Q 01/05

Glacier National Park is in which US state?

A) Montana

B) Wyoming

C) Idaho

D) Washington

Answer · why

A) Montana

Montana. Despite the name, Glacier holds only about two dozen glaciers, far fewer than North Cascades National Park in Washington, which has more than...

Q 02/05

Which Canadian park joins Glacier to form the world's first International Peace Park?

A) Elk Island

B) Waterton Lakes

C) Wood Buffalo

D) Mount Revelstoke

Answer · why

B) Waterton Lakes

Waterton Lakes National Park lies just across the Canadian border. Rotary clubs on both sides campaigned to link the two parks, and in 1932 both count...

Q 03/05

Theodore Roosevelt had left office when which later president signed the bill creating Glacier National Park?

A) Woodrow Wilson

B) Warren G. Harding

C) William Howard Taft

D) Calvin Coolidge

Answer · why

C) William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft signed the bill on May 11, 1910, which makes Glacier six years older than the National Park Service, the agency created in 1916 th...

Q 04/05

Which conservationist, whose name is on one of Glacier's best-known glaciers, called the region the 'Crown of the Continent' in 1901?

A) Stephen Mather

B) Louis W. Hill

C) James Willard Schultz

D) George Bird Grinnell

Answer · why

D) George Bird Grinnell

George Bird Grinnell, editor of Forest and Stream, first came on an 1885 hunting trip, kept returning for years, and used his magazine to swing public...

Q 05/05

Which animal, often seen on the cliffs beside the Going-to-the-Sun Road, is the symbol of Glacier National Park?

A) Bighorn sheep

B) Mountain goat

C) Grizzly bear

D) Moose

Answer · why

B) Mountain goat

Mountain goat. Kids follow their mothers up near-vertical ledges within days of birth, and hooves with grippy inner pads let the goats hold slopes too...