Montana is located in the northwestern region of the U.S. It is the only state to share a land border with three provinces of Canada. Big enough to fit 6 American states and slightly larger than Japan.
If you love the outdoors, you may know Montana as the land of shining mountains and hidden gems. The world’s first ever national park – Yellowstone National Park is located here.
Montana Facts Trivia Questions and Answers
Montana resonates with everyone on different levels. This could be the Netflix sensation series: Maid, or the kids friendly show; ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Company’ among many other Montana’s productions or arts featured there.
Planning a trip to Montana? Why not use this trivia exercise to inform yourself about the state?
1. What is the origin of the state of Montana’s name?
2. What is the Montana state slogan?
3. Where does Montana rank in size in comparison to the other US States?
4. What is the Montana state flower?
5. Montana is home to the largest ICBM field in the United States covering how many square miles?
6. Which Montana lake is the largest natural freshwater lake in the western United States?
7. What is the capital of Montana?
8. On January 15, 1972, what was the location of the most extreme recorded temperature change in a 24-hour period in the United States when a chinook wind blew in and the temperature went from −54 to 49 °F ?
9. Warmer weather, attacks by beetles, and mismanagement has led to a substantial increase in what?
10. What is the established date of Montana?
11. In World War II, Native Americans from the Crow Nation became what?
12. What is the area of Montana?
13. What is the Montana state bird?
14. What is Montana’s state motto?
15. How many named mountain ranges does Montana have?
16. What is Montana’s state gamestone?
17. Montana’s economy is primarily based on what?
18. The largest mining operations in Montana were located in the city of Butte, where silver deposits and gigantic what?
19. What is Montana’s state fossil?
20. Where is Montana’s highest point?
21. Montana’s Glacier National Park, is commonly known as what?
22. What is the height of Granite Peak?
23. How many square miles does Montana have in the area?
24. What is Montana’s state song?
25. Montana is slightly larger than which Asian country?
26. All the land in Montana east of the continental divide was part of the what?
27. What is Montana’s state Land mammal?
28. What is the largest reservoir in Montana?
29. Which is known as The Treasure State in US?
30. What is the Montana state ballad?
31. Henry Plummer was the ‘outlaw’ sheriff of which Montana town?
32. What are the only two cities with populations over 50,000 in Montana?
33. What is the highest recorded temperature measured in Montana?
34. What year was Henry Plummer elected as sheriff?
35. The state of Montana is the largest what?
36. How many ‘outlaws’ did the Vigilantes hang in January and February 1864?
37. What was the first permanent settlement in what today is Montana?
38. Long John Franck and Erastus Yeager did what?
39. What state borders Montana to the south?
40. What Plateau is the largest continuous land mass with an elevation of over 10,000 feet high in the U. S.?
41. The death of Nicholas Tbalt is the catalyst that started the Vigilante killing spree. Who is said to have killed him?
42. There are how many named lakes and reservoirs in Montana?
43. Who was the original owner of the Anaconda Mining Co?
44. For the war effort in World War I, Montana’s Remount station in Miles City provided 10,000 what?
45. Montana 450 miles named rivers and creeks that are known for their “blue-ribbon” what?
46. Montana’s rivers drain into what three major bodies of water?
47. What company did Anaconda merge within 1899 to become the Amalgamated Copper Mining Co.?
48. Gold output in Montana from 1862 through 1876 reached how many dollars?
49. Where do Montana’s three watersheds divide?
50. What was it that created Quake Lake in 1959?
51. 168 men were killed in a Butte mine fire in which year?
52. How many dams are there on the Missouri River?
53. Okay, for anyone who’s ever even been to Montana, this question should be the easiest one in the quiz. Which ethnic group makes up the majority of Butte’s population to this day?
54. The Yellowstone River is the longest “what” in the United States?
55. Fort Peck Reservoir is contained by the world’s second largest what?
56. Who owned the Copper King Mansion?
57. What is the Montana state grass?
58. Who found the first gold at Last Chance Gulch?
59. About what percentage of Montana is covered in Forests?
60. Name the trading company that first established a post at what was to become Ft. Benton.
61. Where was the first gold discovered in Montana?
62. The first female in congress was from Montana. What was her name?
63. The State of Montana contains portions of Yellowstone National Park including three of the park’s what?
64. A Jesuit priest opened a mission in what valley in 1841?
65. How many acres of wilderness are in the National Wilderness Preservation System established by the Wilderness Act of 1964?
66. What is the coldest recorded temperature for Montana?
67. Name one of the two founders of Missoula?
68. In 1891, what group of Native Americans was moved to the Flathead Indian Reservation in modern Lake County?
69. The climate is getting warmer in Montana and the glaciers in Glacier National Park have receded and are predicted to do what in a few decades?
70. What three numbers can be found on the patch worn by the Montana Highway Patrol?
71. Winters are warmer, and have fewer cold spells that used to killed off the what ?
72. The Desert Land Act of 1877 allowed settlement of arid lands in the west and gave 640 acres to settlers for $.25 per acre and a promise to what?
73. In World War I, how many Montanans died?
74. In Montana, the 1918 Influenza epidemic killed how many people?
75. Montana was the only one of the 48 US States during World War II to not have a ” what” named after it?
76. What is the Montana state tree?