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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

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an alligator

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| “There’s no place like” this town for the annual Miners & Mushers ball

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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

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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

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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

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coins

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| His innovations include the first American newspaper cartoon (in 1754) & bifocals (around 1780)

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(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

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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

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Atlantic City

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Alexander Hamilton was the first secretary of this government department

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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

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Easter

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Legend says a Bangor, Maine woman invented these by cutting a collapsed chocolate cake into squares

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brownies

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Alpine Gardens named for this former first lady are centered in Vail, Colorado

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Betty Ford

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$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Nevada has a patriotic state motto: “All for our” this

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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

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Atlanta

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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Wyoming county known for its cattle war of 1892

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Johnson County

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A nickname for New York is “the Big” this fruit

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an apple

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| George Bush Intercontinental Airport is in this city

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Houston

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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| After getting lost crossing a California desert & suffering intensely, emigrants gave the area this name

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Death Valley

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1958 Crayola changed the name of its Prussian blue crayon to this “timely” blue

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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

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the Newbery

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Its state animal is the grizzly bear, & the state tree is a type of redwood

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California

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Ironically, this symbol of America was cast in London in 1752

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the Liberty Bell

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (<a>Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns delivers the clue.</a>) My 1st documentary shown on PBS, and later nominated for an Oscar, was about <a>this magnificent 19th century New York City structure</a>

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the Brooklyn Bridge

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Virginia City, Nevada & this nearby state capital are known as “Sisters in History”

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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

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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

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Hawaii

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Many have reported seeing ghosts inside the governor’s mansion in this Nevada capital

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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!)

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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”

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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

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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

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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)

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vote

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Check out exotic marine life at one of these, like the National one in Baltimore

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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

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a globe

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The name of this Texas city is Spanish for “yellow”

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Amarillo

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This restaurant’s Original Recipe features a secret blend of 11 herbs & spices

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KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The logo of this theme park chain is seen <a>here</a>

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Six Flags

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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

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neon

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Company lore says that a shiny black bathing suit gave this clothing store its name

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Wet Seal

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Colorado ski resort was named for Buchanan’s VP John C.

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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

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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

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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

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Friday night

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (<a>I’m master carpenter Norm Abram.</a>) The 1st old house we renovated was a run-down Victorian in the Dorchester section of this city

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Boston

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| These creatures usually contributed the materials that early scrimshanders carved

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whales

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The yellowhammer isn’t Alabama’s official state tool, it’s the official state this

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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

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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

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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

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Montana

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Counties in this state named for people killed at the same site include Floyd, Travis & Bowie

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Texas

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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In a February 22, 1936 reenactment, retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock

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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

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a scar

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1903 the American yacht Reliance defended this trophy against the Irish yacht Shamrock III

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the America’s Cup

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The U.S. Postal abbreviation for this American territory is “AS”

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American Samoa

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Kansas Statehouse mural seen <a>here</a> is entitled “The Tragic Prelude” & depicts <a>this</a> pre-Civil War firebrand

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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

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Airstream

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| To get a close-up peek at Pikes Peak, you have to be in this state

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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”

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New York City

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The motto of this 68-square-mile area is Justitia Omnibus, “Justice For All”

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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

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Vermont

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Appropriately, this river flows into Long Island Sound just below New London, Connecticut

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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

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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”

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Boys Town

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In Oklahoma, the scissor-tailed flycatcher is the official state one of these

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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

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green

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Last name of the first family of feuding seen <a>here</a> in the 1890s

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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

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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”

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New Mexico

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Rhode Island is nicknamed “Little Rhody”, & this state is “Little Ida”

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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Virginia

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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Originally beardless, Uncle Sam got his chin whiskers from images depicting this real-life man

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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flagpoles

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| An air and space museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio is named for this Wapakoneta native

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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

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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

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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

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the Russian Tea Room

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It opened its doors as an immigration station on January 1, 1892

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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

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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

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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

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“The Star-Spangled Banner”

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (<a>Hi. I’m Larry King.</a>) This New York governor was the guest on the first “Larry King Live” on CNN June 1, 1985

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Mario Cuomo

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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew reads the clue from a mail sorting counter at the post office.</a>) In the ’60s, to popularize a new system, the Post Office used ads of Ethel Merman singing this Disney movie tune

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"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

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a diner

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| He presided over the Senate in the first Congress

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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

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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

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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

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1959

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Robert Mills designed this structure that opened in 1888 & was built from 36,491 blocks

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the Washington Monument

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This South Dakota national memorial is also known as “The Shrine of Democracy”

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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

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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

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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

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Lewis & Clark

125
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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

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Dr. Scholl

126
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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

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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

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Pat Garrett

128
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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

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Porgy & Bess

129
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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.

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Napoleon (I)

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| (<a>Hi, I’m Gretchen Carlson of the CBS <i>Saturday Early Show</i>.</a>) As a former Miss Minnesota, I know that the Minnesota state motto is “L’Etoile du Nord”, or this “of the North”

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star

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| <a>One</a> of FedEx’s original 13 Falcon jets from 1973 is in this Smithsonian museum; they’ve gone to bigger aircraft

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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.

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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

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a steamboat

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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Fred Hervey bought the Kay’s food store chain & expanded it under this geometrical name

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Circle K

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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Had the photo seen <a>here</a> been taken in the 1920s, these four additional letters would’ve appeared at the right

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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the Vanderbilts

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$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1997 this 12-year-old Springer Spaniel passed away at home in Kennebunkport

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Millie (the Bush family dog)

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$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1986 this model kit company merged with its main competitor, Monogram

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Revell

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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Beginning an American tradition, in 1801 Aaron Burr’s daughter Theodosia & her new husband honeymooned here

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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

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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

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hamburger

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Nelson Knitting Co. made these pieces of apparel that people made monkeys out of

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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

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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”

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“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

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the Louisiana Purchase

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Some call it the “Queen State” because it was named for Queen Henrietta Maria

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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

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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

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Nebraska

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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Northwest city’s famed Repertory Theatre won a 1990 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre

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Seattle

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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In June 1885 it made a historic transatlantic voyage in 214 crates on the frigate Isere

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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?)

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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

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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

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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.

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Earl Hamner, Jr.

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It’s the official state insect of Arkansas – how sweet!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Albany

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Johnny Cash once recorded a live album at Folsom Prison, just east of this state capital

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Sacramento

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On its north, this state borders Tennessee; on its east, the Atlantic Ocean

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Georgia

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| With Hartford, this “New” city was joint capital of Connecticut from 1701 to 1875

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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.

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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

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White Plains

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Idaho’s official one is titled “Here We Have Idaho”

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State song

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Nicknamed the “Bay Horse”, it’s the capital of the “Bay State”

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Boston

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Maryland city celebrated the 200th anniversary of its incorporation in 1997

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Baltimore

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Actors Theatre of this Kentucky city is housed in a national historic landmark

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Louisville

185
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In southern Florida, the “queen” type of this large sea snail is often found in chowder

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Conch

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Literary magazine edited by O. Henry in 1894, or rock magazine founded in 1967

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Rolling Stone

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Pop Momond called his new comic strip in 1913 “Keeping Up with” this family

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The Joneses

188
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A Confederate camp fire song about “eating” these called them “Goodness how delicious”

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Goober peas/goobers

189
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The first Miss America he crowned was Lee Meriwether in 1954

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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

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Washington, D.C.

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Its index finger is 8 feet long; its tablet over 23 feet

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Statue of Liberty

192
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| White Mountain has been making freezers to produce this treat since 1853

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Ice Cream

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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| L.L. Knickerbocker makes a version of these dolls, which have been around since 1915:

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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

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The Algonquin

195
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Great Lake was known to the native Americans as Gitchee Gumee

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Lake Superior

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This state’s motto is “Wisdom, Justice and Moderation” – no mention of peanuts

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Georgia

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Appropriately, tar was one of the first products made in this “Tar Heel State”

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North Carolina

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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Instead of Oktoberfest, Carlisle in this “Keystone State” has an Octubafest

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Pennsylvania

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Many a tall tale has been spun about this bruisin’ & brawlin’ “King of the Keelboatmen”

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Mike Fink

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| You’ll find this author’s boyhood home in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, 3 1/2 blocks west of Main Street

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Sinclair Lewis

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$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The first 24-hour 7-Eleven opened in 1963 in this city

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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

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Virginia

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Midwesterners know it’s the “Sioux State”, as well as the “Flickertail State”

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North Dakota

204
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Known for its Victorian homes, Cape May in this state celebrates Victorian Week every October

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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

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Oklahoma

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The world’s oldest Zydeco festival takes place annually in Plaisance, near Opelousas in this state

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Louisiana

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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| “Cross & Sword” is an outdoor pageant dramatizing the 1565 founding of this Florida city

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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

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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

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Newport

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$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This state capital has streets named for Chet Atkins & Roy Acuff

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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

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the Freer Gallery

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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| During the 1800s, this Louisiana city was known as the “Paris of America”

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New Orleans

213
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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

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Charleston

214
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| “Freedom And Unity” is the motto of this “Green Mountain State”

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Vermont

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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It’s the third largest of the Great Lakes; it’s the third smallest, too

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Lake Michigan

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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| He was the founder of Savannah as well as the founder of Georgia

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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

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Nebraska

218
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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

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Oklahoma

219
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$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Virginia Film Festival unspools at the University of Virginia in this city

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Charlottesville

220
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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

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Alaska

221
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$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Hawaiian island near Molokai was once called the world’s largest pineapple plantation

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Lanai

222
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A favorite spot for hikers, Pinnacle Mountain is 20 minutes from this Arkansas’ capital’s downtown area

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Little Rock

223
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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

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Brigham Young

224
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The District of Columbia’s flag is based on this man’s coat-of-arms

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George Washington

225
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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

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Virginia City

226
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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

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Vermont

227
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On December 19 the people of this U.S. state celebrate Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop’s birthday

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Hawaii

228
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1986 this New York capital celebrated the 300th anniversary of its charter as a city

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Albany

229
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$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This U.S. first lady once taught dance in Grand Rapids

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Betty Ford

230
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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

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Pennsylvania

231
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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

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New Haven

232
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The annual Fiesta de las Golondrinas celebrates the return of the swallows to this California city

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San Juan Capistrano

233
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$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Like mukluks, kamiks are these, worn by Eskimos

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Shoes/boots

234
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$900 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Pierre L’Enfant could have told you this famous hill was once known as Jenkins Hill

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Capitol Hill

235
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$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Many men died searching for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in this southwest state’s Superstition Mountains

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Arizona

236
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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

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Jackalope

237
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$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| They advise “Be all you can be”

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the Army

238
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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

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blue

239
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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

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Charter Oak

240
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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

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Montana

241
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$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| John Scott Harrison, an Indiana farmer, was the only man in U.S. history who was this

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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

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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

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steel

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