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Quiz: Americana (Tourist Edition)

Round 1 at the Old Pequliar on March 3, 2009
Average score: 7.5/10 (14 teams)

Each correct answer is a US city.

1) If you want to gorge on museums and visit the Carnegie Science Center, the National Aviary, and the Andy Warhol Museum, where do you need to go?

2) If you want to hear some blues on Beale Street, stop by the historic Sun recording studio, and catch an NBA game in the FedEx Forum, where should you go?

3) To take in the Diamond Head State Monument, the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, and a genuine royal palace located in the US, you need to head where?

4) To visit the Rice Eccles Olympic Stadium and Temple Square, then slather some fry sauce on your fries, where do you need to go?

5) If you’re in the Duke City to visit the National Atomic Museum and see the Isotopes play baseball, where are you?

6) If you want to see Ansel Adams photographs at the Center for Creative Photography, check out the Titan Missile Museum, and get to Saguaro National Park, what city should you visit?

7) If you’re visiting the American Jazz Museum and take the Hallmark Cards tour in the City of Fountains, where are you?

8) If you fly in to Mitchell International Airport to attend the Summerfest music festival and stop by the Bronze Fonz, where are you?

9) If you want to listen to the Kotzschmar Organ, take the Lucky Catch Lobster Cruise, and see the Sea Dogs play AA baseball, what city do you need to visit?

10) If you take TriMet to get married at Voodoo Doughnuts before visiting the Expose Yourself to Art statue, you’re in Little Beirut, better known as what city?

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Quiz: Geography

1) The girl from Ipanema was from a neighborhood in what city?
2) What is the largest city in the United States named after a place in Africa?
3) The capitol of the Incan empire was located in what present-day country?
4) 16% of Alaskans claim Native American or Alaska Native ancestry. At 10.2%, what state has the second-largest Native American population per capita?
5) In the year 1900, what national capital was the most populous city on earth?
6) Which of these cities is the highest above sea level: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Banff, Canada; Berne, Switzerland; or La Paz, Bolivia?
7) Lake Gatun, at one time the world’s largest artificial lake, was formed during construction of what engineering project?
8) The Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara connect the Mediterranean to what body of water?
9) What state has the shortest distance between its capital city and its most populous city? (Must be two separate cities, distance between city centers as the crow flies.)
10) What city in the Seattle metropolitan area is the most populous in Washington that doesn’t have a population of 100,000?
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Quiz: See the U.S.A.

I’ll name a tourist attraction, you tell me what town or city it’s in.

1) OK Corral
2) Wall Drug
3) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
4) National Baseball Hall of Fame
5) Graceland (Elvis’ house)
6) Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
7) the Lowell Observatory
8) Glitter Gulch
9) Pimlico Race Course
10) Grant’s Tomb

Average score, out of 17 teams: 6.24.
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