The United States of America (U.S.A) is usually known as the United States (U.S) having 50 states. The country is the third or fourth-largest country in the world. Do you want to know more facts about the country? Its historical and geographical structure? Then we provide you a number of comprehensive, simple and interesting U.S Trivia Questions and Answers. In this post, there are 50+ U.S trivia questions and answers about the history, geography, and media of the country.
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US Trivia Questions
1. How many states are there in the United States?
Answer: Fifty
2. How much is the total area of the country?
Answer: The total area is 3.8 million square miles
3. On which position the U.S stands in the list of largest countries in the world?
Answer: Third or fourth
4. Which country is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe?
Answer: The United States
5. How much is the population of the United States?
Answer: 327 million
6. With respect to population the U.S is on which number?
Answer: Third
7. What is the capital of the United States?
Answer: Washington D.C
8. Which is the most populous city of the country?
Answer: New York
9. Which three colors are there in the flag of U.S?
Answer: Red, White, and Blue
10. When did the European colonization begin?
Answer: In the 16th century
11. From where the first inhabitant of North America migrated?
Answer: Siberia
12. On which way the inhabitant came?
Answer: By the way of the Bering Land Bridge
13. After crossing the land bridge toward which the first Americans moved?
Answer: Southward along the Pacific coast
14. When did the Clovis culture appeared in America?
Answer: Around 11,000 BC
15. What does the Clovis culture represent?
Answer: It represent the first human settlement of the Americas
American History Trivia Questions and Answers
16. From where the first inhabitant of North America migrated?
Answer: Siberia
17. On which way the inhabitant came?
Answer: By the way of the Bering Land Bridge
18. After crossing the land bridge toward which the first Americans moved?
Answer: Southward along the Pacific coast
19. When did the Colvis culture appear in America?
Answer: Around 11,000 BC
20. What does the Colvis culture represent?
Answer: It represent the first human settlement of the Americas
21. Which factors led to the American Civil War?
Answer: The slavery of African and African American
22. Who was the first elected president from the anti-slavery Republic Part?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
23. When the Union won the war against the Confederate States of America?
Answer: In April 1865
24. According to the Union’s viewpoint, what was the main purpose of the war?
Answer: The abolition of slavery
25. How many amendments were made in the Constitution of the United States after the war?
Answer: Three
26. What were the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments was about?
Answer: These provide citizenship to nearly four million African Americans
27. What does the fifteenth amendment states?
Answer: Is ensures that Africans Americans had the right to vote
28. What became the goal of the Republicans in the federal government?
Answer: To oversee the rebuilding of the South and to ensure the rights of African Americans
29. Who calls themselves “Redeemers”?
Answer: Southern white Democrats
30. What leads to the spur in economic growth and development of the American Old West?
Answer: National infrastructure including Telegraphs and Transcontinental Railroads
United States Geography Trivia Questions and Answers
31. What is the land area of the entire United States?
Answer: Approximately 3,800,000 square miles
32. Which is the largest state in the United States?
Answer: Alaska
33. What is the area of the state of Hawaii?
Answer: 10,931 square miles
34. The Appalachian mountain, divides the eastern seaboard from which two regions?
Answer: The Great Lakes and the Grassland of the Midwest
35. Which is the world’s longest river system?
Answer: The Mississippi-Missouri River
36. What is the height of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado?
Answer: Higher than 14,000 feet
37. Which is the highest peak in the country?
Answer: Alaska’s Denali (Mount McKinley)
38. Which is the largest volcano in the continent?
Answer: The supervolcano underlying the Yellow stone National Park
39. Which country has most ecoregions out of any country?
Answer: The United States
40. What is the type of climate in the Great Basin?
Answer: Arid climate
Funny American Quiz
41. Which country’s Supreme Court has a Basket Ball court on its floor?
Answer: The U.S Supreme Court
42. What is “hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia”?
Answer: It is a technical name for the “fear of long words”
43. Who created the invisible artwork that was paid $10,000?
Answer: The actor James Franco
44. In 2015 who was selected as the mayor in the small town of the United States Dorset?
Answer: Three-year-old Robert Tufts
45. What was the real name of the Cookie Monster?
Answer: Sid
46. Which American town has a population of only one person?
Answer: Monowi, Nebraska
47. Which U.S president thought it was hilarious to push the emergency button on his desk and then hide when the Secret Service came running?
Answer: The 30th U.S President Coolidge
48. In 2012, a man wore 60 shirts and 9 pairs of jean to avoid the extra luggage fee and travels from?
Answer: China to Africa (eleven and half hour flight)
49. What is the name of the bridge for squirrels in Washington?
Answer: Nutty Narrows Bridge
50. A computer programmer hired a woman at 8$ per hour to slap him whenever he uses Facebook during working hours, what is his name?
Answer: Maneesh Sethi
Hard American Trivia Questions and Answers
51. How much is the United States energy market size?
Answer: 29,000 terawatt hours per year
52. Where is the world’s longest Highway system?
Answer: In the United States (91,700 km)
53. What is the share of mass transit in total U.S work trips?
Answer: 9 percent
54. How many U.S citizens won the Noble Prize in Literature?
Answer: Twelve
55. Where the first commercial motion picture exhibition was given?
Answer: New York City in 1894
56. What the Acts resulted in this movement?
Answer: Civil Rights Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965), and Fair Housing Act (1968)
57. How long was the Vietnam war between Southern and Northern Vietnam?
Answer: Twenty Years (1955-1975)
58. Which region won the war?
Answer: North Vietnam
59. What was the Apollo-11 mission?
Answer: It allows the U.S astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eswin “Buzz” Aldrin to walk on the moon.
60. When did the terrorists attack the United States?
Answer: September 11, 2001
61. When the United States started the war in Afghanistan?
Answer: October 7, 2001
62. On March 20, 2003, which country was invaded and occupied by the United States?
Answer: Iraq
63. Who was the first African American President elected in the United States?
Answer: Barack Obama
64. When did he become the President?
Answer: In 2008
65. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
66. How much time does he take to write it?
Answer: 17 days
67. On which date Congress voted to get independence from Great Britain?
Answer: July 2, 1776
68. When the Declaration of Independence was accepted?
Answer: July 4, 1776
69. What is the Independence Day of the country?
Answer: July 4
70. During what time should the American flag be hung at half-mast?
Answer: During the time of National Mourning.
71. What does the red color on the flag represent?
Answer: Valor and Bravery
72. What does the white color on the flag represent?
Answer: Purity and Innocence
73. What does the blue color on the flag represent?
Answer: Vigilance, Preservalance, and Justice
74. How many red and white stripes are there on the flag?
Answer: Thirteen
75. What do these thirteen stripes represent?
Answer: It represents the original thirteen colonies.
76. How many white stars are there in the blue field of the flag?
Answer: Fifty
77. What do these stars show?
Answer: Fifty States of the country
78. Which state is there on the northwestern extreme of North America?
Answer: Alaska
79. Which state is in the mid-pacific Ocean?
Answer: Hawaii
80. What are the three main branches of the U.S government?
Answer: Legislative, Executive and Judicial
81. What is the function of the Legislative branch?
Answer: Making laws.
82. What is the function of the Executive branch?
Answer: To carry out the laws
83. What is the function of the Judicial branch?
Answer: Interpretation of laws
84. In which branch the President lies?
Answer: Executive
85. What are the sub-branches of the Legislative branch?
Answer: Congress (Senate and House of Representatives)
86. Who can remove the president from office in exceptional cases?
Answer: Congress
87. What is the role of the Cabinet?
Answer: The cabinet serves as advisors to the President.
88. Who nominates the Cabinet members?
Answer: The President
89. How many votes of the senators are required to become a cabinet member?
Answer: Fifty if all 100 senators vote
90. Which is the highest court in the country?
Answer: Supreme Court
91. Where is the Supreme Court located?
Answer: In Washington D.C
92. The Supreme court is responsible for what?
Answer: Deciding whether a law violates the Constitution
93. What is an appeal to the higher court?
Answer: It’s a request to reverse the decision of the lower court.
94. For a case to be granted review, how many justices votes are required?
Answer: Four
95. What is the step after a case is selected for review?
Answer: Parties make arguments
96. How many total justices are there?
Answer: Nine (One chief justice and eight associate justices)
97. Who nominates a candidate if a new justice is needed?
Answer: The President
98. On average for how many years justices are appointed?
Answer: Sixteen years
99. Who is the current President of the United States?
Answer: Donald J. Trump
100. When he was sworn in as the 45th President of the country?
Answer: On January 20, 2017
101. Which Article of the U.S Constitution states that the President of the country must be a natural-born citizen?
Answer: Article II
102. What should be the age of the citizen?
Answer: At Least 35 years old
103. What is the third condition to become the president of the country?
Answer: Have been a resident of the country for 14 years
104. How can a citizen contact the president?
Answer: By submitting comments or questions online through the White House.
105. Who takes over the role of president if he or she is not able to perform his or her duties?
Answer: The Vice President
106. What are the situations in which the vice president becomes president?
Answer: If the president dies, resigns, temporarily incapacitated and the vice president and majority of the cabinet decides that the president is not able to perform his duties.
107. ho is the current vice president of the country?
Answer: Michael R. Pence
108. After how many years have elections for president happened in the United States?
Answer: Four years
109. What is the name of the current first lady of the United States?
Answer: Melania Trump
110. Which Act provides the outline of the Presidential order of the successions?
Answer: Presidential Succession Act of 1947
111. Who works on the federal budget of the country?
Answer: The Congress
112. What is the time period of the government’s fiscal year?
Answer: From October 1 of one year to September 30 of next year.
113. How does the government generate money?
Answer: Through collecting taxes and borrowings by selling treasury securities.
114. What are the main government spendings?
Answer: Mandatory spending required by law (Social security, medicare), interests on debt, discretionary spendings
115. What are the discretionary spendings?
Answer: The amount Congress sets annually for other programs and agencies.
116. What are the main things included in the Constitution of the United States?
Answer: Foundation of the American government, its purpose, forms, and structure.
117. How many total Constitutional Amendments in all?
Answer: Twenty Seven
118. When the 27th amendment was originally proposed?
Answer: In 1789
119. When the amendment was ratified?
Answer: In 1992
120. How many branches of the Armed Forces of the United States are there?
Answer: Five
121. Name the Armed Force branches of the United States?
Answer: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard
122. Which is the largest and oldest branch?
Answer: The United States Army
123. When the United States Air Force was established?
Answer: On September 18, 1947
124. Where the National Museum of the Marine Corps is located?
Answer: In Quantico, Virginia
125. Which National Museum of the United States is located in Washington D.C?
Answer: The National Museum of the U.S Navy
126. What are the other two museums in the U.S?
Answer: The National Museum of the U.S Air Force and The United State Coast Guard Museum
127. What are the three historical parks located in the United States?
Answer: Valley Forge National Historical Park, Adams National Historical Park, and Morristown National Historical Park
127. Where the Adams National Historical Park is located?
Answer: In Massachusetts
128. Which U.S museum has collections of the African American Civil War?
Answer: The African American Civil War Memorial and Museum
129. What does the Korean War Veterans Memorial depict11?
Answer: It depicts the three-year fights of the Korean War
130. Which U.S museum has the names of the 58,000 Americans who died during the Vietnam War?
Answer: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
131. What is the National Anthem of the United States?
Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner
132. Which poem eventually became the national anthem of the United States?
Answer: “Defence of Fort M’henry”
133. Who wrote the poem “Defence of Fort M’henry”?
Answer: Francis Scott Key
134. Which event is celebrated on January 20 in the U.S?
Answer: Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.
135. When the Thanksgiving day is celebrated in the U.S?
Answer: On November 26
136. What are the non-federal holidays?
Answer: Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween and Flag day.
137. Which Buddhist holiday is celebrated in the country?
Answer: Day of Vesak
138. What are the religious holidays for Muslims?
Answer: Ramadan
139. In how many denominations the U.S paper currency is issued?
Answer: Seven ($1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100)
140. Who manufacturers paper money in the U.S?
Answer: The Bureau of Engraving and Printing
141. For how many years the war lasts?
Answer: Two years
142. What was the result of the war?
Answer: It ended British army posts on the U.S and British interference in American trade.
143. Which war divided the United States into two?
Answer: The American Civil War
144. What was the duration of the War?
Answer: Five years (1861-1865)
145. The war was between which two regions?
Answer: The Northern States and the Southern States
146. What ended slavery in the country?
Answer: The American Civil War
147. When the Wright Brothers first tried to fly a machine in the air?
Answer: December 17, 1903
148. When did the country enter World War-I?
Answer: April 6, 1917
149. On which country did they declare war?
Answer: Germany
150. When did the women of the United States were officially granted the right to vote?
Answer: August 26. 1920
151. When was the first worst economic crisis in the United States?
Answer: October 1929
152. What was the cause of this crisis?
Answer: Stock market crash
153. The crisis resulted in what?
Answer: Great Depression
154. When did World War-II start?
Answer: In September 1939
155. When did the U.S enter this war?
Answer: After Japan attacked Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941.
156. What ended World War-II?
Answer: When the U.S dropped the atomic bomb on two cities of Japan
157. On which two cities the atomic bomb was dropped?
Answer: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
158. When did the U.S attack these two cities?
Answer: On August 6 and August 9, 1945
159. After WW-II, which country was to divide into two parts?
Answer: Korea
160. Which part of the country was given in control of the United States?
Answer: The Southern part
161. Who was the other party to control the Northern part of the country?
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