USA

Question 1

This U.S. historic site’s official seal includes the year 1864 for when it was established, a folded flag and a scroll inscribed “Our Most Sacred Shrine.”

Answer 1

Arlington National Cemetery

Question 2

Of these 2 California parks, Ken Burns said one offers the biggest trees; the other the tallest.

Answer 2

Sequoia, Redwood

Question 3

This official slogan of Illinois honors a man who moved there at age 21.

Answer 3

Land of Lincoln

Question 4

On your mark, get set, go to the hotel atop San Francisco’s Nob Hill named for this railroad magnate.

Answer 4

Mark Hopkins

Question 5

This Maine national park is the largest to the east of the Mississippi River and is primarily located on Mount Desert Island.

Answer 5

Acadia National Park

Question 6

What is the current name of the music hall on West 125th Street in New York’s Harlem neighborhood that opened in 1914 as the whites-only Hurtig & Seamon’s New Burlesque Theater?

Answer 6

Apollo Theater

Question 7

What is the name of this Wyoming natural landmark?

Answer 7

Devils Tower

Question 8

San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill is well-known for a colony of what feral animal that lives there?

Answer 8

Parrot

Question 9

The famous “Costume Institute Gala” is held on the first Monday every May at what New York City landmark?

Answer 9

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Question 10

This Jesuit university, named after an Italian aristocrat who joined the Society of Jesus, is located in Spokane, Washington.

Answer 10

Gonzaga

Question 11

This private club in New York City, whose memberships primarliy consists of comedians and celebrities, is best known for hosting risqué celebrity roasts.

Answer 11

Friar’s Club

Question 12

This Chicago public structure is nicknamed “The Bean.” What is its actual name, given by artist Sir Anish Kapoor?

Answer 12

Cloud Gate

Question 13

This university on John C. Calhoun’s former plantation is named for Calhoun’s son-in-law, who gave the land.

Answer 13

Clemson

Question 14

Known for her oratorical skill and stentorian air, as exemplified by a lauded 1974 impeachment speech delivered as a member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, after what person is the main terminal of Austin’s airport named? She taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and was the first African-American woman buried in the Texas State Cemetery.

Answer 14

Barbara Jordan

Question 15

Stroll past the Art Institute of Chicago and the sculpture nicknamed “The Bean” on this avenue.

Answer 15

Michigan Avenue

Question 16

Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club, David Copperfield, Jabbawockeez, and Cirque du Soleil’s Kà are among the permanent shows at what Las Vegas hotel which, at 6,852 rooms, is the largest single hotel in the United States?

Answer 16

MGM Grand

Question 17

In recognition of its status as a tourist destination, a bar located across from Boston Public Garden in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood called the Bull & Finch Pub changed its name to what in 2002 (that being the name out-of-towners were already using when asking about it)?

Answer 17

Cheers

Question 18

By far, the most popular tourist attraction located in (and named after) the Chicago suburb of Brookfield is what type of facility?

Answer 18

Zoo

Question 19

Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom, now the home of the nonprofit Shabazz Center, is best-known as the site of whose death in February 1965?

Answer 19

The Shabazz Center is named for Dr. Betty Shabazz, widow of the late Malcolm X, who was shot at that Washington Heights theater more than fifty-five years ago.

Question 20

This school was established in 1842 and combined with the Arsenal to form the South Carolina Military Academy.

Answer 20

The Citadel

Question 21

Wildlife graze outside the rooms of the African-themed “Lodge,” a hotel named for which Disney World park?

Answer 21

Animal Kingdom

Question 22

Identify the university in New Jersey named after the first canonized native-born American and founder of the first order of nuns in the United States (the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph).

Answer 22

Seton Hall University

Question 23

The International Civil Rights Center and Museum, in Greensboro, North Carolina, occupies the former site of what store, where four African American students staged a sit-in at the store’s lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service in 1960?

Answer 23

Woolworth’s

Question 24

The municipality of Teterboro, New Jersey (2020 population: 61) is best known for being the home of what type of facility?

Answer 24

Question 25

This national park contains the Moab Fault and thousands of natural sandstone bridges

Answer 25

Arches

Question 26

A part of the Claremont Colleges, this school was founded in 1955 by an initial investor of the Cyprus Mines Corporation

Answer 26

Harvey Mudd

Question 27

The exact location of Hyperion within northwestern California is a closely-guarded secret, and going to see it will earn you a $5000 fine from the National Park Service. This policy of secrecy is in response to the fate of Prometheus, whose superlative status was not known prior to its destruction in 1964, What superlative designation – not the same one as Prometheus once held – does Hyperion claim?

Answer 27

World’s Tallest Tree

Prometheus was, at the time of its destruction, the world’s oldest tree.

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