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🇺🇸 United States, Elementary and Middle School

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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. On which date is US independence celebrated each year?

November 11thJanuary 1stJuly 14thJuly 4th

2. Which unit do Americans commonly use to measure short lengths, like the height of a book?

GramsLitersKilometersInches

3. What are the two chambers of the US Congress called?

The House and the Supreme CourtThe Senate and the CabinetThe Assembly and the CouncilThe Senate and the House of Representatives

4. Which river forms much of the border between the United States and Mexico?

Mississippi RiverRio GrandeColorado RiverOhio River

5. Which document, written in 1787, set out the structure and rules of the US federal government and is still used today?

The Magna CartaThe Federalist PapersThe Declaration of IndependenceThe Constitution

6. What is the name for the system where each branch of government can limit the power of the others?

Checks and balancesThe Bill of RightsFederalismThe electoral process

7. Rosa Parks became famous in 1955 for refusing to do what?

Give up her seat on a bus to a white passengerPay a bus fareVote in an electionLeave a segregated school

8. What is the capital of New York State?

AlbanyNew York CityBuffaloRochester

9. How many feet make up one yard, a unit often used to measure a football field?

31210036

10. Which English colony in Virginia, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement in America?

JamestownPlymouthRoanokeBoston

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