Q 01/05

Besides Mount Desert Island, Acadia takes in most of which island Champlain named for its height?

A) Isle au Haut

B) Deer Isle

C) Vinalhaven

D) Swans Island

Answer · why

A) Isle au Haut

It also owns the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula and parts of sixteen smaller islands.

Q 02/05

Roughly how high is Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the US Atlantic coast?

A) 500 feet

B) 1,500 feet

C) 4,500 feet

D) 13,500 feet

Answer · why

B) 1,500 feet

Only about 1,500 feet up, Cadillac's summit still grows fragile sub-alpine plants, and visitors have trampled them so badly that areas are roped off w...

Q 03/05

Cadillac Mountain is the first place in the US to see the sunrise only during which part of the year?

A) Spring and summer

B) Fall and winter

C) Summer only

D) All year round

Answer · why

B) Fall and winter

Fall and winter, from October 7 to March 6, are when the low sun reaches Cadillac first, so the big summer dawn crowds are chasing a title the summit ...

Q 04/05

Which king ruled France when Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac received Mount Desert Island as a land grant in 1688?

A) Louis XV

B) Henry IV

C) Louis XIII

D) Louis XIV

Answer · why

D) Louis XIV

Louis XIV was on the throne; Cadillac and his bride soon abandoned their feudal estate, and he later won lasting fame as the founder of Detroit.

Q 05/05

Before it took the name of a French adventurer, Cadillac Mountain was known as what?

A) Green

B) Pemetic

C) Sargent

D) Dorr

Answer · why

A) Green

Green Mountain was the name 19th-century tourists knew, when a cogwheel train hauled them up its slopes.