Q 01/05

Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood stood in for a haunted, snowbound hotel in which horror film?

A) Misery

B) The Shining

C) The Thing

D) Poltergeist

Answer · why

B) The Shining

The Shining shows the lodge only from outside, and at the owners' request the film swapped the novel's haunted Room 217 for a non-existent 237 so gues...

Q 02/05

Mount Hood ranks fourth among the peaks of the Cascade Range, so which volcano is the range's highest?

A) Mt. Shasta

B) Mt. Adams

C) Mt. Bachelor

D) Mt. Rainier

Answer · why

D) Mt. Rainier

Mt. Rainier tops the range at more than 14,000 feet, some 3,000 feet above Oregon's high point. California's Mt. Shasta comes second and Mt. Adams thi...

Q 03/05

Mount Hood, built up by eruptions over some 500,000 years, belongs to which steep-sided class of volcano?

A) Shield volcano

B) Cinder cone

C) Stratovolcano

D) Supervolcano

Answer · why

C) Stratovolcano

Stratovolcano cones are piled up from lava domes, flows and ash, and scientists rate Mount Hood the Oregon volcano most likely to erupt again.

Q 04/05

Samuel Hood, for whom Mount Hood was named in 1792, made his name in Britain as what?

A) An explorer

B) An admiral

C) A botanist

D) A prime minister

Answer · why

B) An admiral

An admiral of the Royal Navy, Hood fought the American Revolution from the other side: in 1781 he sailed with the fleet that was driven off at the Che...

Q 05/05

Which U.S. president dedicated Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in person, praising the relief workers who built it?

A) Herbert Hoover

B) Dwight D. Eisenhower

C) Franklin Roosevelt

D) Harry S. Truman

Answer · why

C) Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the lodge in September 1937 as a monument to the skill of workers on relief rolls, and predicted that crowds would one da...