Q 01/05

Great Basin National Park sits in eastern Nevada near the border with which neighbouring state?

A) Idaho

B) Utah

C) Arizona

D) California

Answer · why

B) Utah

It is about 290 miles north of the state's biggest city and is entered from the east side of the range.

Q 02/05

In which year was Great Basin National Park established?

A) 1964

B) 1972

C) 1979

D) 1986

Answer · why

D) 1986

Congressman Harry Reid pushed the bill through; the park absorbed the much older Lehman Caves National Monument.

Q 03/05

Which president proclaimed Lehman Caves National Monument in January 1922?

A) Calvin Coolidge

B) Woodrow Wilson

C) Warren G. Harding

D) William Howard Taft

Answer · why

C) Warren G. Harding

A highway association director from Tonopah and a Nevada senator had lobbied for the designation once Highway 50 brought motorists nearby.

Q 04/05

What is the small gateway town at the park's entrance, home to the Great Basin visitor center?

A) Ely

B) Baker

C) Pioche

D) Eureka

Answer · why

B) Baker

It sits on State Route 487; the Lehman Caves visitor center is 5.5 miles up the road, half a mile inside the park.

Q 05/05

The Great Basin is the largest area in North America of what kind of watershed?

A) Karst, draining underground to the sea

B) Tidal, flooded twice daily

C) Glacial, fed only by ice melt

D) Endorheic, with no outlet to the ocean

Answer · why

D) Endorheic, with no outlet to the ocean

Every drop of rain that falls in the region evaporates, sinks underground or ends in a salty lake, as the explorer who named the region first recognis...