Q 01/05

Roughly what share of the original Everglades does the national park protect?

A) About 20 percent

B) About 90 percent

C) About 50 percent

D) About 5 percent

Answer · why

A) About 20 percent

The park is nonetheless the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the biggest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi.

Q 02/05

The Everglades are fed by a very slow river flowing out of which body of water?

A) Lake George

B) Lake Okeechobee

C) Lake Kissimmee

D) Lake Apopka

Answer · why

B) Lake Okeechobee

The sheet of water moves about a quarter of a mile a day and can be 40 to 70 miles wide on its way to Florida Bay.

Q 03/05

Whose 1947 book gave the Everglades the nickname 'River of Grass'?

A) Rachel Louise Carson

B) Ernest Francis Coe

C) Marjory Stoneman Douglas

D) John Pennekamp

Answer · why

C) Marjory Stoneman Douglas

She published it a month before the park was dedicated, campaigned for the Everglades until her death at 108, and has been called the 'Grande Dame of ...

Q 04/05

What made Everglades unusual among national parks when it was established?

A) It was the first park east of the Mississippi

B) It was the first paid for entirely by one state

C) It was the first with no roads at all

D) It was the first to protect an ecosystem, not scenery

Answer · why

D) It was the first to protect an ecosystem, not scenery

Earlier parks preserved mountains, geysers and canyons; persuading people that a shifting wetland deserved the same status took decades.

Q 05/05

Which president dedicated Everglades National Park on 6 December 1947?

A) Franklin D. Roosevelt

B) Harry Truman

C) Dwight Eisenhower

D) Herbert Hoover

Answer · why

B) Harry Truman

Congress had authorised it in 1934 with a rider banning any spending for five years; Senator Spessard Holland and editor John Pennekamp helped raise t...