Q 01/05

A man-made feature beside Caras Park lets people in landlocked Missoula do which ocean sport downtown?

A) Sailing

B) Surfing

C) Scuba diving

D) Kiteboarding

Answer · why

B) Surfing

Surfing draws crowds to Brennan's Wave, built on the river in memory of a Missoula kayaker who died paddling in Chile. Kayakers and paddleboarders sha...

Q 02/05

In 1897, Buffalo Soldiers stationed at Fort Missoula made a 1,900-mile test trip to St. Louis riding what?

A) Pack mules

B) Handcars

C) Stagecoaches

D) Bicycles

Answer · why

D) Bicycles

Bicycles carried the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps from Fort Missoula to St. Louis as an Army experiment. The Army decided the machines had limited mili...

Q 03/05

Which Missoula, Montana, native became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, back in 1916?

A) Jeannette Rankin

B) Hattie Caraway

C) Frances Perkins

D) Margaret Chase Smith

Answer · why

A) Jeannette Rankin

Jeannette Rankin won a Montana seat in the House in 1916, before most American women could vote. A lifelong pacifist, she voted against declaring war ...

Q 04/05

Missoula schoolchildren collected a million of what to adopt four horses on the downtown carousel?

A) Bottle caps

B) Soup labels

C) Pennies

D) Aluminum cans

Answer · why

C) Pennies

Pennies, a million of them worth $10,000, paid for four ponies on A Carousel for Missoula. Volunteers hand-carved the horses after a local cabinet mak...

Q 05/05

Settlers named Mount Jumbo, above Missoula, because they thought the hill resembled which sleeping animal?

A) An elephant

B) A bull buffalo

C) A camel

D) A beaver

Answer · why

A) An elephant

An elephant lying down, its trunk pointing north, is what locals saw in the grassy hill. The name salutes Jumbo, the giant star of P. T. Barnum's circ...