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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

Who's last words were,"Now it's on to Chicago, and let's win there"?

What is Bobby Kennedy

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

Who was the first African American to win the Nobel peace prize?

What is Ralph Bunche

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

The Black Hills lie between which two rivers?

What is Belle Fourche an Cheyenne

500

Marjorie Robb, who died in Boston in 1992 (age 103), Barbara Dainton, Millvina Dean, and Lillian Asplund, achieved notoriety for being among the last living survivors of what?

What is The sinking of the Titanic (1912)

500

Which city was the USA's first World Fair?

What is Chicago (1893)

500

Who discovered the Mississippi River?

Who is Hernando de Soto