1. America’s favorite gambling resort: Las Vegas.
2. Birthplace of atomic fission: Stagg Fieldm University of Chicago.
3. Birthplace of jazz: New Orleans.
4. Birthplace of Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn:
         Hannibal, Missouri.
5. Birthplace of Mickey Mouse: Hollywood.
6. Birthplace of Scott Joplin: Texarkana, Texas.
7. Birthplace of Wal-Mart: Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
8. Completely artificial media playground for big and little children:
         DisneyWorld.
9. Elevation 14,400 feet, with a road to the top: Pike's Peak, Colorado.
10. Famous site for legal skinny dipping: Hippie Hollow, Austin, Texas.
11. Four presidents on a mountain: Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.
12. Home of people whose language has no word for "time":
         Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona.
13. Home of Elvis Presley: Memphis, Tennessee.
14. Home of Old Faithful: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
15. Home of one of America’s greatest poets, Emily Dickinson:
          Amherst, Massachusetts.
16. Home of Scarlett O’Hara: Tara. Of course, Tara exists only in the book and movies, Gone with the Wind . . .
17. Home of the astronauts: Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.
18. Home of the computer revolution: Silicon Valley, California.
19. Home of the heroine in The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy's home, somewhere in Kansas, Toto . . .
20. Home of the world’s largest software corporation:
    Redmond, Washington.
21. Home of William Faulkner: Oxford, Mississippi.
22. Legendary site for American honeymoons: Niagara Falls, New York.
23. Mainland America’s only tropical island: Key West, Florida.
24. Origin of hippies:Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California.
25. Origin of the revolution in mass production: Ford, Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan.
26. Origin of the unionizing of migrant workers: Cesar Chavez' birthpplace, California.
27. Site of Einstein’s office: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, New Jersey.
28. Site of first gay riot against police oppression: Stonewall Bar, New York City.
29. Site of first powered flight: Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
30. Site of killing of 3 students protesting Vietnam War, by the army in 1968:
         Kent State University, Ohio.
31. Site of massive volcanic eruption: Mount Saint Helens, Oregon.
32. Site of massive civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s:
         Selma, Alabama.
33. Site of the first atomic bomb explosion: Alamogordo, New Mexico.
34. Site of the most famous American horse race:
         Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky.
35. Site of the most famous speech in American history:
         Gettysburg Battlefield, Pennsylvania.
36. Site of the Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C.
37. Site of the world’s largest natural supply of helium gas:
          Amarillo, Texas.
38. Site of the world’s oldest living things: Redwood trees, California.
39. Site of world’s first mass political women’s meeting: (1848)
         Seneca Falls, New York.
40. Workshop of America’s greatest architect: Home of Frank Lloyd Wright, Taliesin, Wisconsin.

Rate yourself:
     36-40 right: Culture Whiz-kid.
     31-25: History Channel Addict.
     26-30: Internet Addict ("If it ain't on the Internet, it doesn't matter.?)
     21-25: MTV Expert.
       > 21: Fox TX Expert.

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