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United States Quiz 7

1. What is the name of the championship series in Major League Baseball?

2. In which year was the first Super Bowl played?

3. In which Massachusetts city was basketball invented, in 1891?

4. What does the winner of the Indianapolis 500 traditionally drink?

5. The Hollywood Walk of Fame runs along Vine Street and which boulevard?

6. What nickname is given to New York's theatre district on Broadway?

7. Which city is regarded as the birthplace of jazz?

8. Which Nashville radio show and concert venue is the home of country music?

9. In which city was Motown Records founded by Berry Gordy?

10. In which state did the first Disneyland open in 1955?

11. In which city did Route 66 begin?

12. What does "Mardi Gras" mean?

13. In which city was Coca-Cola invented in 1886?

14. Which city is famous for the cheesesteak sandwich?

15. Which city in New York State gave its name to spicy chicken wings?

16. What was Mark Twain's real name?

17. Who wrote "The Great Gatsby"?

18. In "To Kill a Mockingbird", what is the name of the lawyer father of Scout and Jem?

19. Who wrote "Gone with the Wind"?

20. What is the American name for the game the British call "noughts and crosses"?

ANSWERS

1. The World Series

2. 1967

3. Springfield

It was invented by James Naismith, a Canadian-born teacher, who used peach baskets as the first hoops.

4. Milk

5. Hollywood Boulevard

6. The Great White Way

7. New Orleans

8. The Grand Ole Opry

9. Detroit

10. California (Anaheim)

11. Chicago

12. Fat Tuesday

13. Atlanta

14. Philadelphia

15. Buffalo

16. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

17. F. Scott Fitzgerald

18. Atticus Finch

19. Margaret Mitchell

20. Tic-tac-toe

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