Maryland Symbols
The Maryland state team sport.
What is lacrosse?
The name of the National Anthem that was written in Maryland.
The Star Spangled Banner
The capital of Maryland.
What is Annapolis?
Black, white, red, and yellow
The current governor of Maryland.
Who is Wes Moore?
The Maryland state flower.
What is the black eyed Susan?
The doctor who first successfully separated conjoined twins. He later ran for president.
Who is Dr. Ben Carson?
The bay that was formed from a flooded river. It provides food such as oysters, clams, crabs, and rockfish.
What it the Chesapeake Bay?
Two states that border Maryland.
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia
The famous fort in Baltimore.
What is Fort McHenry?
The Maryland state insect.
What is the checkerspot butterfly?
The baseball player who set a record for the most consecutive baseball games played in a row.
Who is Cal Ripken, Jr?
The range of mountains in western Maryland.
What are the Appalachian mountains?
The first town to be established in Maryland.
What is St. Mary's City?
The largest city in Maryland, nicknamed Charm City.
What is Baltimore?
The Maryland state fish.
What is the rockfish?
The Olympic swimmer with the most gold medals.
Who is Michael Phelps?
A river that flows through Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York.
What is the Susquehanna River?
The "line" that separates the North and South states.
The county we are in right now.
Howard County
The Maryland state dog.
What is the Chesapeake Bay retriever?
The writer of the National Anthem.
Francis Scott Key
A bridge near Annapolis that connects the eastern shore of Maryland to the western shore of Maryland. It is named after a body of water in Maryland.
What is the Chesapeake Bay bridge?
The war that was going on when Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star Spangled Banner."
What is the War of 1812?
The year the Maryland county was founded.
1634