Q 01/05

Denali is the highest mountain on which continent?

A) North America

B) South America

C) Asia

D) Antarctica

Answer · why

A) North America

Denali, in Alaska, is the highest peak in North America; the park and preserve around it cover more than six million acres of Interior Alaska.

Q 02/05

How high is Denali's summit, according to the 2015 survey?

A) 21,500 feet

B) 20,310 feet

C) 22,310 feet

D) 23,000 feet

Answer · why

B) 20,310 feet

The 2015 USGS survey measured Denali's summit at 20,310 feet, ten feet below the 1953 figure; its roughly 18,000-foot rise from base to summit exceeds...

Q 03/05

What name did the park carry from 1917 until 1980?

A) Alaska Range

B) Sheldon

C) Mount McKinley

D) Great One

Answer · why

C) Mount McKinley

The park opened in 1917 as Mount McKinley National Park; the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act merged it with the surrounding natio...

Q 04/05

What does 'Denali' mean in the Athabaskan language?

A) White mountain

B) Home of the sun

C) Father of storms

D) The high one

Answer · why

D) The high one

In Koyukon Athabaskan the mountain is Deenaalee, 'the high one'; Alaska's geographic names board adopted Denali in 1975, four decades before the feder...

Q 05/05

Which president directed the Interior Secretary to officially rename the mountain Denali in August 2015?

A) Bill Clinton

B) Barack Obama

C) George W. Bush

D) Jimmy Carter

Answer · why

B) Barack Obama

Barack Obama announced the change on 30 August 2015, on the eve of an Alaska visit, and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell signed the order; a January 20...