Q 01/05

What is the largest state in the United States by area?

A) Texas

B) California

C) Montana

D) Alaska

Answer · why

D) Alaska

Alaska is larger than the next three biggest states combined; the United States bought the whole territory from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million.

Q 02/05

Which river drains the Great Lakes into the Atlantic?

A) Hudson

B) St. Lawrence

C) Susquehanna

D) Connecticut

Answer · why

B) St. Lawrence

The St. Lawrence River drains the Great Lakes to the Atlantic; since its Seaway opened in 1959, ocean ships have been able to sail more than 2,300 mil...

Q 03/05

Which state is nicknamed the Buckeye State, after a native tree?

A) Indiana

B) Kentucky

C) Ohio

D) Michigan

Answer · why

C) Ohio

The Ohio buckeye's shiny brown nut is said to resemble a deer's eye, and it is also the mascot of the state's flagship university.

Q 04/05

The Grand Canyon is located in which US state?

A) Utah

B) Nevada

C) Arizona

D) Colorado

Answer · why

C) Arizona

Arizona's Grand Canyon was made a national monument by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908, eleven years before Congress agreed to turn it into a national park...

Q 05/05

What is the capital of California?

A) Sacramento

B) San Francisco

C) Los Angeles

D) San Diego

Answer · why

A) Sacramento

Sacramento became the permanent capital in 1854, after California's legislature had moved from San Jose to Vallejo to Benicia in barely three years.