United States Geography Quiz IV

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The South Beach diet was named for an Art Deco neighborhood along Ocean Drive in what city?

       a. Charleston
       b. Miami Beach
       c. San Diego
       d. Seattle


Named for a bloody boundary marker, what state capital has an annual Mardi Gras parade through its Spanish Town neighborhood?

       a. Baton Rouge
       b. Shreveport
       c. Galveston
       d. Jacksonville


Originally planned for Boulder Canyon, what dam in the Black Canyon created Lake Mead?

       a. Hoover Dam
       b. Three Gorges Dam
       c. Grand Coolee Dam
       d. Aswan High Dam


Muscle Beach is found in what summer hot spot, which was built in 1905 on Santa Monica Bay by tobacco magnate Abbot Kinney to recreate an Italian city?

       a. Venice
       b. Rome
       c. Syracuse
       d. Santa Clara


Nathan's Famous Hotdog Stand and a famous wooden roller coaster called the Cyclone are both in what community?

       a. Coney Island
       b. Las Vegas
       c. Atlantic City
       d. Orlando


Counties in Connecticut and Rhode Island are just for show and Alaska's are called boroughs. What are counties called in Louisiana?

       a. Ridings
       b. Parishes
       c. Districts
       d. Villages


Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout and Cape Fear are among the tombstones in what state's "graveyard of the Atlantic"?

       a. North Carolina
       b. Florida
       c. South Carolina
       d. Louisiana


The Bonneville Salt Flats are a remnant of Lake Bonneville, which covered the western third of what state some 15,000 years ago?

       a. Utah
       b. Wyoming
       c. Colorado
       d. Nebraska


Battle Creek is named for the stream where two surveyors fought two Indians in the 1820s. Where is it?

       a. Ohio
       b. Pennsylvania
       c. Michigan
       d. Illinois


What has been happening on Kilauea since 1983?

       a. Ancient Hawaiian religious rites
       b. It's been erupting
       c. Annual music festivals
       d. The search for alien life


What southern city, known as the Athens of the South, even has its own Parthenon, complete with a statue of Athena, long gone from the original?

       a. Charlotte
       b. Nashville
       c. New Orleans
       d. Charleston


The "White City" at what city's 1893 World's Columbia Exposition inspired the "City Beautiful" urban renewal movement?

       a. Chicago
       b. Brooklyn
       c. St. Louis
       d. Buffalo




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