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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s largest county, San Bernardino, was divided in 1893 to form Riverside county

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California

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Leadville in the Rockies in this state is the USA’s highest incorporated city

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Colorado

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| At about 1,700 square miles, this saline lake is one of the largest lakes in the world with no outlet

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the Salt Lake

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Nome, Alaska lies on this peninsula named for a 19th century Secretary of State

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the Seward peninsula

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.</a>) The northwest angle belongs to the U.S., although it doesn’t look that way; it’s the only part of the lower 48 that extends miles north of this parallel of latitude

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the 49th parallel

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Instead of counties, this state has boroughs (or is it brrr-oughs?)

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Alaska

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state capital is located on the Merrimack River about 15 miles north of Manchester

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Concord

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Tributaries of this Mississippi tributary include the Cheyenne, James & Platte

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the Missouri

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Houston ship channel flows into this bay that shares its name with a city

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Galveston Bay

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This N.C. peak, the highest east of the Mississippi, was named for the man who surveyed it, died on it & is buried at the top

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Mt. Mitchell

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Potomac River feeds into this large bay

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the Chesapeake

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| On Aug. 12, 1901 the first auto reached the summit of this “peak” near Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Pikes Peak

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This river’s delta covers 13,000 square miles, about 1/4 of Louisiana’s area

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the Mississippi

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1847 the Michigan legislature chose this city to succeed Detroit as state capital

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Lansing

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Vineyard Sound separates Martha’s Vineyard from the southernmost part of this cape

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Cape Cod

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s highest point is Puu Wekiu, a cinder cone atop Mauna Kea

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Hawaii

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In the 1850s both California & Nevada called it Lake Bigler

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Lake Tahoe

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Columbia River Plateau lies to the east of this range, the Puget Sound-Willamette Valley Trough to the west

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the Cascades

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Peace Bridge spanning the Niagara River connects this city in New York with Canada

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Buffalo

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Founded by Swiss immigrants, Switzerland County, Indiana lies across from Kentucky, along this river

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the Ohio River

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$None ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Of the non-state U.S. territories, areas & districts, the only one that is larger in area than the smallest state

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Puerto Rico

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$None ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s 277 miles long, it’s up to 18 miles wide, it’s 6 million years old & at a given time temperatures within it can vary by 25 degrees

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the Grand Canyon

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$None ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Of the USA’s 50 tallest peaks, all are in Alaska, Colorado & California except this peak

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Mt. Rainier (in Washington)

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Kauai Channel separates the island of Kauai from this most populous of the Hawaiian Islands

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Oahu

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Located on the Colorado River, it’s the USA’s largest man-made lake

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Lake Mead

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Ranchers formed the territory of Cimarron in 1887; it lasted until 1890 when it became this state’s western panhandle

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Oklahoma

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Austin is the seat of this county named for the Lt. Colonel who commanded the Texans at the Alamo

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Travis

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Connecticut River, like the Quinnipiac & Saugatuck Rivers, flows into this sound

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Long Island Sound

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| If they’d decided to call this town Shawmut, the native name for the area, we’d have Shawmut baked beans

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Boston

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Salt Lake Valley was once a part of the basin of this ancient lake

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Lake Bonneville

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1942, people from the Manhattan Project set up shop at a boys’ ranch school in this N.M. community

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Los Alamos

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Wisconsin is bordered by these 2 of the 5 Great Lakes

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Michigan & Superior

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Though Delaware is the Diamond State, the Crater of Diamonds is in this state

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Arkansas

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Of Hawaii’s 8 main islands, this one receives the lion’s share of the tourist dollars

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Oahu

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| When the Russians owned Alaska, they referred to this tall peak as Bolshaya Gora

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Mt. McKinley

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This river begins in Colorado & empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas

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Rio Grande

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Florida’s panhandle borders these 2 states

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Alabama and Georgia

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This large lake on the New York-Vermont border is Vermont’s lowest point

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Lake Champlain

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Louisiana’s lowest point is 8 feet below sea level in this city

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New Orleans

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Wrigley family owns much of this resort island 22 miles off the coast of Los Angeles

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Catalina

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This island, a NYC Borough, is separated from New Jersey by 2 narrow channels: the Kill Van Kull and the Arthur Kill

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Staten Island

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The western part of this state’s panhandle is the high plains, or llano estacado, “staked plains”

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Texas

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This river joins the Columbia near Pasco, Washington, a little more than 1,000 miles from its source in Wyoming

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the Snake River

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$None ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| With a common nickname that refers to its size, this is the largest island in the United States

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Hawaii

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The West Point Military Reservation includes Constitution Island, which lies in this river

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the Hudson River

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The dome of the capitol building in this city 100 miles west of Philadelphia is a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome

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Harrisburg

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Virginia’s longest river, it provides abundant waterpower for the state’s industries

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the James River

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s highest point is Mount Frissell; its lowest point is at sea level on Long Island Sound

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Connecticut

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| A statue of Hiawatha & this wife stands atop the waterfall named for her

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Minnehaha

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The borders of 5 Utah counties lie within this lake

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The Great Salt Lake

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Mapmakers named this Colorado mountain after its 1806 discoverer, who had called it Grand Peak

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Pikes Peak

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Northwestern capital’s name is derived from the Hebrew shalom, meaning “peace”

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Salem, Oregon

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This river flows through 3 state capitals: Bismarck, Pierre & Jefferson City

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Missouri River

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only U.S. state lying on the Tropic of Cancer

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Hawaii

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The summit of this famous Colorado peak can be reached by horseback, auto, or a 9-mile cog railway

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Pikes Peak

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Due to evaporation, the area of this largest Utah lake varies from year to year

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the Great Salt Lake

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| A point 5 miles northeast of Murfreesboro is smack dab in the middle of this “Volunteer State”

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Tennessee

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This city of over a million people lies 30 miles from Fort Worth

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Dallas

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This “lengthy” island forms the easternmost part of New York state

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Long Island

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$None ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the westernmost state to border any of the Great Lakes

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Minnesota

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$None ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only U.S. state that touches 2 oceans

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Alaska

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Chicago River flows out of this great lake; the Kalamazoo River flows in

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Lake Michigan

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Okefenokee Swamp covers nearly 700 square miles in these 2 states

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Florida & Georgia

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Apprpriately, you’ll find the Black & Funeral Mountains in this “mournful” region of California

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Death Valley

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It makes sense that this is “The Mountain State” since it lies entirely within the Appalachians

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West Virginia

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| 1 of 2 capes in North Carolina that have been designated national seashores

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Hatteras & Lookout

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Principal port cities on this gulf include Mobile & Tampa

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Gulf of Mexico

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Large ships can sail over 100 miles inland to Washington, D.C. on this river

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Potomac

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Streams in the eastern part of this state flow into Lake Michigan & Green Bay

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Wisconsin

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1833 this “holy” northwestern Ohio port arose from the consolidation of Port Lawrence & Vistula villages

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Toledo

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The easternmost part of Rhode Island can’t be reached by land without going through this state

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Massachusetts

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Idaho’s capital; it’s the state’s largest city as well

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Boise

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this U.S.-Mexico river is Spanish for “large river”

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the Rio Grande

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s both the farthest north & the farthest west of the Great Lakes

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Lake Superior

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Sometimes called the “Tip of the Continent”, it’s the only U.S. mountain whose peak exceeds 20,000 feet

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Mount McKinley

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This vast southern California desert is a chief source of boron, which is used in nuclear reactors

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the Mojave Desert

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1874, a major rail crossing, the Eads Bridge, was completed across this river at St. Louis

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Mississippi River

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| California’s highest peak, it was named for the geologist who was chief of the expedition that found it in 1864

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Mount Whitney

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Col. Thomas Baker founded this city, a produce center & California’s country music capital

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Bakersfield

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Virginia’s Rappahannock River flows into this bay

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Chesapeake Bay

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state capital was founded in 1819 from 2 towns: East Alabama & New Philadelphia

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Montgomery

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The city of El Paso in this state is a major gateway between the U.S. & Mexico

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Texas

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This “stately” river carved the Black Canyon as well as the Grand Canyon

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Colorado River

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| If you want to sneak a peek at the landmark seen here, head to this Midwest state: (Mount Rushmore)

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South Dakota

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Sounds morbid, but it’s the lowest point in California & in all of the U.S.

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Death Valley

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In Hawaii, Mauna Kea means “white mountain” & this volcano’s name means “long mountain”

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Mauna Loa

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This river’s drainage area covers about 1.25 million square miles in 31 states

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Mississippi

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest peaks in this colorful mountain range of the Appalachian system lie in North Carolina

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Blue Ridge Mountains

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County is the westernmost point of this state

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California

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2 main branches of this inlet in Washington state are Hood Canal & Admiralty Inlet

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Puget Sound

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Haleakala on this “Valley Island” of Hawaii has the world’s largest dormant volcanic crater

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Maui

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| About 75% of all Hawaiians live on this island

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Oahu

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The New York state barge canal system connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic via this river

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Hudson River

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This mountain system stretches about 1,500 miles from Alabama to Canada’s Gaspe Peninsula

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Appalachians

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Made famous in song, this river begins in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp & empties into the Gulf of Mexico via Florida

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Suwannee River

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Texas city is the largest in the U.S. to have an African-American mayor

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Houston (Lee Brown)

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Of 8, 12 or 18, the number of U.S. states that touch the Atlantic Ocean

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18

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of the 4 U.S. states that have capitals with “City” in their names

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Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma & Utah

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| (<a>Hi, I’m Jason Elam of the Denver Broncos.</a>) In 1998 I earned a trip to the NFL’s Pro Bowl, held each year in this city where I played college ball

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Honolulu

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Vancouver is the northernmost city represented in the NBA; this is the southernmost

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Miami

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1957 Lake Seminole was created on the Apalachicola River in this state but most of it lies in Georgia

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Florida

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The U.S. Bureau of the Census says its metropolitan area covers parts of 3 states: Wisconsin, Illinois & Indiana

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Chicago

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Humboldt River, this state’s longest, flows through the cities of Winnemucca & Elko

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Nevada

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this iron ore-producing range in Minnesota comes from an Indian word for “giant”

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Mesabi Range

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This presidential mountain in New Hampshire is the tallest peak in the northeastern United States

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Mount Washington

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| At 33 miles in length, the Kaukonahua Stream is this state’s longest river

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Hawaii

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Communities on this cape include Pilgrim Heights & Mayflower Heights

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Cape Cod

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this Iowa capital may come from an Indian word for “River of the Mounds”

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Des Moines

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| These beautiful New York mountains are associated with the area once known as the “Borscht Belt”

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Catskills

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s “Northwest Angle” lies in Lake of the Woods County north of the 49th parallel

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Minnesota

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This river’s delta covers more than 12,000 square miles in Louisiana

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Mississippi River

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This mountain system stretches from New Mexico to the Brooks Range north of the Arctic Circle

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Rocky Mountains

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113
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Wichita Mountains are not in Kansas but in this state on its southern border

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Oklahoma

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Although a mile wide in some places, this principal river of Nebraska is too shallow to be navigable

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Platte River

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state capital is known for a variety of oysters found primarily in Puget Sound

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Olympia

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| A small part of this California mountain range extends into the Lake Tahoe area of Nevada

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Sierra Nevadas

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Utah river named for a river in the Holy Land flows from freshwater Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake

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Jordan River

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118
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1644 Aquidneck Island in Narragansett Bay was officially renamed this

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Rhode Island

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Of the states that have counties, it has the fewest: Kent, New Castle & Sussex

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Delaware

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120
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Valley of the Sun is the locale of this state capital

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Phoenix

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Over its 2,340-mile course, this river forms the boundary or part of the boundary of 9 states

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Mississippi

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the largest body of fresh water lying entirely within the USA

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Lake Michigan

123
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Colorado’s Mount Elbert in the Sawatch range is this mountain system’s tallest peak

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Rockies

124
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Francisco de Ortega is credited with discovering this strait leading into San Francisco Bay

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Golden Gate

125
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This 113-mile sand bar along Texas’ Gulf Coast is the state’s largest island

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Padre Island

126
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| At 14,433 feet, Mt. Elbert in this state is a real Rocky Mountain high; it’s the highest peak in the range

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Colorado

127
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1937 the government set aside this Georgia swamp as a national wildlife refuge

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Okefenokee Swamp

128
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$1500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This large Connecticut city was named after a structure spanning the Pequonnock

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Bridgeport

129
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Great Lake’s deepest point, 1330 feet, lies about 50 miles north of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

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Lake Superior

130
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This 6,684-foot peak in western North Carolina is the highest U.S. point east of the Mississippi River

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Mount Mitchell

131
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$None ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Phoenix lies on a river named for this substance found in the name of another state capital

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Salt

132
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Part of this 3,000-mile long mountain system covers the middle third of Colorado

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the Rocky Mountains

133
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Texas County in this state’s panhandle borders the state of Texas

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Oklahoma

134
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Washington volcano erupted on November 22, 1842; it blew its top again in 1980

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Mount St. Helens

135
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Midwestern state’s “Northwest Angle” is the northernmost point in the continental U.S.

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Minnesota

136
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Calendar Islands of this “Pine Tree State” are so named because there are 365 of them

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Maine

137
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Whidbey Island in Washington state is the largest island in this inlet

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Puget Sound

138
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Texas island was named for a priest, Father Nicholas Balli

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Padre Island

139
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| With an average elevation of 6,800 feet, it’s the highest of all the states

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Colorado

140
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Look out for Capes Lookout, Hatteras & Fear when sailing along this state’s coast

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North Carolina

141
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Coeur d’Alene Lake in this state is at the heart of a popular resort area

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Idaho

142
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Peach County is the center of this state’s peach-growing belt

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Georgia

143
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Theodore Roosevelt Island in the District of Columbia lies in this river

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Potomac

144
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This site of the U.S. Immigration Depot was called Oyster Island by the Dutch

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Ellis Island

145
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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| At one point this state is less than 2 miles wide between its borders with Pennsylvania & West Virginia

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Maryland

146
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The U.S.A.’s strongest surface wind, 231 MPH, was recorded on this New Hampshire mountain

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Mount Washington

147
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Once the site of a famous prison, this California island was named for its large pelican population

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Alcatraz

148
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| All 5 Rhode Island counties have shorelines on this bay

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Narragansett Bay

149
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This river that winds through Wyoming, Idaho & Oregon is the main tributary of the Columbia River

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Snake River

150
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Connecticut River forms Vermont’s entire border with this state

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New Hampshire

151
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Waimea is a famous canyon on this “Garden Isle” of Hawaii

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Kauai

152
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Carson City, the capital of this western state, is named for Kit Carson

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Nevada

153
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s Alabama’s first permanent European settlement as well as its only seaport

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Mobile

154
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Utah’s Uinta Range is the only major range of these mountains in the contiguous 48 states that runs east & west

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Rocky Mountains

155
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s least populous county, Grand Isle, lies mostly within Lake Champlain

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Vermont

156
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Chief cities on the banks of this Hudson River tributary include Rome, Utica & Schenectady

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Mohawk River

157
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s largest cities lie within its Bluegrass Region

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Kentucky

158
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s Upper Peninsula has 2 land regions: the Superior Upland & the Central Lowland

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Michigan

159
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Some ocean-going vessels can sail up the Connecticut River as far north as this capital

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Hartford

160
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The parishes in this state’s East Gulf Coastal Plain are called the “Florida Parishes”

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Louisiana

161
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Cadillac Mountain, the highest peak on the Eastern Seaboard, lies in this Maine national park

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Acadia National Park

162
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Galveston, Texas & Sarasota, Florida lie on this famous gulf

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Gulf of Mexico

163
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| NYC’s Brooklyn Bridge spans the East River between Brooklyn & this island borough

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Manhattan

164
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Name shared by Chicago’s Great Lake & one of Chicago’s major avenues

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Michigan

165
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In area, this New England state roughly equals Vermont, N.H., Connecticut & Massachusetts combined

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Maine

166
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Jefferson City is Missouri’s capital & this “City” where the Royals play is Missouri’s largest

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Kansas City

167
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Idaho’s largest city, it’s almost 3 times as populous as Pocatello, the second largest

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Boise

168
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Pacific Ocean once covered this desert between the Sierra Nevada & the Colorado River

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Mojave Desert

169
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| 2 of this state’s largest lakes are Quabbin Reservoir & Wachusett Reservoir near Worcester

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Massachusetts

170
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Algonquin Peak in this state is also known as Mount MacIntyre

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New York

171
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the oldest city in Kansas; a federal penitentiary lies within the city limits

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Leavenworth

172
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| America’s chief mountain system, it forms the Continental Divide

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Rocky Mountains

173
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Laughing Whitefish is a well-known waterfall in this state’s Upper Peninsula

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Michigan

174
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This second-largest Hawaiian island is located about 70 miles southeast of Oahu

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Maui

175
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$4000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Boston Mountains of Arkansas contain the highest peaks of these mountains

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Ozark Mountains

176
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This ‘bleak” swamp covers about 750 square miles in Virginia & North Carolina

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The Great Dismal Swamp

177
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| About a third of this state lies north of the Arctic Circle

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Alaska

178
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Indiana’s 2nd-largest city is on the site of this stockade built in 1794 & named for a “mad” general

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Fort Wayne

179
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This region of South Dakota & Wyoming has the largest gold mine in the U.S.

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Black Hills

180
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This mountain range extends about 400 miles from near the Mojave Desert to the Feather River

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Sierra Nevadas

181
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$1500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Cape Fear River, one of this state’s longest, is formed by the Deep & Haw Rivers

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North Carolina

182
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Much of this Georgia capital is in Fulton County, but part of it lies in DeKalb County

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Atlanta

183
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains, there’s no place like dome

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Clingman’s Dome

184
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$1500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Mount Hood, a volcanic peak, rises 11,239 feet in this mountain range

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The Cascades

185
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1905 a large searchlight was installed at the top of this Colorado peak

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Pikes Peak

186
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Belleville, Illinois is part of this Missouri city’s metropolitan area

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St. Louis

187
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The largest lake in the western U.S., it’s fed by freshwater streams but has a heavy saline content

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the Great Salt Lake

188
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Wind Cave National Park is located in these eroded mountains in western South Dakota

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the Black Hills

189
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Northern California’s Mount Shasta & Lassen Peak are at the southern end of this mountain range

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the Cascades

190
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Bays in this state include Hingham, Dorchester & Quincy

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Massachusetts

191
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This tiny state’s southernmost point lies on Block Island in the Atlantic, about 10 miles from the mainland

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Rhode Island

192
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Emmons & Nisqually are 2 of about 25 glaciers on this Washington state peak

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Mt. Rainier

193
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The site of a leper colony, this Hawaiian island is nicknamed the “Friendly Island”

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Molokai

194
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$2400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This city is Pennsylvania’s only port on the Great Lakes

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Erie

195
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Missouri & Ohio are the chief tributaries of this river

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the Mississippi

196
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s “The Natural State” as well as “The Land of Opportunity”

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Arkansas

197
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Four Corners in the Western U.S. is where these 4 states meet at a single point

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Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, & Utah

198
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Covering 625 square miles, it’s Louisiana’s largest lake

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Lake Pontchartrain

199
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the southernmost of the New England states

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Connecticut

200
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This city is the seat of Washington’s King County

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Seattle

201
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The name of this state’s Kennebec River is Algonquian for “long reach”

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Maine

202
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The geographic center of this state lies in Wexford County, 5 miles north-northwest of Cadillac

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Michigan

203
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The largest area of sand dunes in North America lies north of the Platte River in this state

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Nebraska

204
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Over 3 dozen mountains in this northern New York range exceed 4,000 feet

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the Adirondacks

205
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Arizona capital lies in the Salt River Valley & is bordered by mountains & the Sonoran desert

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Phoenix

206
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s largest desert basins are Jornada del Muerto & Tularosa, where White Sands is

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New Mexico

207
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Chappaquiddick Island & this larger island are separated by Katama Bay

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Martha’s Vineyard

208
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The easternmost point of this state’s Outer Banks is on Cape Hatteras National Seashore

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North Carolina

209
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Rising 33,480 feet from its underwater base makes this Hawaiian volcano the world’s tallest peak

A

Mauna Kea

210
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state has a Custer County as well as one named Big Horn

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Montana

211
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s parishes began as administrative units of the Catholic Church under Spanish rule

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Louisiana

212
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| New Jersey’s eastern border is formed by the Atlantic Ocean & this river

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Hudson River

213
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Detroit, Huron & Sandusky Rivers are among those that flow into this great lake

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Lake Erie

214
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This home of the U.S. Air Force Academy was founded in 1871 as Fountain Colony

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Colorado Springs

215
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Galesburg, seat of this state’s Knox County, was the site of a Lincoln-Douglas debate

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Illinois

216
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| A railroad president named Aberdeen, South Dakota for his birthplace in this country

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Scotland

217
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This largest Oregon city is home to the International Rose Test Gardens

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Portland

218
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Johns Hopkins University in this city is the home of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame

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Baltimore

219
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$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s Acadia National Park includes parts of Isle Au Haut & the Schoodic Peninsula

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Maine

220
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Antelope Island in this Utah lake is used as a refuge for bison

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the Great Salt Lake

221
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$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Albuquerque, New Mexico lies on this 1885-mile long river

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the Rio Grande

222
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$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| From its incorporation in 1813 until 1901, this New York village was known as Sing-Sing

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Ossining

223
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$2600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| South Carolina’s highest point, Sassafras Mountain, rises 3,560 feet in this range of the Appalachians

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the Blue Ridge Mountains

224
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Lake Erie port in Northwest Ohio was once called “the Glass Capital of the World”

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Toledo

225
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Alabama’s general coastline, only 53 miles, is along this gulf

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the Gulf of Mexico

226
Q

$1300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Cities on this river include Aliquippa, Pennsylvania & Louisville, Kentucky

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the Ohio River

227
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Los Angeles aqueduct crosses the western part of this desert

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the Mojave

228
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Georgia’s highest point is Brasstown Bald Mountain in this range of the Appalachians

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the Blue Ridge Mountains

229
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This twin city of Urbana, Illinois was once called West Urbana

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Champaign

230
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The largest number of active volcanoes in the U.S. lie in this Alaskan island group

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Aleutian Islands

231
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| While Upper Klamath Lake is in Oregon, Lower Klamath Lake lies in this state

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California

232
Q

$1100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state separates most of Alabama from the Gulf of Mexico

A

Florida

233
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This Great Lake is connected to Lake Superior by the St. Mary’s River

A

Huron

234
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Winding through Idaho, the Salmon River is the largest tributary of this river

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Snake

235
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s Seward peninsula includes the westernmost point on the North American mainland

A

Alaska

236
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In Virginia Cape Charles & Cape Henry mark the northern & southern sides of the entrances to this bay

A

Chesapeake Bay

237
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Placid is located 1,860 feet above sea level in these mountains

A

the Adirondacks

238
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Port Townsend, one of Washington’s oldest cities, is at the entrance to this inlet

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Puget Sound

239
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Referring to its Spanish name, this chief Texas Panhandle city is nicknamed the “Yellow Rose of Texas”

A

Amarillo

240
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Vineyard Sound separates Martha’s Vineyard from the southernmost part of this cape

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Cape Cod

241
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Rivers flowing into this bay include the Susquehanna, James, & Rappahannock

A

Chesapeake Bay

242
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the state in which you’d find Suwannee Sound

A

Florida

243
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| George Vancouver named this Washington state mountain for a friend in the British navy

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Mt. Rainier

244
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s the only Great Lake not bordering the state of Michigan

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Lake Ontario

245
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$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Ten Thousand islands lie near the city of Everglades in this state

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Florida

246
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$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| At about 440 square miles, Red Lake is the largest of this state’s “10,000 Lakes”

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Minnesota

247
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$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Yuma, Arizona is the largest city lying on this 1450-mile-long river

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the Colorado

248
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This bay nearly cuts Rhode Island in two

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the Narragansett

249
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This twin-peaked volcano in northern California has 5 small glaciers on its slopes

A

Mt. Shasta

250
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Known as the “Father of Waters”, this river drains an area of approx. 1,247,000 square miles

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the Mississippi

251
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The westernmost and northernmost points in the U.S. are both located in this state

A

Alaska

252
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Bluegrass region, an area of gently rolling pastures, covers the north central part of this state

A

Kentucky

253
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Lake Pontchartrain & St. Bernard Parish form part of this city’s northern & southern boundaries

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New Orleans

254
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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Important dams on this river include Rock Island, Rocky Reach & Grand Coulee

A

the Columbia River

255
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This city was founded near rapids on the Ohio River & named for Louis XVI of France

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Louisville (Kentucky)

256
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1989 voters in this town where Wild Bill Hickok died legalized gambling

A

Deadwood (South Dakota)

257
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This city some 30 miles west of Dallas began as an army post on the Trinity River

A

Fort Worth

258
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| A cog railroad, the first built in the U.S., runs up this New Hampshire mountain

A

Mount Washington

259
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state borders two Canadian provinces: Manitoba & Saskatchewan

A

North Dakota

260
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This river that rises at Lake Itasca drains about 1/8 of the North American continent

A

Mississippi River

261
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Of New York City’s 5 boroughs, the one that is New York County

A

Manhattan

262
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This lake was created when Hoover Dam was built on the Colorado River

A

Lake Mead

263
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In Kansas more people live in this city than in Topeka & Kansas City combined

A

Wichita

264
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty fixed this state’s border with New Brunswick

A

Maine

265
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Longer than the Mississippi, this river wasn’t made navigable until the 20th century

A

Missouri River

266
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This 10-state region isn’t flat; it rises from 2,000 ft. near Omaha to 6,000 ft. at Cheyenne

A

Great Plains

267
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The only state with areas that have a Mediterranean climate

A

California

268
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The lower valley of the Susquehanna & its tributaries have created this large Atlantic bay

A

Chesapeake Bay

269
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This western branch of the Appalachians runs from north central Penn. through MD., VA. & W. VA.

A

Alleghenies

270
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The U.S. borders these 3 oceans

A

Arctic, Atlantic & Pacific

271
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| There’s a national park on the island of St. John in this U.S. possession

A

U.S. Virgin Islands

272
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| North Dakota has its Devils Lake & Wyoming its Devils one of these

A

Devils Tower

273
Q

$1200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The Raritan is the longest river wholly within this state

A

New Jersey

274
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| One of the largest of these shallow channels in the U.S. is the Bartholomew in N. Louisiana

A

Bayou

275
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill are the 3 apexes of this state’s famed Research Triangle

A

North Carolina

276
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| State where you can visit Hot Springs National Park & Crater of Diamonds State Park

A

Arkansas

277
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| All of Connecticut’s port cities are on this arm of the Atlantic

A

Long Island Sound

278
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Glacier National Park & the Custer Battlefield are among this “Treasure State”’s treasures

A

Montana

279
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The most densely populated state; every one of this middle Atlantic state’s 21 counties has over 50,000 people

A

New Jersey

280
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| To make way for a railroad, Missouri’s Cape Girardeau on this river was blasted out of existence

A

Mississippi River

281
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| East Chicago is located in this state, not Illinois

A

Indiana

282
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This state’s Panhandle limits Alabama’s Gulf of Mexico coastline to the area around Mobile Bay

A

Florida

283
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Mt. Hood, the highest Oregon mountain, is in this range

A

The Cascades

284
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| About 70,000 now live in this planned “new town” founded in 1967 between Baltimore & D.C.

A

Columbia

285
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The lower part of this New York river is an arm of the Atlantic ocean

A

the Hudson River

286
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Of desert, swamp or forest, the type of land composing almost one third of the U.S.

A

forest land

287
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| They are South Dakota’s example of dome mountains, which are raised up by pressure in the earth’s crust

A

the Black Hills

288
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| In 1980, this Cascade mountain peak was reduced from 9677’ to about 8300’

A

Mt. St. Helens

289
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Complete with big toe projection into the Gulf of Mexico, this state resembles a boot

A

Louisiana

290
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Of about 8, 11, or 16%, the % of U.S. land area that Alaska represents

A

16%

291
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| This island is the only U.S. commonwealth outside the continental U.S.

A

Puerto Rico

292
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Though most of Yellowstone National Park lies in Wyoming, it spreads out into these other 2 states

A

Montana & Idaho

293
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| The 2 states on both sides of the Mississippi

A

Louisiana and Minnesota

294
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| It’s “where the wind comes sweeping down the plain”

A

Oklahoma

295
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| State whose counties include Crockett, Zapata & Pecos

A

Texas

296
Q

$700 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| One of two states ending in “T”

A

(1 of) Connecticut and Vermont

297
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Historic pass at junction of TN., KY., & VA., associated with Daniel Boone

A

the Cumberland Gap

298
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY ||| Mountain range that surrounds city of Atlanta

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the Blue Ridge Mountains

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