Seat of Power
Which president is on the penny?
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, 16th POTUS.
The oldest city in the US is located in:
Virginia
California
Pennsylvania
Florida
Florida. St. Augustine, FL was founded in 1513. So probably at the same time your local Kneipe was being remodeled. For the second time.
According to folklore, Ben Franklin wanted this animal to be the national symbol of the US instead of the bald eagle:
Grizzly Bear
Golden Bear
Turkey
Manatee
Turkey
What is the official language of the US?
English
Spanish
Both Spanish and English
There isn't one
We don't have one! A bill was introduced in 2017 to make English the official language, but it stalled out.
The Liberty Bell was made in the same place as this famous international landmark:
Statue of Liberty
Brandenburger Tor
Big Ben
Christ the Redeemer
Big Ben
Who was the first female African-American secretary of state?
Kamala Harris
Susan Rice
Condoleezza Rice
Mae C. Jemison
Condoleezza Rice, under George W. Bush.
The capital of Kentucky is derived from this popular German city (though spelled differently).
Berlin
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Munich
Frankfurt (Frankfort, KY).
The US has many national and state parks. In one, the public is legally allowed to search for this rare substance and keep what they find. What is it?
Diamonds
Magic Mushrooms
Oil
Bigfoot
Diamonds. And located in Crater of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas if you want to come visit!
What is the most popular martial art from practiced in America?
Jiu Jitsu
Boxing
Taekwondo
Mixed Martial Arts
Boxing
How many Native American tribes are federally recognized in the US?
7
574
31
944
574.
Total population: 5,220,579 ~ 1.6% of the total U.S. population.
Which African country capital is named after a US president?
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Monrovia, Liberia
Kampala, Uganda
Conakry, Guinea
Monrovia, Liberia
Time for audience participation!! Nominate one person who is good at spelling...
M I S S I S S I P P I
What is the most visited national park with over 10 million recreational visits per year?
Great Smoky Mountains
Yellowstone
Great Smoky Mountains
Yosemite
Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It has 12.1 million visits per year. Yellowstone National Park is in second place with 3.8 million. Then comes Zion National Park with 3.6 million.
True or False: All US school children recite the pledge of allegiance every morning from grade school through high school.
FALSE
True or False: The United States Constitution was the first democratic constitution to exist in present-day USA.
False. It was modeled after the Iroquois Constitution aka the Great Law of Peace, which governed the Iroquois Confederacy since the 16th century. The Confederacy was made up of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora nations as a response to European colonization.
By 1860, cultivation of this cash crop was the dominant form of slave labor in the United States.
Cotton
Rice
Sugar
Tobacco
Cotton. After the invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin in 1793, cotton surpassed tobacco as the dominant cash crop in the agricultural economy of the South and made up more than half of total US exports.
The highest and lowest points (by elevation) in the continental US are located in the same state. Which one?
Maryland
Alaska
California
Florida
California. The highest point is Mt. Whitney (4418m above sea level) and the lowest is Bad Water Basin in Death Valley (86m below sea level).
Which type of tree is California has been called the Tallest Living Thing?
Redwood
Cypress
Spruce
Douglas Fir
The tallest trees in the world are redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) and can easily reach heights of 300 feet (91 meters). The tallest is called Hyperion. It was discovered in 2006 and is 379.7 feet (115.7 m) tall.
All but one of the following American slang could be used to describe this week:
Throwing shade
On fleek
Dope
Ballin'
Throwing shade.
Definitions:
On fleek - pinnacle of perfection, flawless.
Throwing shade - to judge someone negatively.
Dope - cool, awesome, or great.
Ballin' - to have a luxurious lifestyle.
Which nation provided support to the Union army during the American civil war?
Brazil
China
India
Russia
Russia.
Martin Luther King Junior stood in solidarity with all liberation ideologies/movements, except for....
Socialism
Gay Rights
Non-violence
Climate justice
Gay Rights
What event caused the population of California to grow so much that it had enough people to apply for statehood?
California Gold Rush, 1848
Opening of Ellis Island, 1892
War of 1812
Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
California Gold Rush, 1848.
Bonus question (not for points): When did California become a state?
This is the tallest mountain in the U.S. at 6,190 meters above sea level:
Mt. Diablo
Mt. Whitney
Denali
Mt. Washington
Denali, located in the Alaska Mountain Range.
Famous gangster Al Capone was eventually arrested on what charges?
Tax evasion
Rum running during Prohibition
Gangster-y activities a la Scarface
Fixing horse and greyhound races
Tax evasion. When they finally arrested him, authorities were so afraid of his gang breaking him out, they kept him in a sealed shipping container on a dock in San Francisco before transporting him to Alcatraz Island.
Which artist/s from the German Bauhaus art community, immigrated to America and established the Black Mountain college in North Carolina?
Mies Van der Rohe
Joseph and Anni Albers
László Moholy-Nagy
Walter Gropius
Joseph and Anni Albers fled Germany after the Nazis closed the famous Bauhaus art school, established the arts curriculum at Black Mountain in 1933.