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200
Who was the first President of the United States.
George Washington
200
Which state is the most thickly forested, with 89.8 percent of its land area classified as wooded by the U.S. Forest Service?
What is Maine
200
What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled to North America in 1620?
What is The Mayflower
200
Which state is Mount Rushmore located in?
What is South Dakota
200
Who did James Early Ray assassinate in Memphis in April 1968?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
400
Who became US president after Herbert Hoover?
What is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)
400
Which state is America's flattest, with a difference of only 345 feet between its highest and lowest points?
What is Florida
400
What was the name of the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957?
What is Sputnik
400
Near which town were there reports of a space ship landing on the 4th of July in 1947?
What is Roswell, New Mexico
400
Which presidential couple were implicated in the Whitewater affair?
What is The Clintons
600
Which two signers of the Declaration of Independence went on to serve as president of the United States?
What is John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
600
On which river is the USA's highest concrete dam?
What is Colorado River
600
What took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773?
What is The Boston Tea Party
600
Which city is the headquarters of Chrysler and General Motors located in?
What is Detroit
600
Who's last words were,"Now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there"?
What is Bobby Kennedy
800
What figure in American history, hero of the Mexican War, and losing candidate for president in 1852, is believed to have inspired the exclamation "Great Scott"?
What is Gen. Winfield Scott
800
In which natural valley is San Jose?
What is Santa Clara
800
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from which country?
What is France
800
Which city was the first nuclear reactor built, by Enrico Fermi?
What is Chicago
800
Who was the first African American to win the Nobel peace prize?
What is Ralph Bunche
1000
Who in 1963 murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin (according to official accounts) of US President John F Kennedy?
What is Jack Ruby
1000
The Black Hills lie between which two rivers?
What is Belle Fourche an Cheyenne
1000
Marjorie Robb, who died in Boston in 1992 (age 103), Barbara Dainton, Millvina Dean, and Lillian Asplund, achieved notoriety for being among the last living survivors of what?
What is The sinking of the Titanic (1912)
1000
Which city was the USA's first World Fair?
What is Chicago (1893)
1000
According to the Census Bureau, what are the five most common surnames in the United States
What is Smith, Johnson, Williams, Jones and Brown
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