U.S. State Quarters - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) New Hampshire. The Old Man of the Mountain rock formation, which still appears on the state's highway signs, disintegrated beyond recognition in May 2003.
• A2) Alabama. Native Helen Keller's name appears in both text and Braille.
• A3) Idaho. The state motto, Esto perpetua, means "May it live forever".
• A4) Hawaii. The state motto, Ua mau ke ea o ka aina i ka pono, is Hawaiian for "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness".
• A5) Montana. The Big Sky Country quarter shows a bison skull, a symbol used by local Native American tribes. A live bison appears on the quarters of both Kansas and North Dakota.
• A6) South Dakota. Both the old pennies and new quarters are braced by curved stalks of wheat.
• A7) West Virginia. The 876-foot high, 3,030-foot long New River Gorge Bridge held the title until France's Millau Viaduct opened in 2004 and was the longest steel arch bridge until China's Lupu bridge opened in 2003.
• A8) Iowa. Native Grant Wood completed the painting of a one-room schoolhouse in 1932.
• A9) Alaska. A grizzly bear has captured its salmon dinner in its mouth.
• A10) Florida. A 16th-century Spanish galleon and a 20th-century space shuttle share the back side with a pair of Sabal palm trees.
• A11) Louisiana. The Louisiana Purchase is highlighted, with the state looking like a small boot at the bottom.
• A12) 5. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln appear on Mt. Rushmore on the South Dakota quarter; George Washington and James Monroe are crossing the Delaware River on the New Jersey quarter; and Abraham Lincoln fills out the state outline on the Illinois quarter.

Bonus factoids: if you feel like you keep seeing the Virginia quarter, you're observational powers are keen. The Old Dominion State appeared on 1,594,616,000 quarters, the most of any state (Connecticut was second at 1,346,624,000 and South Carolina third at 1,308,784,000, while Oklahoma was the rarest at 416,600,000). Just under $8.7 billion worth of state quarters were minted.