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100

The capital city of Maine.

What is Augusta, Maine?

100

The Maine State Tree.

What is the White Pine?

100

This crustacean became one of Maine’s most valuable modern industries and is caught using traps.

What is lobster?

100

Maine became a state in this year.

What is 1820?

100

A popular national park mostly located on Mount Desert Island.

What is Acadia National Park?

200

What is the biggest city by population in Maine.

What is Portland?

200

The Maine State animal.

What is the moose?

200

This industry cut large blocks of stone used in monuments and buildings.

What is granite quarrying?

200

This Mainer led the 20th Maine at Little Round Top.

Who is Joshua Chamberlain?

200

This mountain range is popular among hikers and ends at Mount Katahdin.

What is the Appalachian Mountain Range?

300
The first official capital of Maine.

What is Portland?

300

The Maine state bird.

What is the chickadee?

300

Besides timber, these geographic features made Maine ideal for shipbuilding.

What are deep harbors/coastal access?

300

The state that Maine was part of before it's statehood was declared.

What is Massachusetts?

300

The Maine state motto.

What is Dirigo?

400

The smallest county by land area.

What is Sagadahoc County?

400

Maine's nickname.

What is the Pine Tree State?
400

European fishermen crossed the Atlantic for this once-abundant fish.

What is cod?

400

The agreement that allowed Maine to become its own state.

What is the Missouri Compromise?

400

This Maine landmark was featured in the movie Forrest Gump.

What is Marshall Point Lighthouse?

500

The sixteen counties in Maine.

What are Cumberland, Franklin, Piscataquis, Kennebec, Oxford, Androscoggin, Washington, Waldo, York, Knox, Lincoln, Hancock, Sagadahoc, Somerset, Aroostook, and Penobscot?

500

This is the Maine state insect.

The Honey Bee

500

In 1775, the first naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought off the coast of this Maine town.

What is the Battle of Machias?

500

These are the five tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy.

Penobscot, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Abenaki

500
The state motto translated into English means this..

What is "I Lead" ?

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