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US Geography Hard Questions

1Question: What US state was named for a Pennsylvania valley where 300 Americans were massacred by Loyalists and Indians during the Revolution?
Right: Idaho
Left: Wyoming
2Question: As of 2009, what is the only state that sets aside room in is legislature for representatives of Indian nations, in this case the Penobscot?
Right: Oklahoma
Left: Maine
3Question: What state has an official cartoon character, a gust of wind named Gusty?
Right: Oklahoma
Left: Oregon
4Question: Before it became one of the world's biggest casinos, Foxwoods was a bingo hall opened by the Mashantucket Pequot in 1986. In what state?
Right: Connecticut
Left: Nevada
5Question: People from lots of country emigrate to the US. But what country has the world's largest population of American expats?
Straight: Canada
Left: Mexico
6Question: What is the largest city in Ark-La-Tex, aka Arklatexoma?
Left: Little Rock
Right: Shreveport
7Question: What has, several times, happened to the town of Waterproof, Louisiana, most devastatingly in 1927?
Left: Flooding
Straight: Election of Republicans
8Question: Per an 1881 resolution, how should you pronounce the name of Arkansas?
Left: Ar-kan-zas
Straight: Ark-an-see
Right: Ar-kan-saw
9Question: What state has designed an official state meal: fried okra, squash, cornbread, barbecue pork, biscuits, sausage and gravy, grits, corn, chicken friend steak, black-eyed peas, strawberries and pecan pies?
Straight: Florida
Right: Oklahoma
10Question: Which of these states extends, at its westernmost point, 95 miles further west than West Virginia's westernmost point?
Straight: Pennsylvania
Left: Virginia
11Question: What San Francisco neighborhood is famous for its wild parrots?
Right: Telegraph Hill
Straight: The Castro
12Question: What is the most populous US state whose capital is also the largest city?
Left: Ohio
Straight: Georgia
13Question: What section of Brooklyn landmark was named for the rabbits that were all over the place when the Dutch arrived in the 1600s?
Right: Harlem
Left: Coney Island
Straight: Stuyvesant
14Question: What do tourists and official New York City maps call Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue?
Right: Avenue of the Americas
Left: Broadway
15Question: Despite becoming the third-largest city in California and the tenth largest in the US, it had only two major league teams: the NHL’s Sharks and the MLS’s Earthquakes. What is it?
Straight: San Diego
Left: San Jose
16Question: There is a national memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Who does it commemorate?
Straight: Freedom Riders who gathered there before heading South
Right: The people who tried to take back Flight 93 on 9/11
Left: The dead from a major Civil War battle
17Question: What is the tallest mountain range in the US?
Right: Applicacians
Left: Rockies
18Question: The Quad Cities is actually five cities, including Davenport, Iowa. Which of these Quad Cities is also in Iowa and not in Illinois?
Left: Moline
Right: Bettendorf
Straight: Rock Island
19Question: What is the only state whose two most populous cities both begin with the same letter that the state does?
Right: Pennsylvania
Left: Indiana
20Question: With only 7855 people as of the 2010 census which US Capital has the lowest population?
Right: Cheyenne Wyoming
Straight: Pierre South Dakota
Left: Montpelier Vermont