This historic site was built from 1844-1869 to defend the Penobscot River and Bangor, a major location for shipbuilding lumber.
What is Fort Knox?
100
With 98% of the nation's products harvested in Maine, this fruit is commonly used in jams, jellies, pies and fruit salads.
What are blueberries?
100
Named for the governor who donated the land to the state, Mt. Katahdin is at the heart of this state park.
What is Baxter State Park?
200
The Maine state tree. (Hint: don't forget the color.)
What is White Pine?
200
Maine's highest point at 5,268 ft. above sea level.
What is Mount Katahdin?
200
Separating from Massachusetts, Maine became the 23rd state in this year through the Missouri Compromise.
What is 1820?
200
Over 90% of this shellfish in the nation are caught along the Maine coast.
What is lobster?
200
Maine's largest ski mountain has a one-mountain vertical drop of 2,820 feet, the longest in the East.
What is Sugarloaf?
300
The Maine state fish.
What is the Landlocked Salmon?
300
Maine's largest lake.
What is Moosehead Lake?
300
Two of the four Native American tribes who remain today of the dozens of tribes who once inhabited Maine.
Who are the Passamaquoddy, Penobscots, Micmacs and Maliseets?
300
Maine ranks as one of the top three producing states of this vegetable in the country.
What are potatoes?
300
Near the first English settlement in Maine, it has long sand beaches, tidal pools, rocky outcrops, and a nearby fort to explore.
What is Popham Beach?
400
The Maine state gemstone.
What is tourmaline?
400
Officially named the Piscataqua River Bridge, this is the largest port of entry on Interstate 95 between New Hampshire and Maine.
What is the Kittery Bridge?
400
He marched through Maine in a failed attempt to capture British strongholds in Quebec City and Montreal in 1775, and later switched sides during the Revolutionary War becoming one of history's best-known traitors.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
400
"The way life should be" is a popular slogan for one of Maine's largest industries that generates roughly $10 billion in sales of goods and services.
What is tourism?
400
Canoeists enjoy paddling this 92-miles of river and lakes that flows through two Maine counties and is surrounded by vast forests.
What is the Allagash Wilderness Waterway?
500
The Maine state herb.
What is Wintergreen?
500
The length of Maine (north to south) within 25 miles.
What is 320 miles? (Range 295-345)
500
Giovanni da Verranzano in 1524.
Who is the first confirmed European to explore the coast of Maine?
500
Almost 89% of Maine is forested, making it a prime location for the mills that produce this product that is used in schools and offices throughout the country.
What is pulp or paper products?
500
This Maine Forest and Logging Museum located in Bradley, Maine, has an operating water powered sawmill.