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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• World

In which country is Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel?

Answer

Peru

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• World

What is the longest river in South America, flowing through the Amazon Basin?

Answer

Amazon River

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

Which Revolutionary War battles in 1777 persuaded France to enter the conflict as an American ally?

Answer

Battles of Saratoga

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

Which member of the Committee of Five that drafted the United States Declaration of Independence became the third U.S. president?

Answer

Thomas Jefferson

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

On what date did the United States Declaration of Independence become officially adopted by the Continental Congress?

Answer

July 4, 1776

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

Which Philadelphia official read the United States Declaration of Independence publicly on July 8, 1776?

Answer

John Nixon

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• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

Which resolution did the Second Continental Congress approve on July 2, 1776, two days before the Declaration of Independence?

Answer

Lee Resolution

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• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

In the 2026 America250 coin program, what theme is assigned to the special U.S. dime?

Answer

Liberty over Tyranny

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

How many cars made up the 1975–76 American Freedom Train, the Bicentennial traveling exhibit remembered before America250?

Answer

26

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• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

What was the name of the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, a fact featured in America250’s founding-history story?

Answer

Delaware

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

For America250’s 2026 coin program, which historic agreement is honored on one of the five new quarter designs?

Answer

Mayflower Compact

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

Which treaty formally ended the American Revolutionary War, the conflict remembered by America250?

Answer

Treaty of Paris

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