Nevada Trivia Quiz

What is Reno's nickname?

The Divorce Capital of the World

The Gateway to Burning Man

The Biggest Little City in the World

The Home of the Wolf Pack

Nevada comes from the Spanish word "nieve" which means what?

Dry

Rocky

Sky

Snow

Name the Nevada State Fossil.

Smilodon

Stegosaurus

Metasequoia

Ichthyosaurus

What historic figure are Carson City, the Carson River, and the Carson Valley named after?

Kit Carson

Carson McCullers

Samuel Price Carson

Carson Bigbee

Which of these Native American tribes DOES NOT have a reservation located in Nevada?

Washoe

Paiute

Modoc

Shoshone

Fill in the blank:

Glowing hills

Sierras

Truckee's

Aspens

Which Nevada highway was named "the loneliest highway in America" by Life magazine in 1986?

395

What was the name of the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory (also Mark Twain's brother)?

Alastair Clemens

Josiah Twain

Orion Clemens

Shiloh Clemens

How many experimental atomic bombs were detonated in the Nevada Proving Grounds (later known as Nevada Test Site) between 1950 and 1955?

How old was the Bristlecone Pine, named "Prometheus," discovered on Wheeler Peak in 1964?

1200 years old

3500 years old

4900 years old

5200 years old

True or false: Reno is west of Los Angeles.

True

False

Name the elephant that performed at John Asquaga's Nugget for 37 years.

Angel

Stella

Tina

Bertha

What famous boxer was once a bartender at the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah?

Gene Tunney

Jack Dempsey

Joe Lewis

Rocky Marciano

What Nevada landmark is considered the largest single public works project in the history of the United States?

Project Neon

Tahoe Rim Trail

Galena Creek Bridge

Hoover Dam

What is Nevada's official state animal?

Desert Bighorn Sheep

Mountain Bluebird

Lahontan Cutthroat Trout

Vivid Dancer Damsel Fly

True or false: Nevada is the most mountainous state.

True

False

What is Nevada's highest point?

Boundary Peak

Wheeler Peak

Mount Rose

Mount Moriah

In what year did Nevada become a state?

1868

1884

1864

1887

In what Nevada town in the Naval Air Force Base that trains Top Gun Pilots located?

Mesquite

Fallon

Pahrump

Tonopah

What Nevada lake is the only home to the Cui-ui?

Lake Tahoe

Pyramid Lake

Walker Lake

Topaz Lake

Put these Nevada Governors in chronological order earliest to latest

Laxalt, List, Russell, O'Callahan, Sawyer

Russell, Sawyer, Laxalt, O'Callahan, List

Sawyer, Russell, O'Callahan, Laxalt, List

Sawyer, Russell, Laxalt, O'Callahan, List

Who is the creator of the the sculpture "Solitude" that honors the Basque culture in Nevada?

Nestor Basterretxea

Dominique Laxalt

Dale Erquiagua

Jose Olatxea

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

Franklin Pierce

Millard Filmore

What famous Native American athlete ran a bar on the Boulder Highway?

Lewis Tewanima

Ellison Brown

Wahoo McDaniel

Jim Thorpe

Who was the first woman elected to represent Nevada in the US Congress

Francis Newlands

Barbara Vucanovich

Sharon Angle

Dina Titus

South Mountain

Comstock

Lake's Crossing

Fuller's Bridge

What is the name of this central Nevada river pictured just outside of Austin?

Owyhee

Humboldt

Stimpson

Reese

What one thriving Nevada mining town survives today as a small art community?

Bodie

Mina

Tuscarora

Valmy

What politician held the offices of Attorney General, Governor, and US Senator for Nevada?

Brian Sandoval

Paul Laxalt

Richard Bryan

Alan Bible

What Nevada town celebrates Gridley Days?

Minden

Genoa

Ely

Austin

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