| LOUISIANA | French territory bought by the United States in 1805 for $15m (9) |
| MONTBLANC | Highest peak in Western Europe, the summit of which is in French territory (4,5) |
| CALEDONIA | French territory in the Melanesian region of the Pacific, New ... |
| HALFEAGLE | Five-dollar coin (1795-1929) thought to be the first gold coin struck by the United States Mint (4,5) |
| TRAFALGAR | Cape in the Spanish province of Cadiz, south-west Spain, where the British Admiral Lord Nelson won a major battle in 1805 (9) |
| HONESTTEA | Company reported as making President Barack Obama's preferred beverage that was bought by The Coca-Cola Company in 2011 |
| CABRIOLET | One way to travel from California to South American city over heart of Caribbean and the French Territory (9) |
| MOONROCKS | Geological samples given to more than 100 foreign heads of state by the USA in 1973, many of which are now missing |
| BIKINI | Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific used as a nuclear weapon testing site by the United States between 1946 and 1958 (6) |
| EXPLORER | Name for the first space satellite orbited by the United States, in 1958, and any of the largest series of uncrewed U.S. spacecraft, consisting of 55 scientific satellites launched between 1958 and 19 |
| BAJACALIFORNIA | Spanish name for Lower California, the peninsula of northwestern Mexico, bounded by the United States, the Gulf of California, and the Pacific Ocean. (4,10) |
| PURCHASE | Louisiana _, the 1803 acquisition of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic (8) |
| ALASKA | Land bought by the USA from Russia in 1867 (6) |
| RAPHAEL | Artist whose Madonna of the Pinks was bought by the National Gallery from the Duke of Northumberland for some £34.88 million in 2004 (7) |
| GRAMMY | Award presented by the United States Recording Academy for outstanding achievement in music (6) |
| EIGG | A small island in the Inner Hebrides bought by the community in 1997 (4) |
| TVAD | The first one, bought by the Bulova Watch Co. for $9, ran on 7/1/1941 |
| ROOSEVELTISLAND | Locale called Minnahannock by the Algonquin Indians, bought by the Dutch in 1637 |
| GARY | City in Indiana (pop about 75,000), founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906 (4) |
| TRIPOLI | City bombed by the United States in 1986 |
