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bullet New Hampshire Trivia Quiz
   
 
Hi kids! How well do you know your state? Answer these ten questions correctly and you are entered to win a visit with New Hampshire Governor John Lynch! You must be 16 years of age or younger to enter. Good luck!

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1) New Hampshire's symbol, the Old Man of the Mountain, was the subject of a short story by the famous author ___________________

 

a) Edgar Allen Poe
b) John Steinbeck
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Ernest Hemingway

   
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2) New Hampshire's ____________________ is the most climbed mountain in the Americas.

 

a) Mount Lafayette
b) Mount Monadnock
c) Cannon Mountain
d) Mount Washington

   
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3) Although Daniel Webster was born in New Hampshire, graduated from Dartmouth, and represented Portsmouth in Congress, he achieved his greatest fame as a U.S. Senator from __________________.

 

a) Massachusetts
b) Maine
c) Vermont
d) New York

   
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4) New Hampshire's famous notches were the product of ____________.

 

a) Earthquakes
b) Erosion
c) Glaciers
d)Hurricanes

   
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5) New Hampshire's eighteen-mile coastline shares a set of islands with Maine called the ______________.

 

a) Plum Islands
b) Casco Islands
c) Rattlesnake Islands
d) Isle of Shoals

   
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6) The New Hampshire state seal and flag recall the importance of the _______________ industry to the state's history.

 

a) Logging
b) Ship-building
c)Fishing
d)Textiles

   
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7) Mount Washington is noted for having ______________.

 

a) North America's highest peak
b) America's coldest recorded temperatures
c) New Hampshire's rarest bird
d) The world's highest recorded winds

   
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8) The Amoskeag Mill, once the largest textile operation in the world, was established along the Merrimack River in ____________________.

 

a) Manchester
b) Nashua
c) Concord
d) Merrimack

   
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9) The state motto, “Live Free or Die,” was uttered by _____________ more than 30 years after the event that made him a New Hampshire hero.

 

a) Meldrim Thomson
b) Franklin Pierce
c) John Stark
d) Josiah Bartlett

   
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10) ___________________, one of America's best-loved poets, lived in a number of New Hampshire communities.

 

a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
b) Robert Frost
c) John Greenleaf Whittier
d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 
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