Statistics for New England Geography Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Capital of Maine	Augusta	96%
Island east of Martha's Vineyard known for its whaling history	Nantucket	96%
Only national park in New England	Acadia National Park	93%
Largest city in Maine	Portland	93%
City home to the flagship campus of the UMass system	Amherst	86%
Highest mountain	Mount Washington	79%
Massachusetts pond that Henry David Thoreau lived on for two years	Walden Pond	79%
Massachusetts river that flows from Hopkinton to Boston	Charles River	75%
Lake that borders Vermont, New York, and Quebec	Lake Champlain	75%
Most populous city in Connecticut	Bridgeport	71%
Longest river	Connecticut River	71%
City in Rhode Island known for its Gilded Age mansions	Newport	64%
Gulf that most of the coastline in New Hampshire and Maine is located on	Gulf of Maine	57%
Cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain that feature on the New Hampshire state emblem and collapsed in 2003	Old Man of the Mountain	54%
Island 9 miles south of mainland Rhode Island and 14 miles east of Montauk Point, Long Island	Block Island	50%
Oldest residential community in Boston, known for its Italian-American population	North End	46%
Canal that is north of Buzzards Bay and contains the Sagamore Bridge	Cape Cod Canal	39%
Hiking trail that runs the length of the state of Vermont	Long Trail	32%
Highest mountain in Maine	Mount Katahdin	29%
Ravine on Mount Washington known for its spring skiing	Tuckerman Ravine	14%