This week's quiz answers are the names of states, or future states, where an event or famed feature can be found or where it occurred.

1. Plymouth Rock is the unproven site at which traditional colonists are sometimes stated to have come ashore in the early colony. Name the current state in which this occurred.

2. Where is that mile-deep, miles-long, miles-wide epic known as the Grand Canyon?

3. Mount Rushmore is the site of immortal carvings of four U.S. presidents into the side of a mountain. In what state can you visit these gigantic artworks?

4. Name the four U.S. presidents carved into Mount Rushmore. For Bragging Rights, name the sculptor who carved those chief executives' images.

5. In which state can you visit the sunken ship USS Arizona Memorial?

6. In what future state did the first gold rush in America occur?

7. In what state can you visit the 14,110 feet mountain Pike's Peak?

8. In what state can you visit the display of American Family Immigration History in the archives on Ellis Island?

9. In what state can you visit the famed Liberty Bell in a national park?

10. One of the most famous battles in American history took place before the point was part of the United States. In what future state was the Alamo?

Answers

1. Plymouth Rock is in what is now Massachusetts.

2. Head for Arizona to see the Grand Canyon.

3. Mount Rushmore is easily seen in South Dakota.

4. The images of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt were carved into that mountain under the gifted hands of Gutzon Borglum.

5. The USS Arizona can be found underwater at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, a victim of the aerial assault that brought the U.S. into World War II.

6. The first gold rush in America took place in what would some day be Georgia.

7. Take a trip to Colorado and you can visit that beautiful crest.

8. In 1998 Ellis Island was officially declared by the Supreme Court to be 90 percent in New Jersey with only 10 percent in New York.

9. The Liberty Bell is in a national park in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

10. The assault on the Alamo was in what would become the state of Texas.

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