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Exploring Maryland: A Quiz on the Old Line State

Test your knowledge about Maryland with this engaging quiz covering its geography, history, and culture.

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1 What is the largest city of Maryland?

2 The state is the territory of the ________, which is the official state bird and mascot of the MLB team the Baltimore Orioles.

3 Who played Charlotte Danfield in the TV series Maryland?

4 The ________ provides the state with its huge cash crop of blue crabs, rockfish, and numerous seabirds.

5 The mid-portion of this border is interrupted on the Maryland side by ________, which sits on land that was originally part of Maryland.

6 Maryland is bounded on the north by Pennsylvania, on the west by West Virginia, on the east by ________ and the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south, across the Potomac River, by West Virginia and Virginia.

7 Who was Maryland succeeded by?

8 Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), MedImmune (recently purchased by ________), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

9 How long is Maryland?

10 His Roman Catholic army was decisively defeated by a ________ army near Annapolis in what was to be known as the 'Battle of the Severn'.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • after assassinating Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth fled into Maryland's Zekiah Swamp.
  • hundreds of historic tobacco barns in Maryland were rendered obsolete after many farmers took advantage of a 2001 state program offering to buy out tobacco farmers.
  • English missionary Andrew White, the "Apostle of Maryland", celebrated the first Catholic mass in the original Thirteen Colonies on March 25, 1634 on St. Clement's Island.
  • Victoria Jackson-Stanley recently became the first woman and first African American mayor of Cambridge, a Maryland town devastated by race riots in the 1960s.
  • Rapidan Camp, the rustic mountain fishing retreat of U.S. President Herbert Hoover located near Big Meadows in Virginia, was the forerunner of Camp David in Maryland.
  • in 1656, Judith Catchpole was tried before colonial Maryland's first all-female jury because a woman's expertise was needed to evaluate the evidence.
  • the 1910 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maryland v. West Virginia established the current boundary between the states of Maryland and West Virginia based on a stone set in a river in 1746.
  • the judges on the Maryland Court of Appeals, the supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland, wear red robes, rather than the traditional black.
  • the world's only memorial to war correspondents is located in Maryland's Gathland State Park.
  • the tallest building in Baltimore, Maryland is the forty-story Legg Mason Building (pictured), which rises 529 feet (161 m) in height.
  • the Holland Island Bar Light in Maryland was once accidentally used for target practice by the United States Navy.
  • the Battle of the Severn in 1655 in Annapolis, Maryland, was closely related to the conflicts of the English Civil War, which had concluded four years earlier in England.
  • Madonna of the Trail is a series of monuments dedicated to the spirit of the pioneer woman in the United States? Created by German immigrant sculptor August Leimbach, 12 were placed from Maryland to California in 1928 and 1929.
  • James Lingan, officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, was beaten to death by a mob in Baltimore, Maryland for defending the freedom of the press.
  • Maryland politician Karen S. Montgomery has an adult son with autism whom she has referenced in her advocacy for better developmental disability services in the state.
  • Maryland politician William S. James served in all three branches of state government, as a trial magistrate, Senate President, and State Treasurer.
  • Maryland politician George W. Della served both as President of the Maryland Senate and as Potentate of the Boumi Temple of the Shrine.
  • Maryland politician Cheryl Kagan worked part-time as a substitute teacher while serving in the Maryland House of Delegates.
  • Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly.
  • Maryland's Frederick High School can trace its roots back more than a century, and has won over 35 state championships in various sports since the late 1950s.
  • Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston.
  • Darvin Moon, a self-employed Maryland logger, had never played in the World Series of Poker before winning US$5.18 million as the 2009 main event runner-up.
  • D. John Markey complained of the Democratic Party's 82-year grip on Maryland after the close and controversial 1946 Senate race against Governor Herbert O'Conor.
  • Charles Mathias, Jr. is the only Republican from Maryland to be elected to three terms in the United States Senate.
  • Charles Carroll the Settler's attempts to gain office in colonial Maryland led to all Catholics in the colony losing the right to vote.
  • Hoosier tradition holds that Christopher Harrison exiled himself from his native Maryland due to failing to court the future wife of Jérôme Bonaparte successfully.
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