Ivy & Ivory Towers
(Colleges & Universities)
(Colleges & Universities)
What two famous black leaders are associated with Tuskegee University?
Educator Booker T. Washington &
Scientist George Washington Carver
"The Star-Stangled Banner," written during the bombing of Baltimore's Fort McHenry in 1814.
Stone Mountain
CNN Studios
The World of Coca-Cola
Atlanta, GA
What is the only state that borders only one state?
Maine, which borders New Hampshire
(Alaska and Hawaii don't border any states)
June 14 is what holiday?
Flag Day
What state university is located in the Nittany Valley?
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
What patriotic song did teacher Katherine Lee Bates pen in 1893 after viewing Pike's Peak?
"America the Beautiful"
The Jefferson Memorial
The Smithsonian Institution
Ford's Theatre
Washington, D.C.
Venice, FL, has the world only training school for what type of comical entertainers?
Clowns
On what spring holiday is the American flag supposed to fly at half-mast until noon?
What Atlantic Coast town in Florida is the favorite destination for college students on Spring Break?
Daytona Beach
Samuel Francis Smith wrote what great patriotic song (which is almost a second national anthem)?
"My Country 'Tis of Thee," written in 1831; curiously, Smith didn't realize the tune he selected was the tune used for the British national anthem, "God Save the King."
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Bloomingdale's
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
What is the only state that formed as a result of popular vote to separate from another state?
West Virginia, made up of the 26 Virginia counties that voted to leave Virginia when Virginia joined the Confederacy.
Which small eastern state has been under the flags of the Netherlands, Sweden, Britain, and the U.S.?
Delaware
What large university in Alabama was originally established as a Methodist men's college, primarily to train ministers?
Auburn University
(It's now a state school)
What 1893 song, one of the most-sung songs in America, was originally titled "Good Morning to You"?
"Happy Birthday to You"
Sea World
Universal Studios
Disney World
Orlando, FL
John Witherspoon was the only clergyman to sign which noted American document?
The Declaration of Independence
Colonial America's most famous seamstress's house can be seen in Philadelphia. Who is she?
Betsy Ross, maker of the first American flag
What is distinctive about the tuition payments at Berea College in Kentucky?
There is no tuition. All students perform some kind of work on the campus.
What two state songs are sung in the same tune as "O Christmas Tree"?
Maryland - "Maryland, My Maryland"
Alaska - "Alaska, My Alaska"
The Space Needle
Elliott Bay
The Kingdome
(Hint: It's in Alabama and there is a community college located here)
Enterprise, AL, which has a very dignified Greek-style monument to the boll weevil, a cotton-crop-destroying bug from Mexico.
A brand new U.S. flag is flown each day over what residence?
The White House