Q 01/05

Which sky phenomenon is visible near Fairbanks more than 200 days a year, but never on bright midsummer nights?

A) Noctilucent clouds

B) Aurora borealis

C) Zodiacal light

D) Light pillars

Answer · why

B) Aurora borealis

Aurora borealis displays are reliable enough that Fairbanks builds its winter tourism around them. In June and July the sky never gets dark enough to ...

Q 02/05

On which day each year does a Fairbanks baseball game start at 10:30 at night and finish without artificial lights?

A) Independence Day

B) Memorial Day

C) Alaska Day

D) Summer solstice

Answer · why

D) Summer solstice

Summer solstice brings Fairbanks almost 22 hours of direct sun, so the Midnight Sun Game can end at about half past one in the morning by natural ligh...

Q 03/05

In World War II, pilots from which Allied nation collected nearly 8,000 American warplanes at Ladd Field in Fairbanks?

A) Soviet Union

B) Great Britain

C) Free France

D) Nationalist China

Answer · why

A) Soviet Union

Soviet Union airmen took over Lend-Lease fighters and bombers at Ladd Field, then flew them to Nome and on across Siberia to the Eastern Front. The ba...

Q 04/05

Developers renamed a homestead near Fairbanks 'North Pole' in 1952 hoping to attract which kind of business?

A) A ski resort

B) A film studio

C) A toy maker

D) A reindeer ranch

Answer · why

C) A toy maker

A toy maker was the dream of the developers, whose Christmas theme stuck: the city has Santa Claus Lane and candy-cane street lights. Hundreds of thou...

Q 05/05

The University of Alaska Fairbanks teams are the Nanooks, a name taken from the Inupiaq word for which animal?

A) Polar bear

B) Snowy owl

C) Bowhead whale

D) Wolverine

Answer · why

A) Polar bear

Polar bear is the meaning of nanuq, and in Inuit tradition Nanook was the master of bears who decided whether a hunter deserved success. Men's hockey ...