America's Greatest Hits

Celebrate this Fourth of July with our festive tribute to hit movies, music, and more featuring America.

15 questions · Published June 20, 2023

Trivia questions (5 of 15)

Multiple Choice
1. What American author wrote the classic 1854 transcendentalist book "Walden"?
Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days living in a self-made cabin on the banks of Walden Pond in Massachusetts, recounted in his 1854 book "Walden."
Multiple Choice
2. What radio personality has hosted the public radio program "This American Life" since 1995?
FUN FACT
Ira Glass created "This American Life"—first titled "Your Radio Playhouse"—in 1995 with a $150,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Multiple Choice
3. Who was the first American astronaut to travel into space?
FUN FACT
Alan Shepard became the oldest person to walk on the moon at age 47 in 1971, ten years after becoming the first American in space.
Drag and Drop Reorder
4. Play these patriotic pop songs in chronological order.
- 1.Party in the U.S.A.
- 2.American Idiot
- 3.American Girl
- 4.Born in the U.S.A.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "American Girl" (1977)
Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the U.S.A." (1984)
Green Day - "American Idiot" (2004)
Miley Cyrus - "Party in the U.S.A." (2009)
Multiple Choice
5. Which of these songs is NOT by harmonic folk rock group America?
1969's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," off the self-tilted debut from Crosby, Stills & Nash, peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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