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The Southwest
100

This 102-story skyscraper was the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1931.

What is the Empire State Building?

100

This Louisiana creature is often mistaken for a crocodile.

What is an alligator?

100

This Northern California city is known for its steep streets and cable cars.

What is San Francisco?

100

This granite mountain features the carved faces of four U.S. presidents.

What is Mount Rushmore?

100

This Nevada city is known for its casinos, neon lights, and the Strip.

What is Las Vegas?

200

This massive urban park, opened in 1858, is often called the "lungs of Manhattan."

What is Central Park?

200

This historic New Orleans district is famous for its wrought-iron balconies and jazz clubs.

What is the French Quarter?

200

This annual event celebrates the best in film, held at Dolby Theatre.

What are the Academy Awards / Oscars?

200

This river flows through South Dakota and was crucial to the Sioux people.

What is the Missouri River?

200

This natural wonder is one of the most visited U.S. National Parks and stretches 277 miles.

What is the Grand Canyon?

300

NYC is made up of 5 boroughs. This is the only one located on the mainland.

What is the Bronx?

300

New Orleans is most famous for this annual celebration held before spring.

What is Mardi Gras?

300

This is the tallest tree in the world; its cones only release the seeds when burned.

What is the Sequoia?

300

This is an important event in the American school year consisting of a week of parades and dress-up days, a football game and dance.

What is Homecoming?

300

This place recorded the hottest ever US temperature: 134°F, 56.7°C. 

What is Death Valley?

400

This famous New York street is synonymous with American theater.

What is the Broadway?

400

This Louisiana dish is a stew often made from meat, seafood and vegetables, often spicy and Cajun-style.

What is Gumbo?

400

This place near Palo Alto is famous as the birthplace of the digital age and houses companies like Meta and Google.

What is Silicon Valley?

400

This vast South Dakota park is named for its rugged terrain and lack of water.

What is Badlands National Park?

400

This Arizona dam created Lake Mead and provides hydroelectric power to the Southwest.

What is Hoover Dam?

500

This island housed immigrants arriving in the U.S. between 1892 and 1954.

What is Ellis Island?

500

Known as the "Father of Jazz," this trumpeter was born in New Orleans in 1901.

Who is Louis Armstrong?

500

This person has his star on the walls of the Walk of Fame, not the ground; because he did not want people to trample on his name.

Who is Mohammad Ali?

500

This 1890 massacre marked the tragic end of Native American resistance.

What is Wounded Knee?

500

Even though the states in the Southwest are some of the youngest in the US, the buildings and cities of this Native American tribe are sometimes over 1000 years old. Their cities were the largest in North America before the 19th century.

Who are the Pueblo?