Q 01/05

Mount Rushmore is located in which US state?

A) North Dakota

B) South Dakota

C) Wyoming

D) Montana

Answer · why

B) South Dakota

South Dakota has since tied its identity to the carving: state law makes "The Mount Rushmore State" its official nickname.

Q 02/05

Which small Black Hills town lies nearest to Mount Rushmore?

A) Custer

B) Hill City

C) Keystone

D) Lead

Answer · why

C) Keystone

Keystone lies just outside the memorial and has remade itself as a resort town for its millions of visitors.

Q 03/05

Which of these lies about 25 miles northeast of Mount Rushmore?

A) Rapid City

B) Sioux Falls

C) Pierre

D) Cheyenne

Answer · why

A) Rapid City

Rapid City. Its mayor, John Boland, heard Borglum pitch the carving, backed it from the start and went on to manage the project's money through the De...

Q 04/05

Which French sculptor befriended the young Gutzon Borglum while he studied art in Paris?

A) Auguste Rodin

B) Frédéric Bartholdi

C) Edgar Degas

D) Aristide Maillol

Answer · why

A) Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin. Borglum had trained as a painter but turned to sculpture, the field in which his younger brother Solon was already making a name, and s...

Q 05/05

Mount Rushmore's Lakota name means Six Grandfathers; in Lakota belief, what are those grandfathers?

A) Six chiefs killed at Little Bighorn

B) The spirits of the six directions

C) Six sacred bison bulls

D) The first six treaty signers

Answer · why

B) The spirits of the six directions

The spirits of the six directions are west, east, north and south plus the sky above and the earth below. The name is tied to a Lakota holy man's boyh...