Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers About The State of Nevada
Where does Nevada rank for population among the states?
A: 35th.
What is the Nevada State fossil?
A: Ichthyosaur.
What does Nevada have by far the most of per capita in
U.S.?
A: Hotel rooms.
What city is the capital of Nevada?
A: Carson City.
Why is Nevada known as the "Battle Born State"?
A: It achieved statehood during the
Civil War.
What nationality were the first Europeans to explored the
region?
A: The Spaniards.
What is the Nevada State flower?
A: Sagebrush.
Where did the name Nevada come from?
A: The Spanish explorers named it Nevada which means
snowy.
Before the Europeans showed up, what is now Nevada was
inhabited by what three Native American tribes?
A: The Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe.
Nevada has a domestic partnership registry that enables
gay
couples to enjoy the same rights as who?
A: Married couples.
What is the Nevada State fish?
A: Lahontan cutthroat trout.
On what date did Nevada become the 36th state?
A: On October 31, 1864.
What kind of laws is Nevada known for?
A: Its libertarian laws.
In Nevada prostitution employs roughly how many
women?
A: Aproximatly300.
What turned Nevada into the popular tourist destination
that it is today?
A: The establishment of legalized
gambling and lenient marriage and divorce
proceedings.
What is the Nevada State colors?
A: Silver and
blue.
Nevada is the only state where prostitution is what?
A: Legal, though it is illegal
in Clark County and Washoe County which contain
Las Vegas and Reno,
respectively.
What is Nevada's largest employer?
A: The tourism industry.
Nevada is the world's fourth largest producer of what type
of metal?
A: Gold .
Nevada allows for use of "what" for medical reasons?
A: Marijuana.
What is the highest recorded temperature for Nevada?
A: 125 °F in Laughlin on June 29, 1994.
What is the coldest recorded temperature for Nevada?
A: −52 °F set in San Jacinto in
1972.
What is the Nevada State grass?
A: Indian ricegrass.
The southern third of the state, where the Las Vegas area
is located in the southern third of Nevada and is in what desert?
A: The Mojave Desert.
What is the average yearly rainfall for Nevada?
A: About 7 inches.
Nevada is well known for having the harshest penalties for
what type of offenders in the
US?
A: Non-alcohol drugs.
What is the Nevada State bird?
A: Mountain Bluebird.
Nevada is divided into how many counties?
A: 17.
What county in Nevada has the most people?
A: Clark County.
What is the Nevada State march?
A: "Silver State Fanfare" by Gerald G. Willis.
Las Vegas is Nevada's most populous city, has been the
"what" since the county was created?
A: The county seat.
Nevada became the 36th U.S. State in the Union on what
date?
A: October 3, 1864.
What is permitted in casinos, hotel rooms, tobacco shops,
and brothels?
A: Smoking.
What is the Nevada State metal?
A: Silver.
In Nevada gambling was outlawed in 1909 as part of a
nation-wide anti-gambling crusade, but Nevada again legalized gambling on what
date?
A: March 19, 1931.
How big is the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of the
city of Las Vegas in square miles?
A: Approximately 1,350 square miles.
When was the last atmospheric test conducted at the Nevada
test site?
A: On July 17, 1962.
What is the Nevada State precious gemstone?
A: Virgin Valley black fire opal.
As far as crime is concerned, in
2008, Nevada had the third
highest what in the country?
A: Murder rate.
When was the underground testing of weapons discontinued?
A: September 23, 1992.
What is the Nevada State semiprecious gemstone?
A: Nevada turquoise.
What percentage of Nevada's land is owned by the federal
government?
A: Over eighty percent.
According to the Census Bureau the population of Nevada
was what on July 1, 2013?
A: 2,790,136.
The California Gold Rush of the 1850s brought thousands of
Chinese miners to what county?
A: Washoe county.
What is the Nevada State slogan?
A: "The Battle Born State".
The 2000 Census revealed that 16.19% of the state's
residents over 5 years old speak what language at home?
A: Spanish.
What is the Nevada State artifact?
A: Tule Duck Decoy.
In 2004, 6,800,000 ounces of gold were mined in the state,
worth $2.84 billion, and it amounted to 8.7% of what?
A: The world gold production.
In 2008, the state had the highest rate of what in the
country?
A: Robbery and motor vehicle theft.
What percentage of Nevada's 484,000 acres of cropland is
used to grow hay, for feeding livestock ?
A: Over 90%.
What is the Nevada State song?
A: "Home Means Nevada" by Bertha Raffetto.
In Nevada, the U.S. Route 50 is also known as what?
A: "The Loneliest Road in America".
Nevada does not have a continuous interstate highway
linking its two major what?
A: Population centers.
Nevada is one of only a few states in the country that
allows Semi trucks with what ?
A: Three trailers.
What is the Nevada State reptile?
A: Desert Tortoise.
Where does a 4-mile long monorail provide public
transportation?
A: In the Las Vegas area.
What are the two major airports serving Nevada?
A: McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, and Reno-Tahoe International
Airport.
As far as taxation goes, Nevada has no what?
A: Personal income tax or corporate income tax.
What is the Nevada State rock?
A: Sandstone.
Interestingly enough, since Nevada does not collect income
data it can't share the data with
who?
A: The feds or the IRS.
Nevada voters enacted a smoking ban that outlaws smoking
where?
A: In most workplaces and public places.
Smoking is permitted in bars if the bar does not do what?
A: Serve food.
What is the Nevada State
animal?
A: Desert Bighorn Sheep.
