Americana Flashcards
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This statue was dedicated on Bedloe’s Island Oct. 28, 1886
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the Statue of Liberty
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It’s said that William Driver of Massachusetts gave the American flag this 2-word nickname
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Old Glory
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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The USA’s 10th national park is this one in Montana that’s named for a giant icy feature
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Glacier National Park
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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Woody Guthrie wrote this song that spans “from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters”
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“This Land Is Your Land”
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by the Great Seal of the United States</a>) On the Great Seal of the United States, the power of war and peace are symbolized by <a>what</a> the eagle holds in its talons, thirteen arrows on one side, and <a>this</a>, with thirteen leaves, on the other
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an olive branch
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Finding the spot for this memorial caused its creator to say, “America will march along that skyline”
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Mount Rushmore
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Riding the subway in New York in 1908, Jack Norworth saw a sign for the Polo Grounds & was inspired to write this song
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Made for only 19 years, it sold for $825 in 1908 & $360 in 1927
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the Model T
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1885 America got its first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, in this “Windy City”
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Chicago
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Waterloo, N.Y. is the birthplace of this holiday, having first honored the Civil War dead May 5, 1866
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Memorial Day
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Democratic campaign song in the 1932 election was these “Are Here Again”
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Happy Days
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In the 1920s Shipwreck Kelly made a name for himself sitting high atop these
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flagpoles
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Panhandle State’s Cimarron County borders 4 states
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Oklahoma
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Matronly nickname for AT&T & its telephone system
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Ma Bell
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This capital’s Frontier Days celebration has been held every year since 1897
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Cheyenne, Wyoming
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$6400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| “Enter a higher state” is a tourism slogan for this state
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Colorado
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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This 2-word expression of surprise may have originally referred to General Winfield
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Great Scott!
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1837 fine dining came to NYC when 2 Swiss brothers “steaked” their claim & opened this restaurant
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Delmonico’s
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This national memorial in the Black Hills is also called the “Shrine of Democracy”
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Mount Rushmore
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The song “America, the Beautiful” says, “crown thy good with” this “from sea to shining sea”
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brotherhood
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Crayola factory in Easton, Pennsylvania.</a>) In 1958, the 64-color assortment of Crayolas debuted; the box had <a>this</a> new built-in feature that later earned it a place in the Smithsonian
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a sharpener
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This 4-word inscription first appeared on U.S. coins during the Civil War
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In God We Trust
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| She wrote the poem that says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
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Emma Lazarus
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The uniform that Harry Truman wore during his military service in this war is in his presidential library
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World War I
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| If you take a swamp tour in Louisiana, you may see the American type of this, Louisiana's state reptile
an alligator
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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| "There's no place like" this town for the annual Miners & Mushers ball
Nome
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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A mule driver in Uzbekistan sent in 21 cents to help fund National Mule memorial in Muleshoe in this big state
Texas
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Iowa city was named for a French Canadian, the first white man to settle permanently in what is now Iowa
Dubuque
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| An 1890 act of Congress says these can be redesigned no more than once every 25 years
coins
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| His innovations include the first American newspaper cartoon (in 1754) & bifocals (around 1780)
(Benjamin) Franklin
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| 2 of the most performed songs in the U.S. after "Happy Birthday"; both were sung March 31, 2008 at Dodger Stadium
the National Anthem & "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The first section of the boardwalk along this New Jersey seashore resort opened on June 26, 1870
Atlantic City
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Alexander Hamilton was the first secretary of this government department
the Treasury
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Florida was named in honor of this holiday season, whose Spanish name includes the word florida
Easter
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Legend says a Bangor, Maine woman invented these by cutting a collapsed chocolate cake into squares
brownies
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Alpine Gardens named for this former first lady are centered in Vail, Colorado
Betty Ford
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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Nevada has a patriotic state motto: "All for our" this
country
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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Inspired by the 5 Olympic rings, the Fountain of Rings is in Centennial Olympic Park in this city
Atlanta
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Wyoming county known for its cattle war of 1892
Johnson County
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A nickname for New York is "the Big" this fruit
an apple
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| George Bush Intercontinental Airport is in this city
Houston
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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| After getting lost crossing a California desert & suffering intensely, emigrants gave the area this name
Death Valley
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1958 Crayola changed the name of its Prussian blue crayon to this "timely" blue
midnight blue
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Caldecott is for illustrators; authors get this medal for the most distinguished American children's book
the Newbery
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Its state animal is the grizzly bear, & the state tree is a type of redwood
California
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Ironically, this symbol of America was cast in London in 1752
the Liberty Bell
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns delivers the clue.) My 1st documentary shown on PBS, and later nominated for an Oscar, was about this magnificent 19th century New York City structure
the Brooklyn Bridge
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Virginia City, Nevada & this nearby state capital are known as "Sisters in History"
Carson City
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| If you want to go to the Texas State Fair, head for this "big" city, not the state capital
Dallas
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Take your sweetie to see Sweetheart Rock, also known as Pu'u Pehe, in this U.S. state
Hawaii
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Many have reported seeing ghosts inside the governor's mansion in this Nevada capital
Carson City
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| When Custer marched into Charlottesville in 1865, faculty leaders convinced him to spare this university (whew!)
the University of Virginia
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1995 this "Land of Opportunity" got a new official nickname, "The Natural State"
Arkansas
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It's always "The Night of the Iguana" on Gasparilla Island in this U.S. state, home to 1000s of them
Florida
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On July 8, 1776 it was rung to proclaim the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence
the Liberty Bell
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Suffragettes were women who wanted the right to do this (& got to with the 19th Amendement)
vote
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Check out exotic marine life at one of these, like the National one in Baltimore
an aquarium
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Tulsa's newspaper is called The World; Boston's is named for this object that depicts the world
a globe
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The name of this Texas city is Spanish for "yellow"
Amarillo
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This restaurant's Original Recipe features a secret blend of 11 herbs & spices
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The first ad sign in the U.S. using these lights went up on a Los Angeles car dealership in 1923
neon
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Company lore says that a shiny black bathing suit gave this clothing store its name
Wet Seal
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Colorado ski resort was named for Buchanan's VP John C.
Breckinridge
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The original one of these on Mass.'s Little Brewster Island was built in 1716; automation didn't come until 1998
a lighthouse
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The price of this iconic American item hasn't had a low rise; the low-rise type are $88 at Victoria's Secret
jeans
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| As in the title of a movie & a TV series, it's game night for U.S. high school football
Friday night
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (I'm master carpenter Norm Abram.) The 1st old house we renovated was a run-down Victorian in the Dorchester section of this city
Boston
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| These creatures usually contributed the materials that early scrimshanders carved
whales
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The yellowhammer isn't Alabama's official state tool, it's the official state this
bird
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It's round! It's red! It's Tennessee's state fruit!--though some might call it a vegetable
tomato
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A statue known as "The Strolling Professor" seems to stroll through the campus of this univ. in Raleigh
North Carolina State
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Appropriately, the city of Great Falls is the seat of Cascade County in this state
Montana
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Counties in this state named for people killed at the same site include Floyd, Travis & Bowie
Texas
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In a February 22, 1936 reenactment, retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock
a silver dollar
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| When G.I. Joe was introduced, he had one of these on his face; today, plastic surgery would take care of it
a scar
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1903 the American yacht Reliance defended this trophy against the Irish yacht Shamrock III
the America's Cup
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The U.S. Postal abbreviation for this American territory is "AS"
American Samoa
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John Brown
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Wally Byam Caravan Club International is for owners of this distinctive-looking brand of trailer
Airstream
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| To get a close-up peek at Pikes Peak, you have to be in this state
Colorado
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Writing about his first voyage to America, Salvador Dali said that this city "looked like an immense Gothic Roquefort cheese"
New York City
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The motto of this 68-square-mile area is Justitia Omnibus, "Justice For All"
Washington, D.C.
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The von Trapp family of "Sound of Music" fame moved to this state in the '40s & built a ski lodge in Stowe
Vermont
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Appropriately, this river flows into Long Island Sound just below New London, Connecticut
Thames River
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In June 2005, amid some controversy, a statue of Elizabeth Montgomery was unveiled in this city
Salem, Massachusetts
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A monument at this Nebraska site bears the words "He ain't heavy, Father... he's m' brother"
Boys Town
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In Oklahoma, the scissor-tailed flycatcher is the official state one of these
the state bird
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Since 1962 it's been a tradition to dye the Chicago River this color for a special day in March
green
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Last name of the first family of feuding seen here in the 1890s
Hatfield
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The National Prisoner of War Museum is adjacent to the site of this notorious Civil War prison
Andersonville
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The bizcochito is this state's official cookie, so you can use it at Christmas as a "Santa Fee"
New Mexico
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Rhode Island is nicknamed "Little Rhody", & this state is "Little Ida"
Idaho
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The fabulous Hawaiian estate of heiress Doris Duke is now a tourist attraction near Diamond Head on this island
Oahu
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Chicago cemetery is the final resting place of Mies van der Rohe, but not--despite its name--of Elvis
Graceland
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| You don't have to be in spitting distance to know that N.C. has 3 official festivals; 2 of them honor this fruit
the watermelon
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Love was in the air in 1969 when this state adopted the tourism slogan that says it "is for lovers"
Virginia
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Originally beardless, Uncle Sam got his chin whiskers from images depicting this real-life man
Abraham Lincoln
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| America's National Zoo was just 1 year old when it became part of this institution in 1890
the Smithsonian Institution
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| During the Fabulous '50s, this theme park had an exhibit called the Bathroom of Tomorrow
Disneyland
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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Vermont capital with 1 "L" took the name of a French city that has 2 "L"s
Montpelier
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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The city of High Point in this state is a high point for shoppers; it's the "Home Furnishings Capital of the World"
North Carolina
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Jay Rockefeller's rich life includes serving as a U.S. senator from this state since 1985
West Virginia
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In the 1920s Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly made a name for himself by sitting atop these, often for days at a time
flagpoles
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| An air and space museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio is named for this Wapakoneta native
Neil Armstrong
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Robert E. Lee's wife, Mary Ann Randolph Custis, was the great-granddaughter of this first lady
Martha Washington
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1811 work began on the 1st national highway, the Cumberland Road, between Illinois & Cumberland in this state
Maryland
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Closed in 2002, this lavish NYC restaurant began as a place for immigrants to gather & drink tea
the Russian Tea Room
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It opened its doors as an immigration station on January 1, 1892
Ellis Island
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This missionary nurseryman did most of his work in Ohio & Indiana, where he died in 1845
Johnny Appleseed
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Eli Bridge builds amusement rides like this one that's been making the rounds since 1893
a ferris wheel
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1953 the Maryland Historical Society acquired an original 1814 manuscript of this for $26,400
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (Hi. I'm Larry King.) This New York governor was the guest on the first "Larry King Live" on CNN June 1, 1985
Mario Cuomo
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue from a mail sorting counter at the post office.) In the '60s, to popularize a new system, the Post Office used ads of Ethel Merman singing this Disney movie tune
\"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah\"
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This type of roadside establishment got its name & original design from a Pullman product
a diner
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| He presided over the Senate in the first Congress
John Adams
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Liberty Bell weighs about a ton; this similarly named bell in Charlotte, N.C. weighs 7 tons
the American Freedom Bell
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Nimitz' line "Uncommon valor was a common virtue" was about the World War II battle for this island
Iwo Jima
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Following 1912, it was the next year a star was added to the U.S. flag
1959
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Robert Mills designed this structure that opened in 1888 & was built from 36,491 blocks
the Washington Monument
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This South Dakota national memorial is also known as "The Shrine of Democracy"
Mt. Rushmore
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| He wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart" when he lived in Philadelphia & a brick house he rented there is an historic site
Edgar Allan Poe
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This company makes more than 80 million kiss-shaped products every day at its chocolate factories
Hershey
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On May 14, 1804 this duo's Corps of Discovery started up the Missouri on a fact-finding mission
Lewis & Clark
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A Chicago doctor who made orthopedic foot products gave his name to this brand of wooden-soled sandals
Dr. Scholl
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The theme park once known as Silver Dollar City got a makeover & in '86 was renamed this, in honor of a famous blonde
Dollywood
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| New Mexico's state song, "O, Fair New Mexico", was written by the daughter of this man who killed Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| George Gershwin prepared to write this opera by studying southern black culture on an island off the Carolina coast
Porgy & Bess
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| At the Cabildo in New Orleans, you can see the death mask of this ruler who ceded New Orleans to the U.S.
Napoleon (I)
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (Hi, I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBS Saturday Early Show.) As a former Miss Minnesota, I know that the Minnesota state motto is "L'Etoile du Nord", or this "of the North"
star
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| One of FedEx's original 13 Falcon jets from 1973 is in this Smithsonian museum; they've gone to bigger aircraft
the National Air and Space Museum
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Open since 1900, it's been overshadowed by newer versions for baseball, rock & roll, cowboys, etc.
Halls of Fame
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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The hotel that Chester Nimitz' grandfather founded in Texas is in the shape of one of these
a steamboat
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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Fred Hervey bought the Kay's food store chain & expanded it under this geometrical name
Circle K
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Had the photo seen here been taken in the 1920s, these four additional letters would've appeared at the right
L, A, N and D
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The cereal that Tony the Tiger thinks is gr-r-reat is Kellogg's Frosted Flakes of this
corn
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The total weight of copper in this statue is 31 tons, though the copper sheeting is only 3/32 of an inch thick
Statue of Liberty
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| For McDonald's fries, this portion found in the name of a documentary translates to 610 calories & 29 grams of fat
Super Size
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A 2003 stamp honored the bicentennial of this, often called the greatest real estate deal in history
Louisiana Purchase
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This white school shoe is named for the shape of the black leather piece that's over the middle section of the shoe
saddle shoe
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Monsanto product was developed as a covering to turn asphalt lots in urban areas into playgrounds
AstroTurf
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Until 1998 a plant in Fairfax, Vermont churned out the wooden tiles for this game, about a million a day
Scrabble
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It was in this state in the late 1800s that Standard Oil & National Cash Register rang up their first sales
Ohio
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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Breakers, an opulent mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, was built as a "summer cottage" for this family
the Vanderbilts
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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1997 this 12-year-old Springer Spaniel passed away at home in Kennebunkport
Millie (the Bush family dog)
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1986 this model kit company merged with its main competitor, Monogram
Revell
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Beginning an American tradition, in 1801 Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia & her new husband honeymooned here
Niagara Falls
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| El Paso has a 459-foot lighted one of these, also in the nickname of its state
star
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 2003 chef Daniel Boulud started shaving truffles onto this fast food favorite & charging $50 for it
hamburger
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Nelson Knitting Co. made these pieces of apparel that people made monkeys out of
socks
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Mary Edna Fraser, whose work is seen here, had the first one-woman show at this Smithsonian museum
The Air & Space Museum
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| 2-word title of the artwork seen here; New Englanders might call it "Spa"
"Soda Fountain"
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Inside the Cabildo in New Orleans, you can visit the room where the documents for this sale were signed in 1803
the Louisiana Purchase
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Some call it the "Queen State" because it was named for Queen Henrietta Maria
Maryland
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew) My beautiful steed was carved by Charles I.D. Looff, who designed the first carousel at this Brooklyn site back in 1875
Coney Island
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Western Meadowlark is one busy bird; it's the state bird of Kansas & of this state just north of Kansas
Nebraska
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Northwest city's famed Repertory Theatre won a 1990 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre
Seattle
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In June 1885 it made a historic transatlantic voyage in 214 crates on the frigate Isere
Statue of Liberty
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Baptist minister Francis Bellamy penned this oath in 1892 to reflect his Christian Socialist beliefs
the Pledge of Allegiance
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This NYC building opened in 1931 -- & had an ape infestation problem on film just 2 years later
Empire State Building
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This term coined in the '50s refers to an amusement park with a motif, like the jungle or the Old West
theme park
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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Crested Butte in this state is one of the birthplaces of mountain biking & home of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
Colorado
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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island was the first man immortalized in 3 dimensions in this U.S. Capitol hall set up in 1864
National Statuary Hall
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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Johnson Space Center in Houston) NASA's shuttle program is officially designated STS, standing for this
Space Transportation System
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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It's made yearly by Tiffany out of 7 pounds of silver; since 2001 one in Baltimore has been touched by some 250,000 fans
The Vince Lombardi Trophy (emblematic of winning the Super Bowl)
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The lyrics of this presidential anthem were adapted from "The Lady of the Lake" by Sir Walter Scott
"Hail To The Chief"
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This city's inhabitants are known as Beantowners (Hmm...does that make their kids Beanie Babies?)
Boston
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A foot-operated breast enlarger pump is on display at the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in this Twin City
Minneapolis
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| You may want to explore a ghost town when you drive the Apache Trail in this state
Arizona
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The boyhood home of this creator of "The Waltons" is across the street from the Walton's Mountain Museum in Schuyler, VA.
Earl Hamner, Jr.
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It's the official state insect of Arkansas -- how sweet!
Honeybee
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Cambridge, Mass. university is named for a man who graduated from England's Cambridge Univ. in the 1630s
Harvard
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Race a Model T while holding a pig in your lap in the Pig-N-Ford race at this state's Tillamook County Fair
Oregon
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Roy Rogers once said his birthplace was roughly where second base at this city's Riverfront Stadium later stood
Cincinnati
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Want to see a 2,000-pound pillar of salt? Head for the New York State Museum in this city
Albany
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Johnny Cash once recorded a live album at Folsom Prison, just east of this state capital
Sacramento
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On its north, this state borders Tennessee; on its east, the Atlantic Ocean
Georgia
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| With Hartford, this "New" city was joint capital of Connecticut from 1701 to 1875
New Haven
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1860 this small Atlantic coast state had the highest percentage of slaves in the U.S.
South Carolina
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This "colorful" suburb of New York City on the Bronx River was settled by Puritans in 1683
White Plains
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Idaho's official one is titled "Here We Have Idaho"
State song
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Nicknamed the "Bay Horse", it's the capital of the "Bay State"
Boston
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Maryland city celebrated the 200th anniversary of its incorporation in 1997
Baltimore
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Actors Theatre of this Kentucky city is housed in a national historic landmark
Louisville
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In southern Florida, the "queen" type of this large sea snail is often found in chowder
Conch
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Literary magazine edited by O. Henry in 1894, or rock magazine founded in 1967
Rolling Stone
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Pop Momond called his new comic strip in 1913 "Keeping Up with" this family
The Joneses
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A Confederate camp fire song about "eating" these called them "Goodness how delicious"
Goober peas/goobers
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The first Miss America he crowned was Lee Meriwether in 1954
Bert Parks
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It was incorporated as a city May 3, 1802 with its mayor to be appointed by the president
Washington, D.C.
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Its index finger is 8 feet long; its tablet over 23 feet
Statue of Liberty
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| White Mountain has been making freezers to produce this treat since 1853
Ice Cream
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| L.L. Knickerbocker makes a version of these dolls, which have been around since 1915:
Raggedy Ann & Andy
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Now part of the Camberley Hotel Company, this New York hotel was home to the famous Round Table
The Algonquin
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Great Lake was known to the native Americans as Gitchee Gumee
Lake Superior
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This state's motto is "Wisdom, Justice and Moderation" -- no mention of peanuts
Georgia
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Appropriately, tar was one of the first products made in this "Tar Heel State"
North Carolina
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Instead of Oktoberfest, Carlisle in this "Keystone State" has an Octubafest
Pennsylvania
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Many a tall tale has been spun about this bruisin' & brawlin' "King of the Keelboatmen"
Mike Fink
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Sinclair Lewis
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Las Vegas
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Shoppers, take note: the Potomac Mills discount mall is this state's No. 1 tourist destination
Virginia
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Midwesterners know it's the "Sioux State", as well as the "Flickertail State"
North Dakota
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Known for its Victorian homes, Cape May in this state celebrates Victorian Week every October
New Jersey
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Tahlequah, in this state, is the capital of the Cherokee nation, so it's home to the Cherokee national museum
Oklahoma
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The world's oldest Zydeco festival takes place annually in Plaisance, near Opelousas in this state
Louisiana
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| "Cross & Sword" is an outdoor pageant dramatizing the 1565 founding of this Florida city
St. Augustine
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In use since Antebellum days, the expression FFV refers to the first families of this state
Virginia
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Built in 1901 for a coal magnate, the Elms in this R.I. seaport was inspired by France's Chateau D'Asnieres
Newport
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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This state capital has streets named for Chet Atkins & Roy Acuff
Nashville
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This gallery of art on the Smithsonian Mall is named for the man who donated his collection in 1906
the Freer Gallery
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| During the 1800s, this Louisiana city was known as the "Paris of America"
New Orleans
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Dock Street Theatre, one of America's oldest, was built in this South Carolina seaport in 1736
Charleston
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| "Freedom And Unity" is the motto of this "Green Mountain State"
Vermont
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It's the third largest of the Great Lakes; it's the third smallest, too
Lake Michigan
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| He was the founder of Savannah as well as the founder of Georgia
James Oglethorpe
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Grand Island in this Cornhusker State is home to an annual event called Husker Harvest Days
Nebraska
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The large star in the center of its state seal is adorned with symbols of the 5 Civilized Tribes
Oklahoma
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Virginia Film Festival unspools at the University of Virginia in this city
Charlottesville
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$900 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| From late Oct.-Dec. thousands of bald eagles gather at the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve in this state
Alaska
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Hawaiian island near Molokai was once called the world's largest pineapple plantation
Lanai
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A favorite spot for hikers, Pinnacle Mountain is 20 minutes from this Arkansas' capital's downtown area
Little Rock
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Now a social center, Lion House in Salt Lake City was the home of several of this man's wives
Brigham Young
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The District of Columbia's flag is based on this man's coat-of-arms
George Washington
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Nevada mining city's camel races began as a fictitious newspaper story, then became an annual event
Virginia City
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Grace Coolidge was the 1st first lady born in this state; her husband was the 2nd president born there
Vermont
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On December 19 the people of this U.S. state celebrate Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's birthday
Hawaii
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1986 this New York capital celebrated the 300th anniversary of its charter as a city
Albany
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This U.S. first lady once taught dance in Grand Rapids
Betty Ford
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Lancaster, which has the largest stockyards east of Chicago, was this state's capital from 1799 to 1812
Pennsylvania
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Connecticut city famous for its university is nicknamed "Elm City" because it once had many elm-lined streets
New Haven
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The annual Fiesta de las Golondrinas celebrates the return of the swallows to this California city
San Juan Capistrano
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Like mukluks, kamiks are these, worn by Eskimos
Shoes/boots
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$900 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Pierre L'Enfant could have told you this famous hill was once known as Jenkins Hill
Capitol Hill
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Many men died searching for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in this southwest state's Superstition Mountains
Arizona
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In Douglas, Wyoming there's a 10-foot statue of this legendary animal that looks like a jackrabbit with antlers
Jackalope
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| They advise "Be all you can be"
the Army
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The U.S. flag code says red, white, and blue bunting should always feature this color on top
blue
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| When Connecticut's Lieutenant Governor presides over the state senate, he sits in a chair made of wood of this tree
Charter Oak
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Signs urging tourists to stay in North Dakota say "Custer was healthy" when he left there bound for this state
Montana
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| John Scott Harrison, an Indiana farmer, was the only man in U.S. history who was this
a son and a father of a U.S. President
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1859, with his agent on his back, Charles Blondin walked a tightrope suspended over this
Niagara Falls
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1857, William Kelly convinced U.S. Patent Office to give him, not Bessemer, rights to make it
steel
