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1) What famous former prison sits on a rock in the middle of SF Bay?
Alcatraz
2) What is the largest city in New England?
Boston
3) What city is often called the Big Easy?
New Orleans
4) What river runs from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico?
Mississippi
5) What major city lies across the Rio Grande from Juarez, Mexico?
El Paso
6) What remote, swampy park covers a large part of SW Florida?
Everglades
7) Gatlinburg, TN lies in the foothills of what range?
Great Smoky Mountains
8) Mt Whitney is located in what state?
California
9) Mountain range the above is in
Sierra Nevada
10) What city is often called "The Valley"?
Phoenix
11) Big Bend Park lies in the SW part of what state?
Texas
12) What famous mountain features 4 presidents carved into it?
Mount Rushmore
13) What did the US purchase from Russia in 1867 under William Sewards negotiation?
Alaska
14) What is the oldest US park?
Yellowstone
15) What is the only national park in New England?
Acadia
16) State in which the above is in
Maine
17) What river in NY is named for the Dutch explorer who discovered it?
Hudson
18) What peak was formerly known as Mt McKinley?
Denali
19) What peak can be seen from Seattle?
Rainier
20) In what city would you find the Gateway Arch?
St Louis
21) What area of eastern NC is a narrow strip of land bounded by the Pamlico Sound and Atlantic Ocean?
Outer Banks
22) What city, founded in 1565, is the oldest in the US?
St Augustine
23) What river cuts through the Grand Canyon?
Colorado
24) What famous hydroelectric dam sits on the AZ-NV border?
Hoover
25) Reservoir that supplies the above
Lake Mead
26) In what citys harbor did Francis Scott Key write the Star Spangled Banner?
Baltimore
27) Mountain range that runs through northern NY state
Adirondack
28) Large lake that straddles the NY-VT border
Champlain
29) What low lying area in CA has been recorded as the hottest place on Earth?
Death Valley
30) Desert that the above is part of
Mojave
31) Famous alpine lake on the CA-NV border
Tahoe
32) What Kansas town was once called the "wickedest town in the west" during the late 1800s?
Dodge City
33) What city is also called the Steel capital?
Pittsburgh
34) In what state would you find Badlands National Park?
South Dakota
35) What remote Montana lake has been called the "clearest water on Earth"?
Flathead
36) What famous curved peak is a popular climbing spot in Yosemite Park?
Half Dome
37) In what suburb of LA would you find DisneyLand?
Anaheim
38) What city south of Seattle shares a name with a popular Toyota truck?
Tacoma
39) IAD and DCA airports serve what city?
Washington DC
40) What is the northern, more remote part of Michigan known as?
Upper Peninsula
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2 Comments
cpgatbyu
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Level 88
May 28, 2026
If, as you say, you include all its tributaries, the Mississippi can't be shorter than the Missouri, since the Missouri *is* a tributary of the Mississippi.
GeoDude220
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Level 47
May 28, 2026
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