Q 01/05

Grand Teton National Park is in the northwest corner of which US state?

A) Wyoming

B) Montana

C) Idaho

D) Colorado

Answer · why

A) Wyoming

Wyoming. Local ranchers fought the park's growth so hard that the law which finally completed it also barred presidents from creating any new national...

Q 02/05

After Jackson, at the foot of the Tetons, elected an all-woman council in 1920, Pearl Williams took which job?

A) Mayor

B) Town marshal

C) Town clerk

D) Town treasurer

Answer · why

B) Town marshal

Town marshal. The whole women's ticket had won, one candidate beating her own husband, and the new council also named women as town clerk and treasure...

Q 03/05

On the old dude ranches of Jackson Hole, now inside Grand Teton National Park, who were the 'dudes'?

A) The hired cowhands

B) Paying city guests

C) The ranch owners

D) Local hunting guides

Answer · why

B) Paying city guests

Paying city guests. Hard times helped start the trade: after the killing winter of 1886-87 cut deep into their herds, ranchers such as the Eaton broth...

Q 04/05

French-speaking trappers called the Teton Range's three great peaks les trois tétons, which translates as what?

A) The three teeth

B) The three breasts

C) The three towers

D) The three tents

Answer · why

B) The three breasts

The three breasts. An earlier party, which had steered by the same summits for days, named them the Pilot Knobs, but it was the trappers' earthier nam...

Q 05/05

Which president signed the act creating Grand Teton National Park on February 26, 1929?

A) Calvin Coolidge

B) Herbert Hoover

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Warren G. Harding

Answer · why

A) Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge. He signed in his last week in office; after pushback from the valley's ranchers, the new park took in only the Teton peaks and the la...