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100

This is the smallest state.

Answer: What is Rhode Island?

100

The Liberty Bell is located in this Pennsylvania city.

Answer: What is Philadelphia?

100

This president appears on the one-dollar bill.

Answer: Who is George Washington?

100

This 2004 adventure stars Nicolas Cage as a treasure hunter searching for clues hidden in America's founding documents.

Answer: What is National Treasure?

100

On July 4, 1776, delegates meeting in Philadelphia approved this historic document.

Answer: What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

This city is known as the "Windy City."

Answer: What is Chicago?

200

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from this country.

Answer: What is France?

200

This president purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, doubling the size of the United States.

Answer: Who is Thomas Jefferson?

200

Tom Hanks plays the title character who experiences key moments in American history in this Oscar-winning film.

Answer: What is Forrest Gump?

200

Before serving as the first U.S. capital, Philadelphia was the meeting place for the Second Continental Congress in this building.

Answer: What is Independence Hall?

300

Four U.S. states share borders with Mexico. Name all four.

Answer: What are California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas?

300

The national bird of the United States.

Answer: What is the Bald Eagle?

300

These four presidents are carved into Mount Rushmore.

Answer: Who are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln?

300

This Founding Father is the title character of a hit Broadway musical.

Answer: Who is Alexander Hamilton?

300

Opened in 1753, this Philadelphia institution is considered the first hospital in the United States.

Answer: What is Pennsylvania Hospital?

400

This U.S. state has the longest coastline, stretching more than 6,600 miles.

Answer: What is Alaska?

400

This official national flower of the United States was designated by Congress in 1986.

Answer: What is the rose?

400

This president became the youngest person ever to assume the presidency after William McKinley's assassination in 1901.

Answer: Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

400

This 1998 Steven Spielberg film follows Captain John Miller's mission to rescue a paratrooper during World War II.

Answer: What is Saving Private Ryan?

400

This is located at 239 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA

Answer: Where is Betsy Ross' house?

500

This is the oldest city in the U.S.

Answer: What is St. Augustine, Florida?

500

The colors of the American flag traditionally symbolize these three ideals.

Answer: What are valor (red), purity (white), and justice/perseverance/vigilance (blue)?

500

In addition to being US presidents, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe all have this in common.

Answer: They all died on July 4th

500

In this patriotic 1996 film, President Thomas J. Whitmore rallies Americans before battling an alien invasion.

Answer: What is Independence Day?

500

This Philadelphia Founding Father organized the first volunteer fire company in the city in 1736.

Answer: Who is Benjamin Franklin?