Welcome to our page of Alaska trivia questions! Alaska is a state known for its rugged beauty and unique wildlife, making it a fascinating destination for everyone. Our selection of questions covers a wide range of topics including the state's history, culture, geography, and wildlife. Whether you're a native of Alaska or just a curious learner, our trivia questions will help you discover new and exciting information about this great state.
For those interested in the history of Alaska, our trivia questions will take you through the state's past, from its early days as a Russian colony to its statehood in 1959. We also cover the state's famous landmarks such as Denali, the tallest mountain in North America, and the Iditarod, the famous dog sled race. Culture enthusiasts can learn about the state's indigenous cultures, traditional customs, and local art forms.
Alaska's geography and wildlife are also an important part of the state's identity and our questions cover information about the state's natural wonders like the Northern Lights, Glaciers and the unique wildlife such as Moose, Grizzly bears and the state bird, the Willow Ptarmigan.
Our trivia questions are designed to be challenging yet entertaining, making them perfect for individuals, families, or groups of friends. Whether you're looking for a fun way to pass the time or you want to test your knowledge of Alaska, our trivia questions are sure to provide hours of entertainment.
187 Alaska Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2024)
- The Alaska electrical grid that stretches from Fairbanks to the Kenai Peninsula goes by what infrastructure R-word name that sounds like a rough way to keep your pants up?
Answer: Railbelt
- Alaska has a power utility in ______ Cove, Alaska, a small city in Aleutians East Borough. Fill in the one word blank, a title held by Henry VIII, Richard III, and perhaps Kong.
Answer: King Cove
- It's easy to remember this small blue flower that grows in clumps. What is the common name of the state flower of Alaska?
Answer: Forget-me-not
- The state bird of Alaska is the willow ptarmigan which is a type of small Arctic g______. What word fills the blank?
Answer: Grouse
- The longest-term export between the U.S. and Japan is the shipping of LNG from Alaska. LNG stands for what type of cleaner-than-coal energy?
Answer: Liquified Natural Gas
- A public corporation dedicated to lowering the power costs for the state of Alaska, based in Anchorage, is the Alaska Energy ______. Fill in the one word “A” blank, defined as the power or right to give orders.
Answer: Alaska Energy Authority
- Although Alaska is better known for its Klondike Gold Rush, the U.S. state was the country’s 2018 leader in the production of what metallic mineral whose Periodic Table symbol is Zn?
Answer: Zinc
- What Siberian dog breed is known for its thickly furred double coat, its large size, its vertical triangular ears, and for looking like an Alaskan Malamute?
Answer: Husky
- Also known as the Dead Horse Trail, a boundary pass of the Coast Mountains on the border of Alaska and British Columbia is named after what color, also the “Christmas” that Bing Crosby is dreaming of?
Answer: White Pass
- The Matanuska Electric Association in Alaska provides electricity for an Anchorage suburb, located near the Chugach Mountains and on the banks of the river that is its namesake, the city of ______ River. Fill in the one word “E” blank, a bird of prey with an iconic yellow beak and a white head of feathers.
Answer: Eagle River
- The Nome Joint Utility System, a power utility located in its namesake Alaskan city, is located on the Seward Peninsula cost on Norton Sound off of what “B” sea?
Answer: Bering Sea
- Red timbers accent white walls on a house in North Pole, Alaska named for what hirsute dude?
Answer: Santa Claus
- What is the name of the pipeline, built in the 1970s, that transports oil from fields near Prudhoe Bay across Alaska to the port city of Valdez?
Answer: Trans-Alaska Pipeline
- Named one of Barabara Walter's "10 Most Fascinating People of 2008", which former Mayor of Wasilla has five children named Track, Bristol, Willow Piper, and Trig?
Answer: Sarah Palin
- Homer Electric will replace gas turbines on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula with lithium-ion Megapacks provided by what car-slash-clean energy company?
Answer: Tesla
- A public ski area on Douglas Island in Juneau, Alaska is ______crest. Fill in the one word “E” blank, a bird whose bald variant is the national bird of the United States.
Answer: Eaglecrest Ski Area
- A former home turned into a museum, celebrating the life of one of Anchorage, Alaska’s key development figures is the ______ Anderson House Museum. Fill in the word “O” blank, a nickname for a trophy provided to an Academy Award winner.
Answer: Oscar Anderson House Museum
- Situated above the Arctic Circle, which Alaskan city is not just the northernmost point in the United States, but one of the northernmost places in the world? (Hint: It used to be called Barrow)
Answer: Utqiagvik
- A diptheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska in 1925, combined with bad weather, forced shipments of serum to be delivered by sled dogs. One of these sled dogs had what “B” name, also the name of a 1995 Kevin Bacon starring Amblin Entertainment animated film portraying his exploits?
Answer: Balto
- Attu and Kiska are two islands in Alaska that were occupied by Japanese forces during World War II and are part of what chain of islands comprised of more than 300 small volcanic islands?
Answer: Aleutian Islands
- 35 years before the U.S. government wised up, Alaska changed the name of the giant national park named for what landmark?
Answer: Denali
- From Anchorage you can see a massive wind farm across the Cook Inlet on what island named for a thing that comes in really handy when cooking?
Answer: Fire Island
- An electric power cooperative appopriately based on Electron Drive in Anchorage, AK is called the ______ Electric Assocation. Fill in the “C” blank, also the name of a corporation promoting the aims of a tribe of native Alaskans.
Answer: Chugach Electric Association
- A National Park and Reserve in Port Alsworth, AK, made a national park in 1980, is Lake ______. Fill in the one word blank, also the last name of the explorer who trekked the Louisiana Purchase with Meriwether Lewis.
Answer: Lake Clark
- A farm in Palmer, Alaska is dedicated to the conservation of what woolly arctic animal? The late Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek was a devoted supporter of the farm, and often lent his image to their outreach efforts.
Answer: Musk Ox
- The University of Alaska's Museum of the North in Fairbanks is now the location of the vehicle that was the final resting place of Chris McCandless, subject of the movie Into the Wild. What kind of vehicle is this?
Answer: Bus
- With 159, Georgia has the second most of what amongst the US states? Texas has the most with 254, and two states (Louisiana and Alaska) technically have zero because they use different terms for this concept.
Answer: Counties
- Confusingly, since its move in the 1950s, Alaska Airlines is not headquartered in Alaska but instead what other Cascadian state?
Answer: Washington
- A rural electrification administration based out of Glennallen, AK is the ______ Valley Electric Association. Fill in the one word blank, a metal with atomic number 29 and symbol Cu, associated with pennies.
Answer: Copper Valley Electric Association
- Hilcorp took over Alaska's massive Prudhoe Bay oil fields in 2019, after a sale by what massive London-based multinational oil and gas company?
Answer: BP
- During the Klondike Gold Rush, Alaskan miners would trade in gold up to 25 times the amount that those in the Continental US would for a bushel of what starchy vegetable?
Answer: Potatoes
- Barrow, Alaska, is home to the North ______ Borough Department of Public Works, which manages that area’s power. Fill in the one word blank, also an “S” word for a surface of which one end is at a higher level than another.
Answer: North Slope Borough Department Of Public Works
- ______ Bay Village Council Electric manages electricity for ______ Bay, Alaska. Fill in the one word that fills in both blanks, also the first name of Hall Of Fame 1990s/2000s Red Sox pitcher Martinez, as well as the first name of the guy who runs for class president in “Napoleon Dynamite.”
Answer: Pedro Bay Village Council Electric
- D'oh! An Alaskan halibut fishing mecca, the author of "The Odyssey," and cartoonist Matt Groening's dad share what five-letter name?
Answer: Homer
- Which artist, known for his 'Joy of Painting,' afro, and happy little clouds, drew inspiration from his time in Alaska while serving in the US Air Force? We're looking for first and last names.
Answer: Bob Ross
- Little Diomede Island, an Alaskan island in the Bering Strait that sits between mainland Alaska and Siberia, is also known as ______ Isle. Fill in the one word “Y” blank, also the name of the day before today.
Answer: Yesterday Isle
- A big part of managing any equipment energy is what “t” machine, designed to be rotated by water, gas, or other fluids?
Answer: turbine
- Tiny Petersburg, Alaska is known as "Little _____," where the blank is filled with the name of European nation, the home of 19th century founder Peter Buschmann?
Answer: Norway
- Alaska celebrates the last Monday in March as a state holiday honoring what "foolish" 19th-century Secretary of State?
Answer: William Seward
- Fill in the blank: The Alaska state motto as of the 1967 Centennial of the Alaska Purchase is "______ to the Future."
Answer: North
- What is the name of the peninsula in southern Alaska that is home to cities such as Seward, Soldotna, and Homer and also features most of the coastline of the Cook Inlet?
Answer: Kenai
- Measuring a whopping 9 feet by 9 feet, one of the largest mattress sizes in existence is named for what U.S. state, which is fittingly the largest in the country?
Answer: Alaska (The Alaskan King Mattress)
- The Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, named for the captain of what famously mutiny-ed ship that probably had a great paper towel supply?
Answer: HMS Bounty
- In 1912, Giacomo Ciamician proposed using the sun’s energy to create carbohydrates and oxygen and harnessing the energy, thereby eliminating dependence on fossil fuels. This process mimics what chemical reaction already fundamental to the natural world?
Answer: photosynthesis
- Turning a weird viral challenge back on itself, Pitbull encouraged his fans to "like" a very remote Wal-Mart location in what Alaska town that shares its name with the largest subspecies of brown bear?
Answer: Kodiak
- Excluding Alaska, Montana has the largest breeding population of what "musical" type of swan?
Answer: Trumpter swan
- In place since Benny Benson of Seward won a 1927 contest, how many stars are featured on Alaska's state flag?
Answer: Eight
- A rehabilitation center in Sitka, Alaska is the Alaska ______ Center. Fill in the one word “R” blank, referring to a bird of prey, not a dinosaur or a singular member of Toronto’s NBA franchise.
Answer: Alaska Raptor Center
- A lake located in Alaska’s Denali Park is ______ Lake. Fill in the one word “W” blank, a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration.
Answer: Wonder Lake
- Their 2017 song "Feel It Still" won a Grammy for best Pop Duo/Group Performance. What band is this, who sounds like they might be from Lisbon, not Wasilla, Alaska?
Answer: Portugal. The Man.
- The 24.6 megawatt-producing Eva Creek Wind is Alaska’s largest wind farm, which is located in what five-letter community that is about 11 miles away from the Denali National Park and Preserve?
Answer: Healy
- Almost all of the 272 residents of what Alaskan town southeast of Anchorage famously live in the same building, Begich Towers?
Answer: Whittier
- Bogoslof Island in the Aleutian Islands is home of thousands of nesting birds, including the "tufted" species of what kind of bird that makes its home in Arctic climates?
Answer: Puffin
- Experiments in microreactor technology in 2021 at Eielson Air Force Base in what Alaskan city has major ramifications for potential energy for consumers across the entirety of the state?
Answer: Fairbanks, Alaska
- With territory on Baranof Island, Chicagof Island, and Kruzof Island, what five-letter city in southeast Alaska has the largest land area of any city in the United States, with approximately 2,870 square miles?
Answer: Sitka
- What is the name for the increasingly-large body of water separating the Alaskan peninsula and the eastern shores of Russia? There was once a land bridge crossing this body of water.
Answer: Bering Strait
- The Tongass National Forest in Edna Bay, Alaska is home to a national monument known as ______ Fjords. Fill in the one word “M” blank, adjective describing air with a lot of vapor in it, also the name of jazz standard song.
Answer: Misty Fjords National Monument
- Every year since its inception in 1973, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has taken place in which month?
Answer: March
- At 48 miles long, which glacier south of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is the largest glacier in North America?
Answer: Bering
- Which Alaskan city was named in honor of the future 26th US Vice President, who served from 1905 to 1909 under Theodore Roosevelt?
Answer: Fairbanks
- In 1989, a ship hit a reef in the Prince William Sound and spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude oil over more than 1,000 miles of coastline. What was the famous, ill-fated two-word name of this ship?
Answer: Exxon Valdez
- Alaska and Hawaii don't share land borders with any other U.S. states. Almost as stingy is what U.S. state that only shares a land border with one other state?
Answer: Maine
- What “E” Glacier is derived from Harding Icefield and is one of the major attractions of Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska? Its shares its name with a method of leaving.
Answer: Exit Glacier
- What “H” Pass, a mountain pass through the Talkneeta Mountains near Wasilla, AK, is named for a 20th century prospector and miner. Its’ name is also the last name of the actress who played Lois Lane in “Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman,” and was later one of the “Desperate Housewives.”
Answer: Hatcher Pass
- In September of 2021, FreeWire Technologies installed Alaska's first electric vehicle fast-charging station in what Halibut Fishing Capital of the World?
Answer: Homer
- At 6,640 miles, which U.S state has the largest coastline ahead of Florida and California?
Answer: Alaska
- Alaska is home to the largest mountain in the United States, coming in at over 20,000 feet high. This mountain is also the namesake for a line of GMC trucks and SUVs. What is the mountain called?
Answer: Denali
- Alaskan farmers took out low-interest loans from the Rural Electrification Administration, established as one of what president's New Deal reforms?
Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- What is the History Channel series that has featured adventurous drivers take the wheel while embarking on Alaska's Dalton Highway or Canada's frozen lakes?
Answer: Ice Road Truckers
- What Alaska state holiday, observed on the last day of March, is named for the United States Secretary of State that negotiated the United States' purchase of Alaska from Russia?
Answer: Seward's Day
- This one-named singer was born in Utah, but spent her formative years in Homer, Alaska, with no heat or running water. (Hint: Her song, "You Were Meant for Me," was a big hit in the 90s.)
Answer: Jewel
- Based on the Jack London novel of the same name, what 2020 box-office flop features Harrison Ford as an outdoorsman who befriends a dog named Buck in the Yukon?
Answer: Call of the Wild
- What “K” coastal Alaskan city is southwest of Anchorage, and known for its fjords? It also has an Old Town region, and its name comes from the Athabascan for “Flat Land".
Answer: Kenai
- What daughter of former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin starred in her own namesake Lifetime reality television series subtitled “Life’s A Tripp” in 2012 about moving to “The Last Frontier” state after temporarily living in California?
Answer: Bristol Palin
- What “T” national forest in Juneau, AK is the largest national forest in the US? It is a temperate rainforest.
Answer: Tongass National Forest
- What coffee company/coffeehouse chain was founded in Edina, Minnesota, and in 2021, merged with Panera Bread and Einstein Bros. Bagels to form Panera Brands? (Hint: It’s name was inspired by a trip to Alaska.)
Answer: Caribou Coffee
- The Brooks Range is the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in North America, located in Canada's Yukon Territory and also in what U.S. state?
Answer: Alaska
- Which Alaskan location near Fairbanks sounds like somewhere you’d go for post-secondary education and is in fact home to The University of Alaska Fairbanks?
Answer: College
- Tom Bodett was an NPR contributor and house builder in Homer, Alaska when he improvised the "We'll leave the light on for you" slogan during an ad for what budget lodging chain?
Answer: Motel 6
- Juneau is the second-largest city in the U.S. by area. The city is so large that it is larger than two entire states. One is Rhode Island. What is the other?
Answer: Delaware
- What 76 mile long glacier is located in part in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Eastern Alaska? It shares its name with an Old Mother who wanted to give her dog a bone.
Answer: Hubbard
- Which of the Aleutian Islands is the largest uninhabited island to be politically part of the U.S. and the site of the only land battle fought in the U.S. in WWII?
Answer: Attu
- Which community is the farthest north truck stop in the U.S.? (Hint: It has a very sensible name; since it’s in Alaska’s Arctic Circle region, you could end up with frozen limbs if you’re not dressed for the weather!)
Answer: Coldfoot
- Kodiak-born Roger Leroy Wensel gained fame in Seattle as "Artis," a musician immortalized by Soundgarden for playing what kitchen item?
Answer: Spoons
- The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, which gets its name from the steam-producing ash that filled it after a volcanic eruption in 1912, is a more remote section of what Alaska national park, better known for its population of brown bears?
Answer: Katmai
- What dessert, made up of ice cream, sponge cake, and meringue and placed briefly in a hot oven, was named in honor of a purchase the United States made from Russia in 1867?
Answer: Baked Alaska
- Although it alternates the route in even and odd years, Alaska's famous Iditarod sled dog race always begins in Anchorage and ends in what Seward Peninsula city?
Answer: Nome
- Vitus Jonassen ______ was a Danish cartographer and explorer in Russian service known for leading the First Kamchatka Expedition and the Great Northern Expedition. Many bodies of water and land were later named after him near Alaska. What is his surname?
Answer: Bering
- In which city in southeastern Alaska along the Inside Passage can you find the “scenic railway of the world?”
Answer: Skagway
- 48 U.S. states are divided into counties. Alaska is instead divided into boroughs. What other state has unique intra-state division by using a system of 64 parishes?
Answer: Louisiana
- Ohio is among a small group of U.S. state which start and end with the same letter. How many other states join Ohio in this category?
Answer: 3 (Alaska Arizona Alabama)
- In 2021, the Alaska Federation of Natives and electric cooperatives sued the Dunleavy administration over a policy known as PCE, or Power Cost...what E-word?
Answer: Equalization
- The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System started operating at the height of the oil crisis and the height of "Star Wars" mania in what year of the 1970s?
Answer: 1977
- Among the many cruise lines that offer sojourns in Alaska is what brand that has used slogans like "The Fun Ship" and "Fun for All, All for Fun?"
Answer: Carnival
- Southeast Alaska's Inside Passage is often referred to by what 9-letter nickname beginning with P, also a word meaning to beg in the street?
Answer: Panhandle
- Sarah Palin was mayor of which city, the fourth largest by population, before her election as the first female Governor of Alaska?
Answer: Wasilla
- Primarily powering Juneau, the Snettisham Hydroelectric Facility dams Long Lake and what other body of water that shares its name with an Oregon national park?
Answer: Crater Lake
- Opened in 1927, Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, typically referred to as "Hec Ed," is the oldest college basketball arena still in regular usage (for a major conference team). In what STATE will you find this 10,000-capacity building?
Answer: Washington
- Ketchikan, Alaska, lies at the southern end of what network of waterways that connects the Gulf of Alaska with Puget Sound, popular with cruise ships for its stunning views?
Answer: Inside Passage
- Which Alaskan town had an honorary cat mayor named Stubbs?
Answer: Talkeetna
- The George M Sullivan Generation Plant 2 in Anchorage, Alaska is the power plant with Alaska's largest capacity; what does it use to generate electricity?
Answer: Natural Gas
- Which southeastern Alaska city-borough was the state capital until 1906 (when it was replaced by Juneau)?
Answer: Sitka
- A stratovolcano on the western end of Chuginadak Island, one of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, is called Mount ______. Fill in the “C” blank, a midwestern city that is home to the Guardians and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Answer: Mount Cleveland
- What 13 mile long “M” glacier is located 12 miles south of Juneau in its namesake valley? It was named after a 19th-century superintendent of the Geological Survey, a man from Ohio.
Answer: Mendenhall Glacier
- A 3,500-mi. "Marine Highway," a system of ferries that is part of the National Highway System, uniquely serves what U.S. State?
Answer: Alaska
- Of the North American power grids, U.S. states only appear on the power grids named for Alaska and what other state?
Answer: Texas
- Alaska's state tree is what type of alliterative spruce that shares its name with an Alaskan city?
Answer: Sitka Spruce
- According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 36% of Minnesotans fish. This ranks second highest of any state; what is the one state higher?
Answer: Alaska
- 2.5 cents per acre was the price paid by the United States to purchase Alaska from what country?
Answer: Russia
- Delaware is one of only three U.S. states that has only ever had a single congressional district for the U.S. House of Representatives. Name one of the other two states with this same distinction.
Answer: Wyoming and Alaska
- The massive 1964 earthquake that killed 133 people and destroyed several villages in coastal Alaska occurred on what religious holiday? The quake's moment magnitude of 9.2 was more than a thousand times as powerful as the famous 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Answer: Good Friday
- When ranking the states in the U.S. by size (area, not population), Alaska is of course the largest state and ranks #1. In what spot does Washington rank? We'll accept responses within two of the correct answer.
Answer: 17 (15 - 19 accepted)
- Due to COVID-19, the 2021 Iditarod race omitted its usual starting ceremony in what city, Alaska's most populous?
Answer: Anchorage
- Tina Fey once said "I can see Russia from my house!" in a 2008 "Saturday Night Live" sketch, while impersonating what then-governor of Alaska?
Answer: Sarah Palin
- Also a word in the state nickname of Alaska, what is the name of the Old West-style font used in Wal-Mart's first official logo, used from 1964 to 1981?
Answer: Frontier
- An 11 mile coastal trail that ends in Anchorage’s Kincaid park is named for what former Democratic governor of Alaska, serving from 1994 to 2002, as well mayor of Anchorage from 1982 to 1987?
Answer: Tony Knowles Coastal Trail
- What “M” Electric Association is Alaska’s oldest existing electric cooperative, and the second biggest in the state, and manages among other thing the Eklutna Generation Station? It shares its name with an Alaskan river, and the largest glacier that is car accessible in the United States.
Answer: Matanuska Electric Association
- What “K” national park, established in 1980 in Kotzebue, AK, is located in Northwestern Alaska, about 25 miles north of the Arctic Circle?
Answer: Kobuk Valley National Park
- A museum of the University Of Alaska in Fairbanks, celebrating Alaskan culture and archaeological finds, is a named as a museum of what cardinal direction?
Answer: Museum Of The North
- What “C” Hot Springs in the Fairbanks North Star Borough of Alaska, located near its namesake river, is a hot spring and resort community?
Answer: Chena Hot Springs
- Alaska has an energy utility for the city of Atka, AK, located on Atka Island. Atka Island is part of what Alaskan island chain?
Answer: Aleutian Islands
- Alaska has a power utility station in Larsen Bay, AK, which is located on what “K” Alaskan island, also a name for the Alaskan Brown Bear that is native to the region?
Answer: Kodiak Island
- The Sitka National Historical Park, located in its namesake city in Alaska, has a collection of what kind of poles linked to the Tlingit people, a kind of monumental carvings?
Answer: Totem Poles
- Brooks Falls, a waterfall located in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, is well known for what species of fish jumping over 6 feet in the air while reaching for their spawning grounds?
Answer: Salmon
- In Alaska’s Chugach National Forest, on the Kenai Peninsula, is a landmark known as the Portage ______. Fill in the one word “G” blank, a slow moving mass of accumulated ice.
Answer: Portage Glacier
- A field that holds more than 500 million barrels of oil, such as Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, may be known by what animalistic nine-letter term?
Answer: Elephant
- Traditionally made from a mixture of animal fat, berries and freshly fallen snow or water, akutaq is often referred to as an Alaskan variety of what type of common dessert?
Answer: Ice cream
- The Alaskan city of Nome claims to have the world's largest ____ pan, where the blank is filled by what precious substance?
Answer: Gold
- What sea off Alaska's northwest coast is connected to the Pacific by the Bering Strait?
Answer: Chukchi Sea
- A museum in Haines, Alaska contains thousands of what common tool? The museum grew out of a collection begun in the 1970's by a blacksmith named Dave Pahl.
Answer: Hammers
- Statewide elections in Maine and Alaska use RCV, an alternative voting system in effect in over fifty jurisdictions nationwide. What does RCV stand for?
Answer: Ranked-Choice Voting
- What highway, which connects portions of Alaska 1, 2, and 4 from Valdez to Fairbanks, was the first major road built in Alaska?
Answer: Richardson Highway
- The United States bought Alaska of Russia in 1867, after Russia initially offered to which European country and was turned down? The area of territory for this country would have increased 11000 times if they bought Alaska
Answer: Liechtenstein
- The original lyrics to the Texas state song had to be changed to “boldest” instead of “largest” in 1959 when which (bigger) state became a state?
Answer: Alaska
- Want to get away from it all? Try a hike in Tongass National Forest, a roadless expanse of sixteen million acres in what U.S. state?
Answer: Alaska
- Built in 1913, what is the address in Juneau of the Alaskan Governor’s Mansion? This was a popular tourist attraction when Sarah Palin was running for Vice President in 2008.
Answer: 716 Calhoun Avenue
- Before it chose Juneau for its name, the mining settlement founded by Joseph Juneau and Richard Harris was known by what name? (The name is currently in use as another U.S. state capital)
Answer: Harrisburg
- Alaska Electric Light & Power Company is a subsidiary of what “A” American energy company, an electric and natural gas provider based out of Spokane, Washington?
Answer: Avista Corp.
- What company (headquartered in Washington, not Alaska) traces its roots to a 1930s company started by Linious McGee to help support his fur trading business?
Answer: Alaska Airlines
- Which U.S. state shares the longest border with Canada? The total comes in at over 1,500 miles.
Answer: Alaska
- What's the name of the annual amateur baseball game played in Fairbanks, Alaska, which starts (ironically, maybe) at 10:30 PM?
Answer: The Midnight Sun Game
- The total amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by human activity is better known by what two-word term which originated from a concept conceived by environmentalists William E. Rees and Dr. Mathis Wackernagel during the 1990s?
Answer: Carbon footprint
- According to the Department of Energy, in 2021 Alaska ranks third in natural gas withdrawals, behind Texas and what Rust Belt state that churns out Rolling Rock beer?
Answer: Pennsylvania
- King salmon, Quinnat salmon, spring salmon, chrome hog, and Tyee salmon are all alternate names for the official state fish of Alaska which is more often referred to by what name?
Answer: Chinook salmon
- The Alaska Permanent Fund was set up under Governor Jay Hammond, a few years after the OPEC-fueled first oil shock in what decade?
Answer: 1970s
- What city is named for the Aleut word meaning “near the peninsula”, not because it was turning against its own state?
Answer: Unalaska
- Premiering in 2020 on PBS Kids, what is the rhyming title of the first cartoon series to feature an Alaska Native character as its protagonist?
Answer: Molly of Denali
- 48 US states are divided into Counties. Two are not, using either Boroughs or Parishes as the term to delineate state regions. Name one of the 2 non-County states.
Answer: Louisiana (parish) and Alaska (borough)
- A proposed 211-mile, controlled industrial access road known as the AAP would provide access to what Alaskan mining district repped by the first "A" in AAP?
Answer: Ambler
- What was the name of the humpback whale who took a detour from his migration to Alaska to visit San Fransisco Bay in 1985 and again in 1990?
Answer: Humphrey
- Which seaside city on Baranof Island is home to the Alaska Raptor Center, St. Michael’s Cathedral, and Castle Hill?
Answer: Sitka
- A pooling of state agencies, rural leaders and the federal government facilitated the creation of the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative during the term of what War on Poverty president?
Answer: Lyndon Johnson
- There are no murders in the 1999 film "Mystery, Alaska," but led by a sheriff played by Russell Crowe the town's amateur hockey team takes on what kinda cop-named NHL team?
Answer: New York Rangers
- The first offshore oil wells were off the coast of what southern US state in the 1950s?
Answer: Louisiana
- Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, Denali Foxx is the stage name of a performer who competed on Season 13 of what VH1 reality series?
Answer: RuPaul's Drag Race
- Adopted after his Alaskan antics by a Buckeye industrialist, you can visit the preserved body of what Iditarod-inspiring, antidote-schleppin' sled dog at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History?
Answer: Balto
- What Northern Alaska town is adjacent to and the namesake of the largest oilfield in the United States, and is the unofficial northern terminus of the Pan-American highway?
Answer: Prudhoe Bay
- Although less famous than co-founder Jimmy Wales, Alaska native Larry Sanger was a co-founder of what famous internet property although he later quit and became publicly critical of the project?
Answer: Wikipedia
- Alphabetically last on the list of U.S. airport codes, Z09 is assigned to an airport in what state?
Answer: Alaska
- The world's first constant-angle arch variable radius dam is what Juneau area one with a fishy name?
Answer: Salmon Creek Dam
- The location of the Aleutian Islands makes which state both the most eastern and most western state?
Answer: Alaska
- Talkeetna was supposedly the inspiration for Cicely, Alaska on what ensemble early '90s CBS show?
Answer: Northern Exposure
- With a full stage name that has to be bleeped on television, Alaska is the stage name of the performer who came in second on Season 5, and won All-Stars Season 2, of what reality show?
Answer: RuPaul's Drag Race
- If you have an IC license from Alaska's Department of Labor, you're probably okay at not talking too loud since I.C. stands for what kind of high tech wiring administrator?
Answer: Inside Communications
- What is the SI derived unit of electrical conductance? This unit is the reciprocal of resistance and is named after the founder of a German electrical and telecommunications company.
Answer: Siemens
- What "A" volcano in Alaska that last had a major eruption in 2006 is technically a stratovolcano consisting of a central complex of summit lava domes and flows? The volcano is located on an uninhabited island 174 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Answer: Augustine Volcano
- Previously the mayor of the city of Seward, what is the name of Alaska's first governor, who served from 1959 to 1966 and again from 1970 to 1974?
Answer: William Allen Egan
- What 2002 film set in tiny Nightmute, Alaska features Al Pacino playing an LAPD detective assisting on a murder case, all while suffering from the title condition?
Answer: Insomnia
- What biome is also known as the boreal forest or snow forest? The biome is identifiable through its coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. Although sparsely populated compared to other biomes, it is the world's largest apart from the oceans. In North America it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska.
Answer: Taiga
- A fjord in Alaska, south of Juneau and placed off of Holkham Bay, is ______ Arm. Fill in the one word blank, also the last name of the classic Hollywood actor who appeared in “Captains Courageous” and “Boys Town,” among others.
Answer: Tracy Arm
- Spanning hundreds of years of real-life Texans and fictional characters, the 1985 novel "Texas" is a typically sweeping work of historical fiction by what author who also wrote "Alaska?"
Answer: James Michener
- Alaska is typically considered the seventh-largest country subdivision in the world by area. Two of the larger subdivisions are found in Russia and two in Australia. Name either of the other countries with a subdivision larger than Alaska.
Answer: Canada (Nunavut) or Denmark (Greenland)
- "Seward's Folly" was the contemporaneous nickname for The Alaska Purchase in 1867, which was technically a treaty with the Russian Empire later signed by what president?
Answer: Andrew Johnson
- Who is the 26-year old singer (as of March 2021) that had her "big break" when her original song "Alaska" was played for Pharrell while an NYU student? Pharrell's reaction in the video went viral, launching the young songwriter's career.
Answer: Maggie Rogers
- What Point in Hoonah, AK, a cruise ship stop with a restored salmon cannery, is based on its name, an Icy version of what narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies?
Answer: Icy Strait Point
- Unlike most U.S. states, Alaska is not divided into counties. Instead, it is divided into 16 regions which are known as what?
Answer: Boroughs
- As of July 2018, what US state has the lowest gas tax at 14.7 cents per gallon?
Answer: Alaska
- What “G” word is the name of a channel between Alaska and the Alexander Archipelago that is on the border of capital Juneau? The same word is the last name of a New York Jets defensive end of the 1980s named Mark.
Answer: Gastineau
- In 2005, Johan Hultin and Jeffery Taubenberger, along with Taubenberger's colleagues, developed a vaccine for what deadly virus, using lung tissue samples from an Inuit woman buried in a mass grave in Brevig Mission, Alaska?
Answer: Spanish flu
- Among the regulated electrical and utility workers in Alaska are RW specialists, electricians skilled in what specific area?
Answer: Residential wiring
- Which geological time period that began 358.9 million years ago, during which large coal deposits formed, has a name derived from the Latin for "coal-bearing?"
Answer: Carboniferous
- Covering millions of years of history in its 868 pages, "Alaska" is a historical novel by what American author?
Answer: James Michener
- On October 18, 1867, the Russian flag was officially lowered and the U.S. flag raised at the governor's house on what "hill" in Fort Sitka?
Answer: Castle Hill
- The used car shopping website TrueCar released data in 2014 with the share of cars sold in each U.S. state that are a truck (pickups and SUVs) vs. a car (cars, small crossovers, wagons). The leading state had over 75% of its sold vehicles counted as a "truck" by this definition. What state was that?
Answer: Alaska
- When you arrive in Juneau by boat, you’ll be met by a likeness of the town’s “official greeter.” Throughout the 1930s, the Bull Terrier was known to locals for her unique talent: Even though she was deaf and couldn't hear a ship's whistle, she always knew when a ship was coming in—and which dock she’d need to be at to greet its passengers. She died in 1942, but her statue still welcomes visitors today. What was the beloved pup’s name?
Answer: Patsy Ann
- 8th graders in which Alaskan city have to survive two nights on one of the state’s uninhabited islands to pass their final exam for science class?
Answer: Ketchikan
- Alongside the athletes it honors, the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame has also inducted notable events. The Iditarod, the Great Alaskan Shootout, and the Midnight Sun Baseball Classic are all in the Hall. An annual June event that requires competitors to build their own vehicle was recently inducted. The event has been won multiple times by Harold Attla. What is the event?
Answer: Yukon 800 Marathon
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