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U.S. General Knowledge #4

Can you answer these random questions with an American focus?
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First submittedApril 1, 2015
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What is the #1 cash crop of the state of Washington?
Apples
What President's middle name was simply "S"?
Harry S. Truman
What teenage doctor was portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris?
Doogie Howser
What is the highest medal awarded by the U.S. military?
Medal of Honor
What are Big Bend, Acadia, and Joshua Tree?
National Parks
What are typically due on April 15?
Tax Returns
Which TV show starred James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, and Jamie-Lynn Sigler?
The Sopranos
Complete the analogy. Sooner is to Oklahoma as _______ is to Indiana.
Hoosier
What famous billionaire investor lives in Omaha, Nebraska?
Warren Buffett
Who is a former Mayor of Cincinnati, host of a trashy TV show, and the subject of an opera?
Jerry Springer
What city is home to the flagship campus of the University of California?
Berkeley
What is the best-selling band whose name is a U.S. state?
Alabama
Who was the main subject of "The Starr Report", published in 1998?
Bill Clinton
Who leads a marching band?
A drum major
What Southern city is often called the most polite city in the U.S.?
Charleston
What TV show was created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker?
South Park
What dialect did the Oakland school district once propose teaching classes in?
Ebonics
What type of horses are prominently featured in Budweiser advertisements?
Clydesdale
In what city would you find the headquarters of Amazon.com?
Seattle
What country was exchange student Amanda Knox living in when she was
accused of murdering her roommate?
Italy
cappa1
+14
Level 74
May 4, 2015
Could you also accept "Kansas" as a best selling band whose name is a US state?
CliveDexter
+11
Level 75
Jul 1, 2015
"A" and "the" are not the same.
durstand
+2
Level 66
Jul 1, 2015
The question asks for *the* best-selling band, not *a* best-selling band. I guessed Kansas, too, but Alabama has sold more records.
Bonzo65
+4
Level 70
Jul 1, 2015
Also 'Texas' should be included. Granted they have only sold half what Alabam has, but they've not been around as long. Plus, they're Scottish, not Country, have a kick-ass lead singer and I've heard of them.
LarryLovage
+6
Level 55
Jul 3, 2015
How is it I've heard of Texas, who have sold half as many records as Alabama, whom I've never heard of?

I actually got it only as a joke, because I know the Neil Young song Alabama. I also typed in Massachusetts before remembering that that's not a band, it's a BeeGees song.

DagnumMong
+4
Level 67
May 12, 2022
Suppose Alabama are extremely popular with the album-buying american country music fandom, and not very popular outside of it.

Analogous to how Garth Brooks is counted among the top 20 best-selling musical acts of all time, despite being relatively unknown outside of the United States.

nerdalert
+9
Level 85
Apr 28, 2022
Flo-rida?
walterwhite
+2
Level 45
Jul 1, 2015
Berkley? for Berkeley
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jul 1, 2015
That will work now.
MassLumpBlockClod
+1
Level 83
Sep 20, 2015
"income tax" ought to be accepted
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 18, 2016
Okay
Whuskey
+2
Level 58
Dec 12, 2015
You should accept "That's My Bush!" for a TV show created by Parker and Stone
KirstenB
+3
Level 65
Feb 14, 2022
"What is the best-selling band whose name is a U.S. state?"

That HAS to be Kansas.

joeythelemur
+3
Level 84
Feb 15, 2022
Career record sales:

Kansas - 15.5M

Alabama - 75M

beorming
+2
Level 77
May 12, 2022
And Texas - 40m
Neil
+1
Level 60
May 12, 2022
This isn't a general knowledge quiz, it is a general quiz about the USA.
wtstoudt
+8
Level 79
May 12, 2022
Hence the name "US General Knowledge"
Pearl2270
+2
Level 79
May 13, 2022
This is why it's important to read quiz titles and instructions lol
stylus
+7
Level 76
May 12, 2022
disappointed the marching band wasn't led by A flat major
Newroadgirl
+2
Level 68
May 12, 2022
Only if he stopped unexpectedly.
Cincinnatus
+4
Level 73
May 12, 2022
I always heard that Savannah was the nicest city in the South, but Charleston was my follow up guess
Pookminstamum
+1
Level 65
Apr 27, 2023
It still is
JCheroko
+3
Level 35
May 12, 2022
Ulysses S Grant?
Cordelia75
+4
Level 56
May 12, 2022
Grant’s name at birth (or soon after) was Hiram Ulysses Grant. The S in Ulysses S Grant was given as a mistake when his appointment to West Point was entered as U. S. Grant. Grant preferred those initials to his real one of HUG and didn’t correct it. Like the S in Truman’s name, it doesn’t stand for anything. Simpson was a family name and some sites say erroneously the S stands for Simpson.
tshalla
+3
Level 75
May 12, 2022
Unlike Homer J. Simpson, whose middle name is Jay.
willmowill
+5
Level 80
May 12, 2022
Technically there's no period after the S in Harry S Truman since it doesn't stand for anything.
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 55
Apr 18, 2024
Well the simple fact is that the S is entirely spurious so the presence or absence of a period makes no difference at all.

However in order to add plausibility to the letter's function, which is to give the impression that Truman possessed a middle name, then of course it must be written with a period. Leaving it out rather gives the game away.

In any case all the official uses of his name write it as 'S.' viz the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library for example.

OddestEver
+2
Level 46
May 12, 2022
Given its long history of racism, I don't think Charleston is considered the most polite city in the U.S. by everybody.
Diiiiabloo
+1
Level 31
May 13, 2022
Southern city of what? The Americas? The USA? Seattle?
vermiciousknid
+3
Level 88
Jun 10, 2022
The question asks "What Southern city is often called the most polite city in the U.S.?", so obviously the city would be in the USA. Also, this quiz is titled U.S. General Knowledge #4.

As for the "Southern city" part, the capital S in Southern implies a reference to the US region known as the South, but I suppose that might not be apparent to someone not from here.

ABomb
+3
Level 77
Sep 18, 2022
It's not exactly correct that the Oakland school district "once proposed teaching classes in" Ebonics. This was the way the story was told in the media at the time, and this led to a lot of controversy. What was actually proposed was that Oakland teachers recognize that many of their students spoke African-American Vernacular English day-to-day so they could develop a deeper understanding of this dialect then use this deeper understanding to help their students learn standard English. People assumed that kids were going to be taught how to talk "black" in school and went a little crazy. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_English.
Pookminstamum
+1
Level 65
Apr 27, 2023
Jerry Springer just passed today.

BBC has some good, casual interviews with him about being a Tube baby, and visiting his hometown. He talked with a former neighbor while waiting to see his old bus by East Finchey, UK. He was bright, interesting, and a good mayor and judge.

He lost many relatives to the camps, and was meditative about how a life pans out.

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