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1/ Las Vegas
2/ Florida
3/ Los Angeles
4/ Chicago
5/ New Orleans
6/ Houston
7/ San Francisco
8/ Dallas
8/ Atlanta
9/ Detroit
10/ South Dakota
a/ Willis (Sears) Tower, Al Capone,
Windy City
b/ NASA base
c/ home to CNN, Coca-Cola,
1996 Olympics
d/ Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard
street, cable cars
e/ the birthplace of jazz and
blues, “Mardi Gras”, Creoles
f/ J.F. Kennedy shot in 1963
g/ Mount Rushmore
h/ Ford, Chrysler, Pontiac,
Chevrolet
i/ Hollywood, Beverly Hills
j/ Everglades NP, Kennedy
Space Center, Disneyworld
k/ neon lighting and casino
gambling
1/ The US crookest street in SF
2/ The faces of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt,
Jefferson carved in rock
3/ Lying in the Mojave desert, in 1940s became
the gambling center
4/ Spacecraft is launched; Discovery, Columbia,
Atlantis, Endeavour
5/ 2.7km, opened in 1937, made of steel, 6 lanes
of vehicles and pedestrians
6/ 442 m, completed in 1973, 2nd tallest US
building, 108 stores
7/ Home to the Dolby Theatre where Oscar
awards have been given since 2002
8/ opened in 1971, 47 sq/miles, meet Mickey and
Minnie, Cinderella Castle in the Magic kingdom
9/ 8,983 km2, A supervolcano in Wyoming
(Montana/Idaho), grizzly bears, wolves, bison, elk
10/ Erupts up to 56 m, almost every 91 minutes
Choose from:
a/ Golden Gate
Bridge
b/ Las Vegas
c/ Old Faithful
Geyser
d/ Disney World
(FL)
e/ Lombard St.
f/ Cape
Canaveral
g/ Willis Tower
(Chicago)
h/ Hollywood
(LA)
i/ Mount
Rushmore
j/ Yellowstone NP
1) What desert does Las Vegas lie in?
Mojave
2) Can you name all 4 presidents carved in Mount
Rushmore?
Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt
3) How long is Golden Gate Bridge?
2.7 km
4) What superlative does Lombard street have?
The crookest
5) How many stores are there in Willis Tower?
108
6) How often does Old Faithful erupt?
Every 91 minutes
7/ When was Disney World opened?
1971
http://skola.amoskadan.cz/s_aj/ajhtm/ae/ae06.htm#INTERESTING_PLAC
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_vegas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_missions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_tower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Theatre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_World
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Faithful_Geyser