Horsey Olympic event:
A REIN QUEST
What is Equestrian?
I'm so good at catching the rubber ball in this game that all my teammates are getting back in
What is Dodgeball?
Time to interview one of these, someone who saw or heard what happened; one in court testifies under oath
What is a Witness?
The only state that has a non-rectangular flag, it also has a red disk to symbolize the seed of the buckeye tree
What is Ohio?
Les bons temps started rouler-ing with the founding of this Southern city by Jean-Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville in 1718
What is New Orleans?
Adjective meaning morally wrong:
LEACH UNIT
What is Unethical?
In half-court basketball, you do this to start the game, pass the ball to the defender who passes it back to you
What is Check(ing)?
Someone the police want to talk to is a person of interest; someone accused of the crime is this word
What is a Suspect?
Here's a fact to gnaw on:
In 1969 it became Oregon's official state animal 
What is The Beaver?
Who is Genghis Khan?
Part of the U.S. Capitol:
TOAD URN
What is the Rotunda?
Rope climbing today! It looks so easy on the NBC show called this "warrior"
What is American Ninja?
Let's not go accusing Johnny Gilbert just yet; we haven't found this "M" word, the reason he did that
What is a motive?
The largest New England state in area, it's the least densely populated east of the Mississippi
What is Maine?
A 1614 truce ended 5 years of war between the settlers of this Virginia "town" & Powhatan
What is Jamestown?
Classmate from overseas:
SNUG TEACH EXTEND
What is an Exchange Student?
We have to practice this "shapely" dance, because I haven't do-si-doed very much
What is Square Dancing?
An Old Norse term for "tracking" gave us this 6-letter word for a detective who tracks down clues
What is a Sleuth?
Though they total almost 400,000 sq. mi., Wyoming, the Dakotas & this larger neighbor each get only one U.S. House seat
What is Montana?
In 1513 this Spaniard led an expedition to what he'd name Florida, which he first assumed was an island
What is Ponce de Leon?
A yes-man, a suck-up:
ACTS PHONY
What is a Sycophant?
Badminton is fun indoors, where you are less likely to lose the "birdie", AKA this projectile
What is the Shuttlecock?
Solve the case with this type of reasoning from the general to the specific; a kids' book is called this kind of "Detective"
What is a Deductive?
Georgia has had 5 capitals, including Milledgeville & this seaport, its first
What is Savannah?
When the British burned the White House in 1814, she saved a portrait of George Washington that still hangs today
Who is Dolley Madison?