Welcome to our page of Alaska trivia questions! Alaska is a state known for its rugged beauty and unique wildlife, making it a fascinating destination for everyone. Our selection of questions covers a wide range of topics including the state's history, culture, geography, and wildlife. Whether you're a native of Alaska or just a curious learner, our trivia questions will help you discover new and exciting information about this great state.
For those interested in the history of Alaska, our trivia questions will take you through the state's past, from its early days as a Russian colony to its statehood in 1959. We also cover the state's famous landmarks such as Denali, the tallest mountain in North America, and the Iditarod, the famous dog sled race. Culture enthusiasts can learn about the state's indigenous cultures, traditional customs, and local art forms.
Alaska's geography and wildlife are also an important part of the state's identity and our questions cover information about the state's natural wonders like the Northern Lights, Glaciers and the unique wildlife such as Moose, Grizzly bears and the state bird, the Willow Ptarmigan.
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221 Alaska Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2024)
- The Alaska electrical grid that stretches from Fairbanks to the Kenai Peninsula goes by what infrastructure R-word name that sounds like a rough way to keep your pants up?
Answer: Railbelt
- Believe it or not, there are RV, Texas, Wyoming, and Alaskan versions to accompany the popular California variation of what bed size whose standard dimensions are 80” x 76” in the U.S.?
Answer: King
- Fairbanks, Alaska; Svalbard, Norway; and Yukon, Canada are three destinations recommended by Travel + Leisure Magazine for travelers hoping to see what phenomenon?
Answer: Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
- Also known as the Dead Horse Trail, a boundary pass of the Coast Mountains on the border of Alaska and British Columbia is named after what color, also the “Christmas” that Bing Crosby is dreaming of?
Answer: White Pass
- Red timbers accent white walls on a house in North Pole, Alaska named for what hirsute dude?
Answer: Santa Claus
- The longest-term export between the U.S. and Japan is the shipping of LNG from Alaska. LNG stands for what type of cleaner-than-coal energy?
Answer: Liquified Natural Gas
- Although Alaska is better known for its Klondike Gold Rush, the U.S. state was the country’s 2018 leader in the production of what metallic mineral whose Periodic Table symbol is Zn?
Answer: Zinc
- What Siberian dog breed is known for its thickly furred double coat, its large size, its vertical triangular ears, and for looking like an Alaskan Malamute?
Answer: Husky
- The Nome Joint Utility System, a power utility located in its namesake Alaskan city, is located on the Seward Peninsula cost on Norton Sound off of what “B” sea?
Answer: Bering Sea
- What is the name of the pipeline, built in the 1970s, that transports oil from fields near Prudhoe Bay across Alaska to the port city of Valdez?
Answer: Trans-Alaska Pipeline
- Named one of Barabara Walter's "10 Most Fascinating People of 2008", which former Mayor of Wasilla has five children named Track, Bristol, Willow Piper, and Trig?
Answer: Sarah Palin
- Situated above the Arctic Circle, which Alaskan city is not just the northernmost point in the United States, but one of the northernmost places in the world? (Hint: It used to be called Barrow)
Answer: Utqiagvik
- It's easy to remember this small blue flower that grows in clumps. What is the common name of the state flower of Alaska?
Answer: Forget-me-not
- Homer Electric will replace gas turbines on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula with lithium-ion Megapacks provided by what car-slash-clean energy company?
Answer: Tesla
- Attu and Kiska are two islands in Alaska that were occupied by Japanese forces during World War II and are part of what chain of islands comprised of more than 300 small volcanic islands?
Answer: Aleutian Islands
- A diphtheria epidemic in Nome, Alaska in 1925, combined with bad weather, forced shipments of serum to be delivered by sled dogs. One of these sled dogs had what “B” name, also the name of a 1995 Kevin Bacon starring Amblin Entertainment animated film portraying his exploits?
Answer: Balto
- 35 years before the U.S. government wised up, Alaska changed the name of the giant national park named for what landmark?
Answer: Denali
- From Anchorage you can see a massive wind farm across the Cook Inlet on what island named for a thing that comes in really handy when cooking?
Answer: Fire Island
- Which state park in Trapper Creek is nestled between the Talkeetna Mountains and the Alaska Range? (Hint: Its name is “The High One” in Koyukon)
Answer: Denali
- A farm in Palmer, Alaska is dedicated to the conservation of what woolly arctic animal? The late Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek was a devoted supporter of the farm, and often lent his image to their outreach efforts.
Answer: Musk Ox
- With 159, Georgia has the second most of what amongst the U.S. states? Texas has the most with 254, and two states (Louisiana and Alaska) technically have zero because they use different terms for this concept.
Answer: Counties
- Confusingly, since its move in the 1950s, Alaska Airlines is not headquartered in Alaska but instead what other Cascadian state?
Answer: Washington
- According to the most recent US census numbers, it is the state with the highest percentage of indigenous people. After beating former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a 2022 special election, Mary Peltola became the first indigenous member of congress from what state?
Answer: Alaska
- Hilcorp took over Alaska's massive Prudhoe Bay oil fields in 2019, after a sale by what massive London-based multinational oil and gas company?
Answer: BP
- The first Russian settlement was at Three Saints Bay, on what large Alaskan island? The island is the second largest in the U.S. and has an area slightly larger than Cyprus.
Answer: Kodiak
- During the Klondike Gold Rush, Alaskan miners would trade in gold up to 25 times the amount that those in the continental U.S. would for a bushel of what starchy vegetable?
Answer: Potatoes
- What's the name of the annual amateur baseball game played in Fairbanks, Alaska, which starts (ironically, maybe) at 10:30 PM?
Answer: The Midnight Sun Game
- D'oh! An Alaskan halibut fishing mecca, the author of "The Odyssey," and cartoonist Matt Groening's dad share what five-letter name?
Answer: Homer
- Which artist, known for his 'Joy of Painting,' afro, and happy little clouds, drew inspiration from his time in Alaska while serving in the U.S. Air Force? We're looking for first and last names.
Answer: Bob Ross
- Alaska celebrates the last Monday in March as a state holiday honoring what "foolish" 19th-century Secretary of State?
Answer: William Seward
- What is the name of the peninsula in southern Alaska that is home to cities such as Seward, Soldotna, and Homer and also features most of the coastline of the Cook Inlet?
Answer: Kenai
- What antlered mammal was designated as Alaska’s official land animal in 1998?
Answer: Moose
- Measuring a whopping 9 feet by 9 feet, one of the largest mattress sizes in existence is named for what U.S. state, which is fittingly the largest in the country?
Answer: Alaska (The Alaskan King Mattress)
- The University of Alaska's Museum of the North in Fairbanks is now the location of the vehicle that was the final resting place of Chris McCandless, subject of the movie Into the Wild. What kind of vehicle is this?
Answer: Bus
- The Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, named for the captain of what famously mutiny-ed ship that probably had a great paper towel supply?
Answer: HMS Bounty
- If you exclude Alaska, Montana has the largest breeding population of what "musical" type of swan?
Answer: Trumpter swan
- In 1912, Giacomo Ciamician proposed using the sun’s energy to create carbohydrates and oxygen and harnessing the energy, thereby eliminating dependence on fossil fuels. This process mimics what chemical reaction already fundamental to the natural world?
Answer: photosynthesis
- Located along the South bank of the Yukon River, what Central Western Alaskan town shares its name with a precious gemstone that could be given as a traditional 40th anniversary gift?
Answer: Ruby
- In place since Benny Benson of Seward won a 1927 contest, how many stars are featured on Alaska's state flag?
Answer: Eight
- Turning a weird viral challenge back on itself, Pitbull encouraged his fans to "like" a very remote Wal-Mart location in what Alaska town that shares its name with the largest subspecies of brown bear?
Answer: Kodiak
- Which Alaskan location near Fairbanks sounds like somewhere you’d go for post-secondary education and is in fact home to The University of Alaska Fairbanks?
Answer: College
- Although Alaska doesn’t have an official state rock, it does identify this four-letter precious green mineral as its official state gem. What is it?
Answer: Jade
- The 24.6 megawatt-producing Eva Creek Wind is Alaska’s largest wind farm, which is located in what five-letter community that is about 11 miles away from the Denali National Park and Preserve?
Answer: Healy
- Almost all of the 272 residents of what Alaskan town southeast of Anchorage famously live in the same building, Begich Towers?
Answer: Whittier
- What losing candidate received the first presidential electoral votes cast from the state of Alaska, after it was admitted to the United States?
Answer: Richard Nixon
- Experiments in microreactor technology in 2021 at Eielson Air Force Base in what Alaskan city has major ramifications for potential energy for consumers across the entirety of the state?
Answer: Fairbanks, Alaska
- Their 2017 song "Feel It Still" won a Grammy for best Pop Duo/Group Performance. What band is this, who sounds like they might be from Lisbon, not Wasilla, Alaska?
Answer: Portugal. The Man.
- What “H” Pass, a mountain pass through the Talkneeta Mountains near Wasilla, AK, is named for a 20th century prospector and miner. Its’ name is also the last name of the actress who played Lois Lane in “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” and was later one of the “Desperate Housewives.”
Answer: Hatcher Pass
- Also known as the beach goose, what is the more common name for Anser canagicus, a small, stocky species of goose found in northern Alaska? It shares its title with the largest species of penguin.
Answer: Emperor Goose
- Alaska and Hawaii don't share land borders with any other U.S. states. Almost as stingy is what U.S. state that only shares a land border with one other state?
Answer: Maine
- What is the name for the increasingly large body of water separating the Alaskan peninsula and the eastern shores of Russia? There was once a land bridge crossing this body of water.
Answer: Bering Strait
- Every year since its inception in 1973, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has taken place in which month?
Answer: March
- Some states don't even have English as an official language, but as of 2014 which US state recognizes 21 languages, including Hän, Holikachuk and Gwich'in, as Official State Languages?
Answer: Alaska
- At 6,640 miles, which U.S state has the largest coastline ahead of Florida and California?
Answer: Alaska
- With territory on Baranof Island, Chicagof Island, and Kruzof Island, what five-letter city in southeast Alaska has the largest land area of any city in the United States, with approximately 2,870 square miles?
Answer: Sitka
- What “E” Glacier is derived from Harding Icefield and is one of the major attractions of Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska? Its shares its name with a method of leaving.
Answer: Exit Glacier
- Bogoslof Island in the Aleutian Islands is home of thousands of nesting birds, including the "tufted" species of what kind of bird that makes its home in Arctic climates?
Answer: Puffin
- In September of 2021, FreeWire Technologies installed Alaska's first electric vehicle fast-charging station in what Halibut Fishing Capital of the World?
Answer: Homer
- What highway, which connects portions of Alaska 1, 2, and 4 from Valdez to Fairbanks, was the first major road built in Alaska?
Answer: Richardson Highway
- In 1989, a ship hit a reef in the Prince William Sound and spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude oil over more than 1,000 miles of coastline. What was the famous, ill-fated two-word name of this ship?
Answer: Exxon Valdez
- What Alaska state holiday, observed on the last day of March, is named for the United States Secretary of State that negotiated the United States' purchase of Alaska from Russia?
Answer: Seward's Day
- Alaska is home to the largest mountain in the United States, coming in at over 20,000 feet high. This mountain is also the namesake for a line of GMC trucks and SUVs. What is the mountain called?
Answer: Denali
- Alaskan farmers took out low-interest loans from the Rural Electrification Administration, established as one of what president's New Deal reforms?
Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- This one-named singer was born in Utah, but spent her formative years in Homer, Alaska, with no heat or running water. (Hint: Her song, "You Were Meant for Me," was a big hit in the '90s.)
Answer: Jewel
- Alaska boasts five main species of salmon in its waters: Chinook/King, Coho/Silver, Pink, Chum, and which feisty species?
Answer: Sockeye
- More than a decade before Rosa Parks was asked to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, Inupiat teenager Alberta Schenck was arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a theater in the town of Nome. Schenck’s act of protest led to the passage of the country’s first anti-discrimination law, enacted in what northerly state where 20% of residents are Natives?
Answer: Alaska
- Anchorage is said to be about a 10-hour trip by which mode of transportation to about 90% of the world’s industrialized countries?
Answer: Air
- What is the History Channel series that has featured adventurous drivers take the wheel while embarking on Alaska's Dalton Highway or Canada's frozen lakes?
Answer: Ice Road Truckers
- Based on the Jack London novel of the same name, what 2020 box-office flop features Harrison Ford as an outdoorsman who befriends a dog named Buck in the Yukon?
Answer: Call of the Wild
- What “K” coastal Alaskan city is southwest of Anchorage, and known for its fjords? It also has an Old Town region, and its name comes from the Athabascan for “Flat Land."
Answer: Kenai
- What daughter of former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin starred in her own namesake Lifetime reality television series subtitled “Life’s A Tripp” in 2012 about moving to “The Last Frontier” state after temporarily living in California?
Answer: Bristol Palin
- Tom Bodett was an NPR contributor and house builder in Homer, Alaska when he improvised the "we'll leave the light on for you" slogan during an ad for what budget lodging chain?
Answer: Motel 6
- What “T” national forest in Juneau, AK is the largest national forest in the U.S.? It is a temperate rainforest.
Answer: Tongass National Forest
- What coffee company/coffeehouse chain was founded in Edina, Minnesota, and in 2021, merged with Panera Bread and Einstein Bros. Bagels to form Panera Brands? (Hint: Its name was inspired by a trip to Alaska.)
Answer: Caribou Coffee
- The Brooks Range is the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in North America, located in Canada's Yukon Territory and also in what U.S. state?
Answer: Alaska
- As a result of the U.S. census in 2020, some electoral college vote allocations for each state have changed for the 2024 presidential election. How many electoral votes will Alaska be worth in 2024?
Answer: Three
- Representing the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) and Polaris, how many gold stars are there on the Alaskan flag? Adopted in 1927, it was created by Benny Benson, a 13-year-old 7th grader from a Seward, Alaska orphanage.
Answer: 8
- The lyrics to Alaska's state song, "Alaska's Flag," which was adopted by the state as its official state song in 1955, were written by Marie Drake, a longtime employee of what Alaska state department?
Answer: Education
- "Fat Bear Week" is an online tournament each fall in which people vote for their favorites among the brown bears of what U.S. National Park located in Alaska?
Answer: Katmai
- Which southeastern Alaska city-borough was the state capital until 1906 (when it was replaced by Juneau)?
Answer: Sitka
- Juneau is the second-largest city in the U.S. by area. The city is so large that it is larger than two entire states. One is Rhode Island. What is the other?
Answer: Delaware
- What 76-mile-long glacier is located in part in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Eastern Alaska? It shares its name with an Old Mother who wanted to give her dog a bone.
Answer: Hubbard
- Kodiak-born Roger Leroy Wensel gained fame in Seattle as "Artis," a musician immortalized by Soundgarden for playing what kitchen item?
Answer: Spoons
- Want to get away from it all? Try a hike in Tongass National Forest, a roadless expanse of sixteen million acres in what U.S. state?
Answer: Alaska
- What dessert, made up of ice cream, sponge cake, and meringue and placed briefly in a hot oven, was named in honor of a purchase the United States made from Russia in 1867?
Answer: Baked Alaska
- Sarah Palin was mayor of which city, the fourth largest by population, before her election as the first female Governor of Alaska?
Answer: Wasilla
- Southeast Alaska's Inside Passage is often referred to by what 9-letter nickname beginning with P, also a word meaning to beg in the street?
Answer: Panhandle
- A New York couple hang out with Alaskan bears. It doesn't end well for the couple. So goes what Werner Herzog documentary that anagrams to MR LAZY ZING?
Answer: Grizzly Man
- Although it alternates the route in even and odd years, Alaska's famous Iditarod sled dog race always begins in Anchorage and ends in what Seward Peninsula city?
Answer: Nome
- In which city in southeastern Alaska along the Inside Passage can you find the “scenic railway of the world?”
Answer: Skagway
- Located within Nome and nicknamed “Kingegan,” name the Alaskan city that was officially incorporated in the state in 1964 that shares its name with a U.K. country whose capital city is Cardiff.
Answer: Wales
- Ohio is among a small group of U.S. state which start and end with the same letter. How many other states join Ohio in this category?
Answer: 3 (Alaska, Arizona, Alabama)
- 48 U.S. states are divided into counties. Alaska is instead divided into boroughs. What other state has unique intra-state division by using a system of 64 parishes?
Answer: Louisiana
- In 2021, the Alaska Federation of Natives and electric cooperatives sued the Dunleavy administration over a policy known as PCE, or Power Cost...what E-word?
Answer: Equalization
- The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System started operating at the height of the oil crisis and the height of "Star Wars" mania in what year of the 1970s?
Answer: 1977
- In the pretty silly 2012 movie "The Grey," Liam Neeson plays a sharpshooter who eventually straps broken glass to his hands to fistfight what fierce Alaskan critters?
Answer: Wolves
- Alaska is respectively bordered by a Canadian province and a Canadian territory: British Columbia and what other territory that’s near the end of the alphabet?
Answer: Yukon
- Primarily powering Juneau, the Snettisham Hydroelectric Facility dams Long Lake and what other body of water that shares its name with an Oregon national park?
Answer: Crater Lake
- Which community is the farthest north truck stop in the U.S.? (Hint: It has a very sensible name; since it’s in Alaska’s Arctic Circle region, you could end up with frozen limbs if you’re not dressed for the weather!)
Answer: Coldfoot
- Opened in 1927, Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, typically referred to as "Hec Ed," is the oldest college basketball arena still in regular usage (for a major conference team). In what STATE will you find this 10,000-capacity building?
Answer: Washington
- Ketchikan, Alaska, lies at the southern end of what network of waterways that connects the Gulf of Alaska with Puget Sound, popular with cruise ships for its stunning views?
Answer: Inside Passage
- Among the many cruise lines that offer sojourns in Alaska is what brand that has used slogans like "The Fun Ship" and "Fun for All, All for Fun?"
Answer: Carnival
- Which of the Aleutian Islands is the largest uninhabited island to be politically part of the U.S. and the site of the only land battle fought in the U.S. in WWII?
Answer: Attu
- What 13 mile long “M” glacier is located 12 miles south of Juneau in its namesake valley? It was named after a 19th-century superintendent of the Geological Survey, a man from Ohio.
Answer: Mendenhall Glacier
- Of the North American power grids, U.S. states only appear on the power grids named for Alaska and what other state?
Answer: Texas
- The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, which gets its name from the steam-producing ash that filled it after a volcanic eruption in 1912, is a more remote section of what Alaska national park, better known for its population of brown bears?
Answer: Katmai
- Alaska's state tree is what type of alliterative spruce that shares its name with an Alaskan city?
Answer: Sitka Spruce
- A 3,500-mile "Marine Highway," a system of ferries that is part of the National Highway System, uniquely serves what U.S. State?
Answer: Alaska
- According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 36% of Minnesotans fish. This ranks second highest of any state; what is the one state higher?
Answer: Alaska
- 2.5 cents per acre was the price paid by the United States to purchase Alaska from what country?
Answer: Russia
- Delaware is one of only three U.S. states that has only ever had a single congressional district for the U.S. House of Representatives. Name one of the other two states with this same distinction.
Answer: Wyoming and Alaska
- When ranking the states in the U.S. by size (area, not population), Alaska is of course the largest state and ranks #1. In what spot does Washington rank
Answer: 17
- Due to COVID-19, the 2021 Iditarod race omitted its usual starting ceremony in what city (Alaska's most populous)?
Answer: Anchorage
- Tina Fey once saidm "I can see Russia from my house!" in a 2008 "Saturday Night Live" sketch, while impersonating what then-governor of Alaska?
Answer: Sarah Palin
- Also a word in the state nickname of Alaska, what is the name of the Old West-style font used in Wal-Mart's first official logo, used from 1964 to 1981?
Answer: Frontier
- The George M Sullivan Generation Plant 2 in Anchorage, Alaska is the power plant with Alaska's largest capacity; what does it use to generate electricity?
Answer: Natural Gas
- An 11-mile coastal trail that ends in Anchorage’s Kincaid Park is named for what former Democratic governor of Alaska, serving from 1994 to 2002, as well mayor of Anchorage from 1982 to 1987?
Answer: Tony Knowles Coastal Trail
- What “M” Electric Association is Alaska’s oldest existing electric cooperative, and the second biggest in the state, and manages among other thing the Eklutna Generation Station? It shares its name with an Alaskan river, and the largest glacier that is car accessible in the United States.
Answer: Matanuska Electric Association
- What “K” national park, established in 1980 in Kotzebue, AK, is located in Northwestern Alaska, about 25 miles north of the Arctic Circle?
Answer: Kobuk Valley National Park
- A museum of the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, celebrating Alaskan culture and archaeological finds, is a named as a museum of what cardinal direction?
Answer: Museum Of the North
- What “C” Hot Springs in the Fairbanks North Star Borough of Alaska, located near its namesake river, is a hot spring and resort community?
Answer: Chena Hot Springs
- Alaska has an energy utility for the city of Atka, AK, located on Atka Island. Atka Island is part of what Alaskan island chain?
Answer: Aleutian Islands
- Alaska has a power utility station in Larsen Bay, AK, which is located on what “K” Alaskan island, also a name for the Alaskan Brown Bear that is native to the region?
Answer: Kodiak Island
- The Sitka National Historical Park, located in its namesake city in Alaska, has a collection of what kind of poles linked to the Tlingit people, a kind of monumental carvings?
Answer: Totem Poles
- Brooks Falls, a waterfall located in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, is well known for what species of fish jumping over 6 feet in the air while reaching for their spawning grounds?
Answer: Salmon
- A field that holds more than 500 million barrels of oil, such as Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, may be known by what animalistic nine-letter term?
Answer: Elephant
- Traditionally made from a mixture of animal fat, berries, and freshly fallen snow or water, akutaq is often referred to as an Alaskan variety of what type of common dessert?
Answer: Ice cream
- What sea off Alaska's northwest coast is connected to the Pacific by the Bering Strait?
Answer: Chukchi Sea
- A museum in Haines, Alaska contains thousands of what common tool? The museum grew out of a collection begun in the 1970's by a blacksmith named Dave Pahl.
Answer: Hammers
- Statewide elections in Maine and Alaska use RCV, an alternative voting system in effect in over fifty jurisdictions nationwide. What does RCV stand for?
Answer: Ranked-Choice Voting
- The original lyrics to the Texas state song had to be changed to “boldest” instead of “largest” in 1959 when which (bigger) state became a state?
Answer: Alaska
- Built in 1913, what is the address in Juneau of the Alaskan Governor’s Mansion? This was a popular tourist attraction when Sarah Palin was running for Vice President in 2008.
Answer: 716 Calhoun Avenue
- The University of Alaska Anchorage sports teams, with colors of green, gold and white have the same name as what type of military sea vessel?
Answer: Submarine
- What landlocked state was admitted to the Union in 1912, the last continental state to do so before the admission of Hawaii and Alaska?
Answer: Arizona
- The Rocky Mountains are part of a group of associated mountain ranges known as the North American (or Pacific) what? It in turn is part of a group of mountain ranges that stretches from Alaska to Antarctica.
Answer: Cordillera
- According to its state government website, Alaska has more active glaciers and ice fields than "in the rest of the inhabited world." What percentage of the state is covered by glaciers?
Answer: Five
- The character of William T. Riker, first officer in Star Trek: The Next Generation, was born in which American state in 2335?
Answer: Alaska
- In 1962, the giant/king (or Chinook) variety of which fish that travels thousands of miles to spawn was designated as a state symbol of Alaska?
Answer: Salmon
- Early on in Alaska’s history as being part of the U.S., pretty much everyone living in the state was a resident of which southeast city-borough?
Answer: Sitka
- Amidst the Klondike Gold Rush, which infamous gangster and his posse took control of Skagway, a boomtown that drew hopeful prospectors to the Yukon Territory? The town finally washed its hands of him when he died in a shootout there in 1898.
Answer: Soapy Smith
- What speculative novel by Michael Chabon imagines what a modern-day Sitka would look like if a plan to resettle Jewish refugees there after World War II had actually taken place?
Answer: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- The igloos of Borealis Basecamp outside of Fairbanks, Alaska are designed to give visitors a view of the phenomenon that's known by what name in English?
Answer: Northern Lights
- When he signed a treaty with Russia to buy land in 1867, he got mocked by members Congress because they felt like he had just paid a cool (very cool) $7 million for a “polar bear garden.” His purchase of what state became known as Seward’s Folly?
Answer: Alaska
- Which baseball pitcher who played for the Montreal Expos and the Florida Marlins was born in Alaska onMay 5, 1980?
Answer: Chad Bentz
- Which volcano in Alaska is located on Unimak Island with its near-perfect-circle contour lines rising about 6,500 feet above sea level?
Answer: Mount Shishaldin
- Being the largest state by area, to the nearest 100,000 square miles, what is the land size of Alaska? It is less than one million.
Answer: 700,000 square miles
- What element on the periodic table is Alaska’s biggest mineral export? Big clue: It's not gold!
Answer: Zinc
- Which former Denver Broncos guard was born in Anchorage, Alaska on December 19, 1982?
Answer: Chris Kuper
- Serving from 1968-2009, who is the longest serving U.S. senator from Alaska?
Answer: Ted Stevens
- What four-letter word beginning with A is the western most incorporated city in Alaska? The city is found on an island with the same name.
Answer: Adak
- Alaska Electric Light & Power Company is a subsidiary of what “A” American energy company, an electric and natural gas provider based out of Spokane, Washington?
Answer: Avista Corp.
- What company (headquartered in Washington and not the much more north state in its name) traces its roots to a 1930s company started by Linious McGee to help support his fur trading business?
Answer: Alaska Airlines
- Which U.S. state shares the longest border with Canada? The total comes in at over 1,500 miles.
Answer: Alaska
- The massive 1964 earthquake that killed 133 people and destroyed several villages in coastal Alaska occurred on what religious holiday? The quake's moment magnitude of 9.2 was more than a thousand times as powerful as the famous 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Answer: Good Friday
- The total amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by human activity is better known by what two-word term that originated from a concept conceived by environmentalists William E. Rees and Dr. Mathis Wackernagel in the 1990s?
Answer: Carbon footprint
- According to the Department of Energy, in 2021, Alaska ranked third in natural gas withdrawals, behind Texas and what Rust Belt state that churns out Rolling Rock beer?
Answer: Pennsylvania
- King salmon, Quinnat salmon, spring salmon, chrome hog, and Tyee salmon are all alternate names for the official state fish of Alaska which is more often referred to by what name?
Answer: Chinook salmon
- What city is named for the Aleut word meaning “near the peninsula”, not because it was turning against its own state?
Answer: Unalaska
- The Alaska Permanent Fund was set up under Governor Jay Hammond, a few years after the OPEC-fueled first oil shock in what decade?
Answer: 1970s
- Premiering in 2020 on PBS Kids, what is the rhyming title of the first cartoon series to feature an Alaska Native character as its protagonist?
Answer: Molly of Denali
- 48 U.S. states are divided into counties. Two are not, using either boroughs or parishes as the term to delineate state regions. Name one of the two non-county states.
Answer: Louisiana (parish) and Alaska (borough)
- A proposed 211-mile, controlled industrial access road known as the AAP would provide access to what Alaskan mining district repped by the first "A" in AAP?
Answer: Ambler
- What was the name of the humpback whale that took a detour from his migration to Alaska to visit San Fransisco Bay in 1985 and again in 1990?
Answer: Humphrey
- There are no murders in the 1999 film "Mystery, Alaska," but led by a sheriff played by Russell Crowe the town's amateur hockey team takes on what kinda cop-named NHL team?
Answer: New York Rangers
- Before it chose Juneau for its name, the mining settlement founded by Joseph Juneau and Richard Harris was known by what name? (The name is currently in use as another U.S. state capital)
Answer: Harrisburg
- The Pan-American Highway stretches from Alaska to the southern tip of Chile, with the exception of what swampy "gap" that lies between Panama and Colombia?
Answer: Darien Gap
- What southeastern Alaskan port, located near the beginning of the Inside Passage, is known as the "First City" and the "Salmon Capital of the World"?
Answer: Ketchikan
- A pooling of state agencies, rural leaders, and the federal government facilitated the creation of the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative during the term of what War on Poverty president?
Answer: Lyndon Johnson
- At 48 miles long, which glacier south of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is the largest glacier in North America?
Answer: Bering
- Two states share the record for most Iditarod wins. Unsurprisingly Alaska is one of those states, but mushers from which other state have also won on nine occasions (with "King of the Iditarod" Rick Swenson accounting for over half of those victories)?
Answer: Minnesota
- Although less famous than co-founder Jimmy Wales, Alaska native Larry Sanger was a co-founder of what famous internet property although he later quit and became publicly critical of the project?
Answer: Wikipedia
- The first offshore oil wells were off the coast of what Southern U.S. state in the 1950s?
Answer: Louisiana
- Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, Denali Foxx is the stage name of a performer who competed on Season 13 of what VH1 reality series?
Answer: RuPaul's Drag Race
- What Northern Alaska town is adjacent to and the namesake of the largest oilfield in the United States, and is the unofficial northern terminus of the Pan-American highway?
Answer: Prudhoe Bay
- Adopted after his Alaskan antics by a Buckeye industrialist, you can visit the preserved body of what Iditarod-inspiring, antidote-schleppin' sled dog at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History?
Answer: Balto
- Alphabetically last on the list of U.S. airport codes, Z09 is assigned to an airport in what state?
Answer: Alaska
- The world's first constant-angle arch variable radius dam is what Juneau area one with a fishy name?
Answer: Salmon Creek Dam
- The location of the Aleutian Islands makes which state both the most eastern and most western state?
Answer: Alaska
- When Alaska congressman Donald passed away in 2022, he was the longest serving member of Republican congress ever. In which year was sworn in as congressman for the first time?
Answer: 1973
- Which character, the first officer on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, was born in Alaska in the year 2335?
Answer: William T. Riker
- What is the northernmost U.S. National Park? Located in Alaska, this national park lies entirely within the Arctic Circle.
Answer: Gates of the Arctic
- What did the Aleut word "Aleyska" mean, which in the form "Alaska," was proposed by William Seward and his colleagues when the territory changed hands from Russia to the U.S.? It was adopted in 1867 as the territory's name.
Answer: Great Land
- Aptly for a sister city of Anchorage, the Chinese city of Harbin hosts an annual winter festival that hosts the world's largest sculptures made from what material?
Answer: Ice
- Talkeetna was supposedly the inspiration for Cicely, Alaska —t he setting of what ensemble early '90s CBS show?
Answer: Northern Exposure
- With a full stage name that has to be bleeped on television, "Alaska" is the stage name of the performer who came in second on Season 5 and won All-Stars Season 2 on what reality show?
Answer: RuPaul's Drag Race
- If you have an IC license from Alaska's Department of Labor, you might bepretty skilled at not talking too loud, since "IC" stands for what kind of high-tech wiring administrator?
Answer: Inside Communications
- Which seaside city on Baranof Island is home to the Alaska Raptor Center, St. Michael’s Cathedral, and Castle Hill?
Answer: Sitka
- What "A" volcano in Alaska that last had a major eruption in 2006 is technically a stratovolcano consisting of a central complex of summit lava domes and flows? The volcano is located on an uninhabited island 174 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Answer: Augustine Volcano
- Previously the mayor of the city of Seward, what is the name of Alaska's first governor, who served from 1959 to 1966 and again from 1970 to 1974?
Answer: William Allen Egan
- Which Alaskan city was named in honor of the future 26th U.S. vice president, who served under Theodore Roosevelt from 1905 to 1909?
Answer: Fairbanks
- What 2002 film set in tiny Nightmute, Alaska features Al Pacino playing an LAPD detective assisting on a murder case, all while suffering from the title condition?
Answer: Insomnia
- Following a tragedy in 2015, the city of Sitka, Alaska developed a website to monitor and warn about the possibility of what natural disaster?
Answer: Landslide
- Alaska is typically considered the seventh-largest country subdivision in the world by area. Two of the larger subdivisions are found in Russia and two in Australia. Name either country that has a subdivision larger than Alaska.
Answer: Canada (Nunavut) or Denmark (Greenland)
- "Seward's Folly" was the contemporaneous nickname for The Alaska Purchase in 1867, which was technically a treaty with the Russian Empire later signed by what president?
Answer: Andrew Johnson
- What singer got her "big break" when her original song "Alaska" was played for Pharrell while she was still an NYU student? Pharrell's reaction in the video went viral, launching the young songwriter's career.
Answer: Maggie Rogers
- What biome is also known as the boreal forest or snow forest? The biome is identifiable through its coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. Although sparsely populated compared to other biomes, it is the world's largest apart from the oceans. In North America, it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska.
Answer: Taiga
- From the time of its acquisition in 1867 to 1877, Alaska was under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army. From 1879 to 1884, the state was under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy. What government department controlled Alaska in the interim? At the time, the department also was responsible for the Secret Service.
Answer: Treasury
- In 2005, Johan Hultin and Jeffery Taubenberger, along with Taubenberger's colleagues, developed a vaccine for what deadly virus, using lung tissue samples from an Inuit woman buried in a mass grave in Brevig Mission, Alaska?
Answer: Spanish flu
- Since Alaska obtained statehood in 1959, how many times has it given its electoral votes to a Democrat candidate in a U.S. presidential election?
Answer: Once
- Founded in 1979 by Molly Smith in Juneau, what is the name of Alaska’s largest professional theater?
Answer: Perseverance Theatre
- Unlike most U.S. states, Alaska is not divided into counties. Instead, it is divided into 16 regions which are known as what?
Answer: Boroughs
- To the nearest 10%, what percentage of the population of Alaska live in the state’s biggest city, Anchorage?
Answer: 40%
- Boris Goosinov is a Russian-born snow goose in a series of movies about (and named after) which Alaskan husky who led the team of sled dogs on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome?
Answer: Balto
- The Alaska Railroad, owned by the state of Alaska, provides freight and passenger service between Fairbanks in the north and what municipality in the south?
Answer: Seward
- In July 2018, what U.S. state had the lowest gas tax at 14.7 cents per gallon?
Answer: Alaska
- The name of what point in Hoonah, a cruise ship stop with a restored salmon cannery, is based an icy version of a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies?
Answer: Icy Strait Point
- On what date did President Eisenhower sign Proclamation 3269 admitting Alaska as the 49th state?
Answer: January 3, 1959
- Which city that is found in the top 10 cities in Alaska by population is also the name of a mammal?
Answer: Badger
- Out of 50 states, Alaska is ranked 1st in land area. However, where does it rank in terms of population?
Answer: 48th
- Among the regulated electrical and utility workers in Alaska are RW specialists, electricians skilled in what specific area?
Answer: Residential wiring
- The only Alaskan to win the Medal of Honor, Archie Van Winkle, won the award in the role as Staff Sargent in the marines in which war?
Answer: Korean War
- What “G” word is the name of a channel between Alaska and the Alexander Archipelago that is on the border of capital Juneau? The same word is the last name of a New York Jets defensive end of the 1980s named Mark.
Answer: Gastineau
- Covering millions of years of history in its 868 pages, "Alaska" is a historical novel by what American author?
Answer: James Michener
- What tsar ruled Russia at the time U.S. Secretary of State William Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession, ceding Alaska to the U.S.?
Answer: Alexander II
- On October 18, 1867, the Russian flag was officially lowered and the U.S. flag raised at the governor's house on what "hill" in Fort Sitka?
Answer: Castle Hill
- The used car shopping website TrueCar released data in 2014 with the share of cars sold in each U.S. state that are a truck (pickups and SUVs) vs. a car (cars, small crossovers, wagons). The leading state had over 75% of its sold vehicles counted as a "truck" by this definition. What state was that?
Answer: Alaska
- When you arrive in Juneau by boat, you’ll be met by a likeness of the town’s “official greeter.” Throughout the 1930s, the Bull Terrier was known to locals for her unique talent: Even though she was deaf and couldn't hear a ship's whistle, she always knew when a ship was coming in—and which dock she’d need to be at to greet its passengers. She died in 1942, but her statue still welcomes visitors today. What was the beloved pup’s name?
Answer: Patsy Ann
- The United States bought Alaska of Russia in 1867, after Russia initially offered to which European country and was turned down? The area of territory for this country would have increased 11,000 times if they bought Alaska.
Answer: Liechtenstein
- 8th graders in which Alaskan city have to survive two nights on one of the state’s uninhabited islands to pass their final exam for science class?
Answer: Ketchikan
- What volcano erupted in 1912, the most violent eruption of the 20th Century in Alaska? The eruption created the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes which is now part of Katmai National Park.
Answer: Novarupta
- Alaska is well known for having a lot of mountains, but how many of the 20 highest peaks in the U.S. are found in Alaska?
Answer: 17
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