Published: 13. 4. 2026.
As the main civilian intelligence agency of the United States, the CIA gathers information tied to defense and state security. In which American state is its headquarters situated?
Virginia
Terms: |USA|
Published: 9. 4. 2026.
Nearly every U.S. state has a nickname of its own, and one of them is famously called the Silver State. Which state is being referred to?
Nevada
Terms: |Statuary| |USA|
Published: 1. 4. 2026.
The answer sought here is the American sculptor whose artistic career was dedicated above all to kinetic art. He is most famous as the creator of the mobile, delicately balanced constructions whose whole form, or individual elements, move when stirred by air. In addition, he produced large abstract works known as stabiles and also made wire figures, particularly in his early piece Miniature Circus. Who was he?
Alexander Calder
Terms: |USA|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Which President of the United States remains the only one never to have married, and is widely remembered for presiding over the deepening national crisis immediately before the Civil War?
James Buchanan
Terms: |USA|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
What was the name of the enslaved man who, after the death of his owner and after having lived in free territories where he married and had children, brought a lawsuit seeking recognition as a free person — a case that led to what is often regarded as the worst decision in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the Constitution did not extend citizenship to people of Black African descent?
Dred Scott
Terms: |Florida| |Key West| |USA|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
In whose house in Key West, Florida — today a museum — does a large population of cats still live, about half of them polydactyl, meaning that they have more toes on their paws than usual, like their ancestor Snow White?
Ernest Hemingway
Terms: |Portland| |Salem| |USA|
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Which U.S. state, located in the Pacific Northwest, has Salem as its capital and Portland as its largest city?
Oregon
Terms: |USA|
Published: 26. 3. 2026.
In American currency 10 cents make a what?
Dime