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Welcome to our page of Connecticut trivia questions! Connecticut is a state known for its rich history, picturesque landscapes and cultural heritage, 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 landmarks. Whether you're a native of Connecticut 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 Connecticut, our trivia questions will take you through the state's past, from its early days as a British colony to the present. We also cover the state's famous landmarks such as the Mark Twain House, the Mystic Seaport and the Pequot Museum. Culture enthusiasts can learn about the state's traditional customs, local art forms and its role during the American Revolutionary War.
Connecticut'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 Litchfield Hills, the Housatonic River and the unique wildlife such as the American Black Bear and the state bird, the American Robin.
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 Connecticut, our trivia questions are sure to provide hours of entertainment.
1. What unofficial state nickname of Connecticut refers to a spice that is native to Indonesia, many thousands of miles away from Connecticut?
Answer: The Nutmeg State
2. You could probably call a Hartford or New Haven resident a "Nutmegger" without getting punched, since that's one nickname for natives of what New England state?
Answer: Connecticut
3. You can see the heads of Jack Sparrow, Pumbaa, and Popeye at a Connecticut "visitor center" dedicated to what single-serving candy company?
Answer: Pez
4. What patriotic tune, whose lyrics include the words "feather" and "macaroni", is the official state anthem of Connecticut?
Answer: Yankee Doodle
5. Liability insurance is offered by what insurance company, which has a buck for a mascot and is “The” company associated with its Connecticut city?
Answer: The Hartford
6. Executed as a spy in 1776, what speaker of the immortal phrase "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" is the official State Hero of Connecticut?
Answer: Nathan Hale
7. Born in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1961, what actress grew up to star in films like "When Harry Met Sally," "Sleepless in Seattle," and "You've Got Mail?"
Answer: Meg Ryan
8. What governor of Connecticut, elected in 2018, lost a 2006 US Senate election to Joe Lieberman in 2006, despite beating Lieberman in the primary?
Answer: Ned Lamont
9. On the reverse side of the state quarter of Connecticut is an image of what specific tree, which was supposedly the hiding place for Connecticut's Royal Charter of 1662 when the English governor-general was searching for it?
Answer: Charter Oak
10. What WNBA team has a name derived from its affiliation with a casino in Uncasville, Connecticut?
Answer: Sun
11. Hartford, CT is home to what “W” Atheneum Museum of Art, known for its European and Classical collections? It may inadvertently draw some fans of Longfellow.
Answer: Wadsworth
12. Often considered the oldest continuously published newspaper in the U.S., Hartford's daily newspaper is also the largest daily newspaper in Connecticut by circulation. What is the name of this paper?
Answer: The Hartford Courant
13. The town of Wilton, Connecticut was the inspiration for what 1972 novel by Ira Levin, in which the women of the namesake town are being slowly replaced by robots?
Answer: The Stepford Wives
14. What alliteratively named 2000s TV series, whose title characters were played by Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham, was set in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut?
Answer: Gilmore Girls
15. Stamford, Connecticut is the home of what media and entertainment company known for “Sports Entertainment”, as Vince McMahon likes to call his performance product?
Answer: WWE
16. What historic submarine, now permanently retired and stationed in Groton, Connecticut, was the first operational nuclear-powered submarine?
Answer: USS Nautilus
17. With more than 140,000 residents, Bridgeport is the most populous city in Connecticut. Next up is New Haven with 129,000. What is the third-largest city in the state with 124,000 residents?
Answer: Hartford
18. What American author, popularly known by a pseudonym, considered Hartford the most beautiful city in the United States and settled there to write what are considered his bildungsroman masterpieces? Coincidentally, this Missouri-born man lived next door to Harriet Beecher Stowe while in Hartford.
Answer: Mark Twain
19. What pizza restaurant, located on Main Street in its namesake Connecticut town, was also the name of a 1988 romantic comedy-drama directed by Donald Petrie, and starring Vincent D’Onofrio and a young Julia Roberts?
Answer: Mystic Pizza
20. What is the full name of the alliterative movie set in Connecticut that was released in 2011 and starred Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman who had lived in a cult in the Catskill Mountains?
Answer: Martha Marcy May Marlene
21. What Connecticut-born composer is famous for pieces like "Concord Sonata" and "Central Park in the Dark," but also made a fortune as a life insurance salesman?
Answer: Charles Ives
22. Because it is home to major offices of companies such as The Hartford, Aetna, and Travelers, the city of Hartford, Connecticut, is nicknamed "Capital of the World" of what industry?
Answer: Insurance
23. What man served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963 but is almost certainly not even one of the two most famous politicians from his own family?
Answer: Prescott Bush
24. The Bridgeport Sound Tigers and the Hartford Wolf Pack are both professional sports franchises based in Connecticut that compete in what sport?
Answer: Hockey
25. When listing the U.S. states alphabetically, what state immediately follows Connecticut?
Answer: Delaware
26. New Haven's Frank Pepe frequently tops lists of the best restaurants in the U.S. for what food?
Answer: Pizza
27. Before it moved to North Carolina in 1997 and was renamed the Hurricanes, what was the name of the NHL franchise of Hartford, Connecticut?
Answer: Whalers
28. The fictional suburb of Stoney Brook, Connecticut is the home of the titular teens and tweens of what Ann M. Martin book series?
Answer: The Babysitters' Club
29. Previously owned by United Technologies, what is the name of the aircraft manufacturer based in Connecticut that Lockheed Martin acquired in 2015? The company was founded by its eponymous Ukrainian-American aviator in 1923.
Answer: Sikorsky Aircraft
30. The Deetz family moves from New York City to Winter River, Connecticut, and haunted-house hijinks ensue, in what 1988 film?
Answer: Beetlejuice
31. The Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise or the Sherman Compromise, was a critical agreement reached during 1787's Constitutional Convention between two different sides. What was the result of the compromise?
Answer: Bicameral legislature
32. Hartford native Suzanne Collins is famous for writing what trilogy of novels whose protagonist is Katniss Everdeen?
Answer: The Hunger Games
33. In June 2021, a landmark parentage law recognizing same-sex marriages, surrogacy, and non-traditional families was passed by what Constitution State?
Answer: Connecticut
34. What “W” farm is a historic site in Ridgefield and Wilton, CT, commemorating the namesake impressionist artist who lived there, and was also visited by John Singer Sargent and others? It shares its name with the last name of the Australian director of “Dead Poets Society.”
Answer: Weir Farm
35. The Barnum Museum, chronicling the life of entertainer PT Barnum, is located in what Connecticut city?
Answer: Bridgeport
36. The Wives Are In Connecticut" is a 1985 song about cheating husbands, by what singer whose most famous tune is "You're So Vain?
Answer: Carly Simon
37. Hartford, Connecticut has a museum that was once the residence of what American author of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?"
Answer: Mark Twain
38. What dandy American song, in which the protagonist enters town "a-riding on a pony" to enlist in the Continental Army, is the state song of Connecticut?
Answer: Yankee Doodle
39. A house and museum in Hartford, Connecticut was the late 19th century home of what classic American author, the creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: Mark Twain House
40. The only U.S. President to have been born in Connecticut is George W. Bush, who was born in what town where he also spent his undergraduate years at Yale?
Answer: New Haven
41. What castle in its namesake state park in East Haddam, CT, is also a luxurious home designed by a silent film actor who played “Sherlock Holmes” in 1916? His last name is the same as the most prominent 19th-century inventor and manufacturer of shaving razors.
Answer: Gillette Castle State Park
42. What scientist, inventor, and native of Bridgeport, Connecticut is better known for “developing” the Polaroid instant camera in 1948?
Answer: Edwin Land
43. The tick-borne illness Lyme disease is named after a small town in what New England state? The illness was first diagnosed there as a separate condition in 1975.
Answer: Connecticut
44. Completed in 2018, what public-private initiative helped UConn increase enrollment to the School of Medicine and Dental Medicine by 30% and increased a health-related industry across the entire state?
Answer: Bioscience Connecticut
45. Odetah Camping Resort is located in western Connecticut near which town starting with the letter B?
Answer: Bozrah
46. Their headquarters are in Yonkers, New York, but in what state would you find the Consumer Reports vehicle test track?
Answer: Connecticut
47. An East Coast state that’s just a train ride from NYC may not be your first thought for a camping trip, but what state’s Sun Outdoors Mystic is a hit RV resort according to online travel enthusiasts?
Answer: Connecticut
48. Before moving to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1997, the NHL team now known as the Carolina Hurricanes played their home games in what other state capital?
Answer: Hartford
49. What PepsiCo-owned beverage brand is named for a certain upscale area of Miami Beach, Florida, although it was founded in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1996?
Answer: SoBe
50. After Rhode Island and Delaware, what is the third smallest state in the U.S. by area?
Answer: Connecticut
51. The first American submarine was designed before the Revolutionary War by David Bushnell, a young inventor from Connecticut, who gave it what reptilian name?
Answer: Turtle
52. The Northwest Hills in Connecticut are also known by what other name because they are roughly coterminous with the county of the same name?
Answer: Litchfield Hills
53. What natural history museum, located in Yale University in Connecticut, was founded in 1866 by namesake philanthropist George? It shares its name with a time-traveling dog who is known to hang out with Sherman during “Rocky And Bullwinkle.”
Answer: Peabody Museum
54. What is the canine name of the often highly successful sports teams of the University of Connecticut?
Answer: Huskies
55. Located in the northwest corner of the state, what is the highest peak in Connecticut?
Answer: Bear Mountain
56. The Hartford, an investment and insurance company that’s based in the namesake capital city of Connecticut, uses the male species of what antlered animal on its official logo?
Answer: Elk
57. Revenue Cutter Service School of Instruction was the old name of the New London service academy for which U.S. armed forces branch?
Answer: Coast Guard
58. It's not Mississippi: name the two states whose names cannot be spelled with a regulation bag of tiles from the English language version of Scrabble.
Answer: Kentucky
59. Previously serving as Connecticut's commissioner of education, who became the U.S. Secretary of Education on March 2, 2021?
Answer: Miguel Cardona
60. Will Shortz lets competitors know how much a computer named Dr. Fill has beat them at Stamford, Connecticut's annual ACPT, or American WHAT WHAT Tournament?
Answer: Crossword Puzzle
61. What is the name of the fictional Connecticut town where Ira Levin set a 1972 novel about robotic wives, adapted into films in 1975 and 2004?
Answer: Stepford
62. Which psychologist investigated obedience using electric shocks while a professor at Yale?
Answer: Stanley Milgram
63. Hartford's BDL is (by far) the busiest commercial airport in the state of Connecticut. The only other commercial airport in the state goes by what three-letter code?
Answer: HVN
64. Although the first major settlements in Connecticut were made by Englishmen, what other nation was the first to establish a European presence in the state?
Answer: Netherlands
65. What fruit appears on the official flag and coat of arms for the state of Connecticut?
Answer: Grapes
66. Although most well-known for his flair as a circus owner, P.T. Barnum also served in elected office as a mayor and in the state legislature in what East Coast state?
Answer: Connecticut
67. In what U.S. state is the House of Knipschildt based, maker of the world's most expensive chocolate, La Madeline au Truffe ($250 for a single piece)?
Answer: Connecticut
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