Origin of USA State Names Trivia Quiz

Answer: Louis XIV, the Sun King

Louis XIV born 1638, became King at five. Famous for his 'I am the State'-attitude. Plenty of love affairs. Madame de Montespan and others. Died in 1715. Louis XVI. Married to Marie-Antoinette of Austria. Guillotined in 1793. Louis XVIII, his brother, was put on the throne after the demise of Napoleon. Died in Paris in 1824. Louis IX, died of the plague during a crusade. Declared a saint.

Answer: Oklahoma

Utah is either the land of the Ute or the upper land. Idaho has the honour of being 'the light on the mountain'. Tennessee ... well they haven't yet found out about Tennessee.

Answer: woodland

From Latin: silva = wood.

Answer: 4

Vermont means 'greenhill' or 'green mountain'. Minnesota means sky-coloured water in Dakota Sioux language. Rhode island has been analysed as meaning the island with the red soil after 'rood' (= red) in Dutch. Colorado is Spanish and is said to refer to the (red) coloured soil.

Answer: Dakota

Dakota is the Sioux word for friends. And indeed the Dakota were the friends of the Sioux. Montana = the mountainous, Florida = the florid one. Also California has some Spanish link with the idea of an earthly paradise.

Answer: Wyoming

Arizona is Papago for place of the small spring. Kansas and also Arkansas refer to the 'land of the southwind people'. The name Montana is of course about the opposite of a name alluding to flat territory.

Answer: Illinois

Hampshire still is one of the English counties or shires. Jersey has belonged to the English Crown since the 13th century. Delaware got its name from Lord Delawarr, an English governor.

Answer: named after the so-called Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I

In spite of her having favourites such as Dudley, Essex, etc., Elizabeth I attached a lot of importance to her good reputation as a 'lady above all suspicion'.

Answer: George II

George I succeeded Queen Anne. He was King from 1714 till 1727. Handel was his court musician. Succeeded to by his son George II (king from 1728 till 1760), who left most of the ruling to Robert Walpole. George III (King from 1760 till 1820) had nine sons and 6 daughters. Mishandled the American Revolution very badlY! From 1765 he suffered from porphyria, a maddening disease. Died blind, deaf and insane at Windsor Castle on Jan. 29, 1820. George IV , born in 1738, was Prince Regent during his father's illness. Builder of the Royal Pavilion. King from 1820 till 1830. Caroline of Brunswick was his wife.

He did not get on with her at all. She was not even allowed to attend his coronation.

Answer: Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I

Mary Tudor, also called Bloody Mary tried to restore Catholicism after her brother Edward's death. Mary Stuart was the ex-wife of a French King when she became Queen of Scotland. She was beheaded after being condemed as a traitor because she adhered to Catholicism. Charles I's wife Maria Henrietta was a Catholic, which Parliament saw as a potential danger. Mary, the protestant daughter of James II, decided not to take up the responsibilities of the throne all by herself, and William of Orange was invited in as a kind of joint monarch, then ruled on his following her death.

Answer: Maine

The old province of Maine in France was the area around Le Mans.

Answer: King Charles I of England

Caroline of Brunswick was George IV's wife.They got on so badly that George IV did not even invite her for his coronation. King Charles I got involved in a conflict with Parliament and was executed. King Charles II, his son, was allowed to return from France and brought the Restoration to a good end. Caroline Herschel earned herself some fame as an astronomer. Charles X of Sweden was born in 1622, became King in 1654, and died in 1660. He played no role in the history of the U.S.A.
As to the link between the two U.S.A.Carolinas and Charles I, it is a historical fact that Charles I granted a vast area he called Carolana to Sir Robert Heath, his attorney general. When at the Restoration, his son Charles II came to power, he adapted the name Carolana to Carolina.
There is however a French King who should be mentioned too in this context, because earlier French colonists had called one of their ( short-lived) settlements "Charlesfort" in honour of their King Charles IX. This happened in 1562 - long before the English landed at Charles Town! Some historic sources claim that already those French settlers called the whole area ...Carolina.
The origin of the two present-day Carolinas is without any shade of doubt with the first of the two English King Charleses. The slight change of the original name Carolana into Carolina dates back to the Restoration.
The name Carolina had been given long before George IV married his Queen Caroline of Brunswick. And not only did he get on too badly with his wife, ever to allow a colony to be named after her, but his father George III had lost the American colonies already long before.

Answer: False

It is Choctaw for: I open the thicket and clear the land.

Answer: country of the Aztec wargod Mextli

From the buttonlike tops of the Mexican cactus mescaline can be made, a hallucinogenic drug.

Answer: Mississippi

Nebraska is an Omaha word for the river in the flatness. Oregon is Algonquian for 'beautiful water' or for 'beaver place'. Ohio is Iroquois for beautiful water. Iowa is Dakota language for the 'sleepy one'. Texas is from the Caddo Indian language and means 'allies'. Alaska is Inuit and means 'great land'. Hawaii means 'homeland'.
Mississippi is from Ojibwa (or Chippewa) "mici zibi". "Great River".
"Old Man River", "Big Muddy" and "Father of the Waters" are nicknames given to the Mississippi.