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What enabled the introduction of quiz shows to American television in the 1950s?

posted Oct 12, 2020 by Vikram Luthra

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What river runs through Phoenix, Arizona, USA?

posted Oct 11, 2020 by Ankur Athari

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What river runs through Cincinnati, Ohio, USA?

posted Oct 7, 2020 by Puneet Batra

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What 1850 agreement between the USA and Britain resulted eventually in the British Mosquito (or Miskito) Coast..........

posted Oct 6, 2020 by Parampreet Kaur

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Which organisation runs the undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, that is known as "The Academy"?

posted Oct 1, 2020 by Dilbagh

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How did Puerto Rico become a US possession?

posted Sep 28, 2020 by Rajni

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The capital of the U S A, Washington, DC, is bordered by Maryland and which other state?

posted Sep 26, 2020 by Sandeep Otari

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Denver, Colorado, USA calls itself what?

posted Sep 16, 2020 by Balwinder

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Arnall Patz received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 for his lifetime of work in what field?

posted Sep 9, 2020 by Manish Tiwari

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What divides the course of the ancient Grand Coulee river bed in Washington, USA, roughly in half?

posted Sep 1, 2020 by Mishthy Mukherjee

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Which US presidential nominee in 1948 advocated closer cooperation with the Soviet Union, United Nations................

posted Aug 19, 2020 by Parampreet Kaur

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The killing of 58-year-old Robert Krentz and his dog, shot on 27 March 2010 on his ranch roughly 19 miles...............

posted Aug 13, 2020 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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What is the legal tender (face) value of the "American Buffalo", a 24-karat gold bullion coin first offered.............

posted Jul 31, 2020 by Riteshwar

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Which of the five Great Lakes of North America is the only one that does not border the US state of Michigan?

posted Jul 29, 2020 by Varuna Magar

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What US city is home to a basketball team called the Cavaliers and a football team called the Browns?

posted Jul 27, 2020 by Manish Tiwari

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Laura was the name of the First Lady of which US president?

posted Jul 24, 2020 by Saif Khanam

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Where, 25 miles West of Knoxville, Tennessee, was an Atomic Bomb Research Station set up in 1942?

posted Jul 24, 2020 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Over 40% of the population of the US state of Alaska live in which city?

posted Jul 19, 2020 by Nimish

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First held in 1991, a race is held annually on the Hudson river, USA, for what?

posted Jul 14, 2020 by Sandeep Bedi

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What material does the USA's Library of Congress house?

posted Jul 10, 2020 by Samardeep Acharya

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When was the first Super Bowl for American football held?

posted Jun 26, 2020 by Kuldeep Apte

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The initial slogan for the American War of Independence was "No taxation without …" what?

posted Jun 26, 2020 by Karan Joglekar

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What is the least populous state capital in the U S A?

posted Jun 25, 2020 by Nikita Sehgal

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Where is the US Bullion Depository, a fortified building used to store US official gold reserves, and a US Army.........

posted Jun 22, 2020 by Vishal

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When the US Domestic Parcel Post, set up to handle large parcels, was initiated by the controversial new Postmaster.....

posted Jun 20, 2020 by Akriti

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Who, in 1916, was the first woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives?

posted Jun 15, 2020 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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In 1859, Colonel Edwin L Drake created the first what in the USA, in Pennsylvania?

posted Jun 9, 2020 by Anil Chaurasiya

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Which construction, designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel.......

posted Jun 9, 2020 by Balwinder

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What has been a feature of the skies in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, for over a week in early October since 1972?

posted Jun 8, 2020 by Kapil Kapoor

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What does the US institute, NARAS founded in 1957, hand out annually?

posted Jun 5, 2020 by Vikram Luthra

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In 1903 American showman and aviation pioneer Samuel Cowdery (or Cody) did what?

posted Jun 1, 2020 by Parampreet Kaur

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When was the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) created?

posted May 18, 2020 by Aastha Joshi

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The group of 48 of the United States that are between Canada and Mexico is referred to as the continental or …..........

posted May 16, 2020 by Pushpak Chauhan

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In 1946, what did the USA offer to buy for $100,000,000?

posted May 13, 2020 by Mohammad

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Which groups of people were affected by the US federal law called The Amnesty Act of 22 May 1872?

posted May 11, 2020 by Anamika

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Who was the first American president to pay personal income tax on his presidential salary?

posted May 8, 2020 by Ujjwal Mehra

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Barack Obama is the first US president born outside the contiguous states of the USA. Where was he born?

posted May 8, 2020 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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What, in October 1871, was one of the biggest U.S. disasters of the 19th century, killing hundreds.................

posted May 5, 2020 by Karan Joglekar

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What was the first US city to host an Olympic Games?

posted May 1, 2020 by Udita

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What year did the US Congress authorise the USA officially to fight in World War I?

posted May 1, 2020 by Nimish

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Its secretive nature, connection to classified aircraft research, and reports of unusual phenomena have led.............

posted Apr 29, 2020 by Anamika

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The "Little Rock Nine" incident of 1957 in Arkansas concerned what event?

posted Apr 22, 2020 by Nikita Sehgal

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When is Labour Day in the USA, Bermuda and Canada?

posted Apr 20, 2020 by Prachi Sharma

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Which US state consists of two separate peninsulas,separated by the Straits of Mackinac,a five-mile (8 km)-wide channel?

posted Apr 15, 2020 by Prithvi

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Who was the youngest person at the time to be elected president of the USA?

posted Apr 15, 2020 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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A landmark decision by the US Supreme Court in 1966 was in favour of what appellant?

posted Apr 10, 2020 by Karan Joglekar

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What kind of soil type is found thickest, globally, in land near the Missouri River in Iowa, USA............

posted Apr 10, 2020 by Aastha Joshi

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What is the northernmost point in all U.S. territory?

posted Apr 9, 2020 by Simranjeet Singh

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What town 16 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, dominated by the Puritans in the 17th century, was famous.......

posted Apr 8, 2020 by Divya Bharti

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When were taxes on income first established as a permanent federal feature in the USA?

posted Apr 6, 2020 by Atif