GEOGRAPHY
This is the largest U.S. state by area.
What is Alaska?
This American holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November and is traditionally associated with turkey, family gatherings and giving thanks.
What is Thanksgiving?
He was the first president of the United States and previously served as commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
This document, adopted on July 4, 1776, announced that the thirteen American colonies were independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This river forms much of the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This New York City district became famous as the centre of the American theatre industry.
What is Broadway?
Born in Germany, this scientist became an American citizen in 1940 and developed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This American president led the Union during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Of the five Great Lakes, this is the only one located entirely within the United States.
What is Lake Michigan?
This musical genre developed among African Americans in the Mississippi Delta and other parts of the American South and strongly influenced rock music.
What is the blues?
This American scientist and inventor is associated with the development of the practical electric light bulb and held more than 1,000 U.S. patents.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The purchase of this territory from Russia in 1867 was initially mocked by some Americans as “Seward's Folly.”
What is Alaska?
This U.S. state is the only one that borders exactly one other U.S. state and has no coastline on the Pacific Ocean or Gulf of Mexico.
What is Maine?
This 1920s cultural movement, centred particularly in New York City's Harlem, celebrated African-American literature, music and art and helped launch the careers of figures such as Langston Hughes.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This civil rights leader delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
In 1803, the United States purchased this enormous territory from France, more than doubling the country's size.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?