Connecticut Trivia

1. What is the two-letter abbreviation for the state of Connecticut?

CT

CN

CO

CI

2. What is the state bird and state tree of Connecticut?

Robin And White Oak

Cardinal And Tulip Tree

Hermit Thrush And Sugar Maple

Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher And Redbud

3. What Connecticut town's newspaper, begun in 1764, is the oldest newspaper in the U.S.?

Bridgeport Post

Beacon Falls Gazette

Worcester Times

Hartford Courant

4. Which English settlement joined Windsor and Wethersfield in making up the Connecticut colony?

New Castle

Hartford

New Haven

Boston

5. With a land area of 4,845 square miles, where does Connecticut rank among the 50 states?

13th

48th

39th

45th

6. Which Connecticut city is the largest in the state?

Beacon Falls

Bridgeport

Hartford

New Haven

7. When did Connecticut achieve statehood in the USA?

June 15, 1836

February 6, 1788

October 31, 1864

January 9, 1788

8. Which Connecticut town published the first telephone book in 1878?

Newport

Hartford

Bridgeport

New Haven

9. What did Thomas Sanford invent in Beacon Falls in 1834?

Friction Matches

Charcoal

Gas

Lighter Fluid

10. Which Connecticut town produced Noah Webster in 1807?

Bristol

Lichfield

West Hartford

New Haven

11. Which Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution was never ratified in Connecticut?

19th

18th

16th

8th

12. Who built a trading post in 1633 near what is now Hartford, CT?

The French

The English

The Spanish

The Dutch

13. Which Connecticut town was settled in the late 1700's but not incorporated until 1972?

Torrington

West Haven

Danbury

Waterbury

Connecticut Trivia

1. What is the two-letter abbreviation for the state of Connecticut?

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2. What is the state bird and state tree of Connecticut?

3. What Connecticut town's newspaper, begun in 1764, is the oldest newspaper in the U.S.?

4. Which English settlement joined Windsor and Wethersfield in making up the Connecticut colony?

5. With a land area of 4,845 square miles, where does Connecticut rank among the 50 states?

6. Which Connecticut city is the largest in the state?

7. When did Connecticut achieve statehood in the USA?

8. Which Connecticut town published the first telephone book in 1878?

9. What did Thomas Sanford invent in Beacon Falls in 1834?

10. Which Connecticut town produced Noah Webster in 1807?

11. Which Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution was never ratified in Connecticut?

12. Who built a trading post in 1633 near what is now Hartford, CT?

13. Which Connecticut town was settled in the late 1700's but not incorporated until 1972?