12. In Humboldt, Kansas, with its annual Biblesta Parade; the name is a combination of Bible and fiesta. All people on the floats must wear biblical costumes. [Back]
13. New York, naturally [Back]
For Kids’ Sake // Answers
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Back]
2. Bozo the Clown; Harmon not only portrayed Bozo but also owned the Bozo franchise, meaning he licensed (and sometimes trained) other actors who portrayed Bozo in the United States and abroad. [Back]
3. Dick and Jane (“See Dick read the trivia book.”) [Back]
4. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital [Back]
5. The Boy Scouts of America [Back]
6. A mouse [Back]
7. Little League baseball, which has a museum and its international headquarters there [Back]
8. Tinkertoys [Back]
9. William Holmes McGuffey; the famous McGuffey’s Readers were used in schools for many years. [Back]
10. Boys Town, formerly for boys only [Back]
11. Dolls and their accompanying books [Back]
12. Wild Animals I Have Known [Back]
13. Brooklyn [Back]
14. The Hardy Boys [Back]
15. The Girl Scouts [Back]
16. Etch A Sketch, one of the best-loved toys of all time [Back]
17. The U.S. president [Back]
18. Little Women [Back]
19. Nancy Drew [Back]
20. Mattel, a name formed from Matson and Elliot [Back]
21. Twister [Back]
22. Rugrats [Back]
23. The Newberry Medal, which has been awarded since 1922 [Back]
Festivals of Food // Answers
1. Strawberries; the Florida Strawberry Festival is one of the biggest food festivals in the nation. [Back]
2. Oysters, what else? [Back]
3. Crawfish [Back]
4. Alabama; the festival is held at Gulf Shores. [Back]
5. New Mexico; the area around Portales grows many peanuts—thanks to irrigation. [Back]
6. Lobster, at the Maine Lobster Festival [Back]
7. Oktoberfest, with a real feast of German food [Back]
8. Kansas [Back]
9. The date; about 95 percent of American dates are grown in this area. [Back]
10. Peaches, since Georgia is the “Peach State”; in fact, the festival is held in Peach County. [Back]
11. Pork [Back]
12. Chocolate. The town was once home to a Hershey plant; the festival continues though the plant is gone. [Back]
13. California [Back]
14. Asparagus [Back]
15. Pears; the city has a Pear Blossom Festival every April. [Back]
16. Catfish [Back]
17. Shrimp and oil; the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival is held each Labor Day weekend. [Back]
18. A four-block-long table, in the attempt to serve “the world’s largest breakfast” [Back]
19. New Mexico; Hatch bills itself as the Chile Capital of the World. [Back]
20. Maine, almost as famous for potatoes as Idaho is [Back]
Capitols: Those State-ly Buildings // Answers
1. The U.S. Capitol in Washington [Back]
2. Illinois; the old capitol in Springfield served as capitol till 1876. [Back]
3. Montgomery, Alabama [Back]
4. George Washington’s, a Virginia native [Back]
5. Utah’s capitol in Salt Lake City [Back]
6. An underground ceremonial chamber [Back]
7. New York’s, in Albany [Back]
8. James K. Polk, the eleventh president [Back]
9. Delaware; the capitol, in Dover, is called the State House. [Back]
10. The first two burned. [Back]
11. St. Peter’s, in the Vatican in Rome [Back]
12. Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln [Back]
13. Montgomery, Alabama; for the sake of dignity, Goat Hill is now usually called Capitol Hill. [Back]
14. The State House in Annapolis, Maryland [Back]
15. Statuary Hall; these statues are also seen in the Rotunda. [Back]
16. Massachusetts [Back]
17. Oil; the capitol grounds’ oil pump operated from 1941 to 1986. [Back]
18. Robert E. Lee; the statue stands on the spot where he accepted the command. [Back]
19. Texas’s, of course [Back]
20. Sulfur; the fountain’s water has so much sulfur that it can be burned. [Back]
21. Maine’s, in Augusta [Back]
22. Montgomery, Alabama, which was also the first capitol of the Confederacy [Back]
23. Nashville, Tennessee’s [Back]
Statues, Stadiums, and Such: City Landmarks // Answers
1. Washington, D.C. [Back]
2. Nashville, Tennessee [Back]
3. Memphis, Tennessee [Back]
4. Minneapolis, Minnesota [Back]
5. Atlanta, Georgia [Back]
6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Back]
7. Chicago, Illinois [Back]
8. Baltimore, Maryland [Back]
9. New Orleans, Louisiana [Back]
10. Boston, Massachusetts [Back]
11. Richmond, Virginia [Back]
12. Portland, Oregon [Back]
13. Charleston, South Carolina [Back]
14. Detroit, Michigan [Back]
15. Milwaukee, Wisconsin [Back]
16. Charlotte, North Carolina [Back]
17. Indianapolis, Indiana [Back]
18. Cleveland, Ohio [Back]
19. Louisville, Kentucky [Back]
20. San Diego, California [Back]
21. Orlando, Florida [Back]
22. New York, New York [Back]
23. Seattle, Washington [Back]
24. Las Vegas, Nevada [Back]
25. Miami, Florida [Back]
26. Asheville, North Carolina [Back]
27. Williamsburg, Virginia [Back]
28. Birmingham, Alabama [Back]
29. Omaha, Nebraska [Back]
30. Tampa, Florida [Back]
31. Washington, D.C. [Back]
32. Winston-Salem, North Carolina [Back]
33. Norfolk, Virginia [Back]
34. Savannah, Georgia [Back]
35. Cincinnati, Ohio [Back]
Ivy and Ivory Towers: Colleges and Universities // Answers
1. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York [Back]
2. The University of Alabama [Back]
3. Columbia University in New York [Back]
5. Columbia, the state capital [Back]
6. The University of Pennsylvania [Back]
7. Oral Roberts and Jimmy Swaggart [Back]
8. Louisiana State University (LSU) [Back]
9. VMI, the Virginia Military Institute [Back]
10. Princeton, which originally was called the College of New Jersey [Back]
11. Women; it was the first American college founded for this purpose. [Back]
12. The University of Florida [Back]
13. There is no tuition. All students perform some kind of work on the campus. [Back]
14. Chicago [Back]
15. Sweden; he was a great Protestant hero in the religious wars of the 1600s. He was also Lutheran, which is the college’s denominational affiliation. [Back]
16. Columbia [Back]
17. The University of Mississippi, “Ole Miss” [Back]
18. St. Paul, which is not exactly a rural place [Back]
19. Auburn, now a state school [Back]
20. A nuclear reactor [Back]
21. Judaism [Back]
22. Pennsylvania State University, home of the Nittany Lions [Back]
23. Indiana University’s main campus [Back]
24. University of Texas [Back]
25. Cornell [Back]
26. Educator Booker T. Washington and scientist George Washington Carver (The school was known until recently as Tuskegee Institute.) [Back]
Famous Fo
rts // Answers
1. Chicago [Back]
2. Nashville, Tennessee, naturally [Back]
3. Baltimore, Maryland [Back]
4. Gen. George Custer; he never returned. [Back]
5. Confederate general Robert E. Lee, naturally [Back]
6. Fort Worth; it has had military encampments but never an actual fort structure. [Back]
7. Lewis and Clark, who left Fort Clatsop in 1806 to return east [Back]
8. Long after its construction in 1777, local residents had forgotten its purpose, so they called it “nonsense.” [Back]
9. Pittsburgh, of course [Back]
10. Geronimo [Back]
11. Sweden; the original settlers of Delaware were Swedish. [Back]
12. Tampa [Back]
13. U. S. Grant, the eighteenth president; people said “U. S.” stood for “Unconditional Surrender.” [Back]
14. The French and Indian War [Back]
15. The Netherlands [Back]
16. St. Augustine [Back]
17. Georgia, naturally; the state and the fort were both named for England’s King George II. [Back]
18. It was fought after the Confederate surrender—due to the slowness of communication in those days. [Back]
19. Fort Christmas [Back]
20. Fort Matanzas, near St. Augustine; the name Matanzas means “slaughters.” (Apparently the Spanish were not ashamed of what they’d done.) [Back]
21. The U.S. Army Transportation Museum [Back]
22. New York [Back]
23. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point [Back]
Parks, Caverns, and So Forth: State Landmarks // Answers
1. Arizona [Back]
2. Hawaii [Back]
3. Virginia [Back]
4. Alabama [Back]
5. Connecticut [Back]
6. California [Back]
7. Florida [Back]
9. Mississippi [Back]
10. Colorado [Back]
11. Texas [Back]
12. New Mexico [Back]
13. Georgia [Back]
14. Pennsylvania [Back]
15. Indiana [Back]
16. Maine [Back]
17. Michigan [Back]
18. Tennessee [Back]
19. Minnesota [Back]
20. Montana [Back]
21. Washington [Back]
22. Alaska [Back]
23. California [Back]
24. Wyoming [Back]
25. Illinois [Back]
26. Massachusetts [Back]
27. Nevada [Back]
28. Alabama [Back]
29. Ohio [Back]
30. North Carolina [Back]
31. Kentucky [Back]
32. Louisiana [Back]
33. Utah [Back]
34. Rhode Island [Back]
35. South Carolina [Back]
36. Oklahoma [Back]
37. Oregon [Back]
38. Kansas [Back]
39. Arizona [Back]
40. Florida [Back]
41. Arkansas [Back]
42. South Dakota [Back]
43. Idaho [Back]
44. Maryland [Back]
45. New Jersey [Back]
Colors on the Map // Answers
1. Yellowstone, which Wyoming shares with Idaho and Montana [Back]
2. Red River [Back]
3. The Blue Ridge Parkway [Back]
4. Broadway [Back]
5. The White House [Back]
6. Bluegrass [Back]
7. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia; both cities were Confederate capitals, and both have the residences of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. [Back]
8. Alabama; the Belt is actually a wide band of rich, black soil crossing the state’s center. [Back]
9. Baton Rouge, the state capital [Back]
10. Norwegian; Little Norway is a popular tourist site and includes a lovely wooden stave church. [Back]
11. Green Bay, of course [Back]
12. It was painted white after the fires of the War of 1812 had blackened the original gray walls. [Back]
13. Orange [Back]
14. The Green River [Back]
15. White, like the sand, as protective coloration; they are almost the sole inhabitants of this barren area. [Back]