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

How tall is Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the US Atlantic coast?

A) 980 feet

B) 1,530 feet

C) 3,100 feet

D) 2,530 feet

Answer · why

B) 1,530 feet

The park's lowest named summit, Flying Mountain, is just 284 feet.

Q 03/05

Between which dates is Cadillac Mountain the first place in the US to see the sunrise?

A) March 7 to October 6

B) June 21 to September 21

C) October 7 to March 6

D) All year round

Answer · why

C) October 7 to March 6

Its height and eastern position give it the edge only in the darker half of the year.

Q 04/05

Which king granted Mount Desert Island to Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac in 1688?

A) Louis XV

B) Henry IV

C) Louis XIII

D) Louis XIV

Answer · why

D) Louis XIV

The island passed to Britain in 1713 under the Peace of Utrecht; his granddaughter Mme de Gregoire got the eastern half back in 1790.

Q 05/05

Before it was renamed for Cadillac in 1918, the mountain was known as what?

A) Green

B) Pemetic

C) Sargent

D) Dorr

Answer · why

A) Green

The Wabanaki are thought to have called it Wapuwoc, 'white mountain of the first light'.