This is the Lonestar State, annexed in 1845, which has the capital city Austin.
What is Texas?
100
This is the amount of electoral votes necessary to win the US General Presidential Election.
What is 270?
100
This man was the 16th president of the United States and executively ordered the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and can be found on both the 1 cent piece and the $5 bill.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This is the name of Donald Trump's reality TV show that aired 14 seasons on NBC and involved judging the business skills of contestants.
What is The Apprentice?
100
This 1971 musical depicts the rollercoaster of emotions that come with a 50's American high school romance, dropping out of beauty school, and hand-jiving.
What is Grease?
200
This is the 2nd longest river in North America and spans from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. This river was beloved by American author Mark Twain.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
This US state has the most electoral votes to allocate, 55 votes.
What is California?
200
This is the US city where you can find the famous Liberty Bell which still serves as a symbol for American independence.
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
200
Hillary Clinton served as the first female senator to this US state from 2001 to 2009.
What is New York?
200
Whether dominating on the field as a college football star, fighting in Vietnam or captaining a shrimp boat, this oscar-winning protagonist inspires people with his childlike optimism.
Who Forest Gump?
300
This is the geographically largest US state.
What is Alaska?
300
This is the minimum amount of electoral votes a state can possibly have.
What is 3?
300
This term describes the type of two-house legislature that exists in the US government (House of Representatives + Senate).
What is bicameral?
300
This is the birthplace of presidential candidate Donald Trump. Include city and state in your answer, extra points for getting the neighborhood correct.
What is Queens, NYC, New York?
300
This American actor, rapper, and producer was a Nickelodeon star in the 1990s and has since starred in the 2006 film "The Pursuit of Happyness."
Who is Will Smith?
400
This land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
400
During the 2000 Bush/Gore presidential election, this state underwent an extensive recount and eventually had its electoral points allocated in accordance with a US Supreme Court decision.
What is Florida?
400
These are unincorporated organized territories of the US (name just one).
What is Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, or Virgin Islands?
400
From 2009 to 2013, Hillary Clinton served this cabinet position in the Obama Administration.
What is the Secretary of State?
400
This location-based social search application facilitates communication between mutually interested users, allowing matched users to chat.
What is Tinder?
500
The continental United States span these 4 time zones.
What are Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific?
500
This is the process that takes place in the event of the 269-269 split (a tied race).
The US House of Representatives decides - each state gets 1 vote and its representatives must decide amongst themselves how to allocate it.
500
Upon leaving the office of the presidency, George Washington warned the American people of these two things in his farewell address. Name both.
What are political parties and foreign affairs?
500
Finish this Clinton quote from 1995 UN Conference in Beijing, "Women's rights are..."
"... Human Rights."
500
This US Supreme Court Judge was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009.