States
What state lies between Ohio and Illinois?
Indiana
He created Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the Fantastic Four?
Stan Lee
What city in the Midwest is known as "Motor City"?
Detroit
The Great Depression
The world's first modern skyscraper was built in this city?
Chicago
Which state is nicknamed "the Land of 10,000 Lakes"?
Minnesota
Who flew a kite to prove that lightening is electricity?
Benjamin Franklin
From West Coast to East Coast, is the US about 3,000 or 30,000 miles wide?
about 3,000 miles
The US military invented the GPS in the 1970s. Today it is used around the world. What do the initials stand for?
Global Positioning System
The name of this wide street in New York City is synonymous with big theatrical shows. What is is called?
Broadway
Which state is spread out across the tops of old volcanoes?
Hawaii
What Native American served as a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Sacagawea
Are Florida's tiny southern islands called locks or keys?
What is the oldest city in the US?
St. Augustine
What southern city was the birthplace of Coca-Cola?
Atlanta, Georgia
In which stat will you find the Great Salt Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats?
Utah
Bill Gates and Stephen Wozniak were pioneers in a 20th-century industry that changed the world, can you name it?
Computer industry
Bill Gates founded Microsoft; "Woz" developed the Apple PC with Steve Jobs.
Name the highest mountain in the US?
Denali
What was explorer Juan Ponce de Leon searching for when he discovered Florida?
Fountain of Youth
Which do we call the vehicles that carried pioneer families to the American West?
North Dakota
Phineas T Barnum created "the Greatest Show on Earth' in the 1890s. What kind of show was it?
a circus
Some of our rivers run west, and some run east. What is the imaginary line that separates them?
the Continental Divide
When did the federal government first start building highways: the 1700s, 1800, or 1900s?
the 1800s (with the National Road, or the Cumberland Road
What is the name of the US national rail system?
Amtrak