Q 01/05

Roughly how long is the Las Vegas Strip?

A) 4.2 miles

B) 5.5 miles

C) 7.5 miles

D) 10 miles

Answer · why

A) 4.2 miles

In the strictest sense it runs from Sahara Avenue to the Welcome sign.

Q 02/05

The Strip lies just outside the Las Vegas city limits in which two unincorporated towns?

A) Spring Valley and Enterprise

B) Paradise and Winchester

C) Henderson and Summerlin

D) Boulder City and Sunrise

Answer · why

B) Paradise and Winchester

Casino executives lobbied for town status in 1950 to stop the city annexing them for tax revenue.

Q 03/05

As of 2019, roughly how many pedestrians walked the Strip on an average day?

A) About 80,000

B) About 50,000

C) About 200,000

D) About 120,000

Answer · why

B) About 50,000

Footbridges went up in the 1990s to keep them off the busiest intersections.

Q 04/05

Which resort does Clark County consider the northern end of the Strip?

A) Circus Circus

B) The Sahara

C) Resorts World

D) The Strat

Answer · why

B) The Sahara

Travel guides usually extend it 0.4 miles further north to the Strat, which is inside city limits.

Q 05/05

What was the first full-service casino resort on what became the Strip, opened in 1941?

A) The Flamingo

B) Desert Inn

C) Hotel Last Frontier

D) El Rancho Vegas

Answer · why

D) El Rancho Vegas

It opened with 63 bungalow rooms and its success spawned the Last Frontier a year later.