"The States"-New Hampshire Quiz | Television

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1. Mentioned in this segment, this state was "the first colony to take military action against" what country in 1774?

Answer: England

Named after the town of Hampshire, England, Captain John Smith was the one who gave New Hampshire its name. In 2008, 13 of the 24 seats in the New Hampshire Senate were held by women and only 11 were held by men.

2. After poor showings in this state, two "incumbent Presidents" are said to have stopped their re-election campaigns since the year 1952. One was Lyndon B. Johnson, who was the other?

Answer: Harry S. Truman

Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27, 1908. Johnson was the thirty-sixth president of the U.S.A., but the thirty-seventh U.S. Vice President. On January 22, 1973, Johnson died at his Texas Ranch, after suffering from his third heart attack. Born on May 8, 1884, Harry S. Truman became the thirty-third U.S. President.

Interestingly enough, Truman never had a middle name, only the middle initial "S". Truman passed away on December 26, 1972. By 2008, New Hampshire only had ten counties. That was 48 less than California and 52 less than New York. Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont all boarder New Hampshire.

3. You can dig in the dirt almost anywhere in New Hampshire and hit what element that is also mentioned in the state nickname?

Answer: granite

Granite can also be found in Vermont and in Africa's Angola, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Known to America as "New Hampshirites", wrestler Triple H, actor and "The States" interviewee Sam Huntington, game show host and actor Mike O'Malley, comedic actor Adam Sandler, rocker Steven Tyler and singing sensation Mandy Moore all hail from New Hampshire.

4. Said in this segment to be "the first words most people will upon entering New Hampshire", which of the following two letter words is mentioned in the state motto?

Answer: or

The state motto was established as "Live Free or Die". Earl Tupper invented Tupperware in 1938 and was born in Berlin, New Hampshire. Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Derry and Rochester were discovered as the five largest New Hampshire cities.

5. Known to have killed over a hundred people on the state's highest peak, what wind chill temperature was clocked in as the worst, according to this segment?

Answer: -120 degrees Fahrenheit

Mt. Washington has become New Hampshire's highest point at an impressive 6,288 feet. Engineers were summoned to create the first ever home video game by New Hampshire native Ralph Baer in 1966.

6. The first "native son" to die in the Civil War was Luther Ladd. How old was Luther when he was killed?

Answer: seventeen

Ladd was born in Alexandria, New Hampshire. New Hampshire's own Dublin's Juvenile Library opened in 1822 and was said to be the first ever free public library. The purple lilac was adopted as the state flower in the year 1919.

7. Believed by many New Hampshire residents, what general is responsible for giving the state its motto?

Answer: John Stark

John Stark served in the American Revolutionary War. Stark was born on August 28, 1728 and died on May 8, 1822. Prior to 1992, there were only three Presidents (Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson) that were of the Democratic Party that won the New Hampshire Presidential vote. Every other President that won in New Hampshire up until 1992 had been Republican.

8. New Hampshire resident Alan Shepard was the first American to do what?

Answer: go to space

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. has spent an impressive 216 hours and 57 minutes in space. In 1963, the first ever legal lottery in the U.S. took place and was operated in New Hampshire. Born in Concord, New Hampshire, the first alarm clock was invented in 1787 by Levi Hutchins.

9. A New Hampshire landmark is called "The Old Man of the" what?

Answer: Mountain

It was mentioned that part of "The Old Man of the Mountain" had fallen down. In New Hampshire, The first women's strike in the U.S. took place in 1828. Concord was NOT the first state capital city of New Hampshire, that honor went to Exeter.

10. Used as an outpost in New Castle, New Hampshire, what was the name of the fort that helped start the "American Revolution"?

Answer: Fort William and Mary

The fort was fortified in 1632 and later raided on December 14, 1774. In 1775, the fort was dismantled by the British. Up until that time, New Hampshire native 49 year old Franklin Pierce was the youngest person to ever be elected to the office of President. A native of Newport, Sarah Josepha Hale wrote the classic nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb" in 1830.

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"The States"-New Hampshire Trivia Quiz

New Hampshire was admitted into the union on June 21, 1788. This is my fourth of fifty quizzes about the mini series, "The States". This very informational and educational series originally aired on the History Channel in April of 2007.

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