Q 01/05

Which U.S. state contains the highest number of national parks?

A) Alaska

B) Colorado

C) Washington

D) California

Answer · why

D) California

California has nine national parks, one more than Alaska, though Alaska's are far bigger: the four largest parks in the country are all there.

Q 02/05

Africa's highest mountain, a snow-capped volcano, gives its name to which national park?

A) Mount Kenya

B) Kilimanjaro

C) Rwenzori Mountains

D) Simien Mountains

Answer · why

B) Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro National Park, created in 1973, covers the 5,895-metre volcano above its tree line; the famous summit ice has shrunk by roughly four-fifth...

Q 03/05

Banff, proclaimed in 1885, was the first national park of which country?

A) United States

B) Norway

C) Canada

D) Argentina

Answer · why

C) Canada

Canada's Banff National Park began in 1885 as the Banff Hot Springs Reserve, a 26-square-kilometre tract around the Cave and Basin springs, after riva...

Q 04/05

More than a million of which animal make up the bulk of the Serengeti's great migration?

A) Impala

B) Wildebeest

C) Cape buffalo

D) Springbok

Answer · why

B) Wildebeest

Wildebeest, well over a million of them, circle the Serengeti and Kenya's Masai Mara each year, following the rains to fresh grass, with about a quart...

Q 05/05

Kruger, spanning Limpopo and Mpumalanga, became the first national park of which country in 1926?

A) Namibia

B) Mozambique

C) Zimbabwe

D) South Africa

Answer · why

D) South Africa

South Africa made Kruger its first national park in 1926 by merging two game reserves; the older was proclaimed in 1898 under President Paul Kruger to...