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Connecticut Trivia Quiz

Test your knowledge about Connecticut with this engaging trivia quiz that covers its history, culture, and notable aspects.

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1 Which is the largest metropolitan area in Connecticut?

2 What is the slogan of Connecticut?

3 Who was Connecticut succeeded by?

4 Which of the following is South of Connecticut?

5 There are numerous other terms coined in print, but not in use, such as: "Connecticotian" - ________ in 1702.

6 Connecticut also has a sizable Polish American population, with New Britain containing the largest ________ population in the state.

7 ________ is located in Windsor Locks, 15 miles (24 km) north of Hartford.

8 Hartford Public High School (1638) is the third-oldest secondary school in the nation after the Collegiate School (1628) in Manhattan and the ________ (1635).

9 Recent ________ has brought other non-Christian religions to the state, but the numbers of adherents of other religions are still low.

10 What is the motto of Connecticut?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the Elisha Williams House is different from other Federal style houses in Hudson, New York, because Williams came to Hudson from Connecticut instead of Massachusetts.
  • the Bradley Airport Connector, a freeway in the U.S. state of Connecticut, was renamed the "82nd Airborne Memorial Highway" in 1999 to honor the 82nd Airborne Division.
  • the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Connecticut has architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture.
  • the New Haven, which operated most of the steam railroad mileage in the U.S. state of Connecticut, also controlled a vast system of trolley lines through the Connecticut Company.
  • the Mattatuck Museum Arts and History Center hosts a biennial competition for artists living or working in Connecticut.
  • the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in Connecticut will be reconstructed as the first extradosed bridge in the United States.
  • the hand-cranked Saugatuck River Bridge is the oldest surviving movable bridge in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
  • the first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875.
  • the Wallingford Tornado of 1878 was the deadliest tornado in Connecticut history, and the second-deadliest to strike New England.
  • the Pinchot Sycamore, a centuries-old American sycamore, is the largest tree in Connecticut.
  • the "Shakespeare Lady", a schizophrenic street performer in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, has her own trading card.
  • following its industrialization, Bridgeport, Connecticut became a manufacturing center producing such goods as the famous Bridgeport milling machine, brass fittings, carriages, sewing machines, saddles, and ammunition.
  • Holy Land USA (pictured), a Connecticut theme park intended to replicate Bethlehem and Jerusalem of the biblical era, once attracted more than 40,000 visitors annually.
  • Hamilton Disston purchased four million acres of land—larger than the state of Connecticut—for just $1 million in 1881 in a failed attempt to drain the Everglades.
  • Connecticut Route 136 is one of only two state highways in Connecticut that has a gap in state maintenance.
  • Congregation B'nai Israel is the oldest synagogue in Bridgeport, and the third oldest in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
  • Noella Marcellino, a Benedictine nun and modern connoisseur of cheese, was named the official cheesemaker of Connecticut's Abbey of Regina Laudis.
  • Richard Blumenthal is Connecticut's Attorney General and was awarded the Raymond E. Baldwin Award for Public Service by the Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2002.
  • despite being set in New York, All Good Things has been filmed mostly in Connecticut, partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations".
  • Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in West Rock Ridge, Connecticut, USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the death warrant of the King Charles I.
  • The Edw. Malley Co. department store operated for 130 years and was billed as "The Metropolitan Store of Connecticut".
  • The Corporate Center in Danbury, Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain.
  • textile manufacturing in the mill village of Hallville in Connecticut dates to 1752, when a fulling mill was built there.
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