Q 01/05

Biscayne National Park is in which US state?

A) Florida

B) Georgia

C) Texas

D) California

Answer · why

A) Florida

Florida. The park, at the top of the Keys, was created in 1968 after plans to link its wild islands by causeway and line them with hotels set off a co...

Q 02/05

Roughly what share of Biscayne National Park, mostly bay and ocean, is dry land?

A) About 1 percent

B) About 5 percent

C) About 25 percent

D) About 75 percent

Answer · why

B) About 5 percent

About 5 percent. The park was drawn to protect a bay and the sea beyond its islands, so the islands and the mainland fringe come to only some 9,000 of...

Q 03/05

What did Israel Jones, a farmer on Biscayne's Porgy Key, name the elder brother of his son Sir Lancelot?

A) Sir Galahad

B) Merlin

C) King Arthur

D) Sir Percival

Answer · why

C) King Arthur

King Arthur. King Arthur Lafayette Jones was born in 1897 and Sir Lancelot Garfield Jones the next year; the brothers ran the family groves, then spen...

Q 04/05

Whose Overseas Railroad, finished in 1912, bypassed Biscayne's keys and left them without a road or rail link?

A) Henry Plant

B) Cornelius Vanderbilt

C) Henry Flagler

D) Jay Gould

Answer · why

C) Henry Flagler

Henry Flagler. His line left the mainland south of Elliott Key, so the islands above it stayed roadless and wild while the rest of the chain opened up...

Q 05/05

Which venomous Indo-Pacific fish, an invader with few natural predators, has spread through Biscayne's waters since about 2010?

A) Stonefish

B) Snakehead

C) Rabbitfish

D) Lionfish

Answer · why

D) Lionfish

Lionfish. A popular story blames home aquariums smashed by a 1992 hurricane, but one was caught off the coast as early as 1985; pets dumped by their o...