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Question 1

What do we call the region of the Rocky Mountains that separates the rivers flowing in to the Atlantic Ocean from the rivers flowing in to the Pacific Ocean?

Answer 1

Continental Divide

Question 2

What are the oldest mountains in North America?

Answer 2

Appalachian Mountains

Question 3

In which state is the Grand Canyon located?

Answer 3

Arizona

Question 4

What river forms a natural border between the U.S. and MExico?

Answer 4

the Rio Grande

Question 5

What town in Michigan is the biggest center for the manufacture of motor cars in the world?

Answer 5

Detroit

Question 6

What state in the U.S. grows peanuts as an important crop?

Answer 6

Georgia

Question 7

what state has the smallest area in the U.S.?

Answer 7

Rhode Island

Question 8

In what city is the Liberty Bell located?

Answer 8

Philadelphia

Question 9

What kind of animal is the emblem of the U.S. Republican Party?

Answer 9

elephant

Question 10

What kind of animal is the emblem of the U.S. Democratic Party?

Answer 10

donkey

Question 11

What is the largest city in the United States?

Answer 11

New York, New York

Question 12

What is the only state to have an X in its capital?

Answer 12

Arizona

Phoenix

Question 13

In the U.S., where was gold discovered in 1849?

Answer 13

Sutter’s Mill, CA

Question 14

Which brothers made the first powered plan flight?

Answer 14

Wright

Wilbur & Orville

Question 15

Who was the first U.S. president to resign while in office?

Answer 15

Richard M. Nixon

Question 16

What is the northeastern most state in the U.S.?

Answer 16

Maine

Question 17

In what state does the Mississippi River originate?

Answer 17

Minnesota

Question 18

What is the only U.S. state to be an independent republic?

Answer 18

Texas

Question 19

In what month is Labor Day a national holiday?

Answer 19

September

Question 20

What U.S. city is the home of the music know as jazz?

Answer 20

New Orleans

Question 21

In 1979, where was the U.S.’s worst nuclear disaster?

Answer 21

Three Mile Island

Question 22

How many U.S. states are named after a president?

Answer 22

one

Washington

Question 23

What amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religion, speech and the press?

Answer 23

First Amendment

Question 24

In what building in Memphis, Tn was Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated?

Answer 24

the Lorraine Motel

Question 25

What did John F. Kennedy refer to when he said, “this is a new ocean, and I believe the U.S. should sail it.”?

Answer 25

space

Question 26

What type of American television ads were banned in 1971?

Answer 26

cigarette

Question 27

What female sharpshooter did Sitting Bull call “Little Sure Shot”?

Answer 27

Annie Oakley

Question 28

What word has appeared on every coin struck in the U.S. since 1792?

Answer 28

liberty

Question 29

Finish this saying that expressed the American colonists anger against the English government: “No taxation without______”

Answer 29

representation

Question 30

According to the Declaration of Independence, what are the three unalienable rights?

Answer 30

life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Question 31

What man is know as the “Father of the Constitution”?

Answer 31

James Madison

Question 32

What branch of government is led by the president of the U.S.?

Answer 32

executive

Question 33

What do we call money that is paid to the government to help support services?

Answer 33

tax