California
What type of trees are most common in Northern California?
A. Redwood
B. Oak
C. Spruce
A. Redwood, they're actually some of the tallest trees in the world, also being hundreds of years old.
What river west of Chicago does Illinois border
A. The Mississippi River
B. The Missouri River
C. The Ohio River
The Mississippi River, it also borders 9 other states.
What is the capital city of New York?
A. NYC
B. Albany
C. Rochester
B. Albany
True or False?
Canada's national leaf is the Maple Leaf.
True, the Maple Leaf is on the Canadian flag.
What is the subject of this trivia?
GEOGRAPHHYYYYYY
California is made of mostly mountains.
True
False
California doesn't exist, because I am a conspiracy theorist who HACKED this Trivia.
Huh?
True, the Sierra Nevada, Cascade Range, Coastal Ranges, Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges take up 60% of California's land.
What is the nickname for Illinois?
A. The Praire State
B. The Bluegrass State
C. The Golden State
A. The Prarie State, since Illinois is mostly flat land, prairies.
What is the capital of Connecticut?
A. New Haven
B. Hartford
C. Bridgeport
B. Hartford
Canada is the 2nd biggest country in the world.
True
Flase
True, mainly due to the province on Nunavut, which has many islands as a part of it's land, extending all the way up to Greenland
What neighboorhood is this school in?
RAVENSWOOD
What is the biggest Metro Area in California?
A. San Francisco Bay Area
B. Los Angeles Metro Area
C. San Diego Metro Area
D. What's California?
The LA Metro Area is the biggest in California, extending over 80 miles in many directions.
There is a village that has it's own interstate dedicated to it. What is the name of this town?
A. Hennepin
B. Peoria
C. Washington
D. Lincoln
A. Hennepin, with only 700 people. Interstate 180 was built to serve a steel plant North of the village, but the plant was demolished 4 years after the interstate was finished.
What state is the town of Minot in?
A. North Dakota
B. South Dakota
C. Montana
D. Idaho
A. North Dakota, it's a major destination in the state.
Which Great Lake does Toronto sit by?
A. Lake Erie
B. Lake Ontario
C. Lake Huron
B. Lake Ontario, near the western tip. You can actually take a train from there to Niagra Falls on some commuter trains during rush hour.
What is the tallest building in Chicago?
SEARS TOWER
The expansive Central Valley, home to many agricultural plantations, was once a lake.
True
False
True, over millions of years, the Central Valley was filled with dirt and rock from landslides.
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th U.S president, and lived in a small town in Illinois. What is the name of this town?
A. Galena
B. Peoria
C. Kankakee
D. Rockford
A. Galena, it's one of the most famous tourist towns mainly because Grant lived there. It's also a very hilly area, with the downtown on a semi-steep slope.
Why does Madison, WI have horrendous traffic?
A. The city is surrounded by two lakes that causes a problem because the roads have to go around, and they're really the only major highways.
B. There is a growing college population, causing more houses to be built, thus, more traffic.
C. There are many tourist attractions attracting people from afar.
A, the city is located around and between two large lakes, and the downtown is located on a thin strip of land in between them called an Isthmus. Madison is actually the most well known example of one, appearing on the dictionary page page for the word Isthmus.
The Appelacian Mountains continue into Canada after Maine.
True
False
True, they end in the province of New Brunswick.
What is the name of the state we're in?
ILLINOIS
How wide is the San Fransisco Bay at it's widest point?
Choose an answer between 7 - 20
The San Fransisco Bay is 13 miles wide, 60 miles long, and 357 feet deep near the Golden Gate Bridge.
What is the length of Illinois from North to South?
Closest answer wins!
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What part of America is the most rural?
A. Catskill Mountains, New York
B. Northern Maine
C. Western Wyoming
D. Yellowstone National Park
B. Northern Maine, it's incredibly hilly with many unpaved roads and unincorporated communities. It has a population of just 20,000 in an over 10,000 square mile area.
An unincorporated community is a settlement not recognized as a community by the government.
How many cities with a population over 1 million are there in Canada?
A. 3
B. 50
C. 10
D. 6
3, said cities are...
Calgary, Alberta
Toronto, Ontario
Montreal, Quebec
What lake do we border?
LAKE MICHIGAN