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America Quiz

1. WHAT ROOM IN THE AVERAGE AMERICAN HOME IS THE SCENE OF THE GREATEST NUMBER OF ARGUMENTS?

2. WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF THE 2 STONE LIONS SITTING IN FRONT OF THE NY CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY AT 5TH AND 42ND?

3. HOW MANY WINDOWS IN THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING?

4. HOW MUCH TIME (IN MONTHS) DOES THE AVERAGE AMERICAN MOTORIST SPEND DURING HIS LIFETIME WAITING AT RED LIGHTS?

5. TWO STATES BILL THEMSELVES AS THE SUNSHINE STATE. NAME THEM.

6. WHAT EMPLOYEE GROOMING REGULATION AT DISNEY WORLD WOULD PREVENT THE HIRING OF WALT DISNEY - IF HE WERE ALIVE AND JOB HUNTING TODAY?

7. WHERE ARE THE ONLY REMAINING FREE ROAMING PANTHERS IN NORTH AMERICA?

8. WHAT MINNESOTA VILLAGE WAS RELOCATED BECAUSE IT SAT ATOP HUGE BEDS OF IRON ORE?

9. WHAT PHYSICAL HANDICAP AFFLICTED JULIETTE LOW, FOUNDER OF THE GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA?

10. WHAT US STATE IS MOST DEPENDENT ON TOURISM, WITH ALMOST 30 % OF ITS JOBS TOURIST RELATED?

11. WHO GAVE HIS RED HAND-KNITTED CARDIGAN SWEATER, SIZE 38, TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE IN 1984?

12. WHAT IS ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THE SUSAN B. ANTHONY DOLLAR?

13. HOW MANY RINGLING BROTHERS WERE THERE?

14. WHICH OF NEW YORK CITY'S BOROUGHS IS THE SMALLEST IN AREA?

15. WHAT OFT PLAYED AMERICAN SONG'S TUNE, METER, AND VERSE FORM WERE BORROWED FROM AN ENGLISH DRINKING SONG?

16. WHAT IS THE DEEPEST GORGE ON THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT?

17. WHAT ARE THE 4 STATES THAT MEET AT "4 CORNERS"?

18. ACCORDING TO FOLKLORE, WHAT WAS CREATED BY PAUL BUNYAN DRAGGING HIS PICK AXE BEHIND HIM?

19. HOW MANY HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ARE THERE?

20. WHERE ARE THE OLDEST CHURCH BELLS IN THE US?

21. HOW MANY ELEVATORS IN THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING?

22. WHO CAME IN SECOND IN A 1945 FORTUNE MAGAZINE POLL TO DETERMINE THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN IN AMERICA?

23. WHAT DID ALBERT EINSTEIN SAY WAS THE HARDEST THING IN THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND?

24. WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF MONEY LEFT BY THE TOOTH FAIRY IN 1950?

25. WHAT IS THE DEEPEST LAKE IN THE US?

26. WHAT 4 STATE CAPITALS ARE NAMED AFTER CITIES IN ENGLAND?

27. WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY SPELLED OUT IN THE HUGE MOUNTAINSIDE SIGN THAT WELCOMES VISITORS IN HOLLYWOOD?

28. WHO OWNS THE HOPE DIAMOND?

29. HOW MANY TIME ZONES ARE THERE IN THE US, INCLUDING PUERTO RICO, THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, AND AMERICAN SAMOA?

30. WHAT IS THE ONLY STATE ON THE EASTERN SEABOARD TO FALL PARTIALLY IN THE CENTRAL TIME ZONE?

31. WHAT CITY IS AMERICA'S LARGEST IN AREA?

32. WHICH US STATE USES THE NAPOLEONIC CODE RATHER THAN ENGLISH COMMON LAW AS THE BASIS OF ITS CIVIL LAW?

33. WHOSE APPEARANCE IN A NEARLY TRANSPARENT WHITE FISHNET BATHING SUIT IN THE 1978 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIM SUIT EDITION LED AN EDITOR TO PROMISE, WE NEVER HAVE AND NEVER WILL, RUN ANYTHING SO REVEALING AGAIN?

34. WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF MONEY LEFT PER VISIT BY THE TOOTH FAIRY IN 1950?

35. WHAT IS THE BEST SELLING MAGAZINE IN THE US?

36. IN 1949 MRS. RALPH E SMAFIELD WON FIRST PRIZE IN WHAT EVENT WITH HER WATER-RISING TWISTS?

37. WHAT WAS WALT DISNEY'S ORIGINAL TITLE FOR DISNEYLAND?

38. BETWEEN 1835 AND 1837, A NOW PERENNIAL FEATURE OF AMERICAN LIFE WAS BLISSFULLY ABSENT, WHAT WAS IT?

39. WHERE IS IT ILLEGAL FOR A PORTRAIT OF A LIVING PERSON TO APPEAR IN THE US?

40. WHO WAS TIME MAGAZINE'S MAN OF THE YEAR FOR 1952?

41. WHAT WAS THE WORKING TITLE FOR "PLAYBOY" MAGAZINE BEFORE ITS DEBUT IN DECEMBER 1953?

42. WHAT IS THE FULL NAME OF VIRGINIA, OF "YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS" FAME?

43. WHOS BODY WAS THE FIRST TO LIE IN STATE IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING IN WASHINGTON DC?

44. WHAT COUNTRY BENEFITED FROM THE FIRST FOREIGN AID BILL APPROVED BYE THE US CONGRESS?

45. WHAT WAS THE FIRST BUILDING ERECTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON, DC?

46. WHO WAS THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN TO WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE?

47. WHICH AMERICAN COLONY WAS THE FIRST TO ENACT ANTI SLAVERY LEGISLATION?

48. WHAT US STATE WAS THE LAST TO ADOPT THE SECRET BALLOT? (NOT FLORIDA heehee)?

49. WHO WAS THE FIRST CIVILIAN ASTRONAUT LAUNCHED INTO SPACE BY THE US?

50. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LATITUDE 39 DEGREES 43' N IN AMERICAN HISTORY?

51. WHO WROTE "FISH AND VISITORS SMELL IN 3 DAYS"?

52. WHAT DID THOMAS JEFFERSON SMUGGLE OUT OF ITALY IN 1784 TO HELP BOOST AMERICA'S POST REVOLUTION ECONOMY?

53. HOW MANY STATES WERE CREATED (IN PART OR IN THERE ENTIRETY) FROM THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE?

54. WHO GAINED FAME AS RICHARD SAUNDERS DURING AMERICA'S COLONIAL DAYS?

55. WHO WAS THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON?

56. HOW MANY CHESTS OF TEA WERE DUMPED OVERBOARD AT THE BOSTON TEA PARTY?

57. WHERE WAS THE FIRST RECORDED REPORT OF A UFO SIGHTING MADE IN THE US?

58. WHICH ARTICLE OF CLOTHING WERE WOMEN REQUIRED TO WEAR ON THE BEACH AT ATLANTIC CITY UNTIL 1907 ALONG WITH THEIR STANDARD ATTIRE OF LONG BATHING DRESSES, BATHING SHOES AND STRAW HATS?

59. HOW DID CAPTAIN JOSHUA SLOCUM (THE FIRST MAN TO SAIL SOLO AROUND THE WORLD) FIGHT OFF PIRATES ATTACKING HIS SLOOP?

60. HOW CAN YOU TELL THE SEX OF A GROUPER (FISH)?

61. WHAT FAMOUS AMERICAN'S FATHER HEADED THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING IN 1932?

62. WHAT TRIGGERED THE LEGENDARY FEUD BETWEEN THE HILLBILLY HATFIELDS AND MCCOYS?

63. WHAT WAS THE POWDER USED BY AMERICA'S FOUNDING FATHERS TO KEEP THEIR WIGS WHITE?

64. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PROSPECTOR WHO DISCOVERED GOLD IN THE ALASKA PANHANDLE IN 1880?

65. WHAT FAMOUS WORDS DID FRANCIS BELLAMY WRITE TO COMMEMORATE THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF COLUMBUS'S DISCOVERY OF AMERICA?

66. WHAT FAMOUS CHEROKEE INDIAN WAS KNOWN TO THE AMERICANS OF HIS TIME AS GEORGE GUESS?

67. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN KENTUCKY, ESTABLISHED BY DANIEL BOONE?

68. WHAT HOUSE IS THE SECOND MOST VISITED AMERICAN HOME IN THE US, AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE?

69. IN 1784 AMERICAN SETTLERS ESSTABLISHED AN INDEPENDENT STATE NAMED FRANKLIN, WHERE WAS IT?

70. WHAT FAMOUS FRONTIERS WOMAN WAS BURIED IN DEADWOOD SD, HOLDING A GUN IN EACH HAND?

71. WHY COULDN'T SURGEON CHARLES RICHARD DREWS, WHO ORGANIZED THE FIRST BLOOD BANK IN THE US, DONATE HIS OWN BLOOD?

72. WHICH US STATE WAS THE FIRST TO PASS A RIGHT TO DIE LAW?

73. WHAT STATE WAS THE FIRST TO PROCLAIM CHRISTMAS A HOLIDAY?

74. WHAT FAMOUS AMERICAN ONCE BOASTED "I CAN'T SAY I WAS EVER LOST, BUT I WAS BEWILDERED ONCE FOR 3 DAYS"?

75. WHICH OF THE CONTIGUOUS 48 STATES WAS THE LAST TO BE EXPLORED?

76. WHAT IS MARY E. SURRATT'S SIGNIFICANCE IN US HISTORY?

77. WHAT SONG WAS THE BAND PLAYING WHILE THE TITANIC WAS SINKING?

78. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE SHIP ON WHICH FRANCIS SCOTT KEY COMPOSED "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER"?

79. HOW MANY SIGNATURES ARE ON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?

80. WHO WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN EXPLORER TO SEE AND CROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER?

81. HOW MANY CHILDREN DID POCAHONTAS HAVE?

82. HOW MANY STATES WERE IN THE US IN 1900?

83. ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS BUREAU WHAT ARE THE 2 MOST COMMON SURNAMES IN IN THE US?

84. WHERE WERE THE ORIGINAL COPIES OF THE US CONSTITUTION AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE KEPT DURING WW II?

85. WHICH STATE IS AMERICA'S FLATTEST ?

86. WHICH STATE IS THE MOST THICKLY FORRESTED?

87. HOW MANY JUROR'S WERE DISMISSED DURING THE COURSE OF THE OJ SIMPSON TRIAL?

88. HOW MANY SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WENT ON TO BECOME PRESIDENT?

89. WHAT WAS THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN OF THE GREATEST NUMBER OF IMMIGRANTS TO PASS THRU ELLIS ISLAND BETWEEN 1892 AND 1924?

90. WHERE IS THE SUPERMAN MUSEUM?

91. WHAT STATE CAPITAL WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED "PIG'S EYE"?

92. IN THE EARLY YEARS OF AMERICA'S CELEBRATION OF MOTHER'S DAY, WHAT FLOWER WAS CUSTOMARILY WORN BY THOSE HONORING THEIR MOMS?

93. FOR WHAT IS THE TELEPHONE NUMBER 800-555-0199 RESERVED?

94. WHAT 3 NAMES WERE GIVEN TO MORE THAN HALF THE FEMALES CHRISTENED IN THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY IN THE 1600S?

95. WHAT GROUP OF AMERICANS SPEAK A DIALECT THE CALL MUDDERSCHPROOCH?

96. WHAT IVY LEAGUE COLLEGE WAS THE LAST TO GO CO ED?

97. HOW LONG MUST A PERSON BE DEAD, B4 HE OR SHE CAN BE HONORED WITH A US COMMEMORATIVE STAMP?

98. WHAT WEEKLY PERIODICAL WAS THE FIRST MAGAZINE IN HISTORY TO SELL A BILLION COPIES A YEAR?

99. WHAT NAME WAS GIVEN TO THE LARGEST DIAMOND EVER FOUND IN THE US?

100. WHAT NUMBER IRON DID ASTRONAUT ALAN SHEPARD USE WHEN HE TOOK HIS FAMOUS SWING AT A GOLF BALL ON THE MOON?

101. WHAT IS THE FLICKERTAIL, FROM WHICH NORTH DAKOTA GETS ITS STATE NICKNAME?

102. WHICH OF COLUMBUS' 3 SHIPS MADE A RETURN VOYAGE TO THE NEW WORLD?

103. WHAT FAMOUS AMERICAN STATESMAN MADE 3 APPEARANCES ON NATIONAL TV AS A WEATHER FORECASTER?

104. WHAT WAS THE FIRST WORD SPOKEN ON THE MOON?

105. HOW MANY BANKS AND TRAINS DID JESSE JAMES ROB?

106. WHAT WAS THE FIRST COUNTRY TO WHICH THE US SENT A FEMALE AMBASSADOR?

107. OF THE 14 STATES BORDERING THE ATLANTIC, WHICH HAS THE LEAST OCEANFRONT?

108. WHAT IS THE ONLY CRIME DEFINED IN THE US CONSTITUTION?

109. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF PAUL BUNYAN'S PET MOOSEHOUND?

110. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF PAUL BUNYAN'S GIRLFRIEND?

111. WHO WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO HAVE HIS PORTRAIT ENGRAVED ON A US COIN?

112. WHAT WAS THE LAST INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING IN THE US ESTABLISHED BY ROYAL DECREE?

113. WHAT MOUNTAIN HAS THE MOST EXTENSIVE GLACIAL SYSTEM OF ANY SINGLE PEAK IN THE CONTIGUOUS 48 STATES?

114. WHAT WAS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S LAST OFFICIAL ACT?

115. WHAT BODY OF WATER DID THE EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS DESCRIBE AS TOO THICK TO DRINK, AND TO THIN TO PLOW?

116. IN WHAT CITY WAS THE FIRST US STOCK EXCHANGE ESTABLISHED?

117. HOW MANY SINGLE SERVING JARS OF BABY FOOD DOES THE AVERAGE AMERICAN BABY EAT IN ONE YEAR?

118. IN 1910 THERE WERE 32 MILLION AMERICANS LIVING ON FARMS. HOW MANY WERE LIVING ON FARMS IN 1990?

119. WHAT LATE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNING WORLD LEADER WAS ONCE A WANTED TERRORIST WITH A $50,000 BOUNTY ON HIS HEAD?

120. WHAT MAGAZINE DID THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CEASE PUBLISHING IN BRAILLE IN 1985, WHEN CONGRESS VOTED TO WITHHOLD FUNDING?

121. WHO WAS THE FIRST CHAIRMAN OF THE SEC?

122. WHICH IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES TO HAVE A FJORD?

123. WHO COINED THE WORD "HELLO" AND INTRODUCED IT AS THE PROPER WAY TO ANSWER THE PHONE?

124. WHO WERE ROBERT LEROY PARKER AND HENRY LONGBAUGH?

125. PODUNK HAS COME TO MEAN SMALL TOWN USA, WHERE IS PODUNK?

126. WHAT US CITY PROMOTES ITSELF AS THE AIR CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, BECAUSE IT PRODUCES MORE AIRCRAFT THAN ANY OTHER CITY?

127. HOW MANY AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS HAVE WALKED ON THE MOON?

128. WHAT STATE OF THE CONTIGUOUS 48, TOUCHES ONLY ONE OTHER STATE?

129. WHAT AMERICAN CITY WAS FOUNDED IN 1733 AS A HAVEN FOR BRITISH DEBTORS?

130. WHAT NAMES DO WE KNOW TWIN SISTERS PAULINE AND ESTHER FRIEDMAN, BORN ON JULY 4TH, 1918?

131. WHAT AMERICAN DIVERSION DID THE LONDON TIMES LABEL A "MENACE" IN 1924 FOR MAKING DEVASTATING INROADS ON THE WORKING HOURS OF EVERY RANK OF SOCIETY?

132. HOW LONG WAS PROHIBITION IN EFFECT IN THE US?

133. WHAT IS THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SPUTNIK?

134. WHO IS THE ONLY KING TO BE INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL STATUARY HALL IN THE US CAPITOL BUILDING?

135. HOW MANY FINGER LAKES ARE THERE IN CENTRAL NY?

136. WHERE WERE THE FIRST PARKING METERS IN THE US INSTALLED?

137. HOW MUCH WAS THE TAX ON TEA WHEN THE COLONISTS HELD THE BOSTON TEA PARTY?

138. WHAT 4 STATES HAVE ACTIVE VOLCANOES?

139. ACCORDING TO INDIAN LEGEND, LAKE ITASCA, IN NW MINNESOTA, IS NAMED FOR THE DAUGHTER OF HIAWATHA. WHAT IS ITS OTHER CLAIM TO FAME?

140. WHO WAS MARIE JOSEPH PAUL YVES ROCH GILBERT DU MOTIER?

141. WHICH US STATE WAS THE FIRST TO OUTLAW SLAVERY?

142. WHO WAS FINED $14 FOR REFUSING TO GIVE UP HER BUS SEAT TO A WHITE MAN?

143. WHAT WOOD IS MOST WIDELY USED IN MAKING PENCILS IN THE US?

144. WHAT 2 STATES PRODUCE THE GREATEST NUMBER OF CHRISTMAS TREES?

145. WITH WHAT WORD DID MOST PEOPLE ANSWER THE TELEPHONE WHEN IT WAS FIRST INTRODUCED?

146. WHAT IS MAY DAY KNOWN AS IN HAWAII?

147. THE NAME OF WHAT FLORIDA CITY MEANS RODENT MOUTH IN SPANISH?

148. HOW OFTEN CAN THE DESIGN OF AN AMERICAN COIN BE CHANGED WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL?

149. WHO WAS THE FIRST US CITIZEN TO CROSS THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE?

150. HOW MANY SHOTS WERE FIRED IN THE FAMOUS GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL?

151. WHO WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN TO GET OIL DRILLING CONCESSIONS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND KUWAIT?

152. WHICH US STATE AVERAGES THE GREATEST NUMBER OF SHARK ATTACKS ANNUALLY?

153. WHAT STATE IS NICKNAMED THE PELICAN STATE?

154. WHAT IS THE VERY APPROPRIATE STATE FLOWER OF MASSACHUSETTS?

155. WHAT TRIBE WAS SACAGAWEA A MEMBER OF?

156. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE SHIP THAT CARRIED THE 2ND GROUP OF COLONISTS TO PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS?

157. WHAT IS TAUGHT AT THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF TAUROMAQUIA IN SAN DEIGO?

158. WHO WAS TIME MAGAZINE'S FIRST MAN OF THE YEAR?

159. ON WHICH HOLIDAY ARE THE GREATEST NUMBER OF COLLECT CALLS GENERALLY MADE IN THE US?

160. WHAT FAMOUS AMERICAN COMPILED A LIST OF MORE THAN 200 SYNONYMS FOR DRUNK?

161. ENGLISH SHIPS ONCE CARRIED LIMES TO PREVENT SCURVY, WHAT DID AMERICAN SHIPS CARRY?

162. WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL STATE DESERT OF MASSACHUSETTS?

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