How it works
These Oregon trivia questions run in five rounds: the name and the first explorers, forts and statehood, mountains, rivers and the map, forests, wildlife and climate, and laws, crops and nicknames.
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Oregon trivia questions and answers, round by round
The name and the first explorers starts with a petition of 1765 and a poem. Forts, a provisional government and statehood has the wolf meetings at Champoeg and the month it took the news of statehood to arrive. Laws, crops and nicknames has hazelnuts and the Bottle Bill.
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Each tap shows the right answer, why it is right and the article it was read in. Ten questions come up at a time, and Scored round asks 20 before it marks any.
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What is a good trivia question about Oregon?
Try this one: what were Oregon drivers not allowed to do from 1951 until August 2023? The answer is pump their own gasoline. Self-service was banned in the state for more than seventy years.
What are some easy Oregon trivia questions?
Which volcano is the highest point in Oregon? Which nickname did Portland earn as a lumber town? Which predator was wiped out around 1930 and has returned? The answers are Mount Hood, Stumptown and the gray wolf.
When did Oregon become a state?
On February 14, 1859, as the 33rd state. Nobody in Oregon knew until March 15, when the news arrived.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the Wikipedia article Oregon, linked under the question. Fort Clatsop, the Treaty of 1818 and the Donation Land Claim Act were dropped because the site's history packs already ask them.