NATIONAL AND STATE PARK TRIVIA -Quiz #3
Test your knowledge of nature, history, and geography by taking a quiz on National and State Parks. Each quiz includes 15 questions, with the answers listed below. This is quiz #3. Have fun with it.
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1. What national park features Mount Desert Island, an area where more than 273 species of birds have been identified, and Cadillac Mountain, the first place in the United States where you can see the sun rise (from October 7 to March 6)?
2. Now part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, this island served as the processing center for approximately 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954 who entered the United States through the port of New York.
3. This is the only park in the National Park System to serve as a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nation's history. Can you name this southern park?
4. The National Park System includes 19 separate designations, such as national park, national seashore, national battlefield, and so on. What designation applies to the most NPS units?
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6. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is located in portions of what
two states?
7. Speaking of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, what percentage of the United States population is within a days'
driving distance of the park? (Give yourself half a point if you guess within 5%
of the actual answer.)
8. The famous American pictured below has a national historic site named in his honor in Philadelphia, where he lived from 1838-1844. Who is he?
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9. Name the city in which the following historic places, among others, form a large national historical park -- Old North Church, Old State House, Bunker Hill, Old South Meeting House, and the Paul Revere House.
10. What was the first national park established in Canada?
11. What unit of the National Park System encompasses 5 different area codes and 26 zip codes, including the notable 90210 zip code for Beverly Hills?
12. Among the parks named to honor Abraham Lincoln, one commemorates his birthplace, one commemorates where he spent 14 years of his boyhood, and one includes the only home he ever owned. Can you name the three states in which these parks are located, respectively? (Okay, take two points if you can name the states, disrespectfully.)
13. Minute Man National Historical Park commemorates the first military skirmish of the Revolutionary War, which took place on April 19, 1775. Can you name this event?
14. The Wright Brothers National Memorial commemorates the first successful airplane flights in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903. Another national park unit, located in the city where Orville was born, preserves the Wright Cycle Company, their flying school, and other attractions associated with aviation heritage. Can you name this Midwestern city?
15. Believe it or not, Castle Clinton in New York is not really the residence of the First Lady, but rather was built to serve as a fortress and later became a unit of the national park system. For which war was it built to defend New York Harbor?
Answers:
1. Acadia National Park in
Maine.
2. Ellis Island
3. Andersonville National Historic Site
in Georgia.
4. There are 77 National Historic Sites.
5. Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado.
6. North Carolina and Tennessee.
7. 50%
8. Edgar Allan Poe.
9. Boston.
10. Banff was the first national park established in Canada, and the third established in the world behind Yellowstone National Park in the United States and Royal National Park in Australia.
11. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in California.
12. Kentucky (birth), Indiana (boyhood), Illinois (only home owned).
13. The Battle of Lexington.
14. Dayton, OH
15. The War of 1812. Although fully armed and staffed, the fort never had occasion to fire upon an enemy.
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TEST KEY: Now add up the total number of answers you got right.
12-15 - You're worthy of a grizzly bear.
8-11 - You're worthy of a bighorn sheep.
4-7 - You're worthy of a gopher tortoise.
0-3 - You're worthy of a kangaroo rat.
