USA Trivia Gap Filling

Fill the gaps by choosing the correct word. There are fifteen words but only twelve gaps.

Of the fifty states in the United States, the largest is Alaska and the (1) ___________ is Rhode Island. California has the biggest population (37 million); Wyoming has the smallest (550,000). The total US population is about 310 million.

(2) ___________ in the United States consume more (3) ___________ per head than in any other country.

Barack Obama is, of course, the first black president of the United States. He is in one of the two (4) ___________ political parties in the US, the Democratic Party. The
(5) ___________ he beat to become the party’s candidate in 2008, Hillary Clinton, is now the US Secretary of State (or foreign minister, as (6) ___________ would be called in many countries).

Many of the most (7) ___________ singers and groups in the history of pop music have been American. The biggest-selling (8) ___________ solo artist, for example, is Elvis Presley (or Michael Jackson, according to some statistics) and the biggest-selling female solo artist is Madonna.

There are around 1.5 million people in the US (9) ___________ (army, navy and air force), and more than 350,000 of them are (10) ___________ the US. In fact, there are US military personnel in about 150 countries (although in most of these countries there are fewer than 1,000 of them).

The most popular spectator sports in the US are baseball, basketball and American football. (11) ___________ Americans watch football (or soccer, as the Americans call it) but a lot of them play it, and quite a high percentage of players are female. In fact, the US women’s soccer team is (12) ___________ one in the world ranking and won the gold medal in both the last two Olympic Games.