Q 01/05

In Rocky IV, a Jackson Hole farm and the snowy Tetons stood in for which country?

A) Czechoslovakia

B) East Germany

C) Soviet Union

D) North Korea

Answer · why

C) Soviet Union

Soviet Union training scenes were really shot in and around Grand Teton National Park, so the frozen Russia on screen is Wyoming. The film's other loc...

Q 02/05

Grand Teton is the only US national park with which facility, serving Jackson Hole, inside its boundaries?

A) A commercial airport

B) A downhill ski resort

C) A railroad depot

D) A hydroelectric dam

Answer · why

A) A commercial airport

A commercial airport sits inside the park because the runway came first: it dates from the 1930s and was absorbed when the park grew in 1950. The term...

Q 03/05

Which rapper's 2018 album cover is his own iPhone photo of the Teton Range, taken hours before release?

A) Kendrick Lamar

B) Kanye West

C) Travis Scott

D) Post Malone

Answer · why

B) Kanye West

Kanye West made the album Ye while living in Jackson Hole and premiered it at a listening party there. Five albums he produced in those weeks are know...

Q 04/05

Which actor, a longtime Jackson rancher, has flown his own helicopter on Teton County search-and-rescue missions?

A) Kevin Costner

B) Robert Redford

C) Clint Eastwood

D) Harrison Ford

Answer · why

D) Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford once recovered a lost hiker who was sick into a rescuer's cap and only later learned who her pilot was. He has given about half of his 8...

Q 05/05

What made the town government that Jackson, Wyoming elected in 1920 a national curiosity?

A) Every member was a woman

B) Every member was under thirty

C) Every member was a newcomer

D) Every member was one family

Answer · why

A) Every member was a woman

Every member was a woman: the mayor and the whole council, who then appointed women as town marshal, clerk and treasurer. Wyoming had been first to gi...