NATIONAL AND STATE PARK TRIVIA - Quiz #2
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 #2. Have fun with it.
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2. What State Park includes a plaque that reads: "The Highest Wind Ever Observed by Man was Recorded in This Building"?
3. The Women's Rights National Historical Park commemorates the First Women's Rights Convention and the early leaders of the women's rights movement in the United States. In what city was the first women's rights convention held?
4. An urban state park in New York was named in honor of the death of a famous baseball player. Can you name him?
5. What national military park was the site of the largest Civil War battle ever waged in the Western Hemisphere, with more than 51,000 soldiers killed, wounded or captured?
6. What state park has the same name as a Steven Foster song, whose cousin's plantation is located in the park?
7. Can you name a national park that is 95% water? (Half credit if you can name the state where it is located.)
8. Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota features the monumental heads of what four U.S. Presidents? (Give yourself a bonus point if you can name them in order from left to right, facing them.)
9. The longest national park unit in the eastern United States spans more than 2,100 miles. Can you name it?
10. Which park includes the second highest mountain peak in the U.S. and 9 of the 16 highest peaks in the country? (A bonus point if you can name the 2nd highest mountain.)
11. Our nation's first National Military Park, established in 1890, honors the Civil War soldiers that fought for in two separate battles during a two month period. The park consists of over 8,200 acres spread across two states. Can you name either the park or the two states?
12. Where would you find the oldest operational lighthouse in the United States (okay, name the state or the lighthouse)?
13. The first permanent settlement by Europeans in the continental United States was established in 1565 by what country?
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14. Take a look at the picture to the right -- It depicts the first and only national park established to preserve the works of people, and the culture represented reflects more than 700 years of history. Can you name this southwest Colorado park?
15. The National Park Service preserves Connemara, the 245-acre farm in Flat Rock, NC, where this Pulitzer Prize-winning author and his family lived the last 22 years of his life. Name him.
Answers:
1. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
2. The Mount Washington Observatory in Mount Washington State Park (NH) recorded a wind speed of 231 mph during a storm in 1934. Actually, the weather can be brutal almost any time, with 256 inches of average annual snowfall and hurricane force winds occurring on average every third day.
3. The first Women's Rights Convention was held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY.
4. Roberto Clemente State Park, located along the Harlem River in the Bronx, was named in honor the great baseball player and humanitarian who died in a 1972 plane crash while transporting medical, food and clothing supplies to earthquake-stricken Nicaragua.
5. Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. It was also the site of President Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.
6. My Old Kentucky Home State Park.
7. Biscayne National Park in southern Florida, which protects and preserves a nationally significant marine ecosystem.
8. Built under the direction of Sculptor Gutzon Borgham in 1939, Mount Rushmore includes the granite busts of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln (from left to right, facing them).
9. The Appalachian National Scenic Trail runs from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia, traversing 14 states.
10. The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska covers 13.2 million acres, including 8.7 million acres of wilderness area. Mount St. Elias, at 18,008 feet, is the second highest peak in the U.S.
11. The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is spread across the Georgia/Tennessee border.
12. The Sandy Hook Lighthouse, part of the New Jersey Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area, was built in 1764 and is the oldest, original structure still functioning as a navigational beacon in the United States.
13. The Castillo de San Marcos served as an outpost of the Spanish Empire, protecting St. Augustine, the first permanent settlement by Europeans in the continental United States.
14. Mesa Verde National Park, established by Act of Congress in 1906.
15. The home of Carl Sandburg included a 22-room house, barns, rolling pastures and mountainside woods, trails, two small lakes, a trout pond, flower and vegetable gardens, and an orchard.
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TEST KEY: Now add up the total number of answers you got right.
12-15 - You're ready to lead a backcountry hike.
8-11 - You're ready to lead a tour of the visitor center.
4-7 - You're ready to lead a tour of the parking lot.
0-3 - You're just not ready.
