Holidays
This U.S. holiday was first proclaimed by President George Washington in 1789.
What is Thanksgiving?
This state is home to Valley of Fire State Park, famous for its bright red sandstone formations.
What is Nevada?
This detective lives at 221B Baker Street.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
This is the longest river in the United States.
What is the Missouri River?
This tiny breed, often carried in handbags, originated in Mexico.
What is a Chihuahua?
This Shakespearean couple from feuding families are perhaps literature's most famous lovers.
Who are Romeo & Juliet?
The tradition of leaving stockings out on Christmas Eve is associated with this fourth-century saint.
Who is Saint Nicholas?
This Florida state park is known for its crystal-clear springs where visitors often kayak with manatees.
What is Silver Springs State Park?
This trench coat-wearing TV detective always solves the case by saying, "Just one more thing..."
Who is Columbo?
his mountain range stretches from Alabama to Maine.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This dog breed shares its name with a German city and is often used as a police dog
What is a German Shepherd?
This Civil War-era novel features the stormy relationship between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
What is Gone With the Wind?
Which U.S. president signed legislation making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday in 1983?
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This state park in New York features a breathtaking gorge with 19 waterfalls.
What is Watkins Glen State Park?
This teenage detective and her friends George and Bess solve mysteries together.
Who is Nancy Drew?
This desert covers much of southern Arizona and southeastern California.
What is the Sonoran Desert?
This breed is known as "man's best friend" and is America's most popular dog breed.
What is a Labrador Retriever?
This legendary outlaw is most often paired romantically with Maid Marian.
Who is Robin Hood?
This holiday marks the beginning of the Christian season of Lent.
What is Lent?
This California state park is home to some of the tallest trees on Earth.
What is Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park?
Agatha Christie created this Belgian detective known for his "little gray cells."
Who is Hercule Poirot?
This cape in North Carolina is famous for its lighthouse and shipwrecks.
What is Cape Hatteras?
This breed is famous for its black-and-white coat and its ability to herd sheep.
What is a Border Collie?
Elizabeth Bennet eventually marries this wealthy gentleman in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Who is Mr. Darcy?
What holiday is often called the "Festival of Lights"?
What is Hanukkah?
This Arkansas state park is one of the only places in the world where visitors can search for and keep real diamonds.
What is Crater of Diamonds State Park?
This elderly sleuth from the village of St. Mary Mead is another famous Agatha Christie detective.
Who is Miss Marple?
Four states meet at this famous landmark in the Southwest.
What is Four Corners?
This breed is known for its wrinkled face and pushed-in nose
What is a Bulldog?
This 1942 classic film ends with Rick sacrificing his happiness by helping Ilsa leave with her husband.
What is Casablanca?
This holiday tradition began in Germany in the 16th century and involves decorating an evergreen tree.
What is the Christmas tree tradition?
This Texas state park contains more than 80 miles of hiking trails and dramatic desert scenery
What is Big Bend Ranch State Park?
This mystery-solving Great Dane is always joined by Shaggy and the rest of the gang.
Who is Scooby Doo?
This state capital is the highest in elevation in the United States.
What is Santa Fe, New Mexico?
Puppies are born without this sense fully developed.
What is vision (eyesight)?
In Greek mythology, this musician journeyed to the Underworld to bring back his wife
Who is Orpheus?
Before it became known as Memorial Day, this holiday was originally called by what name?
What is Decoration Day?
This South Dakota state park is famous for its free-roaming bison herd and scenic Needles Highway.
What is Custer State Park?
This Disney mouse detective lives on Baker Street and solves crimes with Dr. Dawson.
Who is Basil of Baker Street?
This major aquifer supplies water beneath parts of eight Great Plains states.
What is the Ogallala Aquifer?
Dogs cool themselves mainly by doing this.
What is panting?
In Arthurian legend, this queen's love affair with Sir Lancelot contributed to Camelot's downfall.
Who is Guinevere?
The first official White House Christmas tree was displayed during the presidency of this U.S. president.
Who is Benjamin Harrison?
This Kentucky state park surrounds the natural sandstone arch known as Natural Bridge.
What is Natural Bridge State Resort Park?
This TV detective, played by Angela Lansbury, wrote mystery novels while solving real murders.
Who is Jessica Fletcher?
This U.S. state is bordered by exactly one other state.
What is Maine?
This breed, once used in the Swiss Alps, is famous for mountain rescues.
What is a Saint Bernard?
In Homer's Odyssey, this faithful wife waited 20 years for her husband to return home.
Who is Penelope?
This president signed the proclamation making Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday on the fourth Thursday of November.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This Minnesota state park is known for Gooseberry Falls along the North Shore of Lake Superior.
What is Gooseberry Falls State Park?
This lawyer-detective in novels and television was created by Erle Stanley Gardner.
Who is Perry Mason?
This U.S. state capital sits on the banks of the Missouri River and is named after a German chancellor.
What is Bismarck, North Dakota?
This breed is the fastest dog in the world, capable of reaching speeds around 45 mph.
What is a Greyhound?
This couple met and fell in love aboard the doomed RMS Titanic
Who are Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater?
Macy's first Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924 featured live animals borrowed from this famous New York attraction.
What is the Bronx Zoo?
This Georgia state park is located on the summit of the state's highest mountain
What is Black Rock Mountain State Park?
This detective created by Sue Grafton appears in novels beginning with A Is for Alibi.
Who is Kinsey Millhone?
This river begins at Lake Itasca in Minnesota.
What is the Mississippi River?
Dogs have an incredible sense of this, estimated to be thousands of times stronger than humans'.
What is smell?
This English king famously gave up his throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson.
Who is King Edward VIII?
Before becoming a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth had already been officially recognized by all but one U.S. state. Which state was the last to recognize it?
What is Hawaii?
This Pennsylvania state park features a waterfall that plunges 94 feet into a rocky gorge
What is Ricketts Glen State Park?
This hard-boiled private investigator, created by Raymond Chandler, stars in The Big Sleep.
Who is Philip Marlowe?
This state is home to the lowest point in North America, Badwater Basin.
What is California?
This small, fluffy breed is often nicknamed the "little lion dog" and has won many dog shows.
What is a Pomeranian?
In the musical West Side Story, these two lovers represent rival New York gangs.
Who are Tony and Maria?
This holiday is celebrated 50 days after Easter Sunday
What is Pentecost?
his Utah state park is known for its towering hoodoos and hosts one of the darkest night skies in the country.
What is Kodachrome Basin State Park?
Created by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841, this detective is considered the first fictional detective in literature.
Who is C. Auguste Dupin?
This chain of islands off North Carolina is known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic."
What are the Outer Banks?
This breed, developed in Scotland, was originally bred to retrieve waterfowl and is known for its distinctive coat.
What is a Golden Retriever?
This French emperor's passionate romance with Joséphine became one of history's most famous love stories.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?