A Capital Quiz of Stately Proportions

The capital of North Dakota, _______, was named in honor of the chancellor of Germany.

Fargo

Bismarck

Wilhelm

A small settlement on the site of present-day _______ served as the gateway to the California gold rush of 1849; just five years later it became the California state capital.

Sacramento

San Francisco

Los Angeles

The name of the Oregon state capital, _______, is the anglicized form of the Hebrew word for peace.

Portland

Eugene

Salem

In 1821, the Mississippi town of Le Fleur’s Bluff became the state capital and was renamed _______ in honor of a military hero and future president of the United States.

Grant

Jackson

Lee

The Tennessee state capital, _______, is known as “Music City, USA” because it is the center of the recording industry for country-and-western music.

Knoxville

Memphis

Nashville

_______, the capital of Wyoming, is named for the Native American people who first inhabited the area.

Casper

Cheyenne

Laramie

The Alabama state capital, _______, served as the provisional capital of the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.

Montgomery

Birmingham

Mobile

On the evening of December 25, 1776, General George Washington led his troops across the Delaware River and landed near _______, the town that would later become the capital of New Jersey.

Trenton

Newark

Lakewood

The site of _______, the present-day capital of Texas, was occupied in 1838 by five families, who originally named their nascent community Waterloo.

Dallas

Houston

Austin

Formerly a Dutch settlement, the New York state capital of _______ was once known as Beverwyck, or “town of the beaver.”

Albany

New York City

Syracuse

Now the state capital of New Mexico, the city of _______ was founded in 1610 as the capital of the Spanish colony of New Mexico.

Santa Fe

Tucson

Albuquerque