U.S. Geography
Rural Facts
State Slogans
Holiday Movies
Rural History
100

This U.S. state touches only one other state.

What is Maine?

100

This crop covers more U.S. farmland than any other.

What is corn?
100

This state is known as The Sunshine State.

What is Florida?

100

In Home Alone (the first movie), the McCallisters leave Kevin behind while traveling to this country.

What is France?

100

This 1862 law gave settlers 160 acres if they lived on and improved it.

What is the Homestead Act?

200

This river forms the border between Kentucky and Indiana for over 300 miles.

What is the Ohio River?

200

The USDA defines a county as “rural” if it has fewer than this number of people per square mile.

What is 1,000?

200

This state is known as The Last Frontier.

What is Alaska?

200

This classic film features the line, “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.”

What is "Its a Wonderful Life?"

200

The Dust Bowl primarily affected these two Great Plains states.

What is Kansas and Oklahoma? 

300

This is the largest national park in the continental U.S.

What is Death Valley National Park?

300

This type of business, common in rural communities, accounts for nearly half of all small-town retail establishments.

What are general stores?

300

This state has the motto: Live Free or Die.

What is New Hampshire?

300

In A Christmas Story, Ralphie desperately wants this gift.

What is a Red Ryder BB gun?

300

The Rural Free Delivery Act brought this service to farms at the turn of the 20th century.

What is mail delivery?

400

This Great Plains state has the lowest population density after Alaska.

What is Wyoming?

400

This state has the largest number of farms in the U.S.

What is Texas?

400
This state is known as the Garden state.
What is New Jersey?
400

In Frosty the Snowman, Frosty comes to life when this item is placed on his head.

What is a magic hat? 
400

This New Deal agency brought large-scale electricity to rural America.

What is the TVA?

500

This U.S. city is the most inland major port, thanks to a 234-mile man-made channel.

What is Houston?

500

This rural U.S. region is known for some of the country’s oldest exposed rock formations.

What is Appalachia (or Ozarks)?

500

This state is known as the The North Star State.

What is Minnesota?

500

In How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey version), the Grinch’s heart grows this many sizes at the end.

What is three sizes?
500

This U.S. law in 1933 paid farmers to reduce crop output, hoping to raise prices during the Great Depression.

What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

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