Americana

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Memorize these and recognize 14.4% of all Americana clues.

1 E pluribus unum 7x

2 Paul Bunyan 6x

3 John Henry 6x

4 the Statue of Liberty 6x

5 a buffalo 6x

6 Virginia 5x

7 the Liberty Bell 5x

8 Pecos Bill 5x

9 Mike Fink 5x

10 Mexico 5x

11 Greece 5x

12 Georgia 5x

13 In God We Trust 5x

14 Texas 4x

15 red 4x

16 Pennsylvania 4x

17 Oklahoma 4x

18 Mount Rushmore 4x

19 Hawaii 4x

20 Edison 4x

21 China 4x

22 Daniel Webster 4x

23 the Mercury dime 4x

24 Vermont 3x

25 the penny 3x

26 the King Ranch 3x

27 South Africa 3x

28 Oregon 3x

29 Ohio 3x

30 New Jersey 3x

31 Monticello 3x

32 McDonald's 3x

33 Martha Washington 3x

34 Isabella 3x

35 Idaho 3x

36 Francis Scott Key 3x

37 Davy Crockett 3x

38 Christopher Columbus 3x

39 Casey Jones 3x

40 Carson City 3x

41 Boston 3x

42 Austria 3x

43 Australia 3x

44 Annie Oakley 3x

45 Albany 3x

46 13 3x

47 Maine 3x

48 dimes 3x

49 World War I 2x

50 Washington, D.C. 2x

Sample Clues

$1 bill: A scroll in the eagle's mouth with this Latin motto

E pluribus unum

Among this lumberjack's impressive achievements was digging Puget Sound

Paul Bunyan

With his 20-pound hammers, he won a hole drillin' contest against a man with a steam-powered drill

John Henry

Architect Richard Morris Hunt put this 111' lady on a pedestal (that he designed from 1882 to 1884)

the Statue of Liberty

Due to a minting error, this beast appears to have just 3 legs on some 1937 nickels

a buffalo

Sub-Areas

Other 920

the buffalo (7) Paul Bunyan (6) John Henry (6) Georgia (6) E pluribus unum (6) Mike Fink (5) Pecos Bill (5) Pennsylvania (5) Virginia (5) Mexico (5)

Revolutionary Era 37

the Statue of Liberty (6) the Liberty Bell (5) Mercury dimes (3) the Mercury dime (2) liberty (2) 1976 (or 1776) (1) law (1) Illinois (1) Princeton (1) millionaire (1)

Colonial / Exploration 27

Christopher Columbus (4) (Peter) Stuyvesant (2) John Alden (1) 1620 (1) John & Priscilla Alden (1) Plymouth Rock (1) Vancouver (1) Coolidge (1) George II (1) Great Falls (1)

Ancient 23

Greece (5) Athens (2) Croesus (2) Nome (1) Newport (1) Brutus (1) the owl (1) Crete (The Labyrinth, where the Minotaur lives) (1) a numismatist (1) India (1)

World War I 9

World War I (2) I Want You (1) Houdini (1) Poland (1) one billion (1) Austria (1) World War II (1) the Netherlands (1)

Civil War 8

Juneteenth (1) Gettysburg (1) Memorial Day (1) In God We Trust (1) John Brown (1) Martha Washington (1) goober peas (or goobers) (1) Vicksburg (Mississippi) (1)

Medieval 7

Billy Graham (1) Spielberg (1) Teddy Kennedy (1) the invasion of Normandy (D-Day) (1) jousting (1) (William Randolph) Hearst (1) Denmark (1)

World War II 3

Churchill (2) the Arizona (1)

Cold War 1

the ruble (1)

Modern (post-1990) 1

Hope (1)