Common questions about geography, politics, culture, places, people, companies and history of United States of America (USA)
Ques. Which US state is also known as Hoosier state –
(a) Ohio
(b) North Carolina
(c) Indiana
(d) Michigan
Ques. Which phrase that first came to public attention as a U.S. television commercial for the Wendy’s chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984 became associated with the 1984 U.S. presidential election when Walter Mondale ridiculed Gary Hart’s candidacy?
(a) Think
(b) Where’s the beef?
(c) Who’s Got Big Buns?
(d) Low fat formula
Ques. Which of these states of the USA is land locked?
(a) Utah
(b) California
(c) Florida
(d) Texas
Ques. The snow line of the Rocky Mountains of the USA is about
(a) 3 km above sea level
(b) 6 km above sea level
(c) it is at the sea level
(d) None of the above
Ques. The earlier name of New York city was –
(a) New Mexico
(b) New Perris
(c) New Amsterdam
(d) New Madras
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Ques. New York is situated on the river
(a) Hudson
(b) Thames
(c) Danube
(d) Tigris
Ques. The Grand Canyon is located on the :
(a) Colorado River
(b) Rhine River
(c) Tapi River
(d) Niger River
Ques. Which pen manufacturer was founded in 1891 in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA?
(a) Osmiroid
(b) Parker
(c) Waterman
(d) Pelikan
Ques. Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County are all in the north west of which US state?
(a) Texas
(b) Oklahoma
(c) New Mexico
(d) Florida
Ques. What event took place at Yasgur’s farm, New York, on 15 to 18 August 1969?
(a) Until then, the world’s worst plane crash
(b) New York World’s Fair
(c) First public demonstration of the M16 rifle
(d) Woodstock Music and Art Fair
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Ques. The founder of USA was –
(a) John Adams
(b) James Madison
(c) George Washington
(d) James Monroe
Ques. New York is popularly known as the:
(a) city of Heart
(b) city of Skyscrapers
(c) city of Crosswalk
(d) city of Money
Ques. Where is “Ground Zero” ?
(a) Washington
(b) New York
(c) Hawai
(d) virginia
Ques. What city was founded on the island of Manhattan by Peter Minuit in 1626?
(a) New Amsterdam
(b) Pittsburg
(c) New Holland
(d) Van Diemen’s Land
Ques. What is the generally accepted name for the Puritans who became the earliest settlers in the Plymouth colony in America, in 1620?
(a) Plymouth Brethren
(b) Plymouth Rocks
(c) Pilgrim Fathers
(d) Huguenots
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Ques. The US state known as ‘Mountain state’ is –
(a) Washington
(b) West Virginia
(c) California
(d) Texas
Ques. Nixon was succeeded by
(a) Gerald Ford
(b) John F kennedy
(c) Herbert Hoover
(d) Jimmy Carter
Ques. John F.Kennedy was assassinated by:
(a) Jon Edward
(b) Lee Harry Oswald
(c) Robert Oswald
(d) Jack Ruby
Ques. Nixon resigned in the year
(a) 1976
(b) 1974
(c) 1972
(d) 1978
Ques. How many US states lie north of the Tropic of Cancer?
(a) 49
(b) 1
(c) 25
(d) 13
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Ques. Which US state is also known as The Ozark State –
(a) Arizona
(b) Missouri
(c) Georgia
(d) Illinois
Ques. Which of the following is not associated with the American Revolution for independence?
(a) No taxation without representation
(b) Boston Massacre
(c) Battle of Gettysburg
(d) Battle of Lexington and Concord
Ques. Which of these fashion designers was born in the USA?
(a) Donna Karan
(b) Mary Quant
(c) Cecil Beaton
(d) Gianni Versace
Ques. A ”land run” into which current state of the USA began at noon on 22 April 1889, when an estimated 50,000 people lined up to race to claim 160 acre (0.65 km2) pieces of the available 2 million acres (8,000 Km2)?
(a) Alaska
(b) Montana
(c) California
(d) Oklahoma
Ques. The US state Kentucky is also known as –
(a) Hoosier state
(b) Mountain state
(c) Free State
(d) Blue Grass state
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Ques. The White House was painted white to –
(a) hide fire damage
(b) as symbol of Peace
(c) to keep it cool
(d) to protect them against pests
Ques. When is Independence Day is celebrated in USA?
(a) July 4th
(b) June 14th
(c) May 4th
(d) July 14th
Ques. Central Park is in which New York borough?
(a) Staten Island
(b) Brooklyn
(c) Manhattan
(d) Queens
Ques. The Straits of Florida go between the Gulf of Mexico and where?
(a) North Sea
(b) Pacific Ocean
(c) Atlantic Ocean
(d) Panama Canal
Ques. Which of these US states has a boundary closest to Salt Lake City, Utah?
(a) Arizona
(b) Colorado
(c) Wyoming
(d) New Mexico
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Ques. Abraham Lincoln belongs to which Political party –
(a) National Union Party
(b) Whig Party
(c) Know Nothing
(d) Federalist Party
Ques. Which state donated the land occupied by the US capital city, Washington, District of Columbia?
(a) Virginia
(b) Maryland
(c) Connecticut
(d) New York
Ques. Pearl Harbour is located in
(a) Nantucket
(b) Amelia Island
(c) Hilton Head
(d) Hawai
Ques. The World Trade Centre complex that was in New York City’s downtown financial district until 2001 was made up of how many buildings when the last was built in 1985?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 7
(d) 3
Ques. Who personifies the USA?
(a) Uncle Scrooge
(b) Uncle Vanya
(c) Uncle Ben
(d) Uncle Sam
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Ques. Yankee is the nickname of –
(a) All Americans
(b) American Women
(c) American Veterans
(d) People live in Alaska
Ques. America named after?
(a) Captian America
(b) Amerigo Vespucci
(c) Continental Americano
(d) Native Americas
Ques. Who was elected Governor of Texas in 1994?
(a) Sonny Bono
(b) Clint Eastwood
(c) George W Bush
(d) Bill Clinton
Ques. Martin Luther is known in history as the leader of
(a) Scientific Revolution
(b) Renaissance
(c) Reformation
(d) Unification of Germany
Ques. The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, which became a popular name for the dividing line between the slave and free states, isthe boundary between which two states of the USA?
(a) Virginia and Maryland
(b) Pennsylvania and Maryland
(c) Indiana and Kentucky
(d) Pennsylvania and Ohio
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Ques. In 1867,USA purchased Alaska from –
(a) Canada
(b) Mexico
(c) France
(d) Russia
Ques. Original Disneyland is located in –
(a) California
(b) New Jersey
(c) Pennsylvania
(d) Virginia
Ques. The US state known as ‘Pine Free State’ is –
(a) Florida
(b) Hawaii
(c) Alaska
(d) Maine
Ques. In USA separation between state and religion means
(a) Neither the state nor the religion can interfere in the affairs of one another.
(b) State and religion both can interfere in the affairs of one another
Ques. In the 1960s Raymond Davis Jr. set up a deep underground laboratory. Under what was the laboratory built?
(a) The Mammoth Site near Hot Springs, South Dakota
(b) Henderson Mine near Empire, Colorado
(c) The Black Hills, South Dakota
(d) Homestake gold mine, South Dakota
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Ques. The river which carries maximum quantity of water into the sea is the –
(a) Yukon
(b) Mississippi
(c) Missouri
(d) Colorado
Ques. 31 March, the birthday of Cesar Chavez, is recognised as a holiday in the US states of California, Texas, Arizona and Colorado. What role did he play in the history of the USA?
(a) Animal conservationist
(b) Military leader at the Battle of the Alamo
(c) Setting up reservations for American Indians
(d) Labour unionist
Ques. What name was applied to legislation regarding the sale of liquor in the USA between 1919 to 1933?
(a) Speakeasy Act
(b) Embargo
(c) Freedom of Spirit
(d) Prohibition
Ques. The first flag for the USA had how many stars on it?
(a) 20
(b) 13
(c) 10
(d) 50
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Ques. Which of these states of the USA extends the furthest West?
(a) California
(b) New Mexico
(c) Texas
(d) Nevada
Ques. Oak Ridge, Tennessee is widely associated with what?
(a) The Manhattan Project
(b) The Roswell UFO Incident
(c) Charles Mason, one of the surveyors of the Mason-Dixon Line, who came from here
(d) The playwright Tennessee Williams
Ques. Gettysburg Address was delivered by
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) George Washington
(c) Thomas Jefferson
(d) Lenin
Ques. Which scandal involving an oil well on public land occurred during the presidency of Warren Harding?
(a) Petticoat affair
(b) Lockheed bribery scandal
(c) The tea pot dome scandal
(d) Anna Pou case
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Ques. Which of these states of the USA is a rectangle?
(a) Arkansas
(b) Wyoming
(c) Utah
(d) Iowa
Ques. Which of these is not in the borough of Manhattan, New York City?
(a) Coney Island
(b) Broadway
(c) Central Park
(d) Times Square
Ques. Silver Thursday on 27 March 1980 refers to a reaction by USA regulators to activities by what or whom?
(a) The Hunt brothers (attempting to corner the world market in silver)
(b) Warren Buffett (divested his company of major stocks of silver)
(c) JP Morgan Chase and HSBC (manipulation of the gold and silver markets)
(d) London Silver Fix (plunging devaluation of the Indian rupee)
Ques. Broken Arrow, Edmond, Enid, Lawton, Midwest City, Moore, Norman, Stillwater and Tulsa are 9 of the 10 largest cities in which state of the USA?
(a) Oklahoma
(b) Maine
(c) Idaho
(d) Texas
Ques. Which state of the USA is divided into 64 parishes in the same way that 48 of the other states are divided into counties?
(a) North Dakota
(b) Tennessee
(c) Oklahoma
(d) Louisiana
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Ques. Which of these places is furthest from Chicago, Illinois, USA?
(a) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(b) San Francisco, California, USA
(c) Mexico City, Mexico
(d) Montreal, Canada
Ques. Which city was settled by the French in 1718, ceded to Spain in 1763, fell to France in 1800, and was bought by the USA in 1803?
(a) Tallahassee
(b) Quebec
(c) New Orleans
(d) Fort Saint Louis
Ques. What cemetery near Sturgis, South Dakota, is associated with a gold rush, land wars, and a famous 19th century last stand?
(a) Fort Custer National Cemetery
(b) Hot Springs National Cemetery
(c) Black Hills National Cemetery
(d) Fort Snelling National Cemetery
Ques. In 1986, what name was given to a scandal in the US administration that arose from the use of proceeds from covert arms sales to Iran via Israel to fund rebels in Nicaragua?
(a) The Whitewater controversy
(b) Watergate
(c) Troopergate
(d) Iran-Contra affair
Ques. Who was the first female, the first Californian and the first Italian-American to hold the post of Speaker of the US House of Representatives?
(a) Sandra Day O’Connor
(b) Hillary Clinton
(c) Condoleeza Rice
(d) Nancy Pelosi
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Ques. In which state of the USA is the educational institution known as U.C.L.?
(a) Utah
(b) California
(c) Louisiana
(d) Alabama
Ques. Who was the English king during the course of the American War of Independence?
(a) George III
(b) James III
(c) Charles II
(d) George IV
Ques. Which of the following was not a colony of British in America?
(a) New York
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Quebec
(d) Pennsylvania
Ques. Who was the master brain behind the drafting of the American Declaration of Independence?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) George Washington
(c) Thomas Paine
(d) Thomas Jefferson
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Ques. Where is York Town located ?
(a) New York
(b) Georgia
(c) Connecticut
(d) Virginia
Ques. Which of the following was a British colony in America?
(a) Canada
(b) Quebec
(c) Masulipatam
(d) Georgia
Ques. Which nation attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor?
(a) USSR
(b) Germany
(c) Japan
(d) Italy
Ques. Where is Pearl Harbour situated ?
(a) Montana
(b) Kentucky
(c) New jersey
(d) Hawaii
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Ques. Which Continental Congress adopted the American Declaration of Independence?
(a) Third
(b) Second
(c) First
(d) None of these
Ques. The United States of America has a system of ______ citizenship.
(a) single
(b) double
(c) temporary
(d) no
Ques. A state of the USA is called Rhode what?
(a) Beach
(b) Bay
(c) Island
(d) Harbour
Ques. Who was elected as the first Sikh mayor of a US city?
(a) Stan Polovet
(b) Ravinder Singh
(c) Maxyne Singh
(d) Anish Kapoor
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Ques. In1951 and 1952, American Jim Fuchs won 88 consecutive meetings and set four world records in what sport?
(a) Pole vault
(b) Discus
(c) Triple jump
(d) Shot put
Ques. The major geologic exposures in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, range in age from the 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist layers at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old layer on the Rim which is called what?
(a) Coconino Sandstone
(b) Toroweap Formation
(c) Kaibab Limestone
(d) Hermit Formation
Ques. Berkshire Hathaway company is related to __
(a) Bill Gates
(b) Warren Buffett
(c) Jeff Bezos
(d) Alon Musk
Ques. Which of the following is the Central Bank of U.S.A.?
(a) Federation Banks of USA
(b) Bank of America
(c) Federal Reserve System
(d) Reserve Bank of USA
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Ques. Which of these is a British-born American television presenter who was chosen to serve 1 year as mayor of Cincinnati by its city council in 1977?
(a) Conan O’Brien
(b) Regis Philbin
(c) David Letterman
(d) Jerry Springer
