer: In St. John’s Church in Richmond
49. Which is the highest point in Virginia?
Answer: Mount Rogers
50. What is Virginia’s state bird?
Answer: Cardinal
51. What percent of the state is forested, according to the state’s forestry department?
Answer: 62
52. Which city of Virginia is home to the world-famous historic district?
Answer: Williamsburg
53. Where did the first women-run bank start in the U.S?
Answer: In Richmond, Virginia
54. What is the postal abbreviation of the state?
Answer: VA
55. What are the major industries in Virginia?
Answer: Agriculture, Aerospace, Mining, Technology, and Military
56. In honor of whom, the name of the state was given?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I of England
57. What is the state’s lowest point?
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean at sea level
58. What is the number of counties of the state?
Answer: 95
59. Which famous basketball player belonged to Virginia?
Answer: Allen Iverson
60. Which state of the U.S is sometimes called ‘The Mother of Presidents’?
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