Слайд 150 States
Fun Facts & Questions
Слайд 2SOUTH CAROLINA: The first tea farm in the U.S. was
created in 1890 near Summerville.
1. What is your favorite type
of tea?
Слайд 3HAWAII: The only royal palace (Iolani)in the U.S. is in
Honolulu.
2. What is your favorite palace you have ever visited?
Слайд 4NEW JERSEY: The world's first drive-in movie theater was built
in 1933 near Camden.
3. What was your favorite movie you
have seen in the theater?
Слайд 5WISCONSIN: The typewriter was invented in Milwaukee in 1867.
4. What do
you think is the most important invention ever?
Слайд 6GEORGIA: The inventor of Coca-Cola, John Pemberton was born here.
5.
What is your favorite soda drink?
Слайд 7MINNESOTA: The Mall of America has the largest indoor amusement
park (Nickelodeon Universe) in the world.
6. What is your favorite
amusement park?
Слайд 8ALABAMA: This is the first state in the U.S. to
declare Christmas a legal holiday.
7. What is your favorite holiday?
Слайд 9FLORIDA: Juan Ponce de León named Florida after the Spanish
phrase for the Easter season, “pascua florida” (“feast of flowers”).
8.
What is your favorite flower?
Слайд 10TENNEESEE: Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest continuously running
live radio program in the world.
9. What is your
favorite radio program/station?
Слайд 11NORTH CAROLINA: In 1903 the Wright Brothers made the first
successful powered flight by man at Kitty Hawk.
10. What
is your favorite Airline company?
Слайд 12TEXAS: Austin is considered the live music capital of the
world.
11. What is your favorite band/singer you have heard live?
Слайд 13UTAH: This state has the highest literacy rate in the
nation.
12. What is your favorite book?
Слайд 14WASHINGTON: Starbucks, the biggest coffee chain in the world, was founded
in Seattle.
13. What is your favorite drink from Starbucks?
Слайд 15WYOMING: Yellowstone is the first official National Park in the U.S.
14.
What is your favorite park?
Слайд 16MISSOURI: The ice cream cone was invented at the St.
Louis World's Fair in 1904.
15. What is your favorite ice
cream shop in your city?
Слайд 17NEVADA: Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than any other
place on earth.
16. What is your favorite hotel you have
ever stayed at?
Слайд 18NEW MEXICO: In some isolated villages, some descendants of Spanish
conquistadors still speak a form of 16th century Spanish.
17. If
you could speak any language in the world fluently without studying, what would it be?
Слайд 19NORTH DAKOTA: Turtle Lake is the home of the annual
U.S. Turtle Racing Championship.
18. What would you name your pet
turtle?
Слайд 20OHIO: Neil Armstrong, born in Ohio, became the first man
to walk on the moon.
19. What planet would you
like to travel to?
Слайд 21OREGON: Crater Lake is the deepest lake (593 meters) in
the U.S.
20. What is your favorite lake?
Слайд 22PENNSYLVANIA: Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the U.S.
21.
What is your favorite chocolate bar?
Слайд 23ILLINOIS: The world's first Skyscraper was built in Chicago.
22. What
is the tallest building you have ever been in?
Слайд 24KANSAS: The world famous fast-food chain of Pizza Hut restaurants
opened its first store in Wichita.
23. What is your favorite
pizza restaurant?
Слайд 25MASSACHUSETTS: This state is home of America’s first university, Harvard
University.
24. What university would you like to go to?
Слайд 26MICHIGAN: Detroit is known as the car capital of the
world.
25. What is your dream car?
Слайд 27DELAWARE: This was the first state.
26. If you could visit
one state, which one would you visit?
Слайд 28IDAHO: More potatoes are grown in this state than anywhere
else in the U.S.
27. What is your favorite potato product?
(Be specific: What Flavor/Topping/Sauce goes with it?)
Слайд 29ARIZONA: The Grand Canyon is 1 of the 7 natural
wonders of the world.
28. Which natural wonder would you like
to visit?
Слайд 30VIRGINIA: George Washington, the first president of the U.S., was
born here.
29. If you were President of the U.S., what
law would you change/add?
Слайд 31LOUISIANA: The first opera performed in the U.S. was in
1796 in New Orleans.
30. What is your favorite opera/play/musical you
have attended?
Слайд 32KENTUCKY: The 400-miles-long Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system
in the world.
31. What is your favorite cave you have
explored or mountain you have climbed?
Слайд 33MISSISSIPPI: The first heart transplant surgery in the world was
performed by Dr. James D. Hardy at the Mississippi Medical
Center in 1964.
32. What do you think is the coolest advance in medical science?
Слайд 34CALIFORNIA: The world's first McDonald's restaurant opened in San Bernardino.
33.
What is your favorite meal from McDonald’s?
Слайд 35CONNECTICUT: In the 1800's, George Smith invented the Lollipop.
34. What
is your favorite Lollipop flavor?
Слайд 36NEW YORK: The New York Post, established by Alexander Hamilton
in 1803, is the longest-running newspaper in the U.S.
35. What
is your favorite newspaper/news station?
Слайд 37ALASKA: Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other
states combined.
36. What is your favorite beach?
Слайд 38MAINE: Poet and educator, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was born in
Portland. He's famous for works such as Paul Revere's Ride,
The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.
37. Who is your favorite author?
Слайд 39VERMONT: Ben and Jerry’s was founded in Vermont in 1978.
38.
Who is your favorite Ben and Jerry’s flavor?
Слайд 40MARYLAND: The Baltimore Ravens are named after Edgar Allan Poe’s
famous poem, The Raven.
39. What is your favorite American football
team?
Слайд 41NEW HAMPSHIRE: These famous wolf t-shirts are manufactured by The
Mountain t-shirt company, based in Marlborough.
40. What is your favorite
t-shirt? (Describe it.)
Слайд 42ARKANSAS: In 1962, Sam Walton opened the first Walmart store
in Rogers.
41. What is your favorite discount store?
Слайд 43COLORADO: Ruth Handler, born in Denver, was the inventor of
the Barbie Doll.
42. What was your favorite childhood toy?
Слайд 44SOUTH DAKOTA: Clark is home to the world famous Mashed
Potato Wrestling Contest.
43. What would be the most fun food
to wrestle in?
Слайд 45INDIANA: The comic strip "Garfield" takes place in Muncie.
44.
What is your favorite comic strip?
Слайд 46IOWA: There are more hogs than humans in Iowa.
45.
What is your favorite animal?
Слайд 47OKLAHOMA: In 1935, Musician Bob Dunn, from Beggs, invented the
first electric guitar.
46. What is your favorite instrument?
Слайд 48NEBRASKA: The University of Nebraska-Lincoln weight room is the largest
in the country. It covers 3/4s of an acre.
47. What
is your favorite sport?
Слайд 49WEST VIRGINIA: The pepperoni roll was invented by Giuseppe Argiro,
an Italian who came in 1920 to work in the
mines in Clarksburg.
48. What is your favorite Italian food?
Слайд 50RHODE ISLAND: Glendale claims to be home to the world’s
oldest penny arcade.
49. What is your favorite video game?
Слайд 51MONTANA: The Montana Yogo Sapphire is included in the Crown
Jewels of England.
50. What is your favorite jewel?