Q 01/05

Which state packs roughly 400 miles of coastline into the smallest area of any in the United States?

A) Delaware

B) Connecticut

C) Rhode Island

D) New Hampshire

Answer · why

C) Rhode Island

Rhode Island sits mostly on the mainland despite its name, and bays and inlets make up about 14 percent of its area.

Q 02/05

Which state, the most heavily forested in America, is the only one bordering exactly one other US state?

A) New York

B) Maine

C) Delaware

D) New Jersey

Answer · why

B) Maine

Maine touches only New Hampshire, and the rest of its land boundary is shared with Canada.

Q 03/05

Which New Jersey resort, where a boardwalk first opened in 1870, gave the Monopoly board its street names?

A) Asbury Park

B) Seaside Heights

C) Cape May

D) Atlantic City

Answer · why

D) Atlantic City

Atlantic City laid that boardwalk to help hotel owners keep sand out of their lobbies. The American edition of Monopoly names its properties after pla...

Q 04/05

Which sport did a YMCA instructor invent in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891 to keep students fit in winter?

A) Basketball

B) Volleyball

C) Racquetball

D) Handball

Answer · why

A) Basketball

Basketball first used peach baskets as goals: inventor James Naismith had asked a janitor for a pair of boxes and got the baskets instead.

Q 05/05

Which New Hampshire peak, the highest in the Northeast, logged a wind speed of 231 mph in April 1934?

A) Mount Eisenhower

B) Mount Washington

C) Mount Monadnock

D) Mount Lafayette

Answer · why

B) Mount Washington

Mount Washington held the world wind record from 1934 until 1996, and the weather on its summit is notoriously erratic.