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100
Who was the first President of the United States.
George Washington
100
Which state is the most thickly forested, with 89.8 percent of its land area classified as wooded by the U.S. Forest Service?
What is Maine
100

What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims traveled to North America in 1620?

What is The Mayflower

100
Which state is Mount Rushmore located in?
What is South Dakota
100
Who did James Early Ray assassinate in Memphis in April 1968?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
200
Who became US president after Herbert Hoover?
What is Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)
200
Which state is America's flattest, with a difference of only 345 feet between its highest and lowest points?
What is Florida
200
What was the name of the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957?
What is Sputnik
200
Near which town were there reports of a space ship landing on the 4th of July in 1947?
What is Roswell, New Mexico
200
Which presidential couple were implicated in the Whitewater affair?
What is The Clintons
300
Which two signers of the Declaration of Independence went on to serve as president of the United States?
What is John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
300
On which river is the USA's highest concrete dam?
What is Colorado River
300
What took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773?
What is The Boston Tea Party
300
Which city is the headquarters of Chrysler and General Motors located in?
What is Detroit
300

She is famous in folklore for allegedly saving the life of English colonist Captain John Smith.

Who is Pocahontas?

400
What figure in American history, hero of the Mexican War, and losing candidate for president in 1852, is believed to have inspired the exclamation "Great Scott"?
What is Gen. Winfield Scott
400
In which natural valley is San Jose?
What is Santa Clara
400
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from which country?
What is France
400
Which city was the first nuclear reactor built, by Enrico Fermi?
What is Chicago
400

He is traditionally known as the Italian explorer who "discovered" the New World in 1492.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

500
Who in 1963 murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin (according to official accounts) of US President John F Kennedy?
What is Jack Ruby
500

First permanent English settlement in North America.

What is Jamestown?

500

This event restored Christian faith to the nation in the 1740s and 1750s.

What is The Great Awakening?

500

The world's smallest fully independent nation-state and the administrative and spiritual center of the Roman Catholic Church.

What is Vatican City

500

This emperor instigated the first full-scale persecution of Christians in AD 64.

Who is Nero?