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51 Utah Trivia Questions and Fun Facts

Reviewed by Stefanie Zaldarriaga, Author·Updated Oct 2026·6 min read

51 Utah trivia questions with answers and a handful of checked fun facts, from Delicate Arch and the Great Salt Lake to the Golden Spike, Pando and the official state cooking pot.

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Utah packs five national parks, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and a forest that is technically one tree into a state named after the Ute people. It also has an official state snack, and it is Jell-O. Before the 51 questions below, here are the facts worth knowing.

Utah has five national parks, nicknamed the Mighty 5: Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef. Arches alone holds more than 2,000 documented natural stone arches, and Bryce Canyon has the largest concentration of hoodoos on Earth. (Source: National Park Service.)

The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, and it is a shrunken remnant of prehistoric Lake Bonneville, which once covered much of western Utah. (Source: Utah Geological Survey.)

On May 10, 1869, a ceremonial golden spike at Promontory Summit joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines and completed the first transcontinental railroad. (Source: National Park Service, Golden Spike National Historical Park.)

Utah was early on women's votes. In February 1870 Seraph Young became the first woman to vote in the United States under an equal suffrage law, and in 1896 Martha Hughes Cannon became the first woman elected a state senator, beating her own husband among others. (Source: Utah Department of Cultural and Community Engagement, Utah State History.)

The state's official symbols go well past the bird and the flower: Jell-O is the state snack food, the Dutch oven is the state cooking pot, the Browning M1911 is the state firearm and the quaking aspen has been the state tree since 2014, replacing the blue spruce. (Source: Utah Code, Title 63G, Chapter 1, Part 6, State Symbols.)

Pando, a single quaking aspen clone in Fishlake National Forest, shares one root system across tens of thousands of stems and ranks among the largest living organisms known by mass. Its name is Latin for "I spread." (Source: USDA Forest Service, Fishlake National Forest.)

The questions start easy and get harder as you go, and every one has multiple-choice options. Read each question aloud, give the table a moment, then reveal the answer.

  1. 1What is the capital of Utah?

  2. 2What is Utah's official nickname?

  3. 3How many national parks does Utah have?

  4. 4At the Four Corners, Utah meets Colorado, Arizona and which other state?

  5. 5Which body of water is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere?

  6. 6In what year did Salt Lake City host the Winter Olympics?

  7. 7Which structure, built by insects, is Utah's state emblem?

  8. 8What was completed at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869?

  9. 9Delicate Arch, pictured on Utah license plates, stands in which national park?

  10. 10The Utah Jazz play which sport?

  11. 11Utah takes its name from which Native American people?

  12. 12What is Utah's state bird?

  13. 13Which wobbly dessert became Utah's official state snack food in 2001?

  14. 14What are the tall, thin rock spires that fill Bryce Canyon called?

  15. 15Utah's Pioneer Day, a state holiday, falls on which date?

  16. 16Which state borders Utah to the west?

  17. 17In what year did Utah become a state?

  18. 18Utah entered the Union as which numbered state?

  19. 19What is Utah's state flower?

  20. 20Which tree replaced the blue spruce as Utah's state tree in 2014?

  21. 21Which became Utah's first national park, in 1919?

  22. 22In Canyonlands National Park, the Green River joins which larger river?

  23. 23Capitol Reef National Park protects which long wrinkle in the Earth's crust?

  24. 24Lake Powell was created by which dam?

  25. 25Lake Powell straddles the border between Utah and which state?

  26. 26What is the highest point in Utah?

  27. 27The Bonneville Salt Flats are famous for what?

  28. 28Who became the first woman elected a state senator in the United States, in Utah in 1896?

  29. 29Which Utah-born inventor is credited with the first all-electronic television system?

  30. 30Utah's official state firearm, the M1911 pistol, was designed by which Ogden native?

  31. 31What is Utah's one-word state motto?

  32. 32Who led the first Latter-day Saint pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847?

  33. 33Which dinosaur is Utah's state fossil?

  34. 34Dinosaur National Monument straddles the border between Utah and which state?

  35. 35Before moving to Utah in 1979, the Jazz played in which city?

  36. 36What is Utah's official state cooking pot?

  37. 37What is Utah's state gem?

  38. 38What is Utah's state fruit?

  39. 39What is Utah's state animal?

  40. 40Which metal is Utah's state mineral, mined on a vast scale at Bingham Canyon?

  41. 41Arches National Park holds more than how many documented natural stone arches?

  42. 42In 1848, according to Utah pioneer history, flocks of gulls saved the settlers' crops by eating swarms of what?

  43. 43Which star is Utah's official state star?

  44. 44What is Utah's official state vegetable?

  45. 45On the state flag Utah adopted in 2024, the beehive sits inside what shape?

  46. 46Zion was first protected in 1909 under what name?

  47. 47Pando, the giant aspen clone in Fishlake National Forest, takes its name from a Latin word meaning what?

  48. 48Who, in February 1870, became the first woman to vote in the United States under an equal suffrage law?

  49. 49The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of which prehistoric lake?

  50. 50How many counties does Utah have?

  51. 51Robert Smithson's 1970 earthwork Spiral Jetty, on the Great Salt Lake's north arm, is built mainly from what?

Answer Key

  1. 1. Salt Lake City
  2. 2. The Beehive State
  3. 3. Five
  4. 4. New Mexico
  5. 5. The Great Salt Lake
  6. 6. 2002
  7. 7. The beehive
  8. 8. The first transcontinental railroad
  9. 9. Arches National Park
  10. 10. Basketball
  11. 11. The Ute
  12. 12. The California gull
  13. 13. Jell-O
  14. 14. Hoodoos
  15. 15. July 24
  16. 16. Nevada
  17. 17. 1896
  18. 18. The 45th
  19. 19. The sego lily
  20. 20. The quaking aspen
  21. 21. Zion
  22. 22. The Colorado River
  23. 23. The Waterpocket Fold
  24. 24. Glen Canyon Dam
  25. 25. Arizona
  26. 26. Kings Peak
  27. 27. Land speed records
  28. 28. Martha Hughes Cannon
  29. 29. Philo T. Farnsworth
  30. 30. John Moses Browning
  31. 31. Industry
  32. 32. Brigham Young
  33. 33. Allosaurus
  34. 34. Colorado
  35. 35. New Orleans
  36. 36. The Dutch oven
  37. 37. Topaz
  38. 38. The cherry
  39. 39. The Rocky Mountain elk
  40. 40. Copper
  41. 41. 2,000
  42. 42. Crickets
  43. 43. Dubhe
  44. 44. The Spanish sweet onion
  45. 45. A hexagon
  46. 46. Mukuntuweap National Monument
  47. 47. I spread
  48. 48. Seraph Young
  49. 49. Lake Bonneville
  50. 50. 29
  51. 51. Basalt rock and earth

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