Q 01/05

Congaree National Park is in which US state?

A) South Carolina

B) North Carolina

C) Georgia

D) Louisiana

Answer · why

A) South Carolina

It lies in the Midlands about 18 miles southeast of the state capital.

Q 02/05

What does the park preserve that exists nowhere else in the United States on the same scale?

A) The largest freshwater marsh

B) The largest tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest

C) The oldest longleaf pine savanna

D) The largest cypress plantation

Answer · why

B) The largest tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest

Logging and farming left only scattered remnants of a forest type that once blanketed the Southeast.

Q 03/05

Which state capital lies about 18 miles northwest of the park?

A) Charleston

B) Raleigh

C) Columbia

D) Atlanta

Answer · why

C) Columbia

The Congaree River itself begins in that city where the Saluda and Broad rivers meet near the Fall Line.

Q 04/05

In which year did Congress redesignate the monument as Congaree National Park?

A) 1976

B) 1988

C) 2011

D) 2003

Answer · why

D) 2003

The act dropped the misleading word 'swamp' from the name and added about 4,576 acres to the authorised boundary.

Q 05/05

What was the area called when it was first federally protected in October 1976?

A) Beidler Forest National Preserve

B) Congaree Swamp National Monument

C) Congaree Bottomland National Reserve

D) Santee Cypress National Monument

Answer · why

B) Congaree Swamp National Monument

Two senators introduced the legislation in 1975 after renewed logging in 1969 spurred a grassroots campaign.