US Geography

Question 1

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Number of states that touch the Pacific Ocean

Answer 1

5

Question 2

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: The 2 states on both sides of the Mississippi

Answer 2

Minnesota and Louisiana

Question 3

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: 3 of the states that have areas known as “panhandles”

Answer 3

West Virginia, Oklahoma, Idaho, Texas, Florida, Alaska, Maryland

Question 4

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: It’s the smallest state in land area of those not in the original 13 colonies

Answer 4

Hawaii (6,423 sq. miles but growing by the day)

Question 5

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Alaska has the longest seacoast and this state is second

Answer 5

Florida

Question 6

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Phoenix lies on a river named for this substance found in the name of another state capital

Answer 6

Salt

Question 7

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: It’s 277 miles long, it’s up to 18 miles wide, it’s 6 million years old and at a given time temperatures within it can vary by 25 degrees

Answer 7

The Grand Canyon

Question 8

BASEBALL GEOGRAPHY: After Alaska, it’s the largest state in area without a Major League Baseball team (30 seconds to think)

Answer 8

Montana

Question 9

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: This city of 650,000 people is the most populous U.S. city not found in a U.S. state (30 seconds to think)

Answer 9

Washington D.C.

Question 10

U.S. STATE GEOGRAPHY: Of the contiguous states, these 2 coastal states have elevation changes within them of more than 14,000 feet (30 seconds to think)

Answer 10

California and Washington

Question 11

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: The leading dairy products state

Answer 11

Wisconsin

Question 12

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Mountain range that surrounds city of Atlanta

Answer 12

Blue Ridge Mountains

Question 13

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Much of this largest Louisiana city is below sea level

Answer 13

New Orleans

Question 14

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: One of two states ending in “T”

Answer 14

Vermont, Connecticut

Question 15

COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY: John Denver’s country roads lead to these West Virginia mountains

Answer 15

Blue Ridge Mountains

Question 16

COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY: National Park famous for faithful aquatic eruptions

Answer 16

Yellowstone

Question 17

GEOGRAPHY: Honolulu is on this Hawaiian island

Answer 17

Oahu

Question 18

GEOGRAPHY: Located in Alaska, it’s North America’s highest peak

Answer 18

Denali (formerly known as Mount McKinley)

Question 19

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: State whose license plate reads “Land of 10,000 Lakes”

Answer 19

Minnesota

Question 20

U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Only temperate zone rain forest in the U.S. is on this state’s Olympic peninsula

Answer 20

Washington

Question 21

DRAWING THE “LINE”: In the pre-Civil War period, the Ohio River and this line were considered the dividing line between free and slave states

Answer 21

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 22

HOTEL: The 460-room King Kamehameha’s Kona Beach Hotel in this state stands on the grounds where the man once resided

Answer 22

Hawaii