Capitals - State & Country

As the southernmost capital city in the Americas, Montevideo has pleasant weather year-round, and it is ranked first for quality of life in Latin America. What country is it located in?

• It is the capital of Argentina

• It is the capital of Brazil

• It is the capital of Uruguay

• It is the capital of Chile

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The capital city of Ecuador boasts “Mitad del Mundo,” or “Middle of the World,”

a complex built in honor of the first real attempt to determine the shape of the earth in 1743. Name this city:

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The capital of South Carolina is the first city in the US named for Christopher Columbus. The name won over the other popular option, Washington.

• Atlanta

• Raleigh

• Columbia

• Montgomery

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The capital of North Carolina is nicknamed the “City of Oaks” for its sheer number of majestic oak trees which line the streets. The area is also nicknamed “The Triangle”. 

• Columbia

• Charleston

• Raleigh

• Durham

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According to legend, Kentucky’s capital city was named after a crossing ford in the Kentucky River where early pioneer Stephen Frank was killed by American Indians in the 1780s. Originally called Frank’s Ford, the capital’s name later evolved into what it is today.

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In the capital city of Georgia, there are over 70 drives, avenues, and lanes with a variation of the word “Peachtree” in their name. However, there aren’t really any peach trees. Many historians believe “Peachtree” is a corruption of “pitch tree,” an 18th century local term for a pine tree. This city is surrounded by pine tree forests. ‍

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1.  The name for Florida's capital city comes from a Muskogean Indian word, which means “Old Fields” or “Old Towns”. This city also boasts Florida’s most educated population with over half of the residents having a bachelor’s degree or higher.

• Sacramento

• Olympia

• 1. Tallahassee

• Orlando

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• The capitol of Tennessee was named after American Revolutionary war hero Francis Nash. It was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Overmountain Men on Christmas Eve 1779.

• President Richard Nixon performed on the Grand Ole Opry here during its first show at the new Opry House in 1974. He played “God Bless America” on the piano.

• Also, blind Vanderbilt University student Morris Frank traveled overseas to investigate the use of seeing-eye dogs. He brought the first service dog back to the U.S. in 1928 and founded The Seeing Eye, Inc. in this city.

________, the capital of Virginia, is among America’s oldest major cities. Patrick Henry, a U.S. Founding Father, famously declared “Give me liberty or give me death” at its St. John's Church in 1775, leading to the Revolutionary War. The White House of the Confederacy, home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the Civil War, is now a museum in Court End, a neighborhood known for Federal-style mansions.

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What is the capital of West Virginia?

• Jackson

• Concord

• Charleston

• Fort Lee