How it works
These Alabama trivia questions and answers come in four rounds: names, mounds and Mobile; territory, capitals and statehood; Yellowhammers to rockets; and plains, peaks, caves and a crater.
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Four rounds, from Mabila to the Saturn rockets
Names, mounds and Mobile asks what Alabama may mean and where the first French town stood. Territory, capitals and statehood follows the capital from St. Stephens to Montgomery. Yellowhammers to rockets runs from Civil War uniforms to the Saturn program. Plains, peaks, caves and a crater is the land.
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Questions and answers
What are some easy Alabama trivia questions?
Which is the oldest city in Alabama? Alabama is called the Heart of what? What made the crater just north of Montgomery? The answers are Mobile, Dixie and a meteorite.
How were the answers checked?
In the Wikipedia article Alabama, read on October 3, 2026. A cave that the article lists under an old name, now a paid attraction, was swapped for Cathedral Caverns. Voting law, court cases, storm tolls, sports and novels still in copyright are left out.
What was Alabama's first capital?
St. Stephens was the territorial capital from 1817. Huntsville was the temporary state capital in 1819, then Cahaba, then Tuscaloosa from 1826, and Montgomery since the vote of 1846.
Where are the civil rights questions?
This pack asks that era only through plain dated facts, such as the Rosenwald Schools built from 1913. The American history pack on this site asks about the movement.