Among the smallest states, I took the BIG first step by being first to ratify the Constitution.
What is Delaware?
100
New York to New Jersey.
What is West?
100
We love having then second Monday in October off, but instead of celebrating Columbus, we should be honoring these people.
Who are the Vikings?
100
Forms the border between Missouri and Kansas.
What is the Mississippi?
100
The final resting place of this explorer is unknown; his crew left him for dead near a bay that bears his name in Canada.
Who is Henry Hudson?
200
Gold was discovered here in 1848 and my population boomed! My western border is the Pacific Ocean.
What is California?
200
Florida to Georgia.
What is North?
200
The Native Americans of the Eastern Cherokee Nation believe that they decended from the ancient Israelites; historians beleive they crossed a land bridge from Asia. Their DNA said they were from this place.
What is Europe.
200
The only way to travel between Albany and New York City for hundreds of years.
What is the Hudson River.
200
Dias and DeGama created the sea routes that ended the reign of this important African trading city.
What is Timbuktu?
300
On a satellite photograph of the US, these two sates have giant "holes" in them...lakes.
What are Utah and Florida?
300
Texas to Alabama
What is East?
300
This abondoned Amazon city was built to look like one in Michigan and to house a rubber plantation that failed.
What is Fordlandia?
300
Only this narrow strip of land, today known as Panama, prevented Columbus from reaching the Pacific.
What is an isthmus?
300
Vistors to Staten Island are familiar with his name; he was the first European in New York Harbor.
Who is Verrazano?
400
The only state where you can find black bears, brown bears and polar bears.
What is Alaska?
400
Virginia to West Virginia
What is South?
400
I was accused of starting the Great Chicago Fire of 1873 by knocking over a lamp.
What is Mrs. O'Learys cow?
400
This mountain range is being formed by the collision of the African plate and the European plate.
What is the Alps?
400
This Spaniard tried to leave his mark in the amount of gold he recovered. Instead, he left his mark on the names of places in the American Southwest.
Who is Coronado?
500
I was the site of America's first oil discovery.
What is Pennsylvania?
500
Pennsylvania to Maryland
What is South?
500
Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go....
What is "we're burning daylight here!"
500
Etna, Santorini, Vesuvious all shaped southern Europe.
What are volcanoes?
500
He failed to find the fountain of youth in Florida, although people still look there for it. He is remembered with a city in southern Puerto Rico.