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Test Your Knowledge - Quiz Questions

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This quiz is purely for fun and there are no prizes. There is no particular order to the questions.

The answers to nearly all the questions can be found on this web site but for convenience I have created a separate page which lists the answers.

1. In the USA and Canada, what is the telephone number for contacting the fire department, the police or the ambulance service in an emergency?

2. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon and in which state is the Grand Canyon?

3. In which town was Elvis Presley born?

4. How is it that a large number of small castles can be seen on the Mississippi River?

5. Which US state's vehicle licence plates include the wording "Famous Potatoes"?

6. What has one of its ends in Sweetgrass, Montana and the other in San Diego, California?

7. You check in to a motel and are given room 221. Which floor is room 221 most likely to be on: the ground floor, the floor immediately above the ground floor, or the floor two floors above the ground floor?

8. What does the road sign "PED XING" indicate?

9. In which state would you find Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Zion National Parks?

10. Which of these Canadian provinces lies furthest to the west: British Columbia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island or Quebec?

11. Which American state has a beehive as the symbol on its state highway marker shield?

12. What is the highest point in the USA east of the Mississippi?

13. During the summer, which part of the USA is generally the hottest and driest: the northwest, the northeast, the southwest or the southeast?

14. In which US city would you see signposts to LAX?

15. What is Delmarva?

16. In the USA, what is a ZIP Code?

17. Which of these mountain ranges lies furthest to the east: the Appalachians, the Cascades, the Ozarks, the Rockies or the Sierra Nevadas?

18. Who or what were the Anasazi and their kivas?

19. Where would you be most likely to be asked the question "Paper or plastic?" and what does it mean?

20. Apart from Belinda Carlisle, who "leaves the light on for you"?

21. What does a signpost to "CBD" mean?

22. What is a sausage biscuit?

23. What had its "jumping off point" at the town of Independence, Missouri and its ending point in the Willamette Valley?

24. In the USA, what are low and even in the south, high and even in the north, low and odd in the west, and high and odd in the east?

25. Which is larger, Yosemite National Park in California or the English county of Lancashire?

26. Which of these rivers is not a tributary of the Mississippi: the Arkansas, the Columbia, the Missouri or the Ohio?

27. After stopping and checking that the way is clear, which of the following is perfectly legal in most parts of the USA and Canada: turning left on a red traffic light, turning right on a red traffic light, passing a school bus when its stop sign is showing and its red lights are flashing, or performing a U-turn in a built-up area?

28. What started at Fort Sumter and ended at Appomattox Court House?

29. What does the road sign with the black letters "HC" inside a green ring mean?

30. What are Arby's and what are RV's?

31. What meet at the Four Corners?

32. San Francisco Bay in California is nearly cut off from the Pacific Ocean by two peninsulas. Where is the city of San Francisco: at the northern end of the northern peninsula, at the southern end of the northern peninsula, at the northern end of the southern peninsula or at the southern end of the southern peninsula?

33. What is a taco: a small nail, a tyre puncture, an inhabitant of the town of Tacoma in Washington State or a type of Mexican food?

34. Which US state consists of its lower peninsula and its upper peninsula?

35. What set off from St Louis, Missouri during May 1804 and arrived back at the same place in September 1806 after having travelled more than eight thousand miles?

36. What started on the 16th of January 1920 with the Volstead Act and ended on the 5th of December 1933 with the twenty-first amendment to the Constitution of the United States?

37. On a highway marker shield, what do the letters "BR" under a road number indicate?

38. In which state would you find Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Kings Canyon, Lassen Volcanic, Redwood, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks?

39. Which US state is bordered by Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota and Wyoming?

40. In which US city would you find eighteen of the world's twenty-one largest hotels, and also the world's largest motel?

41. What does an outline diamond shape on a road sign (or marked on the surface of the road) mean?

42. In a small American town, what is a prominent sign reading "Subway" most likely to indicate?

43. There is a Glacier National Park in the USA and another completely separate and rather smaller Glacier National Park in Canada. In which US state is the American Glacier National Park and in which Canadian province is the Canadian Glacier National Park?

44. Who reminds you that "your response must be in the form of a question"?

45. Why does the range of dates "from 6/10/02 to 12/1/02" make perfectly good sense in the USA?

46. In the eighteenth century, the "Underground Railway" was neither underground nor a railway. What was it?

47. Which US state is the Keystone State and which Canadian province is the Keystone Province?

48. What is Nunavut?

49. Which six US states have state highway marker shields with black numerals on a white circle inside a black square?

50. On what date was the most recent significant eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington State?

51. Which sport is played in a fronton?

52. What has one of its ends at Rockfish Gap, Virginia and the other 469 miles away near the town of Cherokee, North Carolina?

53. Which is these is a fictional character: Paul Bunyon, Meriwether Lewis, Regis Philbin, Pocahontas, John Wesley Powell, Punxsutawney Phil or Sacajawea?

54. What is In-N-Out: a motel chain, a fast food restaurant chain, a brand of petrol or a convenience store chain?

55. What is Super 8: a motel chain, a fast food restaurant chain, a brand of petrol or a convenience store chain?

56. Approximately what percentage of the land area of the entire USA is forested: 10%, 20%, 30% or 40%?

57. What is a frontage road?

58. Washington DC became the capital of the USA in 1800. Which city was the capital prior to that date?

59. What is peculiar about Baja California, the Canadian River, the Colorado Desert, New Mexico and Rhode Island?

60. What is an I-94W, and should you have one per person or one per family?

61. What is the approximate east-west extent of Lake Superior: 70 miles, 170 miles, 270 miles or 370 miles?

62. In San Francisco what is BART and in baseball what is a homer?

63. What is the approximate total mileage of the main roads in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming: 50 miles, 150 miles or 250 miles?

64. The abbreviation NY can mean New York City or New York State. What other two letter abbreviation can mean both an American state and an American city, but in this case the city is in a different state?

65. What was completed on 10-May-1869 at Promontory, Utah?

66. Between which two cities does I-80 run: Chicago and Los Angeles, Denver and Kansas City, New York City and San Francisco, or San Diego and Seattle?

67. Which of these rivers does not flow into the Pacific Ocean: the Columbia, the Klamath, the Potomac or the Rogue?

68. What was found on 24-Jan-1848 at Sutter's Mill, near Sacramento, California?

69. Where would you find fourteen maps, eleven squares and rectangles, eight stars, seven circles, three men's profiles, two diamonds, a beehive, a horse and rider, a keystone, a miner's shovel, a sunflower and a wagon?

70. On signposts, what is the difference between and ?

71. Where are Kansas and Texas less than thirty miles apart?

72. Why isn't it "fruitful" to enter California by road?

73. What is the difference between a service road and a surface road?

74. Give an example of a road in the USA which has controlled access but is not a divided highway (in UK English: a road which has entry and exit slip roads, and bridges over or under other intersecting roads, but which is not a dual carriageway).

75. Which one letter of the alphabet does not appear in the names of any of the fifty US states?

76. Which four letters of the alphabet do not appear in the names of any of the thirteen Canadian provinces and territories?

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78. Which was the world's first national park, Yellowstone or Yosemite?

79. Which country is larger, Canada or the USA?

80. In which US city would you find Braves, Hawks, Falcons and Trashers?

81. Which is the only Canadian province or territory with no natural features as its borders?

82. Which is the only US state which borders one and only one other US state?

83. Which is the only US state which has no Interstate highways?

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