State Facts (June 10, 2026)
This is the smallest state by area.
What is Rhode Island?
To be frozen in fear is to be "caught like" this unfortunate creature "in headlights"
What is a deer?
North, fishing, telephone
What is Pole?
This planet is recognizable for its prominent ring system.
What is Saturn?
et cetera
What is "and so on..." or "and the rest..."?
On April 14th 1912, this luxury liner struck an ice berg in the north Atlantic, and sank in the early morning hours of April 15th
What is the Titanic?
This state's capital, Dover, is one of the oldest continuously occupied settlements in America.
What is Delaware?
What is the early bird?
Spy, looking, stained
What is Glass?
This author created the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
The U.S. Marine Corps slogan is "Semper Fi", short for "Semper Fidelis", meaning this.
What is "Always Loyal" or Always Faithful
This remains of this ship still exist as a memorial of attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
What is the U.S.S. Arizona?
This is the only state that begins with two vowels
What is Iowa?
A metaphor for an obvious issue everyone avoids discussing invokes an animal from the African savannah
What is the elephant in the room?
wedding, graduation, dinner
What is Party?
This iconic clock tower stands beside the Houses of Parliament in London.
E pluribus unum
What is "From Many One" or "Out of many, one"
This ore freighter sank during a bad storm on Lake Superior in 1975, inspiring a song by Gordon Lightfoot.
What is the Edmund Fitzgerald?
Despite this nickname for Minnesota, it actually boasts many more than 10,000
What is The Land of 10,000 Lakes?
A disreputable or unconventional member of a family or group
What is a Black Sheep?
Video, Ticker, Scotch
What is Tape?
Arachnophobia is the fear of this.
What are spiders?
Approximately 3% to 6% of the global population experiences arachnophobia, however some studies suggest this range can be as high as 10-15%.
Quid pro quo
What is "something for something" or "one thing for another."
This was the ship the cast from Gilligan's Island was on before it shipwrecked on a deserted island
What is the SS Minnow?
This is 49th state to be added to the United States.
What is Alaska?
Because the 180th meridian cuts through the state, Alaska is simultaneously the westernmost, northernmost, and easternmost state in the U.S.
There's a small wild canine in this term for a treacherous infiltrator
What is a Fox in a Henhouse?
coffee, dining, pool
What is Table?
This is the hardest natural substance on Earth, and also a girl's best friend
What are diamonds?
Ad nauseum
What is "to the point of nauseousness"
In 1789, a mutiny on this ship would inspire 1962 film starring Trevor Howard as Captain William Bligh, and Marlon Brando as lead mutineer Christian Fletcher
What is the HMS Bounty?
The highest surface temperature ever recorded in the United States, and even the world, was in this state
What is California?
Death Valley reached a scorching 134°F in 1913, officially tying for the highest recorded air temperature on Earth.
This name for a sham legal proceeding invokes an Australian Animal
What is a Kangaroo Court?
wrist, pocket, stop
What is Watch?
This element has the atomic number 1, or in other words is the first element on the periodic table of elements
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There are only two people are on our paper currencies who weren't Presidents, name one of them
What is hydrogen?
Who are Alexander Hamilton or Benjamin Franklin?
John Wilkes Booth shouted the phrase "sic semper tyrannis', meaning this, after he shot President Lincoln.
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Veni, vidi, vici
What is "I came, I saw, I conquered"?
What is "thus always to tyrants"?
On February 15, 1898, an explosion sank this U.S. warship, named for the U.S. State, in Havana harbor, leading to the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?