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The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people, including current news and the sights and sounds of the United States. This week's quiz is ...
Sporcle. Sporcle is a trivia and pub quiz website created by trivia enthusiast Matt Ramme. [ 1] First launched on April 23, 2007, the website allows users to play and make quizzes on a wide range of subjects, with the option to earn badges by completing challenges. The name Sporcle is a portmanteau of sports and oracle.
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
The main game is played in five rounds and uses a list of 10 categories, each of which can be played only once. Both families receive one turn per round. The family in control chooses a category and is asked a question with six answer choices, and as many correct answers as the number of members still in the game.
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [ 4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...
2–4. Travellers' Tour Through the United States is a geographical board game published in 1822, thought to be the first board game produced in the United States. [1] [2] [3] The educational game was published by F. & R. Lockwood, New York-based cartographers. [1] [2] [4] The game consisted of a map, which players would traverse via 139 ...
At its core, the game is a quiz competition in which the goal is to correctly answer a series of 15 (14 from 2010 to 2019) consecutive multiple-choice questions. The questions are of increasing difficulty, [ 7 ] except in the 2010–15 format overhaul, where the contestants were faced with a round of 10 questions of random difficulty, followed ...
Under the law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [121] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [122] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [123] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [124]