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

It sits in Pennington County in the southwest corner of the state, about 25 miles from Rapid City.

Q 02/05

The sculpture is about two miles southwest of which small town?

A) Custer

B) Hill City

C) Keystone

D) Deadwood

Answer · why

C) Keystone

Keystone began as an 1880s gold-mining camp and now lives almost entirely on memorial visitors.

Q 03/05

How high above sea level is the top of Mount Rushmore?

A) 6,225 feet

B) 6,725 feet

C) 7,225 feet

D) 5,725 feet

Answer · why

D) 5,725 feet

The highest point in the Black Hills, 3.7 miles away, tops out over 7,200 feet.

Q 04/05

After the 1870s the Lakota knew the peak by a name that translates as what?

A) Six Grandfathers Mountain

B) Four Winds Mountain

C) Sleeping Bear Mountain

D) Thunder Spirit Mountain

Answer · why

A) Six Grandfathers Mountain

Before that it was Igmu Tanka Pahá, Cougar Mountain; the name change is tied to a vision of the Lakota holy man Black Elk.

Q 05/05

In Lakota belief, who or what are the 'Six Grandfathers' the peak was named for?

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

North, south, east and west plus sky and earth: the same six directions honored in the Lakota pipe ceremony.