Random General Knowledge - U.S. States

We give you 20 random questions that can all be answered with the name of a U.S. state. Can you answer them all?

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Question	Answer
What “live free or die” state has the lowest rate of seat belt use in the U.S.?	New Hampshire
In which state was the first nuclear bomb tested?	New Mexico
Which state is most strongly associated with Bourbon whiskey?	Kentucky
Where would you find Mammoth Cave?	Kentucky
Which state was Jimmy Carter born in?	Georgia
Which state produces the most crops by dollar amount?	California
Which state has the most lighthouses, despite not bordering the ocean?	Michigan
Which state is home to the U.S. Air Force Academy?	Colorado
Which state's capital has the initial LR?	Arkansas
What is the only state in New England that doesn't border the ocean?	Vermont
Which state is, in a very technical sense, the farthest east?	Alaska
When George Washington crossed the Delaware River, which state did he cross into?	New Jersey
What is the 22nd largest state in the U.S. by land area, but the 11th largest if water area is included?	Michigan
What is the most educated state, with nearly 47% of people over 25 holding a bachelor's degree as of 2020?	Massachusetts
Which state contains the majority of the Ozarks?	Missouri
In which state does the U.S. government own nearly 85% of the land?	Nevada
Which state has the most coastline?	Alaska
In which state would you find the headquarters of Amazon.com?	Washington
Which state has the highest proportion of senior citizens?	Florida
In which state would you find Cedar Rapids and Council Bluffs?	Iowa

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47 Comments

Level 72

Dec 31, 2018

last one is wrong

+48

Level 82

Dec 31, 2018

You're probably going to have to be more specific, given that the answers change every time.

Level 77

Dec 31, 2018

The questions change every time. The "last one" is not the same for everybody. What was actually wrong?

Level 81

Aug 6, 2023

First one is wrong too

Level 72

Dec 22, 2023

lmao I never knew this was responded to. this is the dumbest comment I've ever made.

Level 86

Dec 31, 2018

Although it can be fun to take the quiz a few times with different questions, I'd rather it be a series of non-random quizzes so there's more opportunity to earn points.

Level ∞

Dec 31, 2018

Many of these questions come from our regular general knowledge quizzes, but I added a few more to fill it out.

Level 67

Jan 1, 2019

In the question about Gilmore Girls, I just thought about Jared Padalecki, not even the question.

Level 91

Jan 3, 2019

Despite being a Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders is actually from New York. You could rephrase the question to be like the Mitt Romney question in order to keep the answer the same.

Level ∞

Aug 3, 2023

Updated.

+12

Level 68

Jan 5, 2019

Kansas was also a best-selling band ("Dust in the Wind") whose name was a state, young'un! ~~•~~ Also, I could have *sworn* I typed in "Alabama" (after I realized Kansas was getting no love), and it wasn't working. It could have been my mistake, but would you double check? :-}

Level 52

Feb 24, 2019

Wow, I had heard of Kansas, but not Alabama (the bands).

Level 68

May 7, 2021

Also Texas

Level 84

May 7, 2021

Agreed, I would have thought the band Texas is at least as well known and successful as the one in the answer, certainly in the UK anyway.

Level 71

May 7, 2021

Yeah agreed, I think Kansas is a much more famous band than Alabama.

Level ∞

May 7, 2021

The question says "THE best-selling band", not "A best-selling band". There is one and only one correct answer, and it's not Kansas or Texas.

Level 92

Feb 25, 2019

The ultra pedantic view of Alaska having the most eastern point is a typically American smarty pants bit of b.s. when it's included in every reference source to the point of excluding the common sense most western point. It is quite an expedition to find out where is the last point you would wind up if travelling in a westward direction in the Aleutian Islands. All reference materials act as if suddenly a person would turn around and start travelling east at the thoroughly imaginary, man made 180° line. Common sense says that little ledge off Lubec, Maine is the easternmost point and the westernmost is the first point to be reached going east from Russia.

Level 79

Feb 27, 2019

So you missed that one? I would have gotten it. Worst comment I've seen all day. If you don't know something you don't know something. "Common sense" doesn't make something right. "Common sense" tells most people that if you dangle two strips of paper in parallel next to each other and blow air between them they will move outward. But try it and see what happens. Don't whine to us about the laws of physics being typical pedantic American smarty pants BS when it's not what you expected, though.

Level 79

May 7, 2021

Not sure what you are implying but if it's that I think I'm always right your implication is asinine and demonstrably false.

Level 92

Aug 3, 2023

I'm from Maine. I've been hearing that revisionist Antimeridian reasoning since someone pulled it out of their backsides a couple of decades ago. Maine is still the easternmost to any sense of logic.

As somebody who's done a lot of navigating for a living, claiming that Amatignak Island's 179°8′55″W is the westernmost point, only a few nautical miles EAST of Semisopochnoi Island's 179°46′23″E longitudinal mark is total horse hockey.

I would still go west from there to get to Attu Island at 172°54'34"E, not around the globe. Coincidentally, from West Quoddy Head (ironic name I know) in Maine I would never in a million years set an easterly course to get to Semisopochnoi, the "easternmost" point.

Maybe in a million years, they'll change the totally arbitrary, man-made divide of East / West to Missouri.

I've been to Quoddy Head, been to Attu. I've been around the globe many times, but never eastbound with a destination of Alaska from Maine.

Can't get any clearer than that.

Level 94

Aug 4, 2023

Just because you wouldn't travel eastward to get from Point A to Point B doesn't magically mean that Point B isn't further to the east.

Level 76

Aug 10, 2023

You can't get any clearer than knowing that somewhere that's 179E is very easterly, and somewhere that's 179W is very westerly. If you do a lot of navigating for a living that should be plainer to you than it is more most quizzers.

Level 65

Feb 28, 2019

I think the question needs to be more specific. If you don't specify the reference point, then Maine should also be an acceptable answer. Trick questions really just serve to make people feel stupid, and to make others feel superior because they recognize the "trick". I didn't have this question when I took the quiz, but I would have gotten it wrong as well. I would have assumed that the reference was the center of the US. Since the reference point was not clarified, all you can do is assume.

Level 72

May 7, 2021

Of course you're right, someone. Calling Alaska the easternmost point of the US isn't clever - it just shows that the person doesn't know the difference between the east, which is a cardinal direction that's always relative and thus changes according to the topic at hand, and the "eastern hemisphere".

Obviously, to any sane person, Maine is the easternmost US state.

Level 79

May 7, 2021

So you got it wrong, too? It's not clever. It's factually correct. Do "sane" people believe that New Caledonia is the Westernmost territory of France, because you can get there going in a Westwardly direction from Paris? And if you leave from French Guiana going west you'd get to it sooner than if you left from Cannes going east. Are you really going to try to insist that this is the only sane and correct way to think of New Caledonia? Or are you going to use double standards as usual to suit your own biases while hurling unfounded insults at those who are more correct but disagree with you?

Level 81

Aug 23, 2023

"hurling unfounded insults at those who are more correct but disagree with you"

You're hypocrisy is legendary my good man, I bow to you

+16

Level ∞

May 7, 2021

Don't pretend that this is some sort of trick question. We say "technically speaking", which is a MASSIVE hint about the correct answer.

Level 96

Nov 10, 2020

Too Montana-centric.

Level 82

Dec 27, 2020

For me it was too Hawaii-centric! (3 answers were Hawaii)

Level 53

Dec 16, 2020

Iowa hold's the first primary.

Level 82

Dec 27, 2020

holds*

Level 68

May 7, 2021

Iowa holds the first caucus. New Hampshire holds the first primary. The caucus functions a little differently than the primary in terms of voting process, although both serve the same purpose. The difference isn't that significant, functionally speaking, but New Hampshire makes a really big deal out of always having the first primary. It's even written into New Hampshire law that the primary has to be a week before any other state primary.

Level 55

May 7, 2021

"What state had a referendum in 2010 to consider dropping the words "and Providence Plantations" from its official name, but decided to keep them?" This question should be altered because the name was recently changed.

Level ∞

May 7, 2021

Updated

Level 64

May 7, 2021

The Texas state flower isn't a yellow rose???

Level 23

Jan 14, 2023

"What state can be spelled without any letters in the word 'mackerel'?" You put the answer as Ohio, which is true, but Idaho and Iowa are also correct.

Level 89

Aug 4, 2023

...you realize that mAckerel contains an A, yes?

Level 54

Feb 27, 2023

best selling band whose name is a state should accept Kansas

Level 89

Aug 5, 2023

But the question is THE best-selling band, which indicates that it has to have more sales than any other band with a state name. And that is Alabama.

Level 90

Aug 8, 2023

Thought that Buffalo had pop. around 1 million. Apparently it’s the metro area population

Level 81

Aug 23, 2023

I'm curious why abbreviations for other two-word state names aren't accepted when NJ and NH are (and NYC works for NY)

Level 97

Sep 21, 2023

I had four Alaskas in mine, began questioning myself for each one

Level 70

Mar 19, 2025

me too lol

Level 74

Nov 27, 2023

1) What is the best-selling band whose name is a state?

Why Kansas doesn't count?

2) What is the largest state east of the Mississippi (by land area)?

It's Michigan. Not Georgia.

Level 60

Nov 28, 2023

1) it said THE best-selling band, not a popular band

2) Georgia: 57,513 square miles

Michigan: 56,538 square miles (source: USAToday)

Level 52

Jun 30, 2025

ireland is NOT a state

Level 76

Oct 2, 2025

The oldest tree in the world is in Sweden, not California.

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