Alabama Trivia Quiz Questions And Answers
Alabama is located in the southeastern part of the United
States, bordered by Tennessee to the north, and what to the east?
A: Georgia.
How many pteridophyte and spermatophyte plant species can
be found in Alabama?
A: nearly 4,000.
Alabama is known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the what
state?
A: Cotton State.
What is the state tree of Alabama?
A: The Longleaf Pine.
What is the largest county in Alabama in land and water
area?
A: Suburban Baldwin County
From about 1910 to
1920, many rural people, both White and
Black, migrated to Birmingham to work in what?
A : New industrial jobs.
What is the state flower of Alabama?
A: The Camellia.
According to the National Climatic Data Center, from
January 1, 1950, to June,
2013, Alabama along with
Oklahoma had the most "what"
of any state?
A: EF5 tornadoes.
What is the capital of Alabama?
A: Montgomery.
In Alabama what is the largest city by total land area?
A: Huntsville.
By the 1920s Birmingham experienced such rapid growth that
it was nicknamed what?
A: The Magic City.
What is the oldest city in Alabama?
A: Mobile.
The word Alabama is believed to have come from what language?
A: Choctaw.
In the 16th century who were the first Europeans to reach Alabama?
A: The Spanish.
Hernando de Soto passed through the state in what year?
A: 1540.
Where did the French establish the first settlement in the region in 1702.?
A: Old Mobile.
In what year was Old Mobile moved to the current site of Mobile?
A: In 1711.
The US Congress created the Alabama Territory on March 3, 1817 and, what city served as the territorial capital from 1817 to 1819?
A: St. Stephens.
By the early 1920s, Birmingham was the 19th-largest city in the United States and had more than 30% of what?
A: Alabama's population.
In the 20s, what was the basis for Birmingham's economy?
A: Heavy industry and mining.
The state of Alabama has four National Forests: Conecuh, Talladega, Tuskegee, and what?
A: William B. Bankhead.
Which city served as the temporary capital of Alabama from 1819 to 1820?
A: Huntsville.
What town, now a ghost town, was the first permanent state capital from 1820 to 1825?
A: Cahaba.
When Alabama was admitted to the Union settlers and land speculators flooded into the state to take advantage of fertile land for cultivation of what crop?
A: Cotton.
How much yearly rainfall does Alabama receive?
A: An average of 56 inches.
As the cotton plantations in Alabama expanded Southeastern planters and traders from the Upper South brought what with them?
A: Slaves.
The population of Alabama in 1810 is estimated to have been under 10,000 people, but by 1830 it had grown to how many?
A: Over 300,000.
Most of the Native American tribes were removed from the state after the passage of "what" by Congress in 1830?
A: The Indian Removal Act.
During what time period did Tuscaloosa serve as the capital of Alabama?
A: From 1826 to 1846.
By 1860, what had the population grown to?
A: 964,201 people.
In 1860, how many African American slaves were there in Alabama?
A: 435,080.
On what date did Alabama declared its secession from the Union?
A: On January 11, 1861.
Between 1940 and
1943, how many people moved into the
cities to work for war effort industries as Cotton and other cash crops faded in
importance?
A: More than 89,000.
How many soldiers did Alabama contribute to the
Confederate war effort?
A: About 120,000 soldiers.
In Alabama, summers are among the hottest in the country with high temperatures in the summer averaging how hot?
A: Over 90 °F in some parts of the state.
What was the nickname given to the Alabama troops in the confederate army?
A: Yellowhammer.
Alabama was under military rule from the end of the war until its official restoration to the Union in what year?
A: 1868.
From 1867 to 1874, Alabama was represented in Congress by what three African-American congressmen?
A: Jeremiah Haralson, Benjamin S. Turner, and James T. Rapier.
For what does Alabama currently rank fifth in the nation for?
A: The diversity of its flora.
After the Civil war, Alabama remained chiefly agricultural, with an economy tied to what crop?
A: Cotton.
In 1900, how many African Americans were eligible to vote in Alabama?
A: More than 181,000 .
By 1903, nearly all African Americans had lost the ability to do what?
A: Vote.
Alabama is 23rd in the amount of surface water is has and it has the second-largest what?
A: Inland waterway system in the U.S.
Alabama's elevation ranges from sea level at Mobile Bay to over 1,800 feet in the what?
A: Appalachian Mountains.
What is the highest point in Alabama?
A: Mount Cheaha with an elevation of 2,413 ft.
What geological feature is located in Elmore County, just north of Montgomery?
A: A 5-mile (8 km)-wide meteorite impact crater.
What is Alabama's average annual temperature?
A: 64 °F (18 °C).
The state of Alabama is one of the few places on the planet that has a secondary what?
A: Tornado season.
What is the yearly average snowfall for the Birmingham Alabama area?
A: 2 inches.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Alabama of 112 °F was recorded on what date in the community of Centerville?
A: September 5, 1925.
Alabama is located in the middle of the what?
A: Bible Belt.
Alabama, one of the most religious states in the US, with about 58% of the population doing what on a regular basis?
A: Attending church.
A majority of people in Alabama identify as what type of
religion?
A: Evangelical Protestant.
How tourists are estimated to visit Alabama annually?.
A: 20 million.
Alabama has the world's longest what?
A: Constitution.
Alabama's Talladega Superspeedway motorsports complex hosts
a series of NASCAR events and has a seating capacity of how many?
A: 143,000.
Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile is the home of what football
team?
A: University of South Alabama.
