It’s time for road trip season!! Woo Woo! You guys know I am absolutely obsessed with all things roadtripping the USA. I love the slower pace of life, the ability to find quirky gems, AND most of all…the chance to bring my dog along!
HOWEVER, I know that sometimes those long hours in the car can get a biiiiit boring. ENTER… the ULTIMATE list of trivia questions for a road trip (all about the great USA). It’s the perfect time to pass a bit of time, have a friendly competition, AND learn more about the United States.
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How to use these Road Trip Trivia Questions
I’m a big fan of a friendly competition 😉 Here are 3 different ways you could turn these road trip trivia questions into a game! And it’s a-okay if you are playing with the driver as you cannot see the answers until you press the arrow…no cheating!
- Game Variation 1: Use a random number generator (1-201) to choose your question. Switch every other turn and keep track of points.
- Game Variation 2: Simply go in order from easy to hard!
- Game Variation 3: Playing alone? No worries! See how many points you can get! 1 point for easy, 2 for intermediate, 3 for hard and quirky!
Easy Road Trip Trivia Questions
1. Which U.S. state has the most national parks?
Answer: California, with nine national parks.
2. What famous landmark did France gift to the United States in 1886?
Answer: The Statue of Liberty, located in New York Harbor.
3. In which city can you find the historic Route 66 begin?
Answer: Chicago, Illinois.
4. Which U.S. national park is known for its geothermal features like geysers and hot springs?
Answer: Yellowstone National Park.
5. Where in the United States can you drive across the Golden Gate Bridge?
Answer: San Francisco, California.
6. In which state is the Grand Canyon located?
Answer: Arizona
7. What is the capital city of Wisconsin?
Answer: Madison
8. In which city is the famous Liberty Bell located?
Answer: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
9. Which famous American landmark is located in South Dakota and features the carved faces of four U.S. Presidents?
Answer: Mount Rushmore
10. What is the name of the famous street in New Orleans known for its lively music and nightlife?
Answer: Bourbon Street
11. Which city is known as the “Windy City”?
Answer: Chicago, Illinois
12. Which U.S. state is known for its famous horse race?
Answer: Kentucky
13. What is the capital of California?
Answer: Sacramento
14. Which U.S. state is known as the “Sunshine State”?
Answer: Florida
15. What is the largest state in the United States by area?
Answer: Alaska
16. In which city can you find the Empire State Building?
Answer: New York City
17. What river flows through the Grand Canyon?
Answer: The Colorado River
18. What is the capital of Texas?
Answer: Austin
19. What is the nickname of New Orleans, famous for its jazz music?
Answer: The Big Easy
20. Which state is famous for its peaches?
Answer: Georgia
21. Where in the U.S. is the Space Needle located?
Answer: Seattle, Washington
22. Which U.S. state is known for its iconic Hollywood sign?
Answer: California
23. What is the capital of New York state?
Answer: Albany
24. Which U.S. state is known for its potatoes?
Answer: Idaho
25. What is the capital city of the United States?
Answer: Washington D.C.
26. In which U.S. state is the famous Niagara Falls located?
Answer: New York (the falls border Canada and the U.S. between New York and Ontario)
27. What is the capital of Hawaii?
Answer: Honolulu
28. In which city and state can you find the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum?
Answer: Nashville, TN
29. What is the name of the famous American highway, also known as “The Mother Road,” that stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles?
Answer: Route 66
30. What is the capital of Georgia?
Answer: Atlanta
31. Which U.S. state is home to the city of Detroit, known as the birthplace of Motown music?
Answer: Michigan
32. Which state can you find Zion National Park?
Answer: Utah
33. Which U.S. state has the nickname “The Last Frontier”?
Answer: Alaska
34. What is the capital of Louisiana, known for its unique French and Spanish Creole architecture?
Answer: Baton Rouge
35. Which state is known for being the home of the Indy 500 auto race?
Answer: Indiana
36. What is the name of the famous dam on the Colorado River, near Las Vegas?
Answer: Hoover Dam
37. Which state is Saguaro National Park found?
Answer: Arizona
38. Which state is the smallest in size?
Answer: Rhode Island
39. How many Great Lakes are there?
Answer: 5
40. What is the name of the famous national park in California known for its giant redwood trees?
Answer: Sequoia National Park
41. In what state is the city of Santa Fe, known for its Pueblo-style architecture?
Answer: New Mexico
42. Where is Rocky Mountain National Park?
Answer: Colorado
43. In which National Park will you find the famous Half Dome?
Answer: Yosemite
44. What is the name of the famous beach city in Southern California known for its historic pier and amusement park?
Answer: Santa Monica
45. What is the capital of Illinois?
Answer: Springfield
46. In what state is the city of Portland, known for its artsy and eco-friendly vibe?
Answer: Oregon
47. Where is Napa Valley located?
Answer: California
48. Which state is home to the most soak-able hot springs?
Answer: Idaho
49. Which state is the largest in size?
Answer: Alaska
50. What is the capital of Washington state?
Answer: Olympia
Intermediate Trivia Questions for your Next USA Road Trip
51. What is the longest interstate highway in the United States?
Answer: Interstate 90 (I-90), stretching from Seattle, Washington, to Boston, Massachusetts.
52. What is the highest point in North America, and where is it located?
Answer: Denali, formerly known as Mount McKinley, in Alaska, standing at 20,310 feet above sea level.
53. What is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the United States, and where is it?
Answer: St. Augustine, Florida, founded in 1565.
54. Which U.S. state is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”?
Answer: Minnesota
55. What is the name of the famous prison island located in San Francisco Bay?
Answer: Alcatraz Island
56. In which state is the famous Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg located?
Answer: Pennsylvania
57. What is the name of the popular scenic coastal highway that stretches from Dana Point to Leggett in California?
Answer: Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 1)
58. In what state can you visit the historic French Quarter, known for its vibrant nightlife and annual Mardi Gras celebration?
Answer: Louisiana (in New Orleans)
59. What is the name of the massive sculpture project in South Dakota that is still under construction and depicts a famous Native American leader on horseback?
Answer: Crazy Horse Memorial
60. In which U.S. state can you find the historic colonial city of Williamsburg?
Answer: Virginia
61. In which U.S. state can you visit the historic monument Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired?
Answer: South Carolina
62. What is the name of the famous observatory in Los Angeles known for its iconic architecture and city views?
Answer: Griffith Observatory
63. In which U.S. city is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame located?
Answer: Cleveland, Ohio
64. Which state is home to the historic town of Tombstone, known for its Wild West history?
Answer: Arizona
65. In which 2 U.S. states can you drive on the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway?
Answer: Virginia and North Carolina
66. In what state is the United States Air Force Academy located?
Answer: Colorado
67. What is the name of the famous volcano in Washington State that famously erupted in 1980?
Answer: Mount St. Helens
68. What U.S. state is known as the “Land of Enchantment”?
Answer: New Mexico
69. Which U.S. state is home to Harvard University, one of the oldest universities in America?
Answer: Massachusetts
70. Which U.S. city can you visit the historic Alamo?
Answer: San Antonio (Texas)
71. What large desert is primarily located in Southern California?
Answer: The Mojave Desert
72. In which U.S. state can you visit the famous historic landmark, Plymouth Rock?
Answer: Massachusetts
73. In which 2 U.S. states can you visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
Answer: Tennessee and North Carolina
74. In which U.S. state can you find the Great Salt Lake?
Answer: Utah
75. Which U.S. state is home to the historic Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English settlement in America?
Answer: Virginia
76. In which state can you visit the famous Mammoth Cave National Park, the world’s longest known cave system?
Answer: Kentucky
77. In which U.S. state is the city of Branson, known for its live music shows and entertainment?
Answer: Missouri
78. Which U.S. national park is the largest by area in the lower 48 states?
Answer: Death Valley National Park
79. What state is known as the “Constitution State”?
Answer: Connecticut.
80. What is the name of the famous river that flows through New York City?
Answer: The Hudson River
81. What is the name of the famous beach in Florida known for its art deco and vibrant nightlife?
Answer: South Beach in Miami
82. What U.S. state is known as the “Garden State”?
Answer: New Jersey
83. What is the name of the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, located in part in the United States?
Answer: Lake Superior
84. In which U.S. state can you find the highest number of volcanoes?
Answer: Alaska
85. In which state is the tallest man-made monument in the United States located, and what is its name?
Answer: Missouri home of the Gateway Arch
86. Which U.S. city has a replica of the Parthenon, including a full-scale statue of Athena?
Answer: Nashville, TN
87. In which U.S. state is the historic Mesa Verde National Park, known for its well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings, located?
Answer: Colorado
88. What is the name of the island in New York Harbor that served as an immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954?
Answer: Ellis Island
89. In which U.S. city can you find the historic French Market, the oldest public market in the country?
Answer: New Orleans, Louisiana
90. What is the capital of Alaska, accessible only by boat or plant?
Answer: Juneau
91. Which U.S. state is home to the only royal palace in the United States, Iolani Palace?
Answer: Hawaii.
92. In what state can you find the Great Sand Dunes National Park, home to the tallest sand dunes in North America?
Answer: Colorado
93. Which Hawaiian Island can you tour The Pearl Harbor Memorial?
Answer: Oahu
94. Which U.S. city is known for the historic Pike Place Market, one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers’ markets in the country?
Answer: Seattle, Washington
95. Which National Park is home to the largest concentration of Hoodoos?
Answer: Bryce Canyon, Utah
96. Which state is home to the world’s largest gypsum dunefield?
Answer: New Mexico (White Sands National Park) Psst: Check out all the exciting things to do near White Sands in Alamogordo!
97. Which state produces 95 percent of the world’s bourbon?
Answer: Kentucky
98. How many 14er’s are in Colorado (peaks above 14,000 ft?)
Answer: 58
99. Which Hawaiian Island will you find the famous Road to Hana?
Answer: Maui
100. Where is the only state in the USA where you can see dismalites? (Glowing blue worms)
Answer: Alabama (Dismals Canyon)
101. Which Colorado city is known as the “Switzerland of America?”
Answer: Ouray
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Hard Trivia Questions for Car Rides
102. Which U.S. state is known as the ‘Birthplace of Aviation’ due to the Wright brothers’ achievements?
Answer: Ohio, where the Wright brothers conducted much of their research and development.
102. Which U.S. national park is the least visited and where is it located?
Answer: Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska
103. What is the name of the deepest lake in the United States, and in which state is it located?
Answer: Crater Lake in Oregon
104. In which U.S. state can you find the geographic center of the contiguous United States?
Answer: Kansas (near the city of Lebanon)
105. What is the name of the highest suspension bridge in the United States, and where is it located?
Answer: The Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado.
106. Which U.S. state has the longest coastline, including all its islands and inlets?
Answer: Alaska
107. In which city and state is the oldest public park in the United States located?
Answer: Boston, MA
108. What is the name of the only royal palace in the United States, and where is it located?
Answer: Iolani Palace in Honolulu, Hawaii
109. Which U.S. state is home to the largest underground lake in America, known as The Lost Sea?
Answer: Tennessee
110. What is the name of the famous road in Louisiana that is lined with historic plantations, and what is its length?
Answer: River Road, stretching for about 70 miles along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
111. What is the name of the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald’s?
Answer: Montpelier, Vermont
112. In which U.S. state can you find the longest natural bridge formed by a span of limestone?
Answer: Virginia, home to the Natural Bridge
113. What is the name of the oldest river in North America, often noted for its age and unique geology?
Answer: The New River, primarily flowing through West Virginia and Virginia
114. What is the name of the deepest canyon in the United States?
Answer: Hells Canyon in Oregon and Idaho
115. Which U.S. state is the only one to produce coffee commercially?
Answer: Hawaii
116. Which state is home to the oldest wooden schoolhouse in the United States?
Answer: Florida, located in St. Augustine
117. Which U.S. state is the birthplace of Elvis Presley?
Answer: Mississippi
118. In which city is the United States Naval Academy located?
Answer: Annapolis, Maryland
119. Which state is known as the “Show-Me State”?
Answer: Missouri
120. In which state can you visit the historic site of the first flight at Kitty Hawk?
Answer: North Carolina
121. Which U.S. state is home to the historic Route 66 Museum?
Answer: Oklahoma (in Clinton)
122. In what state is the historic landmark of Mount Vernon, the plantation house of George Washington, located?
Answer: Virginia
123. What is the name of the famous park in Boston where the “Swan Boats” operate
Answer: The Public Garden
124. In which U.S. state is the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, known for its scenic beauty and the Towpath Trail, located?
Answer: Ohio
125. In which state can you visit the International Rose Test Garden, the oldest continuously operating public rose test garden in the United States
Answer: Oregon (in Portland)
126. What is the name of the famous Civil Rights museum located at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee?
Answer: The National Civil Rights Museum
127. In which city is the U.S. National Whitewater Center, an outdoor recreation and athletic training facility for whitewater rafting, canoeing, and kayaking, located?
Answer: Charlotte, North Carolina
128. In which U.S. city can you visit the historic USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat?
Answer: Boston, MA
129. Which state is home to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the oldest and largest military aviation museum in the world?
Answer: Ohio (near Dayton)
130. In which state is the Pro Football Hall of Fame located?
Answer: Ohio (near Canton).
131. What is the name of the longest cave system in the world, located in Kentucky?
Answer: Mammoth Cave National Park
132. Which U.S. state has the most ghost towns?
Answer: Texas
133. In what state is the tallest tree in the world, named Hyperion?
Answer: California
134. Which U.S. city has the largest number of bridges in the world?
Answer: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
135. What is the name of the longest mountain range in the United States, and in which state does it predominantly lie?
Answer: The Rocky Mountains in Colorado
136. In what state is the geographic center of North America located?
Answer: North Dakota (near the city of Rugby)
137. Which U.S. city is home to the oldest surviving botanical garden in North America?
Answer: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Bartram’s Garden)
138. What is the name of the U.S. state that has the longest freshwater coastline in the country?
Answer: Michigan
139. In which city is the oldest continuously operating theater in the English-speaking world located?
Answer: Charleston, South Carolina (Dock Street Theatre)
140. Which U.S. state has the most lighthouses?
Answer: Michigan
141. In which state is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains located?
Answer: North Carolina (Mount Mitchell)
142. Which U.S. city is home to the oldest public art museum in the country?
Answer: Hartford, Connecticut (Wadsworth Atheneum)
143. What is the name of the tallest waterfall in North America, and in which state is it located?
Answer: Yosemite Falls in California
144. In which U.S. city can you find the oldest continuously operating streetcar line?
Answer: New Orleans, LA (The St. Charles Streetcar Line)
145. In which state is the only U.S. diamond mine accessible to the public for mining?
Answer: Arkansas (Crater of Diamonds State Park)
146. What is the name of the tallest brick lighthouse in North America, and where is it located?
Answer: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina
147. In what state can you find the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States?
Answer: Florida (Everglades National Park)
148. Which U.S. state has the most diverse range of climates from any other state?
Answer: California
149. In which U.S. state can you visit the only UNESCO World Heritage City in the country?
Answer: Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
150. Which U.S. state contains the point furthest from any coastline in North America?
Answer: South Dakota
151. In which U.S. city can you visit the oldest aquarium in the country?
Answer: Detroit, MI (Belle Isle Aquarium)
Quirky & Fun Road Trip Questions
152. What quirky roadside attraction in Alabama is known as “The World’s First Spacecraft and Rocket Fuel Station”?
Answer: The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama
153. In which U.S. state can you visit a museum dedicated entirely to mustard?
Answer: Wisconsin, home to the National Mustard Museum
154. What is the name of the famous New Mexico city known for its annual hot air balloon festival?
Answer: Albuquerque, hosting the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
155. Where in the U.S. can you drive through a tree?
Answer: California, where several drive-through trees are located in the Redwood National and State Parks.
156. Which U.S. state has a town named after a famous monster, complete with a “Monster Mart”?
Answer: Arkansas, with the town of Fouke, known for the Fouke Monster.
157. What is the name of the world’s only Corn Palace, and where is it located?
Answer: The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota.
158. In which state can you visit a museum dedicated to bad art?
Answer: Massachusetts, home to the Museum of Bad Art.
159. What is the name of the quirky festival in Nevada where large-scale art installations and unique community living are celebrated?
Answer: Burning Man, held in the Black Rock Desert.
160. Where in the United States can you find a giant replica of a human digestive system to walk through?
Answer: St. Louis, Missouri, at the City Museum
161. What is the name of the iconic Texas roadside attraction featuring 10 half-buried Cadillacs?
Answer: Cadillac Ranch, located near Amarillo Texas
162. In which U.S. state can you find a town named “Truth or Consequences”?
Answer: New Mexico
163. What is the official “Center of the World” according to a small town in California, and what is the town’s name?
Answer: The town is Felicity, California, which claims to be the official “Center of the World.”
164. Where in the U.S. can you visit the only museum dedicated to PEZ candy?
Answer: Burlingame, California, home to the Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia.
165. In which state is there a museum dedicated to barbed wire, and what is it called?
Answer: Kansas, home to the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum in La Crosse.
166. In which U.S. state can you find a giant statue of a blue ox named Babe, and his companion, a lumberjack?
Answer: Minnesota, featuring Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox in Bemidji.
167. In which U.S. state can you find a giant statue of a blue ox named Babe, and his companion, a lumberjack?
Answer: Minnesota, featuring Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox in Bemidji.
168. Where in the United States can you drive on a singing road, and what song does it play?
Answer: New Mexico, near Tijeras, where a section of Route 66 plays “America the Beautiful” when driven over at the right speed.
169. What unusual attraction can be found in Carhenge, Nebraska?
Answer: A replica of England’s Stonehenge, made entirely out of vintage cars.
170. In which state can you find a museum dedicated to UFO research and sightings?
Answer: New Mexico (International UFO Museum in Roswell).
171. What U.S. city has a museum dedicated entirely to mustard?
Answer: Middleton, WI (National Mustard Museum)
172. Where in the United States can you find a giant “Ketchup Bottle” (a water tower)?
Answer: Collinsville, Illinois.
173. In which state is there a town named Santa Claus, known for its Christmas-themed attractions?
Answer: Indiana
174. Which state is home to the most Chick-Fil-A’s?
Answer: Texas
175. What famous road in San Francisco is known for its eight sharp turns?
Answer: Lombard Street
176. In which city can you find a skyscraper with no windows?
Answer: New York City (33 Thomas Street).
177. What is the name of the desert area in California famous for its large metal sculptures of dragons and other creatures?
Answer: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
178. In which U.S. city can you visit the largest bat colony in an urban area?
Answer: Austin, TX (under the Congress Avenue Bridge)
179. What is the name of the U.S. town that is known for hosting an annual tulip festival?
Answer: Holland, MI
180. In which state can you visit the Spam Museum, dedicated to the canned meat product?
Answer: Austin, Minnesota
181. In which U.S. city can you find a museum dedicated to neon signs?
Answer: Las Vegas
182. What U.S. city is known for an annual festival dedicated to roses?
Answer: Portland, OR
183. Which state park is home to a natural rock lighthouse?
Answer: Palo Duro State Park in Texas
184. Which U.S. state is home to the most waterfalls?
Answer: Washington
185. Which city is known as the “Waterpark Capital of the World?”
Answer: Wisconsin Dells
186. In which state can you find the world’s largest collection of artifacts and memorabilia from the Titanic?
Answer: Tennessee (Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge).
187. Which National Park holds the record for the hottest place on earth?
Answer: Death Valley
188. Which U.S. city is known as the “Manatee Capital of the World?
Answer: Crystal River, Florida
189. Which state has the largest wolf population?
Answer: Alaska
190. How many miles is the Pacific Crest Trail?
Answer: 2,650 miles
191. Which Hawaiian Island is the most populated?
Answer: Oahu
192. What is the name of the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the United States, located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee?
Answer: SkyBridge
193. What is the name of the largest waterpark in the US?
Answer: Noah’s Ark
194. Where in the U.S. can you visit a museum dedicated to the history of rock and roll music?
Answer: Cleveland, Ohio
195. What is the name of the historic route in the United States famous for being a path of migration during the Dust Bowl?
Answer: Route 66
196. Which lake is the coldest in the USA?
Answer: Lake Superior
197. Which US state is the least populated?
Answer: Wyoming
198. What was the last contiguous state admitted to the United States?
Answer: Arizona
199. Which state has the highest cost of living? (as of 2023)
Answer: Hawaii
200. Which state has the lowest cost of living? (as of 2023)
Answer: Mississippi
201. Which state can you find a theme park owned by Dolly Parton?
Answer: Tennessee (Dollywood)
USA Trivia Questions for your Next Road Trip
Now you are officially an expert in all things USA trivia! I hope you found these trivia questions helpful in passing time on your road trip.
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