MD True or False
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.
True
his scenic Maryland bay is famous for blue crabs, oysters, and boating.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
This shellfish is another Chesapeake Bay favorite, often served raw, fried, or roasted.
What are oysters?
This is Maryland’s official state flower.
What is the Black-Eyed Susan?
This Maryland-born actor played the title character in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Who is Will Smith?
Maryland’s nickname is the “Sunshine State.”
False
This Maryland city is home to the National Harbor's neighboring attractions across the Potomac.
Oxon Hill
This crustacean is Maryland’s most famous food and is often seasoned with Old Bay.
What are blue crabs?
This Maryland city is home to the United States Naval Academy.
What is Annapolis?
This Maryland-born author wrote The Star-Spangled Banner after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
Maryland is completely landlocked.?
False — Maryland has extensive waterways and coastline along the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.
This Maryland mountain resort area surrounds a large lake popular for boating and skiing.
What is Deep Creek Lake
This Chesapeake Bay fish is often smoked and has long been a traditional Maryland food.
What is rockfish?
What four words can start an argument at a Maryland cookout: “Who has the ______?”
What is Old Bay?
This Maryland-born abolitionist and writer became one of the most famous African American leaders of the 19th century.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Maryland was one of the original 13 colonies.
True
This historic Maryland town was once the home of Frederick Douglass and is located on the Eastern Shore.What is Easton?
What is Easton?
At a traditional Maryland crab feast, these are commonly used to crack open the shells.
What are wooden mallets
Someone says, “I’m going to the beach.” In Maryland, they probably mean which beach?
What is Ocean City?
This Maryland-born Supreme Court justice became the first Black person to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
George Washington was born in Maryland
False — He was born in Virginia.
This Eastern Shore town is home to the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center nearby.
What is Cambridge?
This Maryland dessert became the state’s official dessert in 2008.
What is Smith Island Cake?
What is the unofficial Maryland rule about Old Bay?
What is “When in doubt, sprinkle it out”?
This Baltimore-born filmmaker directed Hairspray, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice.
Who is John Waters?