Americana Flashcards
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This statue was dedicated on Bedloe’s Island Oct. 28, 1886
the Statue of Liberty
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It’s said that William Driver of Massachusetts gave the American flag this 2-word nickname
Old Glory
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The USA’s 10th national park is this one in Montana that’s named for a giant icy feature
Glacier National Park
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Woody Guthrie wrote this song that spans “from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters”
“This Land Is Your Land”
$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
an olive branch
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Finding the spot for this memorial caused its creator to say, “America will march along that skyline”
Mount Rushmore
$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
Take Me Out To The Ball Game
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Made for only 19 years, it sold for $825 in 1908 & $360 in 1927
the Model T
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1885 America got its first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, in this “Windy City”
Chicago
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Waterloo, N.Y. is the birthplace of this holiday, having first honored the Civil War dead May 5, 1866
Memorial Day
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Democratic campaign song in the 1932 election was these “Are Here Again”
Happy Days
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In the 1920s Shipwreck Kelly made a name for himself sitting high atop these
flagpoles
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Panhandle State’s Cimarron County borders 4 states
Oklahoma
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Matronly nickname for AT&T & its telephone system
Ma Bell
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This capital’s Frontier Days celebration has been held every year since 1897
Cheyenne, Wyoming
$6400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| “Enter a higher state” is a tourism slogan for this state
Colorado
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This 2-word expression of surprise may have originally referred to General Winfield
Great Scott!
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1837 fine dining came to NYC when 2 Swiss brothers “steaked” their claim & opened this restaurant
Delmonico’s
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This national memorial in the Black Hills is also called the “Shrine of Democracy”
Mount Rushmore
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The song “America, the Beautiful” says, “crown thy good with” this “from sea to shining sea”
brotherhood
$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
a sharpener
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This 4-word inscription first appeared on U.S. coins during the Civil War
In God We Trust
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| She wrote the poem that says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
Emma Lazarus
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The uniform that Harry Truman wore during his military service in this war is in his presidential library
World War I
$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
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| “There’s no place like” this town for the annual Miners & Mushers ball
Nome
$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
$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
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| An 1890 act of Congress says these can be redesigned no more than once every 25 years
coins
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| His innovations include the first American newspaper cartoon (in 1754) & bifocals (around 1780)
(Benjamin) Franklin
$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”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The first section of the boardwalk along this New Jersey seashore resort opened on June 26, 1870
Atlantic City
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Alexander Hamilton was the first secretary of this government department
the Treasury
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Florida was named in honor of this holiday season, whose Spanish name includes the word florida
Easter
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Legend says a Bangor, Maine woman invented these by cutting a collapsed chocolate cake into squares
brownies
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Alpine Gardens named for this former first lady are centered in Vail, Colorado
Betty Ford
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Nevada has a patriotic state motto: “All for our” this
country
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Inspired by the 5 Olympic rings, the Fountain of Rings is in Centennial Olympic Park in this city
Atlanta
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Wyoming county known for its cattle war of 1892
Johnson County
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A nickname for New York is “the Big” this fruit
an apple
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| George Bush Intercontinental Airport is in this city
Houston
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| After getting lost crossing a California desert & suffering intensely, emigrants gave the area this name
Death Valley
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1958 Crayola changed the name of its Prussian blue crayon to this “timely” blue
midnight blue
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Caldecott is for illustrators; authors get this medal for the most distinguished American children’s book
the Newbery
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Its state animal is the grizzly bear, & the state tree is a type of redwood
California
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Ironically, this symbol of America was cast in London in 1752
the Liberty Bell
$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>
the Brooklyn Bridge
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Virginia City, Nevada & this nearby state capital are known as “Sisters in History”
Carson City
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| If you want to go to the Texas State Fair, head for this “big” city, not the state capital
Dallas
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Take your sweetie to see Sweetheart Rock, also known as Pu’u Pehe, in this U.S. state
Hawaii
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Many have reported seeing ghosts inside the governor’s mansion in this Nevada capital
Carson City
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| When Custer marched into Charlottesville in 1865, faculty leaders convinced him to spare this university (whew!)
the University of Virginia
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1995 this “Land of Opportunity” got a new official nickname, “The Natural State”
Arkansas
$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
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On July 8, 1776 it was rung to proclaim the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence
the Liberty Bell
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Suffragettes were women who wanted the right to do this (& got to with the 19th Amendement)
vote
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Check out exotic marine life at one of these, like the National one in Baltimore
an aquarium
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Tulsa’s newspaper is called The World; Boston’s is named for this object that depicts the world
a globe
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The name of this Texas city is Spanish for “yellow”
Amarillo
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This restaurant’s Original Recipe features a secret blend of 11 herbs & spices
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The logo of this theme park chain is seen <a>here</a>
Six Flags
$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
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Company lore says that a shiny black bathing suit gave this clothing store its name
Wet Seal
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Colorado ski resort was named for Buchanan’s VP John C.
Breckinridge
$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
$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
$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
$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
Boston
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| These creatures usually contributed the materials that early scrimshanders carved
whales
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The yellowhammer isn’t Alabama’s official state tool, it’s the official state this
bird
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It’s round! It’s red! It’s Tennessee’s state fruit!–though some might call it a vegetable
tomato
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A statue known as “The Strolling Professor” seems to stroll through the campus of this univ. in Raleigh
North Carolina State
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Appropriately, the city of Great Falls is the seat of Cascade County in this state
Montana
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Counties in this state named for people killed at the same site include Floyd, Travis & Bowie
Texas
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In a February 22, 1936 reenactment, retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock
a silver dollar
$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
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1903 the American yacht Reliance defended this trophy against the Irish yacht Shamrock III
the America’s Cup
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The U.S. Postal abbreviation for this American territory is “AS”
American Samoa
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Kansas Statehouse mural seen <a>here</a> is entitled “The Tragic Prelude” & depicts <a>this</a> pre-Civil War firebrand
John Brown
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Wally Byam Caravan Club International is for owners of this distinctive-looking brand of trailer
Airstream
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| To get a close-up peek at Pikes Peak, you have to be in this state
Colorado
$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
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The motto of this 68-square-mile area is Justitia Omnibus, “Justice For All”
Washington, D.C.
$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
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Appropriately, this river flows into Long Island Sound just below New London, Connecticut
Thames River
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In June 2005, amid some controversy, a statue of Elizabeth Montgomery was unveiled in this city
Salem, Massachusetts
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A monument at this Nebraska site bears the words “He ain’t heavy, Father… he’s m’ brother”
Boys Town
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In Oklahoma, the scissor-tailed flycatcher is the official state one of these
the state bird
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Since 1962 it’s been a tradition to dye the Chicago River this color for a special day in March
green
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Last name of the first family of feuding seen <a>here</a> in the 1890s
Hatfield
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The National Prisoner of War Museum is adjacent to the site of this notorious Civil War prison
Andersonville
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The bizcochito is this state’s official cookie, so you can use it at Christmas as a “Santa Fee”
New Mexico
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Rhode Island is nicknamed “Little Rhody”, & this state is “Little Ida”
Idaho
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The fabulous Hawaiian estate of heiress Doris Duke is now a tourist attraction near Diamond Head on this island
Oahu
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Chicago cemetery is the final resting place of Mies van der Rohe, but not–despite its name–of Elvis
Graceland
$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
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Love was in the air in 1969 when this state adopted the tourism slogan that says it “is for lovers”
Virginia
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Originally beardless, Uncle Sam got his chin whiskers from images depicting this real-life man
Abraham Lincoln
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| America’s National Zoo was just 1 year old when it became part of this institution in 1890
the Smithsonian Institution
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| During the Fabulous ’50s, this theme park had an exhibit called the Bathroom of Tomorrow
Disneyland
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Vermont capital with 1 “L” took the name of a French city that has 2 “L”s
Montpelier
$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
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Jay Rockefeller’s rich life includes serving as a U.S. senator from this state since 1985
West Virginia
$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
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| An air and space museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio is named for this Wapakoneta native
Neil Armstrong
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Robert E. Lee’s wife, Mary Ann Randolph Custis, was the great-granddaughter of this first lady
Martha Washington
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1811 work began on the 1st national highway, the Cumberland Road, between Illinois & Cumberland in this state
Maryland
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Closed in 2002, this lavish NYC restaurant began as a place for immigrants to gather & drink tea
the Russian Tea Room
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It opened its doors as an immigration station on January 1, 1892
Ellis Island
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This missionary nurseryman did most of his work in Ohio & Indiana, where he died in 1845
Johnny Appleseed
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Eli Bridge builds amusement rides like this one that’s been making the rounds since 1893
a ferris wheel
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1953 the Maryland Historical Society acquired an original 1814 manuscript of this for $26,400
“The Star-Spangled Banner”
$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
Mario Cuomo
$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
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This type of roadside establishment got its name & original design from a Pullman product
a diner
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| He presided over the Senate in the first Congress
John Adams
$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
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Nimitz’ line “Uncommon valor was a common virtue” was about the World War II battle for this island
Iwo Jima
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Following 1912, it was the next year a star was added to the U.S. flag
1959
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Robert Mills designed this structure that opened in 1888 & was built from 36,491 blocks
the Washington Monument
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This South Dakota national memorial is also known as “The Shrine of Democracy”
Mt. Rushmore
$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
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This company makes more than 80 million kiss-shaped products every day at its chocolate factories
Hershey
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On May 14, 1804 this duo’s Corps of Discovery started up the Missouri on a fact-finding mission
Lewis & Clark
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A Chicago doctor who made orthopedic foot products gave his name to this brand of wooden-soled sandals
Dr. Scholl
$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
$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
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| George Gershwin prepared to write this opera by studying southern black culture on an island off the Carolina coast
Porgy & Bess
$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)
$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”
star
$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
the National Air and Space Museum
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Open since 1900, it’s been overshadowed by newer versions for baseball, rock & roll, cowboys, etc.
Halls of Fame
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The hotel that Chester Nimitz’ grandfather founded in Texas is in the shape of one of these
a steamboat
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Fred Hervey bought the Kay’s food store chain & expanded it under this geometrical name
Circle K
$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
L, A, N and D
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The cereal that Tony the Tiger thinks is gr-r-reat is Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes of this
corn
$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
$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
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A 2003 stamp honored the bicentennial of this, often called the greatest real estate deal in history
Louisiana Purchase
$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
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Monsanto product was developed as a covering to turn asphalt lots in urban areas into playgrounds
AstroTurf
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Until 1998 a plant in Fairfax, Vermont churned out the wooden tiles for this game, about a million a day
Scrabble
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It was in this state in the late 1800s that Standard Oil & National Cash Register rang up their first sales
Ohio
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Breakers, an opulent mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, was built as a “summer cottage” for this family
the Vanderbilts
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1997 this 12-year-old Springer Spaniel passed away at home in Kennebunkport
Millie (the Bush family dog)
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1986 this model kit company merged with its main competitor, Monogram
Revell
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Beginning an American tradition, in 1801 Aaron Burr’s daughter Theodosia & her new husband honeymooned here
Niagara Falls
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| El Paso has a 459-foot lighted one of these, also in the nickname of its state
star
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 2003 chef Daniel Boulud started shaving truffles onto this fast food favorite & charging $50 for it
hamburger
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Nelson Knitting Co. made these pieces of apparel that people made monkeys out of
socks
$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
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| 2-word title of the artwork seen here; New Englanders might call it “Spa”
“Soda Fountain”
$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
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Some call it the “Queen State” because it was named for Queen Henrietta Maria
Maryland
$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
$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
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Northwest city’s famed Repertory Theatre won a 1990 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre
Seattle
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In June 1885 it made a historic transatlantic voyage in 214 crates on the frigate Isere
Statue of Liberty
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Baptist minister Francis Bellamy penned this oath in 1892 to reflect his Christian Socialist beliefs
the Pledge of Allegiance
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This NYC building opened in 1931 – & had an ape infestation problem on film just 2 years later
Empire State Building
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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)
$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”
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This city’s inhabitants are known as Beantowners (Hmm…does that make their kids Beanie Babies?)
Boston
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A foot-operated breast enlarger pump is on display at the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in this Twin City
Minneapolis
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| You may want to explore a ghost town when you drive the Apache Trail in this state
Arizona
$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.
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It’s the official state insect of Arkansas – how sweet!
Honeybee
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Cambridge, Mass. university is named for a man who graduated from England’s Cambridge Univ. in the 1630s
Harvard
$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
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Roy Rogers once said his birthplace was roughly where second base at this city’s Riverfront Stadium later stood
Cincinnati
$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Want to see a 2,000-pound pillar of salt? Head for the New York State Museum in this city
Albany
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Johnny Cash once recorded a live album at Folsom Prison, just east of this state capital
Sacramento
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On its north, this state borders Tennessee; on its east, the Atlantic Ocean
Georgia
$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| With Hartford, this “New” city was joint capital of Connecticut from 1701 to 1875
New Haven
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1860 this small Atlantic coast state had the highest percentage of slaves in the U.S.
South Carolina
$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This “colorful” suburb of New York City on the Bronx River was settled by Puritans in 1683
White Plains
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Idaho’s official one is titled “Here We Have Idaho”
State song
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Nicknamed the “Bay Horse”, it’s the capital of the “Bay State”
Boston
$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Maryland city celebrated the 200th anniversary of its incorporation in 1997
Baltimore
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Actors Theatre of this Kentucky city is housed in a national historic landmark
Louisville
$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In southern Florida, the “queen” type of this large sea snail is often found in chowder
Conch
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Literary magazine edited by O. Henry in 1894, or rock magazine founded in 1967
Rolling Stone
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Pop Momond called his new comic strip in 1913 “Keeping Up with” this family
The Joneses
$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A Confederate camp fire song about “eating” these called them “Goodness how delicious”
Goober peas/goobers
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The first Miss America he crowned was Lee Meriwether in 1954
Bert Parks
$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It was incorporated as a city May 3, 1802 with its mayor to be appointed by the president
Washington, D.C.
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Its index finger is 8 feet long; its tablet over 23 feet
Statue of Liberty
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| White Mountain has been making freezers to produce this treat since 1853
Ice Cream
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| L.L. Knickerbocker makes a version of these dolls, which have been around since 1915:
Raggedy Ann & Andy
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Now part of the Camberley Hotel Company, this New York hotel was home to the famous Round Table
The Algonquin
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Great Lake was known to the native Americans as Gitchee Gumee
Lake Superior
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This state’s motto is “Wisdom, Justice and Moderation” – no mention of peanuts
Georgia
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Appropriately, tar was one of the first products made in this “Tar Heel State”
North Carolina
$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Instead of Oktoberfest, Carlisle in this “Keystone State” has an Octubafest
Pennsylvania
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Many a tall tale has been spun about this bruisin’ & brawlin’ “King of the Keelboatmen”
Mike Fink
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| You’ll find this author’s boyhood home in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, 3 1/2 blocks west of Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
$None ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The first 24-hour 7-Eleven opened in 1963 in this city
Las Vegas
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Shoppers, take note: the Potomac Mills discount mall is this state’s No. 1 tourist destination
Virginia
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Midwesterners know it’s the “Sioux State”, as well as the “Flickertail State”
North Dakota
$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Known for its Victorian homes, Cape May in this state celebrates Victorian Week every October
New Jersey
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Tahlequah, in this state, is the capital of the Cherokee nation, so it’s home to the Cherokee national museum
Oklahoma
$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The world’s oldest Zydeco festival takes place annually in Plaisance, near Opelousas in this state
Louisiana
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| “Cross & Sword” is an outdoor pageant dramatizing the 1565 founding of this Florida city
St. Augustine
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In use since Antebellum days, the expression FFV refers to the first families of this state
Virginia
$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
$800 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This state capital has streets named for Chet Atkins & Roy Acuff
Nashville
$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
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| During the 1800s, this Louisiana city was known as the “Paris of America”
New Orleans
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Dock Street Theatre, one of America’s oldest, was built in this South Carolina seaport in 1736
Charleston
$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| “Freedom And Unity” is the motto of this “Green Mountain State”
Vermont
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| It’s the third largest of the Great Lakes; it’s the third smallest, too
Lake Michigan
$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| He was the founder of Savannah as well as the founder of Georgia
James Oglethorpe
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Grand Island in this Cornhusker State is home to an annual event called Husker Harvest Days
Nebraska
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The large star in the center of its state seal is adorned with symbols of the 5 Civilized Tribes
Oklahoma
$600 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The Virginia Film Festival unspools at the University of Virginia in this city
Charlottesville
$900 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| From late Oct.-Dec. thousands of bald eagles gather at the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve in this state
Alaska
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Hawaiian island near Molokai was once called the world’s largest pineapple plantation
Lanai
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| A favorite spot for hikers, Pinnacle Mountain is 20 minutes from this Arkansas’ capital’s downtown area
Little Rock
$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
$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The District of Columbia’s flag is based on this man’s coat-of-arms
George Washington
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Nevada mining city’s camel races began as a fictitious newspaper story, then became an annual event
Virginia City
$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Grace Coolidge was the 1st first lady born in this state; her husband was the 2nd president born there
Vermont
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| On December 19 the people of this U.S. state celebrate Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop’s birthday
Hawaii
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1986 this New York capital celebrated the 300th anniversary of its charter as a city
Albany
$300 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This U.S. first lady once taught dance in Grand Rapids
Betty Ford
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Lancaster, which has the largest stockyards east of Chicago, was this state’s capital from 1799 to 1812
Pennsylvania
$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| This Connecticut city famous for its university is nicknamed “Elm City” because it once had many elm-lined streets
New Haven
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The annual Fiesta de las Golondrinas celebrates the return of the swallows to this California city
San Juan Capistrano
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Like mukluks, kamiks are these, worn by Eskimos
Shoes/boots
$900 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Pierre L’Enfant could have told you this famous hill was once known as Jenkins Hill
Capitol Hill
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Many men died searching for the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in this southwest state’s Superstition Mountains
Arizona
$500 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In Douglas, Wyoming there’s a 10-foot statue of this legendary animal that looks like a jackrabbit with antlers
Jackalope
$100 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| They advise “Be all you can be”
the Army
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| The U.S. flag code says red, white, and blue bunting should always feature this color on top
blue
$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
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| Signs urging tourists to stay in North Dakota say “Custer was healthy” when he left there bound for this state
Montana
$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
$200 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1859, with his agent on his back, Charles Blondin walked a tightrope suspended over this
Niagara Falls
$400 ||| Category: AMERICANA ||| In 1857, William Kelly convinced U.S. Patent Office to give him, not Bessemer, rights to make it
steel
