Presidents
This man was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This state is the most thickly forested, with 89.8% of its land area classified as wooded by the U.S. Forest Service.
What is Maine?
This is the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled to North America in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
Mount Rushmore is in this state.
What is South Dakota?
James Early Ray assassinated this man in Memphis, Tennessee in April 1968?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This person became US president after Herbert Hoover.
Who is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)?
This state is America's flattest, with a difference of only 345 feet between its highest and lowest points.
What is Florida?
This is the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
There were reports of a space ship landing on the 4th of July in 1947 near this town.
What is Roswell, New Mexico?
This presidential couple were implicated in the Whitewater affair.
Who are the Clintons?
These two signers of the Declaration of Independence went on to serve as president of the United States.
Who are John Adams and Thomas Jefferson?
On this river is the USA's highest concrete dam.
What is the Colorado River?
This famous event took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
This city houses the headquarters of Chrysler and General Motors?
What is Detroit, Michigan?
This former attorney general's last words were,"Now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there."
Who is Bobby Kennedy?
This 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."
Who is General Winfield Scott?
San Jose lies in this natural valley.
What is Santa Clara?
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from this country.
What is France?
In this city was the first nuclear reactor built, by Enrico Fermi.
What is Chicago?
This man was the first African American to win the Nobel peace prize.
Who is Ralph Bunche?
In 1963, this man murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin (according to official accounts) of US President John F Kennedy.
Who is Jack Ruby?
The Black Hills lie between these two rivers.
What is Belle Fourche an Cheyenne?
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 this tragic event.
What is the sinking of the Titanic (1912)?
This city hosted the USA's first World Fair.
What is Chicago (1893)?
According to the Census Bureau, these are the five most common surnames in the United States.
What are Smith, Johnson, Williams, Jones and Brown?