Trivia Questions About Florida

Florida trivia questions in five rounds: tap a choice to check it, from Fort Mose to Alligator Alley.

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In the 16th century, which people lived in the Florida Panhandle?

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These trivia questions about Florida come in five rounds: Spanish and British Florida, the territory and statehood, the peninsula's lakes, rivers and weather, the reef, the Keys and the Everglades, and roads, buildings and schools.

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Florida Keys trivia questions in the reef round

The reef, the Keys and the Everglades asks where the Florida Reef lies, what people from the Bahamas came to the Keys to hunt for and which palms sprout on the smallest coral islands. It has a snake that does not belong.

Florida trivia questions and answers for any table

Tap a choice to see the right answer, the reason and the article it was read in. Ten come up at a time, and Scored round asks 20 and marks them at the end.

Questions and answers

What are some easy questions in this pack?

Which kind of weather is Central Florida the national capital of? What is the toll stretch of Interstate 75 across the peninsula called? Which state alone reaches farther south? The answers are lightning, Alligator Alley and Hawaii.

What are some tough Florida trivia questions?

How far offshore does Florida's water boundary lie in the Gulf? Which county is consolidated with Jacksonville? Which rock is mined in Bone Valley? The answers are 9 nautical miles, Duval County and rock phosphate.

How high is the highest point in Florida?

345 feet. Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida and the lowest high point of any state. Sugarloaf Mountain, at 312 feet, is the top of the peninsula itself.

Where do these trivia questions and answers about Florida come from?

Each answer was read on October 3, 2026 in the Wikipedia article Florida, linked under the question. The state symbols are not asked, because the article's text does not name them, and theme parks and crop rankings are left out.

All 54 questions with answers

Spanish and British Florida 10

  • The British built the King's Road from St. Augustine to Georgia. Which city's downtown now stands at its river crossing, once known as Cow Ford? Answer: Jacksonville. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Fort Mose, set up near St. Augustine in 1738, was the first legally sanctioned settlement of which kind in North America? Answer: A free Black settlement. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • In May 1539 Hernando de Soto described a thick wall of which trees along the Florida coast, their tangled roots making it hard to land? Answer: Red mangroves. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • In the 16th century, which people lived in the Florida Panhandle? Answer: The Apalachee. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Into which two colonies did the British divide Florida after 1763? Answer: East Florida and West Florida. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Settlers from which country built Fort Caroline in 1564, in what is now Jacksonville? Answer: France. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Tristán de Luna founded a Spanish settlement in 1559 at the site of which present-day Florida city? Answer: Pensacola. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Under the Treaty of Paris of 1763, Spain handed Florida to Britain in exchange for which city? Answer: Havana. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which fort did Spain build in 1672 to defend St. Augustine from attack? Answer: Castillo de San Marcos. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which Spanish admiral and governor led the founding of St. Augustine in 1565? Answer: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. Source: Wikipedia: Florida

Territory, statehood and the twentieth century 12

  • A burst of land development brought a boom to Florida in which decade, before two hurricanes and the Great Depression ended it? Answer: The 1920s. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Florida became a state on March 3, 1845, one day before the end of which president's term? Answer: John Tyler. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Florida has 67 counties, though some lists show 66. Which county is consolidated with the city of Jacksonville? Answer: Duval County. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • The growing availability of which invention helped turn Florida, "still very largely an empty State" in 1939, into a haven for newcomers? Answer: Air conditioning. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • In 1896 the railroad down Florida's east coast reached which bay, near Miami? Answer: Biscayne Bay. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • In which year did Congress merge East Florida and part of West Florida into the Florida Territory? Answer: 1822. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • The short-lived Republic of West Florida of 1810 flew a single white star on a blue field. By which name did that flag later become known? Answer: The Bonnie Blue Flag. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Statehood came to Florida in 1845. Which place did it take in the roll of states? Answer: The 27th. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Students of which university organized the Tallahassee bus boycott of 1956 and 1957? Answer: Florida A&M University. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Where did the few hundred Seminole who stayed in Florida after the wars of the 1800s take refuge? Answer: The Everglades. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which man, who served briefly as military commissioner of the new territory in 1821, is Jacksonville named after? Answer: Andrew Jackson. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which Miami building, where newcomers from Cuba were received in the 1960s, was called the "Ellis Island of the South"? Answer: The Freedom Tower. Source: Wikipedia: Florida

The peninsula: lakes, rivers and weather 12

  • A sinkhole about 350 feet wide opened on May 8, 1981 in which central Florida city, and is now known as Lake Rose? Answer: Winter Park. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • About how many miles of open water lie between Florida and Cuba to the south? Answer: 90 miles. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Bone Valley in Florida holds most of the country's largest deposits of which mined rock? Answer: Rock phosphate. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida and the lowest high point of any state. How high is it? Answer: 345 feet. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Central Florida is known as the capital of the United States for which kind of weather? Answer: Lightning. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Florida is the only state that borders both the Atlantic Ocean and which other body of water? Answer: The Gulf of Mexico. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • The Florida peninsula is a porous plateau of which rock, riddled with caves, sinkholes and springs? Answer: Limestone. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Florida's water boundary lies 3 nautical miles offshore in the Atlantic. How far offshore does it lie in the Gulf of Mexico? Answer: 9 nautical miles. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Lake Okeechobee is the second-largest natural freshwater lake wholly inside the 48 contiguous states. Which lake is larger? Answer: Lake Michigan. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • The St. Johns River, the longest within Florida, drops how far over its 310 miles? Answer: Less than 30 feet. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which 312-foot peak in Lake County is the highest point of peninsular Florida? Answer: Sugarloaf Mountain. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which is the only one of the fifty states that reaches farther south than Florida? Answer: Hawaii. Source: Wikipedia: Florida

The reef, the Keys and the Everglades 11

  • The Everglades, at the southern tip of the peninsula, are best described as what? Answer: An enormously wide, slow-flowing river. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • The Florida Reef is the third-largest coral barrier reef system in the world. Which two are larger? Answer: The Great Barrier Reef and the Belize Barrier Reef. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • The Florida Reef lies a little way off the coast of which chain of islands? Answer: The Florida Keys. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Mangroves line Florida's east coast from Cocoa Beach southward. What takes over the shore from St. Augustine northward? Answer: Salt marshes. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Many of the smallest coral islands of the Florida Keys are thick with which palms, sprouted from nuts that ocean currents washed ashore? Answer: Coconut palms. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • North of Lake Okeechobee the climate is humid subtropical. What kind of climate do the Florida Keys and the land south of the lake have? Answer: A true tropical climate. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • People from the Bahamas came to the Florida Keys in the early 1800s to hunt for what? Answer: Treasure from ships wrecked on the reef. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which bird lives in Florida and nowhere else? Answer: The Florida scrub jay. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which of these snakes found in Florida is a nonnative, exotic species? Answer: The Burmese python. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which pink wading bird, hunted until it was all but gone from Florida by about 1900, is now making a comeback in the south of the state? Answer: The American flamingo. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which state park on the Florida Reef was the first underwater park in the United States? Answer: John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. Source: Wikipedia: Florida

Roads, buildings and schools 9

  • In which year was the first section of Florida's Turnpike, south from Fort Pierce, completed? Answer: 1957. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Interstate 10 crosses the Florida Panhandle on its way to which California city, where it ends? Answer: Santa Monica. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Interstate 4 cuts across Florida from Tampa through Orlando to which city on the Atlantic? Answer: Daytona Beach. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Interstate 95, which ends in downtown Miami, begins at the Canadian border in which state? Answer: Maine. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Miami Beach holds the largest collection in the world of buildings in which style? Answer: Art Deco. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • What is the part of Florida's Atlantic shore known for its aerospace industry called? Answer: The Space Coast. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • What is the toll stretch of Interstate 75 between Naples and Fort Lauderdale called? Answer: Alligator Alley. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which building style, found only in Florida, appeared after World War II and is often shortened to MiMo? Answer: Miami Modern. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
  • Which school in DeLand, founded in 1883, was Florida's first private university? Answer: Stetson University. Source: Wikipedia: Florida
How this list was compiled

Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Every answer was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Florida (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), which is linked beside each question; the questions, wrong choices and explanations are in our own words. Left out on purpose: population figures and ranks, current office-holders and elections, sports teams, theme parks, companies and brands, crop rankings and weather records. The state symbols are not asked, because the article's text does not name them. Levels are our estimate. Licence: own work