USA Flashcards
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.”
Arlington National Cemetery
Of these 2 California parks, Ken Burns said one offers the biggest trees; the other the tallest.
Sequoia, Redwood
This official slogan of Illinois honors a man who moved there at age 21.
Land of Lincoln
On your mark, get set, go to the hotel atop San Francisco’s Nob Hill named for this railroad magnate.
Mark Hopkins
This Maine national park is the largest to the east of the Mississippi River and is primarily located on Mount Desert Island.
Acadia National Park
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?
Apollo Theater
What is the name of this Wyoming natural landmark?
Devils Tower
San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill is well-known for a colony of what feral animal that lives there?
Parrot
The famous “Costume Institute Gala” is held on the first Monday every May at what New York City landmark?
Metropolitan Museum of Art
This Jesuit university, named after an Italian aristocrat who joined the Society of Jesus, is located in Spokane, Washington.
Gonzaga
This private club in New York City, whose memberships primarliy consists of comedians and celebrities, is best known for hosting risqué celebrity roasts.
Friar’s Club
This Chicago public structure is nicknamed “The Bean.” What is its actual name, given by artist Sir Anish Kapoor?
Cloud Gate
This university on John C. Calhoun’s former plantation is named for Calhoun’s son-in-law, who gave the land.
Clemson
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.
Barbara Jordan
Stroll past the Art Institute of Chicago and the sculpture nicknamed “The Bean” on this avenue.
Michigan Avenue
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?
MGM Grand
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)?
Cheers
By far, the most popular tourist attraction located in (and named after) the Chicago suburb of Brookfield is what type of facility?
Zoo
Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom, now the home of the nonprofit Shabazz Center, is best-known as the site of whose death in February 1965?
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.
This school was established in 1842 and combined with the Arsenal to form the South Carolina Military Academy.
The Citadel
Wildlife graze outside the rooms of the African-themed “Lodge,” a hotel named for which Disney World park?
Animal Kingdom
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).
Seton Hall University
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?
Woolworth’s
The municipality of Teterboro, New Jersey (2020 population: 61) is best known for being the home of what type of facility?
