American History
American holidays, festivals and culture
American personalities
American symbols and general information
Sights, cities, landmarks
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In 1945, the USA dropped 2 atomic bombs on the Japanese cities, ________ and ________, during WW2.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
100
When is Independence day celebrated every year in America?
4 July
100
16th American, president who abolished slavery and led the union through the Civil War, Republican
Abraham Lincoln
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What is the national bird and symbol called?
bald eagle
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the official office and residence of the president of the United States at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C.
White House
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Give the exact date of an event when two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, one crashed into Pentagon and last one intended to crash in D.C.
11 Sep 2001
200
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Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
What is the highest mountain called?
Denali
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colossal monument located in the Upper New York Bay, U.S., commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the United States and France
Statue of Liberty
300
When was the Declaration of Independece signed? Year is enough.
4 July 1776
300
the championship game of the National Football League (NFL), played by the winners of the league’s American Football Conference and National Football Conference each January or February
Super Bowl
300
American popular singer widely known as the “King of Rock and Roll” and one of rock music’s dominant performers from the mid-1950s until his death
Elvis Presley
300
How does the American flag look like and what does each part represent?
13 horizontal, white and red stripes, 50 stars on blue field
300
Golden Gate Bridge, a suspension bridge made from steel, can be found in which American city?
San Francisco
400
When did the Civil War start? Tolerance 10 years.
1861-65
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The biggest Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City presented by the U.S.-based department store chain is called ...
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
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American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat, one of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, represented the United States in France during the American Revolution, and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention
Benjamin Franklin
400
What is the population of the USA? Tolerance 1 million.
330 million
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the oldest, one of the largest, and probably the best-known national park in the United States, situated principally in northwestern Wyoming and partly in southern Montana and eastern Idaho and includes the greatest concentration of hydrothermal features in the world
Yellowstone National Park
500
The Pilgrims were the English settlers who came to North America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, named after the final departure port of Plymouth, Devon. When did that happen?
1620
500
What is celebrated every 11 November and what does it commemorate?
The Veterans Day holiday is derived from Armistice Day, commemorating the end of the First World War on November 11, 1918.
500
American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Mark Twain
500
What is the national anthem called?
the Star-Spangled Banner
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colossal sculpture in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota, U.S = huge representations of the heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, each about 60 feet (18 metres) tall, are carved in granite
Mount Rushmore National Memorial