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Name a Valid Answer - United States #1

For each selected category, enter any valid answer which fits.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Quiz by Gassu
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Last updated: February 17, 2025
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First submittedOctober 23, 2019
Times taken85,311
Average score70.0%
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Valid answers
Major political parties
2
Democratic | Republican
Assassinated presidents
4
Abraham Lincoln | James Garfield | William McKinley |
John F. Kennedy
Main islands of Hawaii
8
Hawai'i | Maui | O'ahu | Kaua'i | Moloka'i |
Lana'i | Ni'ihau | Kaho'olawe
Great Lakes
5
Erie | Huron | Michigan | Ontario | Superior
States with < 1 million people
5
Wyoming | Vermont | Alaska | North Dakota |South Dakota
Boroughs of New York City
5
Bronx | Brooklyn | Manhattan | Queens | Staten Island
State capitals with a yearly mean
temperature > 68°F (20 °C)
5
Honolulu | Phoenix | Austin | Baton Rouge | Tallahassee
Ivy League members
8
Brown | Columbia | Cornell | Dartmouth | Harvard |
Pennsylvania | Princeton | Yale
Unalienable rights in the
"Declaration of Independence"
3
Life | Liberty | Pursuit of Happiness
Largest Native American tribes
(> 100,000 members)
4
Cherokee | Navajo | Ojibwe | Sioux
Five-star generals of WWII and
the Korean War
5
George Marshall | Douglas MacArthur |
Dwight Eisenhower | Henry Arnold | Omar Bradley
"Big Five" Hollywood studios
5
Disney | Paramount | Sony | Universal | Warner Bros.
Speakers of the House since 2000
6
Mike Johnson | Kevin McCarthy | Nancy Pelosi |
Paul Ryan | John Boehner | Dennis Hastert
"Five Families" of the Italian mob in NYC
5
Bonanno | Colombo | Gambino | Genovese | Lucchese
National park starting with the letter Y
2
Yellowstone | Yosemite
Sibling of John F. Kennedy
8
Joseph | Rosemary | Kathleen | Eunice | Patricia |
Robert | Jean | Edward
Metro area (population > 100,000)
that has a higher elevation than Denver
8
Santa Fe | Flagstaff | Cheyenne | Colorado Springs |
Farmington | Prescott | Boulder | Albuquerque
NBA basketball team that plays in Texas
3
San Antonio Spurs | Dallas Mavericks | Houston Rockets
Hosts of "The Tonight Show"
6
Steve Allen | Jack Paar | Johnny Carson | Jay Leno |
Conan O'Brien | Jimmy Fallon
Company headquartered in Washington State
with a market valuation over $100 billion
4
Microsoft | Amazon | Costco | Starbucks
65 Comments
+11
Level 75
Feb 25, 2020
Could you please add 'Ike' as a type-in for Eisenhower.
+15
Level 88
Feb 26, 2020
Accept "Corleone" as one of the mob families? ;)
+7
Level 92
Feb 26, 2020
And Tattaglia. :)
+6
Level 75
Mar 5, 2020
All I could think of were the ones from the godfather, Corleone, Barzini, Tattaglia, Cuneo, and Stracci
+1
Level 71
Apr 12, 2022
Would you except caporegimes like Clemenza and Tessio?
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Level 52
Apr 2, 2023
Would you accept the Goodfeathers?
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Level 52
Mar 4, 2025
Jimmy, Tommy, Henry
+7
Level 88
Feb 26, 2020
That's nice, even though "The tonight show" is totally obscure for non-Americans.
+7
Level 76
Feb 27, 2020
At least here in Switzerland, it's on cable. Not worth watching with Jimmy, though. Also, saw it in some other countries, too, during Conan.
+10
Level 81
Mar 5, 2020
I've known people in other countries who watched American late night shows.
+4
Level 83
Aug 17, 2020
...and that makes it less obscure?
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Level 70
Apr 1, 2023
Perhaps less obscure than all of not-America as initially intimated.
+5
Level 79
Mar 5, 2020
Not exactly household names, but among the young and educated, many people have heard of Carson, Leno, Conan and Fallon. Might even be watching them.
+6
Level 58
Nov 2, 2020
"but among the young and educated," excuse me
+1
Level 65
Mar 31, 2023
I know Jay Leno from his car collection, didn't know he was a TV host
+8
Level 53
Mar 31, 2023
NO WAY!! there's quizzes about the US on a UNITED STATES QUIZ???? Unbelievable!!
+10
Level 92
Feb 26, 2020
Not sure it's possible but it would be fascinating to see how answers break down. As in what percent answered Carson, Leno, etc...
+1
Level 70
Feb 26, 2020
For "States with less that 1 million", I entered Vermont, Alaska, Delaware, South Dakota, and North Dakota, but it didn't accept any of those. It only accepted Wyoming for some reason.
+2
Level ∞
Feb 26, 2020
Works for me.
+8
Level 82
Feb 28, 2020
Might have been on the wrong question? It's a yellow box quiz after all.
+6
Level 71
Feb 26, 2020
Please accept Penn or UPenn for Pennsylvania. No one calls it Pennsylvania. Otherwise, great quiz!
+3
Level ∞
Feb 26, 2020
Penn will work now, thanks.
+1
Level 36
Feb 26, 2020
Several correct answers were not accepted: Columbia, Vermont, Phoenix..
+13
Level ∞
Feb 26, 2020
Yellow box quiz.
+1
Level 66
Mar 5, 2020
Doh!
+1
Level 58
Mar 5, 2020
i typed life , no right answer , i typed liberty , no right answer i typed pursuit of happiness . no right answer
+13
Level 88
Mar 5, 2020
Yellow box quiz
+1
Level 66
Mar 5, 2020
Nice one. I can see a series! Thanks
+1
Level 82
Mar 5, 2020
Great quiz, but you spelled happyness wrong.
+20
Level ∞
Mar 5, 2020
Haha, no.
+3
Level 74
Mar 31, 2023
Great quiz, but you spelled Happinefs wrong :p
+1
Level 46
Dec 4, 2023
great quiz, but you spelled hapynes rong
+1
Level 44
Mar 5, 2020
Would you take Paramont for Paramount?
+1
Level 58
Mar 5, 2020
Pretty sure neither Farmington or Prescott have a population over 100,000.
+1
Level ∞
Mar 5, 2020
They do in the metro area.
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Level 58
Mar 5, 2020
I have to disagree. You ever been to Farmington, NM? There's nothing metro about it. Even if you include Bloomfield, Aztec, and Kirtland you're maybe at 60,000. The entire county was at 130,000 in 2010.
+16
Level ∞
Mar 5, 2020
The whole county is the metro area. I don't like it either. But since I'm not USA dictator (yet) I have little power to change it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistical_areas

+1
Level 58
Mar 6, 2020
Lol, if they say so...I wonder what the Navajo Res thinks?
+1
Level 60
Mar 22, 2023
nor does flagstaff
+2
Level 49
Mar 5, 2020
Very nitpicky here but the line in the Declaration is actually "pursuit of happyness"
+4
Level 61
Mar 5, 2020
nerd
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Level ∞
Mar 5, 2020
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
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Level 82
Mar 6, 2020
Ryght on Randomsportskid. Me, you, and Will Smyth - truyth.
+2
Level 63
Apr 2, 2020
I was surprised that Tallahassee didn't work for the yearly mean temperature, but great quiz!
+1
Level 66
Nov 27, 2020
According to Wikipedia, the yearly mean temperature in Tallahassee is 67.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
+2
Level ∞
Feb 18, 2023
Tallahassee now is over 68 °F and has been added.
+1
Level 72
Sep 13, 2020
Forgot that Boeing is no longer incorporated in Washington State.
+1
Level 66
Nov 27, 2020
When did this happen? I wasn't aware until now.
+3
Level ∞
Feb 18, 2023
A few years back. They moved their headquarters to Illinois, inflicting a lot of pain on the employees who had to uproot their families or lose their job. The choice to move to Illinois seems especially bizarre as the state is not exactly known for its business-friendly climate. And obviously the weather sucks as well. I wonder what logic went into that decision making process? It feels like they moved just to "do something". Boeing's management is generally rated as awful.
+3
Level 64
May 28, 2021
Props to Gassu for accepting “Boner” for Boehner.
+2
Level 75
Feb 17, 2023
Might want to update for the Speakers of the House part
+2
Level 70
Feb 17, 2023
Thanks, Flabber!
+4
Level 49
Mar 31, 2023
Could you accept "Ojibwe" for Chippewa as it's the local name of the tribe.
+1
Level 65
Mar 31, 2023
Seconded. I know them as the Ojibwe, not the Chippewa
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Level 50
Mar 31, 2023
agree. Also, Dine should be accepted for Navajo and, I assume it's accepted although I didn't try, but Lakota is also the correct name, not Sioux.
+3
Level 78
Mar 31, 2023
That map in the corner was nagging me to figure out what it is. It's showing the results of the 2016 Presidential election by congressional district. In case anyone was curious.

That style of map is pretty misleading though since it doesn't account for population density. In fact, it actually exaggerates the appearance that more people vote Republican by showing huge swaths of barely populated land as supporting Republican candidates. Acres don't vote.

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Level 78
Mar 31, 2023
At least it shows roughly equally-populated tracts of land, unlike a state-by-state map.
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Level 71
Mar 31, 2023
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "Sioux" not the name of a tribe? More of a broader group of tribes (Lakota, Dakota, etc.) if I understand correctly. I guess census data governs what you can verifiably put on a quiz like this.
+1
Level 50
Mar 31, 2023
Dine is the actual name for Navajo people (which is the spanish name) and should be accepted, if not listed, and Lakota is more accurate than Sioux and should be what is listed.
+1
Level 71
May 25, 2023
Too US-centric.
+1
Level 24
Dec 25, 2023
The current Speaker of the House is Mike Johnson, you might want to update accordingly
+1
Level 70
Dec 26, 2023
Thank you, quiz updated!
+1
Level 48
Feb 14, 2025
Generally speaking the Sioux more often identify and refer to themselves as the Dakota and Lakota. Sioux comes from the nearby Ojibwe tribe and was later adopted by the French and from their other Europeans. It would be a nice change if both of these names were also accepted as answers.
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Level 49
Mar 6, 2025
bruh put in happiness and nothing happened
+1
Level 63
Mar 7, 2025
Can you accept RFK for Robert F. Kennedy?