Q 01/05

What did Canadian authorities make every Klondike stampeder bring before crossing into the Yukon?

A) A signed mining licence

B) A year's supply of food

C) A licensed river pilot

D) A hundred dollars in cash

Answer · why

B) A year's supply of food

A year's supply of food, about 1,150 pounds of it, was demanded so that nobody would starve. With tents and tools added, each person hauled close to a...

Q 02/05

Which US president's grandfather got rich running a restaurant and hotel for Klondike stampeders?

A) Donald Trump

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Richard Nixon

D) Ronald Reagan

Answer · why

A) Donald Trump

Donald Trump's grandfather Friedrich never dug for gold: he opened the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel on the trail in 1898 and earned his stake from the ...

Q 03/05

Which silent star eats his own shoe in a 1925 comedy inspired by Klondike stampede photographs?

A) Buster Keaton

B) Harold Lloyd

C) Charlie Chaplin

D) Douglas Fairbanks

Answer · why

C) Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin built The Gold Rush around photographs of the Klondike stampede and the story of the snowbound Donner Party. He said it was the film h...

Q 04/05

Which Disney comics tycoon strikes it rich in the Klondike in his own life story?

A) Flintheart Glomgold

B) John D. Rockerduck

C) Ludwig Von Drake

D) Scrooge McDuck

Answer · why

D) Scrooge McDuck

Scrooge McDuck reaches the Klondike in Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. A running joke has him boring his nephews with tales of his pr...

Q 05/05

Which luxury did Swiftwater Bill allegedly buy up across Dawson City to spite a woman he loved?

A) Eggs

B) Apples

C) Oysters

D) Peaches

Answer · why

A) Eggs

Eggs were a costly luxury in Dawson City, so the gambler allegedly bought every one in town, had them boiled and fed them to dogs. She adored them and...