1. "I remember the sea-fight far away," wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "How it thundered o'er the tide!" To what incident do these lines from his poem "My Lost Youth" refer?

a) The vain struggle of the steamer Portland to survive a storm
b) The British bombardment of Portland
c) The battle between the Enterprise and the Margaretta
d) The battle between the Enterprise and the Boxer

2. Which Maine-educated singer popularized which song about Maine?

a) Jackson Browne and "Nothing But Time"
b) Bing Crosby and "White Christmas"
c) Rudy Vallee and the "Maine Stein Song"
d) Rudy Vallee and the "State of Maine Song"

3. Although he never actually visited Maine, one Englishman made such a determined effort to establish a colony here that a fortification was named in his honor. Which fort is it?

a) Fort Gorges
b) Fort Knox
c) Fort Popham
d) Fort Preble

4. Which Maine native brought Jackie Robinson, the first African-American major league baseball player, into the Brooklyn Dodgers?

a) Bill Carrigan
b) Clyde Sukeforth
c) Sid Farrar
d) Smokey Wood

5. Falmouth was destroyed by British naval bombardment in 1775. A cannonball from the barrage is incorporated into a chandelier in the First Parish Church - in Portland. Why does a Portland church keep an artifact belonging to Falmouth?

a) Portland was once named Falmouth
b) Church resettled in Portland after the bombardment
c) Poor British aim
d) Church was original site of the Maine Historical Society

6. The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the lines "All I could see from where I stood/Was three long mountains and a wood;/I turned and looked another way,/And saw three islands in a bay." What place in Maine was she describing?

a) Mount Desert Island, seen from Mount Cadillac
b) View from Mount Battie, in Camden
c) Fox Islands, seen from Rockland
d) View from Mount Agamenticus, in York

7. From the middle to the end of the 19th century, Republican politicians from Maine enjoyed a level of respect and influence in national politics disproportionate to the state's size and location. James G. Blaine, Thomas Brackett Reed and William Pitt Fessenden were three of the well-known GOP figures representing Maine in Washington during that period. Who was another?

a) Nathan Clifford
b) Melville Fuller
c) Cyrus Hamlin
d) Hannibal Hamlin

8. The first boat made by Europeans in America was built at the Popham Colony, in what is now Phippsburg, in 1607. What was it called?

a) Virginia
b) Gift of God
c) Caleb Cushing
d) Mary and John

9. One of Maine's best-known and best-respected politicians was the late Margaret Chase Smith. Although her reputation rests on her principled and independent approach to lawmaking, she also established several precedents in American politics. Which of the following is not one of them?

a) First woman elected to the U.S. Senate
b) First woman elected to both houses of Congress
c) First woman whose name was placed in nomination for the presidency by a major political party
d) First Democratic senator to speak out against Sen. Joe McCarthy

10. For whom was the Maine-built Liberty Ship Jeremiah O'Brien named?

a) Maine's first governor
b) Commander of the Twentieth Maine Regiment at Little Round Top
c) Hero of a naval engagement at Machias
d) Talent scout who discovered Rudy Vallee

11. What was the so-called "Maine Law"?

a) A state law virtually eliminating the sale of alcohol
b) A congressional act that resulted in Maine statehood
c) A law establishing Massachusetts' jurisdiction over the Province of Maine
d) The popular maxim that goes, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute"

12. "Wabanaki" is a name collectively applied to Maine's major Native American groups, including the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac and Maliseet tribes. What does Wabanaki mean?

a) Our kin, our friends
b) People of the dawn
c) Humans
d) Red-paint people