Q 01/05

Scouts sent out by Coronado became the first Europeans to see which natural wonder of the American Southwest?

A) Monument Valley

B) Grand Canyon

C) Carlsbad Caverns

D) Meteor Crater

Answer · why

B) Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon views stopped the scouts on the South Rim, where they spent three days seeking a way down before three soldiers tried the descent and gav...

Q 02/05

Coronado wrote of plains so full of which animals, which he called cows, that he never lost sight of them?

A) Bison

B) Pronghorn

C) Mule deer

D) Musk oxen

Answer · why

A) Bison

Bison awed the Spaniards: one chronicler said the plain was so level that sky showed between the animals' legs.

Q 03/05

Which Indiana Jones film opens with young Indy snatching the fictional Cross of Coronado from grave robbers?

A) Raiders of the Lost Ark

B) Temple of Doom

C) The Last Crusade

D) The Dial of Destiny

Answer · why

C) The Last Crusade

The Last Crusade dates the gift of the cross to a year when the real Coronado was a boy of about ten still living in Spain.

Q 04/05

What badly injured Coronado in New Mexico shortly before he and his men decided to abandon the expedition?

A) An arrow wound

B) A rattlesnake bite

C) An accidental crossbow shot

D) A fall from his horse

Answer · why

D) A fall from his horse

A fall from his horse gave Coronado a head injury in early 1542, and during his long recovery the expedition agreed to give up and go home.

Q 05/05

What kind of storm battered Coronado's camp on the plains, denting helmets, ripping tents and smashing the crockery?

A) A hailstorm

B) A sandstorm

C) A blizzard

D) A tornado

Answer · why

A) A hailstorm

A hailstorm blew in one afternoon with a very high wind, and the chronicler counted the army's broken gourds as no small loss.