Welcome to our page of Delaware trivia questions! Delaware is a small state with a rich history and unique culture, making it a great destination for trivia enthusiasts. 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 Delaware or just a curious learner, our trivia questions will help you discover new and exciting information about this state.
For those interested in the history of Delaware, our trivia questions will take you through the state's past, from its early days as a Dutch colony to the present. We also cover the state's famous landmarks such as the Rehoboth Beach and Cape Henlopen State Park, and its historical significance as the first state to ratify the Constitution. Culture enthusiasts can learn about the state's traditional customs, local art forms, and its role in the American Revolution.
Delaware'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 Delaware Bay, the Brandywine Creek and the unique wildlife such as the Diamondback Terrapin and the state bird, the Blue Hen Chicken.
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157 Delaware Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2024)
- Philadelphia's border with New Jersey is created entirely by what river?
Answer: Delaware River
- In 2020, Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender state senator in American history when she was elected to the legislature of what second-smallest state?
Answer: Delaware
- The Delaware-based company RAPA is considered the largest manufacturer of what food mush that is traditionally a combination of pork scraps, cornmeal, wheat flour, and spices?
Answer: Scrapple
- According to legend, Delaware gets the nickname "Diamond State" because it was once called "a jewel among the states" by what third U.S. President?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
- Born in Wilmington, DE in 1984, actress and comedian Aubrey Plaza is most well-known for her role as the curmudgeonly April Ludgate on what Indiana-based comedy?
Answer: Parks and Recreation
- There's a small city in Delaware with under 500 residents that lies directly above the popular vacation destination of Ocean City, Maryland. What is this "island" which is technically actually a narrow peninsula?
Answer: Fenwick Island
- Delaware Crossing Investment Group and Ben Franklin Technology Partners are venture capital firms based in or near what East Coast American city?
Answer: Philadelphia
- Best known for its famous oratory reenactment of Walt Whitman poem “Oh Captain! My Captain!”, what film starring Robin Williams was filmed at St. Andrews School in Middletown, Delaware?
Answer: Dead Poet’s Society
- Delaware's state flag design includes the date "December 7, 1787," the date on which it became the first state to ratify what document?
Answer: U.S. Constitution
- Celebrated two days after Election Day, Return Day unites party leaders to ceremonially bury what kind of tool?
Answer: Hatchet
- What American “c”ompany, founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam with headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, is a cryptocurrency exchange platform?
Answer: Coinbase
- This indigenous nation was renamed the "Delaware" by English colonists, but their territory also extended beyond Delaware, including present day New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, New York City, Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley. What is their name?
Answer: Lenni Lenape
- Before becoming Delaware's governor in 2017, John Carney served in what political role?
Answer: U.S. House of Representatives
- At the state level, Delaware prohibits alcohol sales for on-premises consumption after what time? P.S. We're talking Monday through Saturday here.
Answer: 1 a.m.
- Elected in 2010 to replace Joe Biden, what is the alliterative name of Delaware's junior U.S. Senator?
Answer: Chris Coons
- Tatnall Street Playground was renamed in 2014 to reflect the fact that Bob Marley had formerly lived nearby while working at DuPont and Chrysler under an alias. What is the current seven-letter two-word name of the park which was inspired by one of Marley's most well-known songs?
Answer: One Love Park
- Meghan Markle is currently the Duchess of a historic English county that shares its name with what place, the southernmost of Delaware's three counties?
Answer: Sussex County
- Representing the importance of animal husbandry to its economy, the state seal of Delaware features what type of cattle, which is also an animal of the Chinese zodiac?
Answer: Ox
- What governor of Delaware, elected in 2017, served in the House of Representatives from 2011-2017? He shares a last name with an actor who won a Best Actor Oscar for “Harry and Tonto” in 1974 and played Ed Norton in the 1950s sitcom “The Honeymooners.”
Answer: John Carney
- Wilmington-born Raúl Esparza played assistant DA Rafael Barba on what "Law & Order" spinoff that focuses on sexually related crimes?
Answer: SVU
- What nickname for Delaware, once a tourism tagline, is also the title of a 1980s sitcom starring Tiffany Michelle Brissette as a robot girl?
Answer: Small Wonder
- The state insect of Delaware is this insect, who's scientific name is Coccinellidae, and who are believed to be talismans of luck.
Answer: Ladybug
- What Delaware town, originally called Duck Creek Crossroads, is named for a Greek port city in modern-day Turkey?
Answer: Smyrna
- What Sussex County city was founded by Dutch settlers in 1613, and proudly calls itself the "First City in the First State?"
Answer: Lewes
- In 2022, Delaware became the only U.S. state without commercial air service after what low-cost carrier ended its New Castle-to-Orlando flight?
Answer: Frontier
- 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 Seaport Museum in the Penn’s Landing Complex in Philadelphia documents history along the Delaware River, including maritime history? Its name comes from the state of the U.S. getting freedom from its colonial oppressor.
Answer: Independence Seaport Museum
- The Arts Castle, home of the Delaware Country Cultural Arts Center, lies on what "seasonal" street in Delaware?
Answer: Winter
- Founded in 1818 and owned by Ohio Community Media, what morning daily newspaper is considered the dominant community newspaper in Delaware, OH?
Answer: The Delaware Gazette
- There is a military location in Delaware that served as the entry point and mortuary for U.S. military personnel (and some civilians) who die overseas. What is the name of this military location?
Answer: Dover Air Force Base
- Using 2015 population data, Delaware is the sixth-most densely populated U.S. state. Name either the fifth- or seventh-most densely populated U.S. state.
Answer: Maryland (fifth) and New York (seventh)
- Wilmington, Delaware's airport (ILG) last had regularly scheduled commercial service in 2015 at which point what budget "F" airline ended service in the state?
Answer: Frontier Airlines
- The vast majority of the state of Delaware sits on what peninsula which is a portmanteau of the three states it encompasses?
Answer: Delmarva
- What author, famous for writing “The Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish”, set her 2004 novel, “Hawkes Harbor”, in Delaware?
Answer: S.E. Hinton
- Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman are the two current U.S. Senators from Ohio. Who was the most recent Ohio Senator who wasn't these two men?
Answer: George Voinovich
- There are 50 state capitals. Let's rank them by population size. What number is Dover? In this case, 1 is the most populous U.S. state capital and 50 is the least populous. We'll accept responses within three positions of the correct answer.
Answer: 44 (41 - 47 accepted)
- 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
- Dover is the capital of Delaware. Which other capital of a U.S. state is closest in distance to Dover? We're using "as the crow flies" or haversine distance, rather than driving distance. And we're looking for the city, not the state.
Answer: Annapolis
- What famous Delaware-born politician and lawyer was both a signer of the Declaration of Independence and served as President of Delaware during the American Revolution?
Answer: Caesar Rodney
- On January 3, 1861, eligible citizens in Delaware voted on what critical topic?
Answer: Secession
- As of the 2018 population estimates across the state, what is the most populous city in the state of Delaware that begins with the letter "M"?
Answer: Middletown
- When listing the U.S. states alphabetically, what state immediately follows Connecticut?
Answer: Delaware
- Cedella Booker was a singer-songwriter that lived in Delaware after growing up in Nine Mile, Jamaica. While in Delaware, she gave birth to two sons but neither was as famous as what other son that she'd had while living in Jamaica?
Answer: Bob Marley
- Bare-knuckle brawls in Wilmington are featured in many scenes of what 1999 film starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton?
Answer: Fight Club
- The Delaware Blue Coats, who play in Wilmington, are a G League affiliate of what NBA team that plays approximately 30 miles to the northeast?
Answer: Philadelphia 76ers
- Known as "AZ" for short, what UK-based pharmaceutical company has its North America commercial headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware?
Answer: AstraZeneca
- In 2020, Kathy DeMatteis captured 1.3% of the vote in Delaware's gubernatorial race, running for a party founded in 2000 that shares what four-letter initialism with an Apple product launched in 2001?
Answer: IPoD
- What University of Delaware alum, a 2007 graduate, won Superbowl MVP in 2013 as quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens against the San Francisco 49ers? He is the only Blue Hen to win a ring in the NFL at the QB position.
Answer: Joe Flacco
- The historical and cultural sites in Dover, Delaware are linked by what urban park “without boundaries”? Run by the Delaware State Parks, its name commemorates when Delaware joined the US.
Answer: First State Heritage Park
- Who was the American industrialist that made his millions in the 1800s from financing gas works before attempting four(!) times to essentially purchase a United States Senate seat in the state of Delaware? His battle with Henry du Pont for control of Delaware politics led in part to the Seventeenth Amendment in the US which enabled direct election of Senators.
Answer: J. Edward Addicks
- Delaware's official state dessert is a pie made with what fruit that's more commonly associated with Georgia?
Answer: peach
- Although he is a 1984 graduate of the University of Delaware, Chris Christie is most famous for having been governor of what nearby state?
Answer: New Jersey
- What “H” Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE includes the first du Pont family home and garden in the US, powder yards, and a 19th century machine shop?
Answer: Hagley Museum
- What “B” Zoo in Wilmington, DE, is located on the banks of its namesake river? It is also the name of the river in The Shire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, named because the water resembled alcohol.
Answer: Brandywine Zoo
- In 2021, Delaware becomes home to the largest warehouse of what gigantic corporation? It may share its name with a Brazilian river, but it has a lot of American parcel power.
Answer: Amazon
- No longer produced, Delaware Punch was a fruit-flavored soft drink that came in purple cans. What fruit was the most prominent flavor in the brand?
Answer: grape
- The Delaware museum Winterthur is named after a city in the canton of Zürich in what European country?
Answer: Switzerland
- What “B” state park near Wilmington, DE is named after the former home of WIlliam du Pont Jr.? The name is also associated with a hospital in New York City that is historically associated with the treatment of the mentally ill.
Answer: Bellevue State Park
- Built in the late 18th century, Dover's historic Old State House is done in what architectural style, whose name comes from that of four British kings although it sounds like it's from another U.S. state?
Answer: Georgian
- Virgil Slatter and Harmon Truesdale are characters in what podcast set in a fictional Delaware town of the same name whose population is listed at "76 and a half?"
Answer: Muckey Landing
- After winning a Tony for "Spring Awakening," Wilmington native John Gallagher Jr. played Johnny, the Jesus of Suburbia in "American Idiot," a musical developed from the songs of what pop punk band?
Answer: Green Day
- Markers for what invisible dividing line between America's North and South can still be found in Delaware, including one on Route 54 in Delmar?
Answer: Mason-Dixon Line
- DuPont first produced what thermoplastic polymer material at one of its plants in Seaford, Delaware in 1935 that is synonymous with a piece of women’s undergarment?
Answer: Nylon
- What “B” Museum of American Art in Dover, DE has displays of decorative art and local antiques?
Answer: Biggs Museum of American Art
- When Delawareans Steven Universe and Connie Maheswaran fuse together, they become what non-binary character?
Answer: Stevonnie
- What “N” Valley Vineyards, the first winery in the state of Delaware, shares its name with the capital of the Bahamas, as well as a county in Long Island, NY?
Answer: Nassau Valley Vineyards
- Delaware’s Fenwick Island is home to a museum dedicated to what historical collisions? There is a large collection of maritime artifacts that have been discovered, including gold bars.
Answer: Discoversea Shipwreck Museum
- The John Dickinson House in Dover, DE, is a museum used to commemorate its namesake founding father, who helped to solidify American Revolutionary ideology in the 1760s with his “Letters From A” member of what occupation? His position of maintaining his land helped him relate to the common folk.
Answer: Letters From a Farmer
- What popular Delaware beach gets its name from a Biblical place mentioned in the book of Genesis whose name means "broad places" in Hebrew?
Answer: Rehoboth
- A museum in Dover, DE that is dedicated to 19th and 20th century businessman E.R. Johnson, is particularly focused on what “V” invention made by his company, one of the leading phonographs and record players of the early 20th century?
Answer: Victrola
- What 200-mile Trail, a divergence from the Appalachian Trail, passes through Delaware and is named for the two 18th-century British surveyors who created a namesake line that helped establish Delaware’s border?
Answer: Mason Dixon Trail
- What New Castle native who starred in "Cruel Intentions" is perhaps best known today as the father of Reese Witherspoon's two oldest children?
Answer: Ryan Philippe
- A World War II Army Fort in Cape Henlopen, DE, now a historical site, has what name that is the plural of measures of distance that measure at 5,280 ft?
Answer: Fort Miles
- "And Never Let Her Go" is a true-crime book about the 1996 murder of an assistant to the governor of Delaware, by what bestselling author of "But I Trusted You" and "The Stranger Beside Me?"
Answer: Ann Rule
- An auto race in Dover is one of the contests entered by driver Cole Trickle, played by Tom Cruise in what 1990 film that also starred Nicole Kidman?
Answer: Days of Thunder
- Over 300,000 companies, including Apple, eBay, and American Airlines, all list their headquarters in the same building in which Delaware city?
Answer: Wilmington
- Wilmington's main railroad station, a stopping point for Amtrak Acela trains, is named after which U.S. President?
Answer: Joe Biden
- The doctor who came up with the maneuver that can help someone who is choking was from Wilmington. What was his last name, as well as the name of his life-saving technique?
Answer: Heimlich
- Which 1995 coming-of-age classic starring Anthony LaPaglia and Liv Tyler centers around the young adult employees of a music store in Delaware?
Answer: Empire Records
- Which sport do the members of the Wilmington Blue Rocks play at the Daniel S. Frawley Stadium?
Answer: Baseball
- If you’re visiting Dover in late November or early December, which holiday festival can you attend that’s held by the Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village?
Answer: A Farmer's Christmas
- Fort Christina, built in 1638 near the present-day city of Wilmington, Delaware, was the capital of what European country's only colony in the New World until it was surrendered to the Dutch in 1655?
Answer: Sweden
- A swirl of sauce on top of the cheese is the hallmark of what pizza joint, which began in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware in 1960?
Answer: Grotto Pizza
- Which part of Philly situated along the Delaware River includes the following neighborhoods: Kensington, Olde Richmond, Port Richmond, and Fishtown?
Answer: River Wards
- Get your calcium! Since June 3, 1983, what non-vegan drink has been the official state beverage of Delaware?
Answer: Milk
- Officially known as the Delaware Governor's Mansion, what's the better-known name of the Dover estate, built using a Flemish bond brickwork pattern, that is the official residence of Delaware Governor John Carney?
Answer: Woodburn
- Thanks to its business-friendly corporate laws, Delaware is the official home to two-thirds of the companies on what magazine's annual list of largest U.S. corporations?
Answer: Fortune
- Delawarean John Backus is responsible for inventing what classic computer programming language, whose name is a portmanteau of the phrase "Formula Translating System?"
Answer: FORTRAN
- An official portion of U.S. Highway 9 is actually a ferry crossing that runs from Lewes, Delaware to what New Jersey town?
Answer: Cape May
- A festival named for legendary Delaware musician Clifford Brown brings what genre of music to Wilmington's Rodney Square every June?
Answer: Jazz
- Wilmington, Delaware native Tom Verlaine founded what 1970s rock band behind the album Marquee Moon, whose name sounds more like something you'd watch than listen to?
Answer: Television
- Which town in Kent County shares its name with a state out West, but was actually named for a valley in Pennsylvania?
Answer: Wyoming
- Delaware Blue Hens legend Elena Delle Donne has twice won the WNBA's MVP award as a player on what WNBA team, which plays home games about 100 miles away from the University of Delaware?
Answer: Washington Mystics
- What's the profession of Shane O'Neill, the Middletown, Delaware resident who won the first season of the reality show Ink Master?
Answer: Tattoo Artist
- What "court of equity," as opposed to a court of law, is one of Delaware's three constitutional courts, along with the Supreme Court and Superior Court?
Answer: Court of Chancery
- Delawarean astronomer Annie Jump Cannon helped develop the Harvard System, which classifies what objects according to colors like blue, white, and red?
Answer: Stars
- While working for Du Pont in Delaware, chemist Wallace Carothers invented what petroleum-based polymer famously used in women's stockings?
Answer: Nylon
- Fort Delaware and Fort Delaware State Park lie on an island with what name, which it received after a ship full of a certain green veggie ran aground there in the 18th century?
Answer: Pea Patch Island
- Kraft's Dover, Delaware plant is the only place in the U.S. where what iconic, fruity, jiggly treat is manufactured?
Answer: Jell-O
- Fort Christina (near what is now Wilmington) was the first North American settlement of people from which Northern European country?
Answer: Sweden
- What home goods retailer, whose stock-ticker symbol is BBBY closed its Brandywine Town Center store in 2023?
Answer: Bed Bath and Beyond
- Barratt's Chapel in Frederica, Delaware is the oldest surviving church in the U.S. built for what Protestant denomination?
Answer: Methodism
- "The Little Town Too Big for One State" is the nickname of what town made up of municipalities on both sides of the Maryland-Delaware border, as its name suggests?
Answer: Delmar
- Which fintech company based in Delaware can help you protect your customers against fraud and automate the process of handling any problems through its Disputes as a Service feature?
Answer: Quavo
- Miyagi Prefecture in which Asian country is Delaware’s “sister state?”
Answer: Japan
- A long-gone form of public transportation provides the name for what Wilmington, Delaware district known for its shopping center and nightlife?
Answer: Trolley Square
- The collection of Delaware's Winterthur Museum includes works by what American Revolution-era silversmith who is best remembered for his famous "Midnight Ride" on April 18, 1775?
Answer: Paul Revere
- The flag of Slaughter Beach, Delaware sports an image of what arthropod? One story holds that the name of the town comes from the many such creatures that wash up on the shore and perish each year.
Answer: Horseshoe Crab
- Which mustache-making beverage that's a classic to pair with cookies has been Delaware’s official state drink since 1983?
Answer: Milk
- LV-118 is the official number of what lightship that has been preserved as a museum ship in Lewes, Delaware since 1972?
Answer: Overfalls
- What triple-B name does the visitor’s center and housing for the Delaware Folk Art Collection in Alapocas Run State Park go by?
Answer: Blue Ball Barn
- Who served and Governor of Delaware from 2001-2009, being elected to two terms?
Answer: Ruth Ann Minner
- Which kind of IRA you can sock money away in for retirement was named after a former Delaware senator, first name William, who proposed the idea in 1989?
Answer: Roth
- What Delaware town was originally called Fort Casimir, then renamed after the English dukedom of William Cavendish?
Answer: New Castle
- What city in Delaware's northern tip is located about a 125-mile drive southeast from the city of the same name in New Jersey?
Answer: Newark
- What Wilmington, Delaware native and player for the Arizona Diamondbacks and St. Louis Cardinals has won five Silver Slugger awards, the most among first basemen in Major League Baseball?
Answer: Paul Goldschmidt
- Long before Air Bud proved there's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't play basketball, Delaware made what breed, among the most commonly owned in the U.S., its state dog?
Answer: Golden Retriever
- In 2018, the Delaware 87ers of the NBA's G League changed their name to what, in reference to the 1st Delaware Regiment and their role in the American Revolution?
Answer: Delaware Blue Coats
- Twenty-one different U.S. states have had at least one U.S. president born there. However, how many of the first 46 U.S. presidents were born in the state of Delaware?
Answer: Zero
- Delaware’s state tree, Ilex opaca Aiton, is better known as the American variety of what festive green plant with red berries you might deck your halls with come wintertime?
Answer: Holly
- A farmer and a soldier hold prominent places on Delaware’s flag and state seal, but if you look more closely, what grain sits next to the sheaf of wheat in the center?
Answer: Corn
- Robin Williams seized the day while filming which 1989 movie in Delaware, with a large portion shot inside Middletown’s St. Andrews School?
Answer: Dead Poets Society
- A portion of what river, the largest free-flowing river in the Eastern United States, was designated a National Wild and Scenic River in 2000?
Answer: Delaware
- Known as a controller of more destructive garden pests, what bug is the official insect of Delaware and Massachusetts?
Answer: Ladybug
- The mascot of Delaware's Dover International Speedway is a 46-foot fiberglass monster with what measured, guessable M-word for a first name?
Answer: Miles
- What agricultural product, often found within "factory farms," has the most economic value of any agricultural products in the state of Delaware at nearly $1 billion?
Answer: Broilers
- Founded in 2009 to combine expertise in fuels and industrial biotechnology, Butamax is a joint venture between BP and what Delaware-based chemical company?
Answer: DuPont
- "Beloved" is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning novel partially set in Delaware which chronicles the life of Sethe, a woman who escapes slavery with her young daughter. The story was written by what Nobel Prize winning African American author?
Answer: Toni Morrison
- Only one American signed both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution for Delaware. Who is this?
Answer: George Read
- What man-made body of water is considered Delaware’s largest lake and is a state park in Bear, DE?
Answer: Lums Pond
- As of the 2010 Census, Delaware had zero cities with a population over 100,000. For how many other states was this true?
Answer: Four (Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming)
- Located at 38°27' N, what is the common name of the surveyed line which forms the north-south border between Delaware and Maryland? The name combines a geographical feature with a common prefix.
Answer: Transpeninsular Line
- What Delaware county is home to an Amish community with nine church districts and nearly 2,000 people? The group first settled in the county in 1915.
Answer: Kent County
- What historic ship, which is famous for bringing Swedish settlers to North America in 1638, was legally named the official Tall Ship of Delaware in 2016?
Answer: Kalmar Nyckel
- Wilmington-born Valerie Bertinelli played Barbara Cooper on what long-running sitcom of the 1970s and 1980s?
Answer: One Day at a Time
- Featured in just about every '80s movie, "Bad to the Bone" was a huge hit for what Delaware blues dude?
Answer: George Thorogood
- According to a 1959 song by Perry Como full of puns on U.S. state names, "What did Delaware? She wore a brand New" WHAT?
Answer: Jersey
- "Imagine being able to be magically whisked away to Delaware. Hi, I'm in...Delaware!" is a line from what classic 1992 comedy?
Answer: Wayne's World
- What actress, who starred in the 1987 film "Adventures in Babysitting," was born in Wilmington, DE?
Answer: Elisabeth Shue
- What is the answer to the famous nursery rhyme question 'What did Delaware?'
Answer: New Jersey
- Wilmington is home to Delaware’s longest covered bridge, which is named what?
Answer: Smith's Bridge
- What is the name of Delaware's only National Park, which was included in the portfolio of the National Park Service on March 25th, 2013?
Answer: First State
- What 200-acre neoclassical estate and garden in Wilmington, Delaware, is named for the north-central French town from which the wealthy DuPont family traces its lineage?
Answer: Nemours
- "Big Shot" Bill McGowan was the first Delawarean to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, thanks to the 30 years he spent in what non-playing role?
Answer: Umpire
- Trap Pond State Park, one of the largest surviving tracts of wetlands in south Delaware, boasts an extensive patch of what "bald" variety of tree?
Answer: Cypress
- Delaware's state colors are "colonial blue" and what light brownish yellow, named for a kind of leather?
Answer: Buff
- "Oh the hills of dear New Castle, and the smiling vales between," are the first two lines of what song, which was made Delaware's state song in 1925?
Answer: Our Delaware
- Trap Pond State Park is a great place to spot the "American" species of what Christmas-y tree, the official state tree of Delaware?
Answer: Holly
- The tiny town of Harrington, Delaware near Dover is probably best known for hosting what event, which draws crowds of 300,000 each July?
Answer: Delaware State Fair
- Its name might sound like an insult, but what state fish of Delaware gets its name from its less-than-powerful mouth muscles, which make it easier for the fish to escape being hooked?
Answer: Weakfish
- What colorful chicken variety is both the state bird of Delaware and the name of the University of Delaware's sports teams?
Answer: Blue Hen
- Using 2018 estimates, Wilmington, Delaware is not actually the most populous city in the U.S. with the name Wilmington. Rather, a few hundred miles south in North Carolina the larger Wilmington is found. Delaware's Wilmington has the population which represents what PERCENT of North Carolina's Wilmington? As an example, Chicago has 32% of NYC's population. Responses accepted if within 10% of the correct answer.
Answer: 57% (47% - 67% accepted)
- Delaware, Kentucky, and Minnesota are three examples of U.S. states which are named after rivers, but they are not the only ones. How many total U.S. states take their name from an eponymous river? (We'll take up to 3 above or below the correct answer).
Answer: 15 (12 - 18 accepted)
- An automobile factory totaling 1.5 million square feet located in Newark, Delaware produced more than 7 million cars before its 2008 closure. Which of the "Big Three" automobile manufacturers owned and operated the plant while in operation?
Answer: Chrysler
- Delaware's Judge Reinhold had a career of playing squares ahead of him when he landed his first role as a singer caught up in an extortion ring in "Amazon Hot Wax," a 1979 episode of what superhero show?
Answer: Wonder Woman
- The border between Pennsylvania and Delaware is based upon a twelve-mile circle drawn from a courthouse in what Delaware city?
Answer: New Castle
- What “W” museum, on Germantown Ave in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, focuses on a variety of art forms from the Delaware Valley?
Answer: Woodmere Art Museum
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