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Answers to "USA" quiz
Mount ST. Helen lost more than a 1000 feet from its top when it erupted on May 18, 1980.
Redwood National Park in Northern California has some of the worlds largest trees.
Death Valley was named by the pioneers because they were struck by its desolate landscape.
The Grand Canyon is the largest and most spectacular land gorge in the world.
If you're driving west toward the Colorado the first peak you will see is Pikes's Peak.
The The Great Sal Lake, an inland sea in Utah, is filled with water that is above 5 times saltier than the ocean.
About ever sixty minutes in Yellowstone National park Old Faithful, the most famous geyser, shoots a stream of boiling hot water more than 100 feet up in the air.
Alaska is the only state where the Grizzly Bear is not an endangered species.
Americas first oil well was drilled in Pennysylvania in 1859.
American expansion would not have been possible without the Conestoga Covered Wagon, the "camel of the prairies."
New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns showcase some of the world's largest and most stunning underground rock formations.
The Mississippi River is the longest waterway in the US.
Surfing is the oldest sport in the USA.
The Pro Football Hall of fame was opened in 1963 in Canton Ohio.
The Special Olympics, is a world-wide sports program for handicapped sports program that began in 1968 as a day camp for kids.
Basketball was first invented by a Massachusetts gym teacher in 1891.
Skateboarding was invented in California in the late 1950s by surfers looking for a new way to "hang ten."
Mary Lou Retton has won more gymnastics medals than any other American.
Pineapples were brought to Hawaii from Jamaica in the late 1800's.
Idaho produces more potatoes than any other state.
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