Q 01/05

Hopewell people in Ohio owned glassy black obsidian that came from a cliff in which famous western park?

A) Yellowstone

B) Yosemite

C) Grand Canyon

D) Glacier

Answer · why

A) Yellowstone

Yellowstone's Obsidian Cliff lies about 2,000 miles from Ohio, a trip Hopewell pilgrims may have walked themselves. The Hopewell Mound Group held more...

Q 02/05

For more than a century, the Hopewell-built Octagon Earthworks in Newark, Ohio, were used as part of what?

A) A city zoo

B) A golf course

C) A county airport

D) A drive-in theater

Answer · why

B) A golf course

A golf course was laid out over the 2,000-year-old walls after a country club leased the site in 1910. The club finally moved out at the start of 2025...

Q 03/05

Mordecai Hopewell gave his name to an ancient mound-building culture of Ohio because he was what?

A) The lead archaeologist

B) Ohio's governor

C) The farm's owner

D) A Shawnee chief

Answer · why

C) The farm's owner

The farm's owner when the mounds were dug in 1891 was Mordecai Hopewell, and a newly found culture is usually named after the place it turns up. Nobod...

Q 04/05

Hopewell builders moved the soil for their huge Ohio earthworks one load at a time using what?

A) Ox-drawn carts

B) Dugout canoes

C) Deerskin sleds

D) Woven baskets

Answer · why

D) Woven baskets

Woven baskets holding 35 to 40 pounds each carried the soil, after workers loosened it with digging sticks and hoes made of clam shell.

Q 05/05

The Hopewell Octagon Earthworks in Newark, Ohio, line up with an 18.6-year cycle of which object in the sky?

A) The Moon

B) The Sun

C) The Pleiades

D) Jupiter

Answer · why

A) The Moon

The Moon rises within half a degree of the Octagon's exact centre at the northernmost point of that cycle. Researchers from Earlham College worked out...