How it works
These trivia questions about North Dakota come in four rounds: villages, traders and the border; territory, statehood and after; prairie, badlands and the Red River; and settlers, festivals and roads.
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North Dakota trivia questions and answers in four rounds
Villages, traders and the border runs from the Mandan to the Dakota Boom. Territory, statehood and after asks why nobody knows which Dakota came first. Prairie, badlands and the Red River is the land, from White Butte to Devils Lake. Settlers, festivals and roads has lefse, a stave church and concrete interstates.
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Questions and answers
Which Dakota became a state first?
Nobody knows. President Benjamin Harrison had the papers shuffled on November 2, 1889, so the order went unrecorded. The two are numbered alphabetically, which makes North Dakota the 39th state.
How were the answers checked?
In the Wikipedia article North Dakota, read on October 3, 2026. One question on Spanish Louisiana was reworded, because a second article names a different seat of government. Weather records, population counts, living people and the dress and dances of powwows are left out.
What are some easy North Dakota trivia questions?
Which Canadian province joins Manitoba on the northern edge? Where do the two main interstates meet? Whose foods are lefse and lutefisk? The answers are Saskatchewan, Fargo and the Norwegians.
What does Dakota mean?
It is a Sioux word meaning allies or friends, and it gave its name to the Dakota Territory of 1861.