NATIONAL AND STATE PARK TRIVIA - Quiz #4
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 #4. Have fun with it.
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2. Gulf Islands National Seashore is a park with sections located in what two states?
3. Great Sand Dunes National Monument preserves huge dunes that rise more than 700 feet against a natural barrier -- the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range. In what state would you find this park?
4. Many of the scenes of the popular television series M*A*S*H were filmed in what is now a national recreation area. Can you name it? (Hint: The entire city of Malibu is located within its boundaries.)
5. This park is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles exist side by side.
6. What is the southernmost unit of the National Park System? (Hint: it is not located in one of the 50 states.)
7. Smokey Bear Historical State Park commemorates the history of Smokey Bear as the national symbol of forest fire prevention and is the final resting place of the original Smokey, who died in 1976. In what "enchanted" state is this park located?
8. This 600,000-acre desert park in California includes more than 500 miles of dirt roads and 12 wilderness areas. It is the largest state park in the contiguous United States. It is named after Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza and the Spanish name for bighorn sheep. I can't think of any other clues to give you. Can you name this park?
9. Three thousand of these animals congregate along a stretch of the Chilkat River each fall to feed on salmon at an Alaskan state park. I realize that it might be too much to ask for the name of this park, but who are these congregating creatures?
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11. For some strange reason, 3 of the 19 national scenic and historic trails established as part of our National Trail System are also part of the National Park System. One of these three is the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail. Can you name any of the three states where this trail is located? (Bonus points if you can name two or all three states.)
12. A second trail that is part of the national park system is the famous Appalachian Trail, which passes through 14 states. Can you name the states at the northern and southern termini (there's a word you don't hear every day -- but it means "end") of the trail, and for bonus points, the mountains where these termini can be found?
13. Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial was established as a unit of the national park system to commemorate Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeating an entire British squadron during the War of 1812 at a battle on which Great Lake?
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14. Take a look at the picture to the right -- It is a national historic site and was a favorite gathering place for many prominent philosophers and artists including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Julia Ward Howe. Also, General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the newly-formed Continental Army, headquartered and planned the Siege of Boston here between July, 1775 and April, 1776. What famous American poet and scholar lived in this home for nearly half a century?
15. This Pennsylvania national memorial park commemorates one of the worst disasters in US history. For two points, can you name the event and the organization that gained prominence as a result of their work there?
Answers:
1. Maggie L. Walker
2. Florida and Mississippi.
3. Colorado
4. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in California.
6. National Park of American Samoa
7. New Mexico
8. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
9. Bald Eagles, and they congregate at the aptly named Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. Now be honest -- when you saw "salmon, " how many of you thought the answer had to be some kind of bear?
10. A Joshua Tree.
11. Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
12. The Appalachian NST spans 2,158 miles from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain, Georgia
13. Lake Erie
14. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- the building is known as the Longfellow House.
15. The Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, killed more than 2,200 people. And
this was to be the first major disaster relief effort for the American Red
Cross.
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TEST KEY: Now add up the total number of answers you got right.
12-15 - You're smart enough to explain why February had 29 days in the
year 2000.
8-11 - You can probably pick out the United States and Canada on a world
map.
4-7 - You can probably pick out the United States on a world map, but
Canada gives you trouble.
0-3 - You have aspirations to go into politics.