190 Kentucky Trivia Questions (Ranked from Easiest to Hardest)

Welcome to our page of Kentucky trivia questions! Kentucky is a state known for its rich history, diverse culture, and iconic landmarks, making it a fascinating 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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky, our trivia questions will take you through the state's past, from its early days as a frontier state to the present. We also cover the state's famous landmarks such as the Mammoth Cave National Park, the Kentucky Derby, and the Lincoln Homestead State Park. Culture enthusiasts can learn about the state's rich cultural heritage, traditional customs, and local art forms.

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190 Kentucky Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2025)

1. "The Run for the Roses" and "The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports" are both colloquial names for a horse race that occurs on the first Saturday of May in which U.S. State?

Answer: Kentucky

2. Which Chevy car has its own national museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky?

Answer: Corvette

3. Which fast-food chain’s original chicken seasoning recipe is purported to be a top-secret blend of 11 herbs and spices?

Answer: KFC

4. Which Kentucky national park is home to the longest cave system in the world (at least, that we know of)?

Answer: Mammoth Cave

5. The Tigers—not the Hoyas—of what private liberal arts college can be found in its small namesake town north of Lexington, Kentucky?

Answer: Georgetown College

6. The United States Bullion Depository, which holds most of the country's gold reserves, sits next to what Kentucky army installation?

Answer: Fort Knox

7. A Moscow Mule consists of vodka, ginger beer, and lime served chilled in a copper mug. What liquor could be subbed in to make a Kentucky Mule?

Answer: Bourbon

8. The entirety of the border between Ohio and Kentucky is demarcated by what body of water?

Answer: Ohio River

9. What casual steakhouse chain has its corporate headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, despite having the Lone Star State in its name?

Answer: Texas Roadhouse

10. What University of Kentucky alumna and star of "Double Jeopardy" was an instrumental "silence breaker" in the #MeToo movement, as one of the earliest to speak out against Harvey Weinstein?

Answer: Ashley Judd

11. Reflecting the huge flower arrangement in which its winner is draped, the Kentucky Derby is often referred to by what alliterative nickname?

Answer: Run for the Roses

12. Timothy Olyphant wore the heck out of a Stetson as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens on what FX cops-and-crooks in Kentucky show?

Answer: Justified

13. Country music star and Kentuckian Crystal Gayle might be best remembered as the sister of what other country great?

Answer: Loretta Lynn

14. A dual reference to a flying mammal and a piece of baseball equipment, what is the name of Louisville's Minor League Baseball team, which is a triple-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds?

Answer: Bats

15. In 2004, Governor Ernie Fletcher launched a large branding campaign in the state of Kentucky. A KY-based PR firm ultimately landed a $500k contract and came up with what two-word slogan that is now found on many state entrance signs?

Answer: Unbridled spirit

16. What actor, nominated for Oscars for playing Jack Sparrow, J.M. Barrie, and Sweeney Todd, was born in 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky?

Answer: Johnny Depp

17. Lightning Run, Storm Chaser, and Thunder Run are weather-themed roller coasters at what alliteratively named Louisville theme park?

Answer: Kentucky Kingdom

18. What Kentucky-born presidential candidate swung his support to John Quincy Adams after finishing fourth in the 1824 election, helping Adams to prevail in a House of Representatives vote?

Answer: Henry Clay

19. What “W” Kentucky park, near downtown Louisville as well as the Ohio River, shares its name with part of a 1954 movie title, an Elia Kazan movie during which Marlon Brando famously “coulda been a contender”?

Answer: Waterfront Park

20. What specific type of vehicle is the Belle of Louisville, the 22-time winner of a race that traditionally takes place three days before the Kentucky Derby?

Answer: Steamboat

21. In which protected river and recreation area of the Cumberland Plateau can you hike the Blue Heron Loop and Split Bow Arch trails?

Answer: Big South Fork

22. Carter G. Woodson, who studied at Kentucky's Berea college, went on to found what yearly 28-day-long observance?

Answer: Black History Month

23. In 1792, when Kentucky became the 15th state admitted to the Union, it split off from what existing state?

Answer: Virginia

24. What famous man was born in a small cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky in February 1809?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

25. Jefferson and Fayette Counties are the two most populous counties in the state of Kentucky—by far. There are three additional counties in the state with at least 125,000 people. With a single guess, name any of these three counties.

Answer: Kenton

26. What actress, who starred as Carol Brady on "The Brady Bunch," has both first and last names that are towns in Kentucky?

Answer: Florence Henderson

27. According to the lyrics of "My Old Kentucky Home," the young folks roll around the floor of what structure associated with Abraham Lincoln?

Answer: Cabin

28. Which gilded sneeze and eye itch-producing plant is Kentucky's state flower?

Answer: Goldenrod

29. In 2002, Louisvillians Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt founded a festival—complete with screening, live music, and a bowling party—that celebrates what 1988 movie? Since it first began, the festival has spread to a number of other U.S. cities.

Answer: The Big Lebowski

30. Kentucky produces over 95% of the world's supply of what type of alcoholic spirit that shares the same name as a major French dynasty?

Answer: Bourbon

31. The eastern boundary of Kentucky is formed in part by what mountain range, the highest point of which is Mount Mitchell?

Answer: Appalachian

32. Located in eastern Kentucky in a town of the same name, what liberal arts college founded in 1855 is notable in that it awards full-tuition scholarships to all of its students?

Answer: Berea

33. What is the name of the 23,000-seat arena in central Lexington that is the home of the University of Kentucky Wildcats?

Answer: Rupp Arena

34. What former Kentucky Wildcat, who played much of his NBA career for the Detroit Pistons, was nicknamed "Tay" and "The Compton Kid"?

Answer: Tayshaun Prince

35. Troubled Kentucky native Beth Harmon is an orphan who grows into a world-class chess player on what popular Netflix miniseries?

Answer: The Queen's Gambit

36. What tiny Kentucky town hosts a yearly "little" version of the massive motorcycle rally that happens every year in the South Dakota town that shares its name?

Answer: Sturgis

37. Only the Grand Ole Opry has been running longer than the "Gatherin'," a country music radio show which has been broadcast continually since 1943, and which is based in what Kentucky valley?

Answer: Renfro Valley

38. Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Breaks Interstate Park, and Carter Caves State Resort Park are all places you can visit to hike which mountain range that stretches through eastern KY?

Answer: Appalachian

39. Which bovine beverage has been Kentucky’s official state drink since 2005?

Answer: Milk

40. Bottled in Frankfort, Kentucky, which famous whiskey brand was the target of a burglary in 2013, with thieves stealing hundreds of bottles worth over $100,000?

Answer: Pappy Van Winkle

41. The world’s largest cave system, the Mammoth Cave, is located in which U.S. state, whose second largest city is Lexington?

Answer: Kentucky

42. A 120-foot-tall, 68,000-pound baseball bat stands outside the museum of what famous Kentucky sporting equipment brand?

Answer: Louisville Slugger

43. The Kentucky Derby's traditional mint julep recipe calls for mint, sugar, water, and what type (not brand) of whiskey famously distilled in the Bluegrass State, not France?

Answer: Bourbon

44. Speleology is the scientific study of which type of natural feature? The world's largest system of which, by total length, is located in Kentucky.

Answer: Caves

45. What Congolese basketball player and Kentucky Wildcat was the consensus national player of the year in 2022?

Answer: Oscar Tshiebwe

46. Kentucky native Jim Varney took over the patriarchal role originated by Buddy Ebsen for the 1993 movie adaptation of what oil-rich Southerners move west sitcom?

Answer: The Beverly Hillbillies

47. What is the name for the genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the US Appalachian region and derived its name from the band of Bill Monroe? Traditionally, this genre is only played on acoustic string instruments and has roots in traditional African-American blues and jazz.

Answer: Bluegrass

48. Frankfort is the fourth-least populous state capital in the U.S. What New England state has the least populous capital city?

Answer: Vermont

49. With a population estimated at 4.5 million persons in 2019, Kentucky is the 26th most-populous state. What states are the 25th and 27th most populous?

Answer: Louisiana (25th) and Oregon (27th)

50. Hugging a bend in the Ohio River, what Kentucky city is home to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame?

Answer: Owensboro

51. Now owned by ConAgra foods, what brand of cake mixes, pie fillings, and other sweet treats, is named after a man who was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1880?

Answer: Duncan Hines

52. Named for the Kentucky city in which it takes place, what 2005 romantic tragicomedy stars Kirsten Dunst as a flight attendant who falls in love with a man flying home after his father's death?

Answer: Elizabethtown

53. When it became a state in 1792, Kentucky was the first state in the union located west of which mountain range?

Answer: Appalachian

54. A native of Fairdale, Kentucky, what prolific novelist's bestselling titles include "A Knight in Shining Armor" and "Remembrance?"

Answer: Jude Deveraux

55. The official Twitter account of Louisville-based KFC only follows eleven accounts: the five Spice Girls and eleven guys with what name?

Answer: Herb

56. Perhaps also known as Mr. Amal Alamuddin these days, what star of "Good Night and Good Luck," "Michael Clayton," and "Hail, Caesar!" was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1961?

Answer: George Clooney

57. What Civil War-era camp near Nicholasville, Kentucky became a recruiting ground for new Union soldiers from East Tennessee, including many formerly enslaved Black Americans?

Answer: Camp Nelson

58. Over the two days of Kentucky Derby weekend, Churchill Downs Racetrack sells approximately 120,000 of what bourbon-based cocktail?

Answer: Mint julep

59. Located on Central Avenue in South Louisville, what racetrack has hosted every Kentucky Derby since 1875?

Answer: Churchill Downs

60. The Newport Southbank Bridge, connecting Cincinnati to Newport, Kentucky over the Ohio River, is also known as the WHAT WHAT Bridge? Fill in the blanks with the partial name of a one-eyed, one-horned, flying creature.

Answer: Purple People Bridge

61. What Kentucky landmark's name refers to its gargantuan size and NOT an extinct mammal? In fact, no remains of this mammal have ever been found anywhere near this landmark.

Answer: Mammoth Cave

62. A small metal sign in Paint Lick, Kentucky marks the location of the titular log structure, long since demolished, of what Harriet Beecher Stowe novel?

Answer: Uncle Tom's Cabin

63. Just north of Louisville, which suburb with a French-sounding name is known for being one of the last places in the U.S. where a mainline rail track runs right through the middle of town?

Answer: La Grange

64. Texas Western University defeated the University of Kentucky in 1966 to become the first school with an all-Black starting five to win the NCAA basketball championship. Today, Texas Western is known as the University of Texas in what city?

Answer: El Paso

65. In what year did Kentucky become a state? It appears in the name of an award-winning KY brand of bourbon.

Answer: 1792

66. Aided by future NBA superstar Anthony Davis, the Kentucky Wildcats defeated what university’s team nicknamed the “Jayhawks” 67-59 in the finals to win the 2012 NCAA Men’s March Madness tournament championship?

Answer: University of Kansas

67. Kentucky-based Falls City Brewing Company capitalized on the 1977 political climate by releasing “Billy Beer.” The beer was named after and heavily promoted by the brother of what sitting U.S. president?

Answer: Jimmy Carter

68. Which Kentucky city in Barren County is—not surprisingly—home to the annual Scottish Highland Games?

Answer: Glasgow

69. Which city in Kentucky is home to the Floodwall Murals, The Carson Center, and the National Quilt Museum?

Answer: Paducah

70. Produced at the Jim Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky, what bourbon brand is named after a stream located near Abraham Lincoln's childhood home?

Answer: Knob Creek

71. The international airport that serves the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, is located to the southwest of the city, across the Ohio River. In what state is that airport located?

Answer: Kentucky

72. The official anthem (song) of the state of Kentucky was first published in the 1850s and was celebrated by Frederick Douglass as a stirring song for the abolitionist movement. What is this song?

Answer: My Old Kentucky Home

73. Although "the Purchase Region" typically refers to the southwestern part of Kentucky, the titular purchase itself also contained a large part of what other state?

Answer: Tennessee

74. What Kentucky state park bills itself as “the birthplace of American paleontology” and is also a popular tourist location? The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there.

Answer: Big Bone Lick State Park

75. Frankfort is the capital of Kentucky. Which other capital of a U.S. state is closest in distance to Frankfort? 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: Indianapolis

76. When Kentucky was admitted to the U.S. as the 15th state in June 1792, it was technically breaking off from what other state?

Answer: Virginia

77. The Hatfields or the McCoys: Which family predominantly lived in Kentucky?

Answer: The McCoys

78. What Stephen Foster tune, whose lyrics have been altered because the originals contained racist language, is the official state song of Kentucky?

Answer: My Old Kentucky Home

79. What third-largest city in Kentucky has been home to the manufacture of every Chevrolet Corvette since 1981?

Answer: Bowling Green

80. Eating Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas Day has been a tradition since the 1970s in what nation on the other side of the world from Kentucky?

Answer: Japan

81. After being forced to change the sign on their water tower, the developers of Florence Mall in Florence, Kentucky famously decided to change their sign to say what catchphrase that has since been adopted as the town's minor league baseball team name?

Answer: Florence Y'all

82. Loretto, Kentucky is the headquarters of what bourbon brand famous for dipping the necks of its bottles in bright red sealing wax?

Answer: Maker's Mark

83. Kentucky native Jennifer Lawrence famously played archer Katniss Everdeen in four different films in what franchise?

Answer: The Hunger Games

84. What is the feline name of the sports teams of the University of Kentucky?

Answer: Wildcats

85. Which brand of whiskey, named after the heaviest member of the bird order Galliformes, is manufactured in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky?

Answer: Wild Turkey

86. Short for Covington, Kentucky, CVG is the airport code for what city that isn't actually in Kentucky, but rather across the river in Ohio?

Answer: Cincinnati

87. What Kentucky city hosts an airport that is home to Worldport, the worldwide air hub for UPS?

Answer: Louisville

88. Although one might guess that it's bourbon, the official state drink of Kentucky is what animal-sourced nonalcoholic beverage?

Answer: Milk

89. Despite its name, the house known as Kentuck Knob is located in Pennsylvania, and is one of many designed by what architect famous for the Prairie Style?

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright

90. "Seven lonely days and a dozen towns ago" begins the 1970 top-20 hit "Kentucky Rain" by what kingly singer?

Answer: Elvis Presley

91. What Kentucky aquarium, located in its city across the Levee from Cincinnati, shares its name with cities in California and Rhode Island, as well as a brand of cigarettes?

Answer: Newport Aquarium

92. Bowling Green, Kentucky is home to a museum for what classic Chevrolet sports car, which began production in 1953? They come in models such as the Stingray.

Answer: National Corvette Museum

93. What popular fast food chicken franchise, owned by Yum!, was co-founded in 1952 by a well-known Colonel who obtained that honorific title from the US state referenced in the restaurant’s name?

Answer: Kentucky Fried Chicken

94. Paducah, Kentucky sits at the confluence of the Ohio River and what other river named for a state that borders Kentucky?

Answer: Tennessee River

95. Sometimes called Little Niagara or the The Niagara of The South, what “C” Falls is located on its namesake river in southeast Kentucky? It shares a name with a Gap in the Appalachian mountains.

Answer: Cumberland Falls

96. What horse, who is named for a holy city of Islam, won the 2021 Kentucky Derby only to fail a test for the steroid betamethasone a few days later?

Answer: Medina Spirit

97. A corsage featuring a tetrad of red flowers is said to be the origin of the name of what bourbon brand that's distilled in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky?

Answer: Four Roses

98. What oldest art museum in the state of Kentucky, located in the University of Louisville, shares its name with a 1994 Keanu Reeves film about a bus that could not slow down?

Answer: Speed Art Museum

99. Former University of Louisville star and Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson currently plays quarterback for what AFC North team?

Answer: Baltimore Ravens

100. A National Forest located in London, KY is named after what 18th century American frontiersman, who explored and settled in Kentucky before it joined the thirteen colonies? His name is often associated with Davy Crockett, as one of the two biggest pioneers of the American frontier.

Answer: Daniel Boone National Forest

101. During the Cold War, what nickname did Paducah, Kentucky acquire when the federal government selected the city as the site of a uranium enrichment plant for nuclear energy?

Answer: Atomic City

102. Named after the Louisville hotel where it originated, what open-faced sandwich features turkey breast, ham, or bacon, and Mornay sauce that is heated until the sauce begins to change color?

Answer: Kentucky Hot Brown

103. Once a dormitory for students at the Kentucky School for the Deaf, the Jacobs Hall Museum is located in what town that calls itself "The City of Firsts?"

Answer: Danville

104. Sissy Spacek played Loretta Lynn on her path from growing up in rural Kentucky to becoming a country-music superstar in what 1980 film?

Answer: Coal Miner's Daughter

105. Starting with the Kentucky Derby, what horse whose name is a seven-letter verb became the most recent winner of racing's Triple Crown in 2018?

Answer: Justify

106. Which Oscar-winning actress known for "The Hunger Games" and "The Silver Linings Playbook" was born and raised in Louisville?

Answer: Jennifer Lawrence

107. Which country star with an “achy, breaky heart” and a daughter named Miley was born in Flatwoods in 1961?

Answer: Billy Ray Cyrus

108. Which bright-red bird is the mascot for the University of Louisville's’ NCAA sports teams?

Answer: Cardinal

109. Which American bakery brand headquartered in Kentucky is known for its “snack cakes” like Twinkies, Ding Dongs, and Sno Bowls?

Answer: Hostess

110. The 1935 film “The Little Colonel” is set in Kentucky and famously features a glorious tap dance sequence by Bill Robinson and which curly-haired child star?

Answer: Shirley Temple

111. At Lexington's Kentucky Horse Park you can visit the grave of what racehorse (1917-1947), often considered the greatest of all time, and who shares a name with a deadly species similar to jellyfish?

Answer: Man o' War

112. What meat-and-vegetable stew native to Kentucky is likely to be made today with pork, chicken, and/or beef, rather than traditionally available meats like venison, opossum, or raccoon?

Answer: Burgoo

113. What "spooky" university, whose name comes from an early colony in Kentucky, and which means "over the woods" in Latin, is often overshadowed by its bigger Lexington neighbor?

Answer: Transylvania University

114. Which small, eastern Lincoln County town has a name that sounds like a place where crustaceans would grow on trees, is known for its many mineral springs, and was the birthplace of Thomas “Pegleg” Smith?

Answer: Crab Orchard

115. Louisville's 1883 Southern Exposition hosted the first large-scale exhibition of what invention, created by former Louisville resident Thomas Edison?

Answer: Light Bulb

116. What small Barren County, Kentucky town hosts a yearly "Highland Games" that mirror those of its Scottish namesake?

Answer: Glasgow

117. The Breaks Interstate Park, which is considered the “Grand Canyon of the South,” is managed by an interstate compact between Kentucky and what neighboring state?

Answer: Virginia

118. The Fugate family of the Kentucky hills was famous in the 19th century for possessing a rare genetic trait that led to cyanosis, meaning their skin appeared what primary color?

Answer: Blue

119. In which Kentucky county will you find Nicholasville, a city that’s home to The Providence School, First Vineyard Winery, and the Keene Trace Golf Club?

Answer: Jessamine

120. Winchester, Kentucky is the birthplace of what spread that combines dairy with booze, and is traditionally served with saltines?

Answer: Beer Cheese

121. Which Democrat has been Kentucky’s governor since 2019? He’s also the son of the state’s 61st governor).

Answer: Andy Beshear

122. Williamstown, Kentucky is home to a reproduction of what legendary structure, built to the Biblical standard of 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits?

Answer: Noah's Ark

123. KFC was started by a man named Colonel Sanders in Kentucky and was first franchised in 1952. What was Colonel Sanders’ first name?

Answer: Harland

124. A museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky memorializes what Chevrolet model, which has been produced in that town since 1981?

Answer: Corvette

125. What river, which branches off of the Ohio at the southwest corner of Hamilton County, begins where Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana meet?

Answer: Great Miami River

126. Of the Triple Crown races (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes), which is the oldest? Although the oldest, this race was not run in 1911 and 1912, so it has not been continuously run since its inception.

Answer: Belmont

127. What Kentucky-born mandolinist is credited with creating the genre of country music known as Bluegrass? The name of the music genre came from his band, the Blue Grass boys.

Answer: Bill Monroe

128. What popular Louisville pedestrian bridge gets its name from the former nickname of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway, which once passed over it?

Answer: Big Four Bridge

129. Which Kentucky city, nestled between Pine Mountain and the Cumberland Mountains, is the only US city built inside a meteor crater?

Answer: Middlesboro

130. Sissy Spacek won a Best Actress Oscar in 1981 for playing what legendary musician, born into poverty in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky in the year 1932 before growing up to be one of her genre's greatest stars?

Answer: Loretta Lynn

131. What is Kentucky’s state flower—a gilded choice that might make you wind up for a sneeze, since it’s often confused with allergy enemy ragweed?

Answer: Goldenrod

132. What sweet and custard-like fruit native to Appalachia has also been called a custard-apple, a Kentucky banana, a Quaker delight, and a hillbilly mango?

Answer: Paw paw

133. A Frankfort, Kentucky distillery founded by Julian Something sells an aged 10-year bourbon named for what sleepy Washington Irving character?

Answer: Rip Van Winkle

134. Governor Andy Beshear, asan incumbent Democratic governor, ran for reelection in which U.S. state where Trump defeated Biden by a 25.9% margin in the 2020 Presidential election?

Answer: Kentucky

135. Which Virginia-born racehorse not only won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes in 1973, but set record times in all three which still stand today?

Answer: Secretariat

136. Often selling for many times its purchase price, the Kentucky bourbon brand Old Rip Van Winkle is often known by what "fatherly" nickname?

Answer: Pappy Van Winkle

137. Abraham Lincoln was famously born in Kentucky and lived much of his adult life in Illinois. However, he spent most of his childhood and early teenage years in what third state?

Answer: Indiana

138. Before his current senate run in Ohio, J.D. Vance was best-known for what 2016 Kentucky-set memoir adapted into an awful Netflix movie with Amy Adams and Glenn Close?

Answer: Hillbilly Elegy

139. What was the most recent election year in which the state of Kentucky's electoral college votes were awarded to the Democratic candidate?

Answer: 1996

140. There are approximately 9.1 million barrels of bourbon aging in Kentucky. This works out to how many barrels per each person living in the state? We're rounding to the nearest "whole person."

Answer: 2

141. Cumberland Falls is often considered the only place in the Western Hemisphere in which a certain phenomenon can be seen which involves a refraction of light via water droplets but the sun is not directly involved. What is this phenomenon?

Answer: Moonbow

142. What is the name of the 550-acre state park in the Freys Hill area of Louisville that opened in 1974 with a name honoring the Jefferson County judge who died in a car accident in 1969 while still in office?

Answer: E. P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park

143. The fifth-most populous city in Kentucky prospered in the 19th century as an emporium for tobacco and cigar production, but declined in importance in the middle of the 20th century after the Great Depression. What is this city on the south bank of the Ohio River?

Answer: Covington

144. Better known as "My Old Kentucky Home," what farmhouse once owned by Senator John Rowan in the 18th century appears on the state quarter coin of Kentucky?

Answer: Federal Hill

145. Kentucky's official state instrument is the Appalachian variety of what stringed zither relative, which has also been nicknamed the "harmonium", "music box", and "hog fiddle"?

Answer: Dulcimer

146. What religious term refers to the percentage of liquid a distilled spirit loses during the aging process? Kentucky bourbons, because they are often aged for long periods, lose high percentages of spirit this way.

Answer: Angels' Share

147. A replica of the cabin where future president Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 be found in what Kentucky town?

Answer: Hodgenville

148. An 1879 gatehouse in the Gothic style leads visitors to what historic 110-million gallon Louisville reservoir?

Answer: Crescent Hill Reservoir

149. Willa Beatrice Brown, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, in 1906, was the first African American woman to earn what kind of license in the U.S.?

Answer: Pilot's License

150. What is the airport code for the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport? This fourth-largest cargo airport in the United States also has 3.6 million passengers per year?

Answer: CVG

151. What's the name of former senator and representative Henry Clay's estate, now a national historic landmark in Lexington, Kentucky?

Answer: Ashland

152. "Swag" and "The Yoga Instructor" are nicknames for what alliteratively named point guard and Louisville native who currently plays with the Cleveland Cavaliers?

Answer: Rajon Rondo

153. The official state flower of Kentucky has thescientific name Soldiago gigantea, is the name of a town in the Pokemon franchise, and is a yellow flowering plant. What is it?

Answer: Goldenrod

154. The two most populous cities in Kentucky both start with the letter L. The third most populous does not. What is this third most-populous city in the state?

Answer: Bowling Green

155. What Kentucky city was named after a New York City site where colonists dismantled and melted down a statue of King George III to make bullets for the Revolutionary War?

Answer: Bowling Green

156. Premiering in January 2021, what Fox series stars Mayim Bialik as the titular owner of a cat cafe in Louisville?

Answer: Call Me Kat

157. What cave system in Bowling Green, KY has its namesake river flow into it? Despite the river’s name, people know where it is, mainly on Nashville Road.

Answer: Lost River Cave

158. Loretta Lynn and Emmylou Harris have both scored hits on the country charts with what "colorful" song about a girl left behind in Kentucky by her lover?

Answer: Blue Kentucky Girl

159. What Louisville native got his start in the world of writing and journalism with a 1970 magazine article titled "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved?"

Answer: Hunter S. Thompson

160. Which US president was born in Virginia but was raised on the Kentucky frontier before joining the army in 1806?

Answer: Zachary Taylor

161. Ridden by jockey Sunny Leon, what wealthy-sounding horse won the Kentucky Derby in 2022?

Answer: Rich Strike

162. Prior to American Pharoah pulling off the feat in 2015, what was the most recent horse to win the vaunted Triple Crown of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes?

Answer: Affirmed

163. What southeastern Kentucky town near the Cumberland Gap was known as "Little Las Vegas" for its brothels, saloons, and slot machines in the 1930s?

Answer: Middlesboro

164. The state of Kentucky is generally divided into five geographic regions. Which one is the easternmost, and is also part of neighboring Tennesee (where it goes by the same name)? In the other states it crosses, it’s called the Appalachian Plateau.

Answer: Cumberland Plateau

165. The annual culinary festival Goettafest is sponsored by what regional meat maker with the slogan that was established in 1946 and produces more than one million pounds of goetta annually?

Answer: Glier's

166. Delaware, Kentucky, and Minnesota are three examples of U.S. states named after rivers, but they are not the only ones. How many total U.S. states take their name from an eponymous river?

Answer: 15

167. The Little Green Men Festival attracts UFO enthusiasts to what Kentucky town that ironically shares its name with a shade of green?

Answer: Kelly

168. Named for the street he grew up on in Whittier, California, what American rock singer included the song "Kentucky Avenue" on his 1978 album "Blue Valentine?"

Answer: Tom Waits

169. Similar in appearance to a monarch and with a name that can also mean the representative of a monarch in a territory, what is the official state butterfly of Kentucky?

Answer: Viceroy

170. Located in Boone County, what’s the name of the community where every mayor has been a (literal) dog?

Answer: Rabbit Hash

171. A statue of what composer of "My Old Kentucky Home" stands in Cincinnati's Alms Park, looking over the river into Kentucky?

Answer: Stephen Foster

172. Rising more than 4,000 feet above Harlan County, which peak is the highest mountain in Kentucky?

Answer: Black Mountain

173. What Henry County novelist and poet set many of his novels, like Jayber Crow, That Distant Land, and A Place on Earth, in the fictional town of Port William, Kentucky?

Answer: Wendell Berry

174. Although it was replaced by the tulip poplar, until 1994 the state tree of Kentucky was Gymnocladus dioicus, whose seeds could be roasted and used—according to its common name—as a substitute for what invigorating stuff?

Answer: Coffee

175. What double-named bookstore at Cincinnati's Rookwood Pavilion also has a location in Lexington, Kentucky?

Answer: Joseph-Beth Booksellers

176. Based on its former name, Standiford Field, SDF is the code for Muhammad Ali International Airport in what U.S. city?

Answer: Louisville

177. Located in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky (five miles south of Cincinnati), the Vent Haven Museum opened in 1973 and features nearly 1,000 figures from twenty countries specialized for what type of stagecraft?

Answer: Ventriloquism

178. Kentucky isn't the only Kentucky in the world: "Kentucky in Africa" was the name of a colony settled by former enslaved Americans in what is now what present-day African country?

Answer: Liberia

179. Author, activist, and professor bell hooks started writing “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism” when she was just 19. She was born and raised in which Kentucky city in Christian County that’s also home to the Alhambra Theater?

Answer: Hopkinsville

180. Kentucky changed its voting age requirement to 18 in 1955, over twenty years before what numbered constitutional amendment was ratified to do that nationally?

Answer: 26

181. What band, which formed in Bowling Green in the 2000s, got its name when a fan approached singer Matthew Shultz at a show to say that they needed to imprison a pachyderm?

Answer: Cage the Elephant

182. In the UK in 2018, which well-known fast food chain had a massive supply chain failure where all of its supply was in one warehouse, where a massive car accident occurred close by and cut off over half the stores, forcing them to close for a few days?

Answer: KFC

183. KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout), Devil Dancer, and Centennial IPA are a few of the offerings of which Michigan-based craft beer brand started by Mike Stevens and Dave Engbers in 1997?

Answer: Founders Brewing Company

184. Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus, who became rich and powerful by distributing bourbon from Kentucky through the eastern U.S., is often considered one inspiration for what iconic literary character, who first appeared in print in 1925?

Answer: Jay Gatsby

185. Tiny Benton, Kentucky hosts the oldest trade day in the United States, a festival dedicated to what locally grown tuber?

Answer: Sweet Potato

186. Which small town in Lyon County, Kentucky is known as the “village between the lakes?”

Answer: Eddyville

187. In 2013, there was an animal shot in Hart County that was the first verified sighting of the species in Kentucky in modern times. What was the animal?

Answer: Gray wolf

188. What 1862 Civil War battle marked the "high water mark" for the Confederacy in the Western Theater after the Union Army of the Ohio (under Buell) won a tactical victory over the Confederate Army of Mississippi (under Bragg) in the largest battle in Kentucky history?

Answer: Perryville

189. Which for-profit health insurance company based in Louisville, Kentucky was founded in 1961 as Extendicare Inc., and almost got bought out by Aetna (a major competitor) in 2015?

Answer: Humana

190. January 13th is a Federal Observance Day to commemorate the life of what 19th century songwriter of minstrel showtunes like “Oh! Susanna”, “My Old Kentucky Home”, and “Camptown Races?”

Answer: Stephen Foster

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