Surprising State Facts
City Secrets
American Firsts (Weird Edition)
Nature & Oddities
Quirky Laws & Traditions
100

This state is the only one that grows coffee commercially in the U.S.

Answer: What is Hawaii?

100

This city installed the first traffic light in the United States.

Answer: What is Cleveland?

100

The first pizza delivery in the U.S. was made in this city.

Answer: What is New York City?

100

This state has a forest where trees grow in a curved, mysterious shape.

Answer: What is California? (The “crooked forest” trees)

100

In this state, it was once illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket.

Answer: What is Alabama?

200

This state has a town called “Santa Claus.”

Answer: What is Indiana?

200

This city is nicknamed “The Big Easy.”

Answer: What is New Orleans?

200

The first drive-in movie theater opened in this state.

Answer: What is New Jersey?

200

This state is home to a lake that can turn pink.

Answer: What is Utah? (Great Salt Lake)

200

In this state, you can’t eat fried chicken with a fork in one town.

Answer: What is Georgia?

300

This state is home to the largest ball of twine made by one person.

Answer: What is Kansas?

300

This city has a famous underground system of tunnels due to frequent flooding.

Answer: What is Chicago?

300

This state was the first to have a professional baseball team.

Answer: What is Ohio?

300

This state has more shoreline than the entire U.S. East Coast.

Answer: What is Alaska?

300

This state celebrates an annual “Frozen Dead Guy Days” festival.

Answer: What is Colorado?

400

This state has a law that once made it illegal to whistle underwater.

Answer: What is Vermont?

400

This city was once the capital of the United States for a short time.

Answer: What is Philadelphia?

400

The first zoo in America opened in this city.

Answer: What is Philadelphia?

400

This state has a desert where it sometimes snows.

Answer: What is Arizona?

400

In this state, it was once illegal to fall asleep in a cheese factory.

Answer: What is South Dakota?

500

This state has more cows than people.

Answer: What is South Dakota?

500

This city’s name means “angels” in Spanish.

Answer: What is Los Angeles?

500

This state had the first-ever beauty pageant.

Answer: What is New Jersey?

500

This state is home to a place where you can stand in four states at once.

Answer: What is Utah? (Four Corners)

500

This state has a town that holds a yearly UFO festival.

Answer: What is New Mexico?

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