Geography
History
Government
Mark
100
The largest city in the United States.
What is New York City?
100
The Frenchman who helped the USA in the Revolutionary War, and later helped the French Revolution of 1789.
Who is Marquis de La Fayette?
100
The leader of the United States: the highest office in government.
What is the President?
100
Mark's hometown.
What is Westfield, New Jersey?
200
The capital of the United States.
Washington, DC
200
The year that slavery was abolished in the United States.
What is 1865?
200
The number of states in the USA.
What is 50?
200
Mark's age.
What is 22?
300
The largest state in the United States.
What is Alaska?
*Texas is the biggest state in the contiguous US (connected to other states) and is still bigger than France.
300
The year the United States declared independence from Great Britain.
(bonus 100 points for the day)
What is July 4th, 1776?
300
The current leader of the United States.
Who is Joe Biden?
300
Mark's university.
What is the University of Michigan?
400
The most populated state in the United States.
What is California?
400
The first capital of the United States, from 1787 to 1790.
What is New York City?
400
The youngest state in the USA.
What is Hawai'i?
(Hawai'i became a state in June of 1959)
400
Mark's hobbies
(2 answers, 200 for each)
What are drawing & rock climbing?
500
the smallest state in the United States.
What is Rhode Island?
500
An Indigenous Nation originally from the Mid-West, displaced to Oklahoma by the United States Government in the mid-1800s, who feature in the new Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon.
The Osage Nation
500
The five major overseas territories of the United States.
(100 points for each correct answer)
What are (1) Puerto Rico, (2) Guam, (3) American Samoa, (4) Northern Mariana Islands, and (5) the US Virgin Islands?
500
Mark's favorite Thanksgiving dessert.
What is Apple Pie?
