US Geography 1
1. Which US city is known as Motor City?
Detroit
2. What is the tallest building in the USA?
1 World trade centre (previously known as Freedom tower)
3. Yellowstone National Park is located primarily in which US state?
Wyoming
4. What demarcation line forms a cultural boundary between the Northern and Southern states in the US?
Mason Dixon Line
5. What new name was given to the Sears Tower in 2009?
Willis Tower
6. Which American state comes first alphabetically?
Alabama
7. Chicago stands on the shore of which lake?
Michigan
8. What is the capital of the US state of Minnesota?
Saint Paul
9. What is the common name given to a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base in Nevada, which is the frequent subject of conspiracy theories?
Area 51
10. The state capital is Bismark and the largest city is Fargo. Which US state?
North Dakota
US Geography 2
1. Which US state entered the union as the 50th state?
Alaska
2. What does the DC in Washington DC stand for?
District of Columbia
3. Baton Rouge is the capital of which US state?
Louisiana
4. Mount Saint Helens erupted in 1980, but which US state is the volcano in?
Washington
5. Which is the only US state to have only one syllable in its name?
Maine
6. Which US city contains the residential area of Bel Air?
Los Angeles
7. Alaska is the largest of the US states, but which is the second largest?
Texas
8. Wichita is the largest city in which American state?
Kansas
9. In the US, the Will Rogers highway is better known as what?
Route 66
10. Which unusual tourist attraction would you find at Lake Havasu City in Arizona?
London Bridge
US Geography 3
1. What is the modern name of the island borough bought by Dutchman Peter Minuit from Native Americans in 1626, and then called New Amsterdam?
Manhattan
2. Charleston is the capital of which US state?
West Virginia
3. Which American City is named after a British Prime Minister?
Pittsburgh
4. Hoover Dam in Colorado used to be called by which other name?
Boulder
5. What is the state capital of Kansas?
Topeka
6. What is the longest river in Alaska called?
The Yukon
7. The American springtime festival of film, music and technology South by South West is held in which state?
Texas
8. In which of New York’s boroughs would you find Harlem?
Manhattan
9. In which state is the US resort of Aspen?
Colorado
10. From its creation in 1923 until 1949, the famous "HOLLYWOOD" sign had extra letters, saying what?
Land
US Geography 4
1. What is North America’s highest mountain?
Mount McKinley
2. Which state contains the four largest, by area, US National Parks?
Alaska
3. What southern US city is dubbed 'The Big Easy'?
New Orleans
4. Which river runs through the Grand Canyon?
The Colorado
5. Name the two stately homes which tourists visit the most in the USA?
The Whitehouse and Graceland
6. Long Island is in which US state?
New York
7. What is the capital of Idaho?
Boise
8. What is the largest of the American great lakes?
Superior
9. New York is the biggest US city by population, what is the second biggest?
Los Angeles
10. The Berkshires are a mountain range in which US state?
Massachusetts
US Geography 5
1. Which famous street in New Orleans spans the length of the French quarter?
Bourbon Street
2. Raleigh is the state capital of which US state?
North Carolina
3. What is the capital of the US state of Alabama?
Montgomery
4. In which city would you find the only royal palace in the USA?
Honolulu
5. Which city in Texas takes its name from the Spanish word for Yellow?
Amarillo
6. On which Island would you find “The Hamptons” in New York State?
Long Island
7. Which US state has the longest land border with Mexico?
Texas
8. Which is the smallest US state?
Rhode Island
9. Where can you find George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln all together?
Mount Rushmore
10. Which American state is named after Queen Elizabeth I?
Virginia
US Geography 6
1. Chattanooga is a city in which American state?
Tennessee
2. San Antonia & El Paso are cities in which American State?
Texas
3. Jackson Heights is a neighbourhood in which New York borough?
Queens
4. In which state is Plymouth Rock, the traditional disembarkation point of the Mayflower pilgrims?
Massachusetts
5. Which lake in Oregon is the deepest in the USA?
Crater lake
6. What is the name of the famous US Military Academy in New York?
West Point
7. In which US city would you find the Liberty Bell?
Philadelphia
8. What is the capital of the US state of Delaware?
Dover
9. What is the hottest, driest and lowest point in North America called?
Death Valley (or Badwater Basin)
10. Which US state is named after the Spanish for ‘Coloured Red’?
Colorado
US Geography 7
1. In which two states is Death Valley National Park in the U.S.?
California & Nevada
2. What is the most southerly of the US states?
Hawaii
3. On which river does Mississippi’s state capital Jackson stand?
Pearl River
4. Which city is the state capital of New York State?
Albany
5. What is the capital of the American state of Massachusetts?
Boston
6. Which US state has the highest population?
California
7. What is the name of the maximum-security prison on the Hudson river in New York?
Sing Sing
8. Which state is known as The Blue Grass state?
Kentucky
9. Bourbon is named after Bourbon county where it was originally made. In which state is bourbon county?
Kentucky
10. How many of the US states start with the letter L?
1 (Louisiana)
US Geography 8
1. What is the capital of Alaska?
Juneau
2. Which island in New York Harbour was the United States' busiest immigrant inspection station from the 1890's to the 1950's?
Ellis Island
3. Montpelier is the state capital of which US state?
Vermont
4. How many US states have the letter X in their name?
2 (New Mexico and Texas)
5. Named after the state's "founding father", what is the capital of Texas?
Austin
6. In which US state would you find Birmingham?
Alabama
7. Which city in North Carolina is known as the Queen city?
Charlotte
8. Detroit is the largest city in Michigan, but what is the state capital?
Lansing
9. How many of the US states have a coastline on the pacific ocean?
5 (California, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii and Washington)
10. The Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research centre, is in which US city?
Washington DC
New York
1. Coney Island is situated in which Borough of New York City?
Brooklyn
2. What is the only one of New York’s boroughs to be situated on the mainland?
The Bronx
3. Which famous concert venue is located at 881 Seventh Avenue, New York?
Carnegie Hall
4. On what thoroughfare in New York does the annual Easter parade take place?
Fifth Avenue.
5. Which hand does the statue of Liberty hold the torch in?
Right
6. What is the red granite obelisk in New York’s Central Park called?
Cleopatra’s needle
7. Which is the largest borough in New York City?
Queens
8. Built in 1931, what was the world’s tallest building for the next 35 years?
The Empire state building
9. What is the name of the island which is New York City’s main jail complex?
Rikers
10. Which American architect designed New York's Guggenheim Museum?
Frank Lloyd Wright