US Geography
This is the only U.S. state that borders just one other state and has no straight-line borders.
What is Maine?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, declaring enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be free.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to this song after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
What is “The Star-Spangled Banner”?
This bird can spot prey from great distances and builds some of the largest nests of any bird species, with nests sometimes weighing over a ton.
What is the bald eagle?
This Shoshone woman helped guide and interpret for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. She also helped the expedition obtain horses from her people.
Who is Sacagawea?
The Continental Divide runs through this state, which contains the headwaters of the Colorado River and the Arkansas River.
What is Colorado?
This president was the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms in office.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Katharine Lee Bates wrote the lyrics to this patriotic song after visiting the summit of this famous Colorado mountain in 1893.
What is Pikes Peak?
This large mammal was once so widespread across North America that its population numbered in the tens of millions, but it nearly disappeared in the 1800s due to hunting and habitat loss.
What is the American bison?
In addition to being a Founding Father, this famous American invented bifocal glasses and helped establish the first successful lending library in America.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This river forms much of the border between Texas and Mexico before emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This president negotiated the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which nearly doubled the size of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This American composer wrote “God Bless America” in 1918 and revised it in 1938. He also wrote the famous songs “White Christmas” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”
Who is Irving Berlin?
This insect performs a famous movement called the “waggle dance” to communicate the direction and distance of food sources to other members of its colony.
What is the honeybee?
In 1848, the discovery of this precious metal at Sutter’s Mill in California sparked a rush that brought hundreds of thousands of people west hoping to strike it rich.
What is gold?
This state is the only one to have coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
What is Florida?
Before becoming president, this former general led Allied forces in Europe during World War II.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This patriotic song, written during the American Revolution, was once considered a possible national anthem and is still performed at military and patriotic events.
What is “Yankee Doodle”?
Benjamin Franklin favored this bird over the bald eagle as a symbol of the United States, describing it as a more respectable bird in a letter to his daughter.
What is the wild turkey?
The 1621 harvest celebration commonly called the first Thanksgiving lasted three days and included English colonists and members of this Native American people.
Who are the Wampanoag?
Name both states: one has the highest average elevation of all 50 U.S. states, and the other has the lowest average elevation.
What are Colorado and Delaware?
This president resigned from office in 1974 rather than face likely impeachment and removal following the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
“My Country, ’Tis of Thee” uses the same melody as the national anthem of this other country.
What is the United Kingdom (“God Save the King”)?
What three colors can a black bear’s fur be besides black, particularly in parts of western North America?
What are brown, cinnamon, or even blonde?
On May 10, 1869, a ceremonial golden spike marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad at this location in Utah Territory.
What is Promontory Summit?