General knowledge - 46 questions

1. In which year did the United States gain its independence?
Answer: 1776

2. How many states does the U.S.A. currently have?
Answer: 50

3. Who is considered the 'Father of the Country' in the United States?
Answer: George Washington

4. What is the largest state in the U.S.A. by land area?
Answer: Alaska

5. Who were the first inhabitants of America?
Answer: Native Americans

6. In which city is the White House located?
Answer: Washington, D.C.

7. Which famous American inventor is known for creating the lightbulb?
Answer: Thomas Edison

8. What is the national bird of the U.S.A.?
Answer: Bald eagle

9. Who was the first president of the United States?
Answer: George Washington

10. In which year did the Civil War end?
Answer: 1865

11. Which state is known as the 'Sunshine State'?
Answer: Florida

12. Which president is featured on the $1 bill?
Answer: George Washington

13. Who was the first female Supreme Court justice?
Answer: Sandra Day O'Connor

14. Which state is known for its Hollywood film industry?
Answer: California

15. Who wrote the national anthem of the U.S.A?
Answer: Francis Scott Key

16. Which two colors make up the American flag?
Answer: Red and white stripes with a blue background and white stars.

17. In which year did Neil Armstrong become the first man to walk on the moon?
Answer: 1969

18. Who designed the current American flag?
Answer: Betsy Ross

19. Which state is known as the 'Show-Me State'?
Answer: Missouri

20. Who was the president during the Great Depression?
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

21. What is the national flower of the U.S.A.?
Answer: Rose

22. Which two states are known as the 'Twin States'?
Answer: North Dakota and South Dakota

23. In which city can you find the Golden Gate Bridge?
Answer: San Francisco

24. Who is considered the 'Founding Father of the U.S.A.'?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin

25. What is the national mammal of the U.S.A.?
Answer: The bison

26. In which year did women gain the right to vote in America?
Answer: 1920

27. Who was the first female astronaut?
Answer: Sally Ride

28. What is the nickname of the U.S. national soccer team?
Answer: The Stars and Stripes

29. In which year did Hawaii become a state?
Answer: 1959

30. Which state is known as the 'Lone Star State'?
Answer: Texas

31. In which city was the Boston Tea Party held?

Answer: Boston, Massachusetts

32. In which city can you find the world's largest freshwater lake?
Answer: Chicago, Illinois (Lake Michigan)

33. Who is the first and only American president to resign from office?
Answer: Richard Nixon

34. In which state can you find the Grand Canyon?
Answer: Arizona

35. Which state is known as the 'Land of 10,000 Lakes'?
Answer: Minnesota

36. Who is credited with writing the Declaration of Independence?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

37. Which number president was Barack Obama?
Answer: 44th

38. In which state can you find Mount Rushmore?
Answer: South Dakota

39. Who wrote the famous speech 'I Have a Dream'?
Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.

40. In which city can you find the Space Needle?
Answer: Seattle, Washington

41. Who was the first president to be impeached?

Answer: Andrew Johnson

42. In which state is the Hoover Dam located?
Answer: Nevada

43. Who was the first African American Supreme Court justice?
Answer: Thurgood Marshall

44. In which state can you find the Liberty Bell?
Answer: Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

45. In which state can you find Niagara Falls?

Answer: New York

46. Which state is known as the 'Land of Enchantment'?
Answer: New Mexico