Q 01/05

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

A) Alaska

B) Colorado

C) Utah

D) California

Answer · why

D) California

California leads with nine national parks, followed by Alaska with eight, making it the state with the most national parks.

Q 02/05

Which reserve, set aside in 1872, is widely held to be the first and oldest national park in the world?

A) Yellowstone

B) Yosemite

C) Rocky Mountain

D) Tongariro

Answer · why

A) Yellowstone

Yellowstone was created by an Act of Congress on 1 March 1872, set aside as a 'public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the p...

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 1.5 million of which animal make up the Serengeti's great migration?

A) Impala

B) Wildebeest

C) Cape buffalo

D) Springbok

Answer · why

B) Wildebeest

About 1.5 million blue wildebeest make the circular Serengeti–Masai Mara migration each year, joined by some 250,000 zebra and hundreds of thousands o...

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

Kruger became South Africa's first national park under the National Parks Act of 1926; parts of the area had been protected by Paul Kruger's Transvaal...