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This weeks quiz has 20 fill-in-the blanks relating to the USA.

 

  1. _______ _____ _____ lost more than a 1000 feet from its top when it erupted on May 18, 1980.

  2. ________ ________ ____ in Northern California has some of the worlds largest trees.

  3. ______ ______ was named by the pioneers because they were struck by its desolate landscape.

  4. The _____ ______ is the largest and most spectacular land gorge in the world.

  5. If you're driving west toward the Colorado the first peak you will see is _____ ____.

  6. The _____ ____ ____, an inland sea in Utah, is filled with water that is above 5 times saltier than the ocean.

  7. About ever sixty minutes in Yellowstone National park ___ ________, the most famous geyser, shoots a stream of boiling hot water more than 100 feet up in the air.

  8. Alaska is the only state where the _______ ____ is not an endangered species.

  9. Americas first oil well was drilled in ______________ in 1859.

  10. American expansion would not have been possible without the ________ _______ _____, the "camel of the prairies."

  11. New Mexico's ________ _______ showcase some of the world's largest and most stunning underground rock formations.

  12. The ___________ ____ is the longest waterway in the US.

  13. _______ is the oldest sport in the USA.

  14. The Pro Football Hall of fame was opened in 1963 in ______, ____.

  15. The _______ ________, is a world-wide sports program for handicapped sports program that began in 1968 as a day camp for kids.

  16. ___________ was first invented by a Massachusetts gym teacher in 1891.

  17. _____________ was invented in California in the late 1950s by surfers looking for a new way to "hang ten."

  18. ____ ___ _____ has won more gymnastics medals than any other American.

  19. __________ were brought to Hawaii from Jamaica in the late 1800's.

  20. _____ produces more potatoes than any other state.

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