USA - Quick Quiz No. 1
The United States of America is the fattest country in the world, with 33% of the population being obese and 66% considered to be overweight. Foodies may also find it fascinating that Subway recently passed McDonalds as the world’s largest restaurant chain.
Plenty food to grab by the hungry tourist
Plenty food to grab by the hungry tourist
Hang on to your burger while you negotiate the following 20 questions.
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Q 1) This is a national park and mountain peak in Wyoming. It has been suggested that the name is derived from parts of the female anatomy although this is disputed |
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Q 2) This range has for some time been home to some of the past presidents of the USA, including Lincoln, and Washington.
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Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Completed in 1941 under the direction of Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln, the sculpture's roughly 60-ft.-high granite faces depict U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. 
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Did you know:- The Liberty Bell was last rung on George Washington’s Birthday in 1846. It received its fatal crack a few hours later.
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Q 4:- By 1902, 32 states had imposed colour constraints on margarine. Some passed laws demanding that margarine be dyed an off-putting pink. This was overturned by the Supreme Court on the grounds that it’s illegal to enforce the adulteration of food, but the ban on yellow margarine remained. One state held out and only repealed its margarine-colour law in 1967. Which state?
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Did you know:- There are over 180 places in the U.S. that have the word “Christmas” in their names. They range from towns such as Christmas, Ariz., and Christmas Valley, Ore., to islands like Christmas Island in Florida and even some lakes (such as Christmas Lake in Washington).
Did you know:- Chicago is the birthplace of the first ever ferris wheel, which was 264-feet tall and debuted in the 1893 World’s Fair and was demolished shortly after in 1906. Today the 150-foot tall (15 story high) one at Navy Pier is modeled after the original one.
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Q 11:- It is part of a region known as the Space Coast, and is the site of an Air Force Station. Many U.S. spacecraft have been launched from both the station and the Kennedy Space Center. What is the name of this Air Force Station? |
Did you know?:- Atlantic City is home to longest boardwalk in the world and it’s often considered to be the best. It was America’s first boardwalk, built in 1870 to limit the amount of sand that beach-goers tracked into the train and hotel lobbies. In 1889 it was nearly double this size at 7-miles long, but was destroyed by a storm
Did you know?:- The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world by area, with 17 miles of corridors. The US Capitol could fit into just one of the buildings five sides. It actually has twice the space as the Empire State Building. It was built in Arlington, Virginia in 1943 at a cost of $83 million
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Q 16:- The Pike Place Fish Market, founded in 1930, is an open air fish market located in Pike Place Market, at the corner of Pike Street and Pike Place. It is known for their tradition of fishmongers throwing fish that customers have purchased, before they are wrapped. What city would you have to go to visit Pikes Place Fish Market
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Q 20) The first skyscraper ever was the Sears Tower, at 447 meters, one of the world's tallest buildings. Completed in 1973, it become the tallest building in the world, a title it held for nearly 25 years. Where would you have to go to have seen this building?
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Did you know?:- Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.
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