Summer Travel JR

Originally part of the province of Coahuila (flag shown here), this state created a flag with a single star to represent its independence as new country.

• Texas

• Tennessee

• Louisiana

• New Mexico

• Arizona

Nearly 25% of this state's residents claim to be of Irish descent which is the highest proportion in the nation and is home to the first university in the US (1636).

• Massachusetts

• Illinois

• New York

• Pennsylvania

• Virginia

This state has the only diamond mine in the US, and whose city, of Hot Springs, was the trendy vacation spot of mobsters and is now its most tourist spot and is home to the very first Walmart.

• Arkansas

• Missouri

• Kentucky

• Pennsylvania

This state is the only state whose full eastern and western borders are rivers and features the world's oldest, largest, and longest recreational bicycle touring event which starts at the Missouri and ends near the Mississippi.

• Nebraska

• Iowa

• South Dakota

• Missouri

• Arkansas

This state was the first official state because it was the first to ratify the Constitution, is always at the front of all Presidential parades, and is home to the headquarters of DuPont.

• North Carolina

• Virginia

• Delaware

• New Hampshire

Which of the following lists includes all five boroughs of New York City?

• Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Harlem, Brooklyn

• Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island

• Manhattan, Bronx, Albany, Queens, Brooklyn

• Queens, Brooklyn, Yonkers, Staten Island, Manhattan

This state includes Crater Lake (deepest in the country), is the nation's leader in timber, and is the destination of the Lewis & Clark expedition.

• Alaska

• Washington

• California

• Oregon

• Montana

This state has more bridges that another other state, whose Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest in the world, whose divisions are known as parishes rather than counties, and whose term Cajun refers to Acadia, the homeland of many of its early citizens.

• Louisiana

• South Carolina

• Illinois

• Florida

Known for its Southwestern cuisine, the third largest art market, home of Billy the Kid, site for the building of the atomic bomb during WWII and features the most famous UFO crash.

• Arizona

• New Mexico

• Colorado

• Nevada

• California

This state whose name derives from the French words for Green Mountains, supplies the granite for every headstone of Arlington Nat. Cemetery and is the #1 producer of maple syrup.

• New Hampshire

• Vermont

• Massachusetts

• Rhode Island

• Pennsylvania