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Quiz about Ten Interesting Things about Vermont
Quiz about Ten Interesting Things about Vermont

Ten Interesting Things about Vermont Quiz


Vermont is the sixth-smallest state in the United States in area, and the second-smallest in population. And yet in many ways it is the most intriguing state. Take this quiz and find out why.

A multiple-choice quiz by chessart. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
chessart
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
324,344
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
902
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which river forms the border between Vermont and New Hampshire? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Which is the longest river entirely within Vermont? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What proportion of Vermont residents live in rural areas, defined as either in the country or in towns of less than 2,500 people? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain boys occupy a prominent place in American history. Why did Ethan Allen originally organize his group in 1770? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Not being one of the original thirteen colonies, Vermont adopted its own constitution in 1777. This document made Vermont the first political body in the U.S. to do what? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Foreshadowing the independent streak which Vermont has long been known for, Vermont in 1832 gave its presidential electoral votes to a third-party candidate. Which candidate and which party received Vermont's electoral votes in 1832? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In 1990 Bernie Sanders became Vermont's representative in Congress, and served in that job for sixteen years before being elected to the Senate. Although he ran as an independent on the ballot, Sanders declared himself to be a member of which party? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What did Vermont ban in 1993? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Vermont is the U.S.'s largest producer of which product? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Vermont has an active secessionist movement. What name does this movement go by? Hint



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1. Which river forms the border between Vermont and New Hampshire?

Answer: Connecticut River

With a length of 407 miles, the Connecticut is the longest river in New England. It empties into the Long Island Sound.
2. Which is the longest river entirely within Vermont?

Answer: Otter Creek

An oddity, a river called a creek. The Otter empties into Lake Champlain at the town of Ferrisburg, and is about 90 miles in length.
3. What proportion of Vermont residents live in rural areas, defined as either in the country or in towns of less than 2,500 people?

Answer: two thirds

Vermont has the highest proportion of its residents living in rural areas of all the fifty states.
4. Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain boys occupy a prominent place in American history. Why did Ethan Allen originally organize his group in 1770?

Answer: To defend the claims of New Hampshire land grantees against New York grantees.

At the time settlement of Vermont began around 1750, the governors of both New Hampshire and New York began making grants of land in what is now Vermont, often involving the same land. Ethan Allen organized his Green Mountain Boys to defend the claims of New Hampshire grantees against those of New York grantees, organizing his group in a meeting at the Catamount Tavern in Bennington in 1770.

The controversy was finally resolved in 1790 when Vermont paid New York $30,000 for the disputed land, clearing the way for Vermont's admission into the union as the fourteenth state the following year.
5. Not being one of the original thirteen colonies, Vermont adopted its own constitution in 1777. This document made Vermont the first political body in the U.S. to do what?

Answer: ban slavery

Other jurisdictions gradually came on board, starting with the Northwest Territory in 1787.
6. Foreshadowing the independent streak which Vermont has long been known for, Vermont in 1832 gave its presidential electoral votes to a third-party candidate. Which candidate and which party received Vermont's electoral votes in 1832?

Answer: William Wirt of the Anti-Masonic Party

The Anti-Masonic Party was formed in New York in 1828. It was the first party to have a nominating convention and the first to adopt a national platform. It elected governors in Vermont and Pennsylvania during the 1830's, but after that it died out and was absorbed into the other existing parties.
7. In 1990 Bernie Sanders became Vermont's representative in Congress, and served in that job for sixteen years before being elected to the Senate. Although he ran as an independent on the ballot, Sanders declared himself to be a member of which party?

Answer: Socialist

Sanders had been a member of the Liberty Union party until he resigned in 1979 and started gravitating toward the Socialist party. Upon his election to the House in 1990, Sanders became the first Socialist member of the House in sixty years.

Vermont had been solidly Republican in its politics until 1958, when a Democrat finally won statewide office, and Democrats have been competitive ever since.
8. What did Vermont ban in 1993?

Answer: air conditioning in cars that use chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

Vermont became the first state to ban air conditioners using CFC's. Testimony had established that car air conditioners are the largest source of the U.S. contribution to ozone depletion.
9. Vermont is the U.S.'s largest producer of which product?

Answer: maple syrup

Vermont is by far the biggest U.S. producer of maple syrup, with Maine a distant second. Freezing nights and warm days are needed to induce the flow of the sap, so the usual time period for maple syrup production is when winter is changing into spring.
10. Vermont has an active secessionist movement. What name does this movement go by?

Answer: The Second Republic

This name refers to the fact that Vermont was a republic originally from 1775 to 1791 when it joined the U.S. The secessionist movement seeks to return it to republic status.

The Conch Republic is an independence movement in Key West, and the other two wrong answers refer to independence movements in the in the Pacific Northwest.
Source: Author chessart

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