Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Smokey Bear, created in 1944, has spent the last 80-plus years warning Americans about what danger of __________.
FUN FACT
Smokey was invented by the Forest Service in 1944 as a wartime fire-prevention mascot, back when officials worried that a careless blaze could burn timber the war effort needed.
One thing almost everyone gets wrong: it's Smokey Bear, not “Smokey the Bear.” The “the” got wedged in by a popular 1952 song that needed an extra beat, and it never left.
- Multiple Choice
2. In which California national park is the famous Half Dome cable route, where climbers haul themselves up a granite face using steel cables?
The last 400 feet of Half Dome, at Yosemite National Park, are so steep that the only thing between hikers and a slick granite slope is a pair of steel cables and a set of wooden footboards. Several people have fallen to their deaths on that stretch, and the round trip is a 14 to 16 mile day.
Demand got so intense that the Park Service now requires a permit to go up the cables, awarded by lottery.
- Multiple Choice
3. In what state is Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, home to the highest-altitude desert environment in North America?
The Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve sits in southern Colorado against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, which is exactly why they exist: wind carries sand across the valley floor, hits the mountain wall, and drops it. The result is the tallest dune field in North America. The biggest rise is around 750 feet.
- Multiple Choice
4. Established in 2020, what is the West Virginia park that is the newest national park in the country?
The New River Gorge National Park is the 63rd overall and newest national park. Despite the name, the New River is thought to be one of the oldest rivers on the continent. It got “new” from European settlers who found it on a map where no river was expected.
- Multiple Choice
5. Which Utah national park is home to Angel's Landing, a knife-edge trail where hikers cling to chains bolted into the rock?
The final half-mile of Angel's Landing runs along a fin of rock in Zion National Park with drop-offs on both sides, and at least 17 people have died from falls there.
Zion now runs a permit lottery for the chain section, largely to keep hikers from queuing up in the most exposed spot on the trail.
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