U.S. Geography and Facts
This state is home to the lowest point in North America, Death Valley, as well as the highest peak in the contiguous U.S., Mount Whitney
What is California?
Formally titled "Liberty Enlightening the World," this colossal copper icon was a gift from France to the United States in 1886.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
The 50 stars on the modern United States flag represent the states, while the 13 stripes represent these original historical areas.
What are the 13 original colonies?
This massive, ape-like creature is said to inhabit the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest, leaving behind massive footprints.
What is Bigfoot? (Or Sasquatch).
In 1947, a mysterious object crashed ranch land near this New Mexico city, sparking a massive, decades-long conspiracy theory that the U.S. military captured a flying saucer and alien bodies.
What is Roswell?
Though it is the smallest U.S. state by area, it boasts over 400 miles of coastline along the Atlantic and Narragansett Bay.
What is Rhode Island?
Carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore, this president represents the preservation of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
According to popular American folklore, this Philadelphia upholsterer designed and sewed the very first American flag at the request of George Washington.
Who is Betsy Ross?
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, features a metallic statue dedicated to this red-eyed, winged creature blamed for causing a bridge collapse in 1967.
Who is the Mothman?
This top-secrete U.S. Air Force facility located deep inside the Nevada desert is heavily guarded, sparking theories that it houses reverse-engineered UFO technology and the remains of the Roswell crash.
What is Area 51?
This river is the longest river system in the United States, flowing over 2,300 miles before emptying into the Mississippi River.
What is the Missouri River?
This pioneer and environmental icon traveled across Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the early 1800s, planting orchards along the way.
Who is Johnny Appleseed? (John Chapman)
The colors of the American flag hold official meanings: White stands for purity, Red stands for valor, and Blue stands for this quality, meaning loyalty or alertness.
What is justice? (Or vigilance).
First sighted in Puerto Rico in 1995 before "migrating" to the American Southwest, this legendary, spike-backed monster gets its name from its terrifying habit of draining livestock.
What is the Chupacabra?
Despite historic live television footage from July 1969, a famous conspiracy claims that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never actually left Earth, and that NASA hired film director Stanley Kubrick to fake this event on a Hollywood soundstage.
What is the moon landing?
Four different states meet at a single geographic point in the American Southwest; Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and this state.
What is Arizona?
This strict, white bearded personification first appeared on recruitment posters during World War I with the words, "I Want You."
Who is Uncle Sam?
Francis Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star Spangled Banner" after witnessing the American flag survive a massive British bombardment of this Baltimore fort in 1814.
What is Fort McHenry?
This legendary folklore creature of the American West resembles a jackrabbit but possesses a formidable set of antelope horns.
What is a Jackalope?
Opening in 1995, this massive Colorado airport is the subject of countless bizarre theories due to its creepy public art, underground tunnels, and a giant, red-eyed blue horse statue nicknamed "Blucifer."
What is Denver International Airport? (DIA).
This state has the longest coastline of any U.S. state, stretching longer than the coastlines of all other 49 states combined.
What is Alaska?
This iconic aviation pioneer became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 before tragically disappearing over the Pacific in 1937
Who is Amelia Earhart?
The current 50-star American flag design was actually created in 1958 as a high school history project by a 17-year-old student named Robert Heft from this U.S. state. He got a B -minus.
What is Ohio?
Legend says this amphibious, shape-shifting monster roams the waters of Lake Champlain on the border of New York and Vermont, earning it a friendly, Nessie-like nickname from locals.
What is Champ? (Or Champy).
A popular internet joke turned mock conspiracy theory states that these feathered urban creatures aren't actually real animals, but are actually mass-produced government surveillance drones sitting on power lines to recharge.
What are birds?