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U.S. General Knowledge #65

Can you answer these random trivia questions with an American focus?
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What collection of 19 museums is known as "The Nation's Attic"?
The Smithsonian
Which weapon in the board game "Clue" is mostly likely to have wax on it?
Candlestick
In "America the Beautiful", the mountains are purple. What color are the waves of grain?
Amber
What fast food chain introduced the Blizzard in 1985?
Dairy Queen
Whose number, 42, was retired by all Major League baseball teams?
Jackie Robinson
What is the name of Boston's largest daily newspaper?
Boston Globe
What boxer was known as "Smokin' Joe"?
Joe Frazier
Which President's last name might be considered the antonym of "Emptyless"?
Millard Fillmore
What word can come after varsity, bomber, or dust?
Jacket
What New York neighborhood gets its name because it is south of Houston street?
SoHo
What 1944 law paid for about 2.2 million WWII veterans to attend college?
G.I. Bill
Who, appropriately, founded a chain of stores in 1902 where people could save "cents"?
J. C. Penney
Which Presidential candidate had Joe Lieberman as his running mate?
Al Gore
What magazine has published a list of the 400 richest Americans each year since 1982?
Forbes
Who did the Frito Company merge with in 1961?
H. W. Lay
The U.S. constitution has 27 of these. What are they?
Amendments
What gossip show derives its name from the 30 mile area around Los Angeles where
many movie and TV studios are located?
TMZ
What singer grew up in a small cabin near Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?
Dolly Parton
What U.S.-based church owns an investment portfolio worth over $100 billion?
Latter-day Saints
What aggressive insect escaped from captivity in Brazil in 1956 and reached the
United States in 1990?
Killer bee
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Level 84
Feb 17, 2024
Accept ammendments?
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Level 76
Sep 23, 2024
Commandments ?
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Level 95
Feb 18, 2024
Think you need to ammend your spelling
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Level 76
Feb 21, 2024
Accept yellow for amber?
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Level 80
Feb 24, 2024
But that's not the lyrics, though.
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Level 87
Aug 6, 2025
BTW, the US Constitution also has 27 instances of the word "no".
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Level 87
Aug 6, 2025
1. "No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years"

2. "No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years"

3. "The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate but shall have no Vote unless they be equally divided"

4. "And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present"

5. "No Senator or Representative shall during the Time for which he was elected be appointed to any civil Office"

6. "No Person holding any Office under the United States shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office"

7. "but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years"

8. "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed"

9. "No Capitation or other direct Tax shall be laid..."

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10. "No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State"

11. "No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another"

12. "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"

13. "No Title of Nobility shall be granted"

14. "No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them shall without the Consent of the Congress accept of any present Emolument Office or Title"

15. "No State shall enter into any Treaty Alliance or Confederation"

16. "No State shall without the Consent of the Congress lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports"

17. "No State shall without the Consent of Congress lay any Duty of Tonnage"

18. "...but no Senator or Representative or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States shall be appointed an Elector"

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19. "if no Person have a Majority then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President"

20. "No Person except a natural born Citizen or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the Office of President"

21. "No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses"

22. "but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted"

23. "No Person held to Service or Labour in one State under the Laws thereof escaping into another shall in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein be discharged from such Service"

24. "No new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States or Parts of States without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States"

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25. "No Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article"

26. "No State without its Consent shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate"

27. "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust"