Q 01/05

Glacier National Park is in which US state?

A) Montana

B) Wyoming

C) Idaho

D) Washington

Answer · why

A) Montana

It sits in the northwest corner of the state on the Canadian border, covering more than a million acres.

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

Rotary clubs on both sides of the border pushed the idea in 1931; the US Senate approved it in March 1932 and Canada followed that May.

Q 03/05

Which president signed the bill creating Glacier National Park on 11 May 1910?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) Woodrow Wilson

C) William Howard Taft

D) William McKinley

Answer · why

C) William Howard Taft

The Boone and Crockett Club, a conservationist and a railway president had spearheaded the bill.

Q 04/05

Who coined 'Crown of the Continent' in 1901 and spent two decades campaigning for the park?

A) John Muir

B) Louis W. Hill

C) James Willard Schultz

D) George Bird Grinnell

Answer · why

D) George Bird Grinnell

He first came in 1885 on a hunting trip guided by author James Willard Schultz; a mountain and a glacier now carry his name.

Q 05/05

How many active glaciers remained in the park by 2010, down from about 150 in the mid-1800s?

A) 50

B) 25

C) 75

D) 120

Answer · why

B) 25

Only ice fields over 25 acres count as active; scientists estimate the rest may vanish within a couple of decades if current trends hold.