TriviaBug | Quiz on US Geography

US Geography

	Clue	Answer
*A mixed bag on US Geography.*
31.	Water bodies that are a major tourist destination in the west-central section of Upstate New York, are actually eleven in number, but only seven of the largest are commonly identified as such.	Finger Lakes
30.	Only Great Lake located entirely within the United States.	Lake Michigan
29.	The sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands that is known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation.	Lanai
28.	Estuary of the Atlantic Ocean that lies between the coast of Connecticut and Long Island, New York that serves as a geographic border between New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.	Long Island Sound
27.	Only state to border just one other state.	Maine (New Hampshire)
26.	The oldest continuously occupied European-established city, and the oldest port, in the continental United States.	St. Augustine, Florida
25.	Waterfall on the Snake River located approximately five miles west of Twin Falls, Idaho sometimes called the "Niagara of the West".	Shoshone Falls
24.	Highest point in the 48 contiguous states.	Mount Whitney, California
23.	Lowest point in all of US territory at -282 feet/-86 meters below sea-level.	Badwater Basin (Death Valley), California
22.	Southernmost point in all of US territory.	Rose Atoll, American Samoa
21.	The region of the state of Florida which includes the westernmost 16 counties in the state. It is a narrow strip lying between Alabama and Georgia to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south.	Florida Panhandle
20.	3 largest islands of the US.	Hawaii, Kodiak Island (off Alaska), Puerto Rico
19.	The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Navajo Nation and Ute Mountain Tribal Lands in the Southwest United States where these four states meet.	Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah
18.	Highest point in all of US territory.	Mount McKinley, Alaska
17.	Carved by the waters of the Snake River, this ten mile wide canyon located along the border of northeastern Oregon and western Idaho carved by the waters of the Snake River is the deepest river gorge in North America.	Hell's Canyon
16.	Only part of the United States outside of Alaska that is north of the 49th parallel and northernmost point in the 48 contiguous states.	The Northwest Angle, Minnesota
15.	Northernmost point in all of US territory.	Point Barrow, Alaska
14.	This small glacial lake in the Lake District of northwestern Minnesota in the United States is the source of the Mississippi River.	Lake Itasca
13.	The second largest salt-water lake in the United States after the Great Salt Lake in Utah, it is named after the French Minister of the Marine, chancellor of France and minister of finance during the reign of France's "Sun King," Louis XIV.	Lake Pontchartrain
12.	The name of this body of water on the Georgia-Florida border comes from a native word meaning "bubbling water", or alternatively "trembling earth", a reference to its spongy bogs.	Okefenokee Swamp
11.	The largest estuary in the United States, whose name is derived from an Algonquian word commonly believed to mean "Great Shellfish Bay".	Chesapeake Bay
10.	Hawaii has these many large islands considered the 'main islands'.	8
9.	The strip of water that connects two of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and separates the Lower Peninsula of Michigan from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.	Straits of Mackinac
8.	Cape on the coast of North Carolina that protrudes the furthest to the southeast along the northeast-to-southwest line of the Atlantic coast of North America, making it a key point for navigation along the eastern seaboard. So many ships have been lost around it that the area is known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic".	Cape Hatteras
7.	The world's longest barrier island which is part of Texas stretching from the city of Corpus Christi also famous for Kemp's Ridley sea turtle nests.	Padre Island
6.	This 6,684-foot peak in western North Carolina is the highest U.S. point east of the Mississippi River.	Mount Mitchell
5.	The largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi River.	Ohio River
4.	Formed by water impounded by Hoover Dam, it is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States.	Lake Mead
3.	A prehistoric pluvial lake that covered much of North America's Great Basin region, was nearly as large as Lake Michigan and significantly deeper.	Lake Bonneville
2.	The third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the State of Hawaiʻi. The state capital Honolulu is located on its southeast coast.	Oahu
1.	Chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming an island arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 km²) and extending about 1,200 mi (1,900 km) westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula. Crossing longitude 180°, they are the westernmost part of the United States (and technically also the easternmost).	Aleutian Islands
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