U.S. Geography
The Golden Gate Bridge located in this city.
What is San Francisco?
He is credited with coming up with the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The date the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is August 2nd 1776?
A snail can sleep for up to three years.
Snails can enter a long dormancy period called estivation when weather conditions become too hot or dry.
This scene from US history is depicted on the back of the two-dollar bill.
What is the Signing of the Declaration of Independence?
The smallest state in the U.S.
What is Rhode Island?
This is what you call a volcano that is not currently erupting.
What is dormant?
He was the fourth president of the United States.
Who is James Madison?
Humans are the only animals with fingerprints.
Answer: False.
Koalas also have fingerprints, and they are so similar to human fingerprints that they have occasionally confused crime scene investigators.
The smallest country in the world.
What is Vatican City?
This western U.S. State does not have any documented poisonous snakes.
What is Alaska?
This is the largest desert in the world.
Fill in the blank: The 19th Amendment guarantees ____ the right to vote.
What is women?
Bananas are radioactive.
Answer: True.
Bananas contain potassium-40, a naturally occurring radioactive isotope. The amount is extremely small and harmless.
This is the only gemstone produced by a living creature.
What is a pearl?
The amount of time zones that are in the U.S.
What is six?
This is what you call an animal that eats a variety of other organisms, including plants, animals and fungi.
What is an omnivore?
This was the name of the series of programs and projects President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
The Titanic had enough lifeboats for everyone on board.
Answer: False.
The Titanic carried lifeboats with space for about 1,178 people, but more than 2,200 people were on board.
This country has the world’s longest coastline.
What is Canada?
The lowest point in the U.S. is called this.
What is Death Valley?
This is the symbol for iron on the periodic table.
What is Fe?
This was the name of the landmark Supreme Court case that ruled the racial segregation of schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education ?
Football was the first sport played on the moon.
Answer: False.
It was golf. Astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
Before people made Jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween, they carved faces into this vegetable.
What are turnips?