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100

What state lies between Ohio and Illinois?

Indiana

100

He created Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the Fantastic Four?

Stan Lee

100

What city in the Midwest is known as "Motor City"?

Detroit

100
What do we call the difficult period that followed the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

The Great Depression

100

The world's first modern skyscraper was built in this city?

Chicago

200

Which state is nicknamed "the Land of 10,000 Lakes"?

Minnesota

200

Who flew a kite to prove that lightening is electricity?

Benjamin Franklin

200

From West Coast to East Coast, is the US about 3,000 or 30,000 miles wide?

about 3,000 miles

200

The US military invented the GPS in the 1970s. Today it is used around the world. What do the initials stand for?

Global Positioning System


200

The name of this wide street in New York City is synonymous with big theatrical shows. What is is called?

Broadway

300

Which state is spread out across the tops of old volcanoes?

Hawaii

300

What Native American served as a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition?

Sacagawea

300

Are Florida's tiny southern islands called locks or keys?

Keys
300

What is the oldest city in the US?

St. Augustine

300

What southern city was the birthplace of Coca-Cola?

Atlanta, Georgia

400

In which stat will you find the Great Salt Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats?

Utah

400

Bill Gates and Stephen Wozniak were pioneers in a 20th-century industry that changed the world, can you name it?

Computer industry

Bill Gates founded Microsoft; "Woz" developed the Apple PC with Steve Jobs.

400

Name the highest mountain in the US?

Denali

400

What was explorer Juan Ponce de Leon searching for when he discovered Florida?

Fountain of Youth

400

Which do we call the vehicles that carried pioneer families to the American West?

covered wagons (also called Conestoga wagons, after the Pennsylvania town where they were first built)
500
What state contains the cities of Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks, and Minot?

North Dakota

500

Phineas T Barnum created "the Greatest Show on Earth' in the 1890s. What kind of show was it?

a circus

500

Some of our rivers run west, and some run east. What is the imaginary line that separates them?

the Continental Divide

500

When did the federal government first start building highways: the 1700s, 1800, or 1900s?

the 1800s (with the National Road, or the Cumberland Road

500

What is the name of the US national rail system?

Amtrak