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100
This street is famous for being the world's financial center.
What is Wall Street?
100
The United States declared its independence from this country on July 4, 1776.
What is England?
100
This state is home to cowboys, George W. Bush, and the current basketball champions San Antonio Spurs.
What is Texas?
100
He was America's first President and gave us the name of our nation's capital.
Who is George Washington?
100
This is America's largest mountain range, going through Colorado and up into Canada.
What is the "Rockies?"
200
This is the only New York borough that must began with the article "the."
What is The Bronx?
200
This American was the first man on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
200
Alaska and Hawaii were the final two states added to the union in 1960, bringing America's total number of states to this.
What is 50?
200
He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in November of 1963. Even fifty years later, his murder generates "conspiracy theories" and remains something of a mystery even today.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
200
Located in Arizona, this beautiful rock formation attracts over 4 million tourists per year, and is considered one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World.
What is the Grand Canyon?
300
Considered by many to be New York's most beautiful skyscraper, this building takes it name from one of America's "big three" automobile manufacturers.
What is the Chrysler Building?
300
US participation in this war during the 1960's defined the Baby Boomer generation.
What is the Vietnam War?
300
Although not quite largest in size, this is America's most populous state, with 38 million people (1 in 8 Americans).
What is California?
300
This great President was assassinated on April 4th, 1965, just following the end of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
This body of water became the focus on international attention by being the location of a huge oil spill by BP.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
400
Before it was called New York, this city had a different name, New _______. It was named after this famous European city.
What is Amsterdam?
400
This city was home to the "Tea Party," a famous historical event in which colonial protesters showed their anger at unfair taxation by British rule by throwing boxes of tea in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Boston?
400
This state, which is also a popular tourist destination, also has the highest percentage of senior citizens.
What is Florida?
400
This President was forced to resign in office, after a scandal known as "Watergate" showed that he had cheated in getting elected.
Who is Richard Nixon?
400
This river, which also takes the name of a U.S. state, is America's longest, starting in the north in Minnesota and running all the way down to the south in Louisiana. It is also the unofficial border between America's East and West.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
He was New York's previous mayor, as well as the longest-serving, for 12 years.
Who is Michael Bloomberg?
500
He was a scientist, inventor, politician and founding father, and now appears on the $100 bill. However, he was never President.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
This New England state is America's smallest, even smaller than Hawaii.
What is Rhode Island?
500
This President was responsible for the "Louisiana Purchase," in which America bought a piece of land from France that doubled its size. He also wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
500
Located in Alaska, this mountain has America's highest peak, and is named after a President who was stabbed to death in office.
What is Mt. McKinley?