Q 01/05

Kings Canyon National Park lies in the southern part of which mountain range?

A) Cascade Range

B) Rocky Mountains

C) Coast Ranges

D) Sierra Nevada

Answer · why

D) Sierra Nevada

It sits in Fresno and Tulare counties, north of and contiguous with Sequoia National Park, and the two are run as one unit.

Q 02/05

The original 1890 park was named for a Civil War general who went on to become which numbered president?

A) 16th

B) 20th

C) 18th

D) 22nd

Answer · why

C) 18th

It protected only a small area of sequoias; it took fifty more years to add the huge wilderness to the east and rename it Kings Canyon.

Q 03/05

Which president signed the 1890 bill creating the original park at Grant Grove?

A) Benjamin Harrison

B) Grover Cleveland

C) William McKinley

D) Theodore Roosevelt

Answer · why

A) Benjamin Harrison

Signed October 1, 1890, it made the fourth US national park; the same bill also enlarged Sequoia and created Yosemite.

Q 04/05

Which president signed the March 1940 bill that expanded the park and renamed it Kings Canyon?

A) Herbert Hoover

B) Harry S. Truman

C) Calvin Coolidge

D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer · why

D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

It added over 400,000 acres of High Sierra, but the canyon floor and Tehipite Valley were left out to placate irrigation districts eyeing dam sites.

Q 05/05

The General Grant Tree ranks where among the world's giant sequoias by trunk volume?

A) Largest

B) Third largest

C) Tenth largest

D) Second largest

Answer · why

D) Second largest

Only the General Sherman in neighbouring Sequoia is bigger; Grant was thought the world's largest until precise measurements in 1931.