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American Trivia What two states produce the greatest number of
Christmas trees? What creature serves as the mascot of the
University of California at Santa Cruz? What was the name of Yale University's original
bulldog mascot--and all namesakes that have followed? What did philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
contribute to Princeton University in 1906? With what word did most people answer the
telephone when it was first introduced at the end of the nineteenth
century? What is May Day known as in Hawaii? The name of what Florida city means "rodent
mouth" in Spanish? Before it got its present name in 1847, what
American city was known as Yerba Buena--"good herb" in Spanish--for
an aromatic herb that grew in the area? What monument is the tallest in the United
States-- at 630 feet? Where ws the first library in North America
established in 1638? What percentage of the United States is
officially designated wilderness? How long did America's first space flight, made
by astronaut Alan Shepard Jr., last? Who wrote "Fish and visitors smell in three
days"? What was the name of the huge Newfoundland dog
that accompanied explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on
their famous expedition to the Pacific northwest in the early
nineteenth century? What did Thomas Jefferson smuggle out of Italy
in 1784 to help boost America's post-Revolution economy? How many states were created--in part or in
their entirety--from the Louisiana Territory, purchased from France
in 1803? How many cherry tees had to be cut down to
prepare the site for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., in
1938? Who gained fame as Richard Saunders during
America's colonial days? Who was the last man on the moon. How many chests of tea were dumped overboard at
the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773?
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