These Maine trivia questions leave the lobster aside and ask about a coin older than Columbus, a colony as old as Jamestown, a whirlpool, a bean hole and thirty plantations.
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Wabanaki, Acadia and the Province runs from the first peoples to the border treaty of 1842. Statehood, senators and summer people has Chamberlain, the Plumed Knight and Thoreau on Katahdin. Drowned coast, lakes and woods is geography, and Blueberries, boats and bean holes is work and food.
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Are these Maine trivia questions and answers checked?
Yes. Every answer was read on October 3, 2026 in the Wikipedia article Maine, linked under its question. The year the Maine Penny was found is not asked, because another article dates it differently. Lobster, the state's best-known trade, is not asked about here.
What are some easy Maine trivia questions?
Which wild fruit is Maine the top producer of? What do cooks bury baked beans in? Which animal shares the big woods with black bears? Lowbush blueberries, a bean hole and moose.
When did Maine become a state?
On March 15, 1820, when it separated from Massachusetts. Portland was the first capital; Augusta, more central, took over in 1832.
What is a drowned coast?
A coast where the sea has risen over old land, turning valleys into bays and mountain tops into islands. Geologists use the term for Maine's rocky shore.
The British occupied eastern Maine in two wars, meaning to make it a colony with which name?Answer: New Ireland. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
By which name is the confederacy of Maine's Algonquian-speaking nations, among them the Penobscot and the Passamaquoddy, known?Answer: The Wabanaki Confederacy. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
The first Province of Maine was split at the Piscataqua River. The southern part became New Hampshire. What was the northern part called?Answer: New Somersetshire. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
On which island did the French make the first confirmed European settlement in what is now Maine, in 1604?Answer: Saint Croix Island. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Under a royal patent of 1691 all of present-day Maine became a single county of Massachusetts. Which county?Answer: York County. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
What is the Maine Penny, which was found at a Native American dig site in the 1950s?Answer: An 11th-century Norwegian coin. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
What stoked Maine's wish to leave Massachusetts during the War of 1812?Answer: Massachusetts merchants opposed the war and refused to defend Maine. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
What was the thinly settled country north of the Kennebec River known as in the 17th century?Answer: The Territory of Sagadahock. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which colony had seized the settlements of southern Maine by force by 1658?Answer: The Massachusetts Bay Colony. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which English colony was planted in Maine in 1607, the same year as Jamestown, and given up after 14 months?Answer: The Popham Colony. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which name did the French give the whole region that took in what is now Maine?Answer: Acadia. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which noted explorer was a member of the French party that settled in Maine in 1604?Answer: Samuel de Champlain. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which treaty of 1842 finally fixed Maine's border with British North America?Answer: The Webster–Ashburton Treaty. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
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For which country did Portland, with its rail link and ice-free harbor, serve as the principal winter port until the mid-20th century?Answer: Canada. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Late in the 19th century artist colonies grew up at Ogunquit and on which Maine island?Answer: Monhegan. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which businessman, who bought a summer home at Seal Harbor in 1910, paid for the carriage roads of what is now Acadia National Park?Answer: John D. Rockefeller Jr. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which city was Maine's first state capital, until 1832?Answer: Portland. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which colonel led the 20th Maine at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg?Answer: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which future president explored the Maine woods from 1878 with the guide William Wingate Sewall?Answer: Theodore Roosevelt. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which Maine governor and senator was Hubert Humphrey's running mate in the presidential election of 1968?Answer: Edmund Muskie. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which Maine politician, nicknamed the Plumed Knight, narrowly lost the presidential election of 1884?Answer: James G. Blaine. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which Maine Republican was the first woman to serve in both the House and the Senate?Answer: Margaret Chase Smith. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which poet of Rockland and Camden summed up the look of the Maine coast in her poem Renascence?Answer: Edna St. Vincent Millay. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which writer came to Maine in 1846 to climb Katahdin and later published The Maine Woods?Answer: Henry David Thoreau. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
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About how much of Maine is forested or unclaimed land, the most of any state?Answer: More than 80 percent. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Ice carried Bubble Rock about 30 miles to its perch on the edge of a mountain. What do geologists call such a boulder?Answer: A glacial erratic. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Maine has the largest populations in the contiguous United States of black bears and which other large animal?Answer: Moose. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
The rivers of central and eastern Maine hold the last wild populations in the United States of which fish?Answer: Atlantic salmon. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Roosevelt Campobello International Park, just over a bridge from Maine, stands in which Canadian province?Answer: New Brunswick. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Somes Sound and Bubble Rock are in Acadia National Park. On which island does the park lie?Answer: Mount Desert Island. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
What do geologists call a coast like Maine's, where a rising sea has made bays of valleys and islands of mountain tops?Answer: A drowned coast. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
What does Maine call the wooded lands that have no local government of their own?Answer: Unorganized territory. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
What is the Old Sow, in the Bay of Fundy off the easternmost part of Maine?Answer: A tidal whirlpool. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which is the largest lake that lies wholly in New England?Answer: Moosehead Lake. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which island off Maine's Downeast coast is claimed by both the United States and Canada?Answer: Machias Seal Island. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which line of latitude divides Maine roughly in half?Answer: The 45th parallel. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which Maine town is the easternmost organized settlement in the United States?Answer: Lubec. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
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About how many lakes and ponds does inland Maine have?Answer: About 6,000. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
About sixty percent of which American sea harvest comes from Maine?Answer: Seaweed. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
At community suppers in Maine, baked beans are sometimes cooked underground in what?Answer: A bean hole. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Besides its cities and towns, Maine has 30 organized municipalities of which unusual kind?Answer: Plantations. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
In the 18th and 19th centuries the many family shipyards of Maine built which kind of vessel?Answer: Wooden sailing ships. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
In which town is the University of Maine, the state's flagship and only research university?Answer: Orono. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Maine is the top producer in the United States of which wild fruit?Answer: Lowbush blueberries. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which college, founded at Brunswick in 1794, is the oldest institution of higher learning in Maine?Answer: Bowdoin College. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which Maine county is known for its potato crops?Answer: Aroostook County. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which product of the forests leads Maine's industrial output, along with lumber and wood products?Answer: Paper. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which sandwich had been invented in Portland by 1902?Answer: The Maine Italian sandwich. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which term may be applied to residents of the northeast coast of Maine?Answer: Downeaster. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
Which tree, the only fir native to Maine, makes up nine in ten of the Christmas trees grown there?Answer: The balsam fir. Source: Wikipedia: Maine
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 Maine (text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license), 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, living people, sports teams and leagues, companies and brands, and weather records. Levels are our estimate: easy is fair for any table, medium suits people who know the state, hard will stump most tables. Licence: own work