Wednesday, February 23, 2011

GK Questions|USA|American States or Cities

1.  How many states are there in the US?
A.  50.
 
2.  Which city is called as 'City of Sky Scrappers'?
A.  New York
 
3.  Which city is called as 'City of Golden Gate?
A.  Sanfrancisco
 
4.  Which is known as 'City of Magnificent Distances'?
A.  Washington
 
5.  What U.S. state is said to have as many cows as people?
A.  Wisconsin.
 
6.  What city is headquarters for Zero Population Growth and the Impotence Institution of America?
A.  A:Washington, DC.
 
7.  What city boasts a Board of Trade that buy and sells half the world's wheat and corn?
A.  Chicago.
 
8.  What U.S. state has the highest percentage of residents born in other countries?
A.  California.
 
9.  What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
A.  I-90.
 
10.  What state boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian reservations?
A.  Arizona.
 
11.  What Canadian city's name means "muddy water"?
A.  Winnipeg's.
 
12.  What state made the U.S. the fourth largest country in land mass in 1959?
A.  Alaska.
 
13.  What southwestern U.S. state adopted the bola tie as its official state neckwear?
A.  Arizona.
 
14.  What southeastern state boasts the cities of Frog Jump, Only, and Sweet Lips?
A.  Tennessee.
 
15.  What eastern town is home for a service academy and the U.S. Silver Depository?
A.  West Point.
 
16.  What's the only remaining European territory on the South American continent?
A.  French Guiana.
 
17.  What two U.S. cities have the same name, are the largest cities in their states, but are not state capitals?
A.  Portland, Oregon, and Portland , Maine.
 
18.  What U.S. state was named after chaste Queen Elizabeth I?
A.  Virginia.
 
19.  What Southwestern state are you standing in if you ring a doorbell in Ding Dong?
A.  Texas.
 
20.  What southern U.S. state boasts the town of Stellite Beach?
A.  Florida.
 
21.  What U.S. state gets raked by the most tornadoes annually?
A.  Texas.
 
22.  What two U.S. states went to court in 1996 over ownership of historic Ellis Island?
A.  New York and New Jersey.
 
23.  What Nebraska city outlawed burping in churches?
A.  Omaha.
 
24.  Which city is farthest west - San Diego, Reno, or Los Angeles.
A.  Reno.
 
25.  What's the only state whose official state song was composed for a Broadway musical?
A.  Oklahoma.
 
26.  What Florida city's name translates to "mouth of the rat" because of it's toothy inlet?
A.  Boca Raton's.
 
27.  What U.S. state has an official commonwealth folk song written by resident Arlo Guthrie?
A.  Massachusetts.
 
28.  What's the only U.S. state to share a border with one of Canada's Maritime Provinces?
A.  Maine.
 
29.  What U.S. state boasts a difference of 20,320 feet between its highest and lowest points?
A.  Alaska.
 
30.  What interstate highway connects Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, to San Francisco?
A.  I-80.
 
31.  What is the northeastern most state of the USA?
A.  Maine.
 
32.  In which state is the Cumberland plateau?
A.  Alabama.
 
33.  The Missouri joins the Mississippi just north of which city?
A.  St. Louis.
 
34.  Which is the only US state to have been an independent republic?
A.  Texas.
 
35.  Where is the Sears Tower?
A.  Chicago.
 
36.  In which state are the Ozark Mountains?
A.  Arkansas.
 
37.  Kansas City is on the Kansas river and which other?
A.  Missouri.
 
38.  Which state with access to an ocean has the shortest coastline?
A.  New Hampshire.
 
39.  What is further north, Dallas or Oklahoma City?
A.  Oklahoma City.
 
40.  In which state is the Yosemite National Park?
A.  California.
 
41.  Which state produces two-thirds of America's iron ore?
A.  Minnesota.
 
42.  What is the largest city of New Mexico?
A.  Albuquerque.
 
43.  What is America's leading dairy state?
A.  Wisconsin.
 
44.  Which state has the highest island mountain in the world?
A.  Hawaii.
 
45.  What is the farthest east of the Great Lake States?
A.  Ohio.
 
46.  In 1988 which city had the highest murder rate of any in the US?
A.  Washington.
 
47.  Which state lies to the south of Georgia?
A.  Florida.
 
48.  In which state is Harvard University?
A.  Massachusetts.
 
49.  Which state was called Quinnehtukqut by Native Americans?
A.  Connecticut.
 
50.  Which two mid-Atlantic states have new in their names?
A.  New York & New Jersey.
 
51.  IN which state are the Catskill Mountains?
A.  New York.
 
52.  Which city is the home of jazz?
A.  New Orleans.
 
53.  In which state is the Sun Studio famous for its Elvis recordings?
A.  Tennessee.
 
54.  Which Island is the smallest state of the Union?
A.  Rhode Island.
 
55.  Which state takes its name from Alayeska, "great land of the west"?
A.  Alaska.
 
56.  What is Hawaii's largest city?
A.  Honolulu.
 
57.  In which city is Santa Monica Bay?
A.  Los Angeles.
 
58.  Which city has an area called Haight-ashbury?
A.  San Francisco.
 
59.  Who was Nevada's capital city named after?
A.  Kit Carson.
 
60.  What is the third largest city of the USA?
A.  Chicago.
 
61.  What was called Windy City by a New York newspaper editor?
A.  Chicago.
 
62.  What is the largest city in Maryland?
A.  Baltimore.
 
 
 

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