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100

This American holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.

What is Thanksgiving?

100

This state is nicknamed “The Beaver State.”

What is Oregon?

100

At the Oscars, celebrities often pose for photos and show off fashion on this famous walkway.

What is the red carpet?

100

Americans often use these with bosses and coworkers, even in professional settings.

Americans often use these with bosses and coworkers, even in professional settings.

100

This huge, hairy creature is said to live in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

What is Bigfoot / Sasquatch?

200

This shopping day happens the day after Thanksgiving and marks the start of the holiday shopping season.

What is Black Friday?

200

This city is the capital of Massachusetts.

What is Boston?

200

The Oscars are also known by this official name.

What are the Academy Awards?

200

This type of light, friendly conversation is common in elevators, stores, workplaces, and waiting lines.

What is small talk?

200

This NASA program is the new Moon program named after Apollo’s twin sister.

What is Artemis?


300

On Halloween, children traditionally go door to door asking for sweets with this phrase.

What is “trick or treat”?

300

This region includes Oregon, Washington, and sometimes Idaho and British Columbia.

What is the Pacific Northwest?

300

This instrument, along with bass guitar and drums, is strongly associated with rock music.

What is the electric guitar?

300

The first U.S. flag had this many stars and stripes.

What is 13?

300

This legendary creature from New Jersey has a goat’s head, bat wings, and hooves.

What is the Jersey Devil?

400

This winter holiday, celebrated from December 26 to January 1, honors African heritage in African-American culture.

What is Kwanzaa?

400

This Massachusetts vacation destination is famous for beaches and summer trips.

What is Cape Cod?

400

This singer is connected with 1950s rock and the song “Jailhouse Rock.”

Who is Elvis Presley?

400

In American summer travel, this vehicle is like a small home on wheels used for road trips and camping.

What is an RV?

400

This NASA program landed humans on the Moon in 1969.

What is the Apollo Program?

500

This Thanksgiving food is made by putting a deboned chicken inside a duck inside a turkey.

What is turducken?

500

This California desert national park is also the lowest point in the continental United States.

What is Death Valley?

500

This rock subgenre is associated with Nirvana and 1990s Seattle.

What is grunge?

500

The average private-sector worker gets around this many paid vacation days after one year.

What is 11 paid vacation days?

500

This famous NASCAR race is often called the “Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing.”

What is the Daytona 500?