Q 01/05

Most Americans can no longer see which sight from home, one that Great Basin's dark skies still show clearly?

A) The Milky Way

B) The North Star

C) The Big Dipper

D) The planet Venus

Answer · why

A) The Milky Way

The Milky Way. The glow of towns and cities washes it out for most people, but the park lies hours from any big city, so even the Andromeda Galaxy sho...

Q 02/05

The 1986 law creating Great Basin National Park kept which activity going?

A) Hunting

B) Grazing

C) Logging

D) Trapping

Answer · why

B) Grazing

Grazing. Nevada's senators took the cattlemen's side, so the act said grazing 'shall' continue at its 1985 level, and cattle roamed the park for years...

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

Warren G. Harding signed the proclamation on January 24, 1922. The campaign was led by C.C. Boak, a Tonopah mining broker and booster of the new Highw...

Q 04/05

Which small town, five miles east of the park entrance, is home to the Great Basin Visitor Center?

A) Ely

B) Baker

C) Pioche

D) Eureka

Answer · why

B) Baker

Baker. In August 1922 a crowd put at about 500 gathered up the road from the town to dedicate Lehman Caves as a national monument, weeks after old set...

Q 05/05

The Great Basin is 'endorheic', which means its rivers and streams never do what?

A) Freeze over

B) Run dry

C) Reach the ocean

D) Flood their banks

Answer · why

C) Reach the ocean

Reach the ocean. Every drop that falls there evaporates, soaks into the ground or drains to a landlocked lake, and because water leaves those lakes on...