Q 01/05

Which national park surrounds the deepest lake in the United States?

A) Crater Lake

B) Lake Clark

C) Voyageurs

D) Glacier

Answer · why

A) Crater Lake

Crater Lake in Oregon fills the basin left when a volcano collapsed about 7,700 years ago; no rivers flow in or out, so its water comes only from rain...

Q 02/05

Who policed Yellowstone for three decades before rangers took over?

A) U.S. Marshals

B) U.S. Army

C) Forest Service

D) Wyoming Militia

Answer · why

B) U.S. Army

The U.S. Army sent cavalry in 1886 because the park's civilian superintendents could not stop poachers and souvenir hunters; soldiers ran Yellowstone ...

Q 03/05

Which is the smallest U.S. national park by area?

A) Gateway Arch

B) Cuyahoga Valley

C) Indiana Dunes

D) Hot Springs

Answer · why

A) Gateway Arch

Gateway Arch in St. Louis became a national park against the Park Service's own advice: its representative told the Senate that so small a city site s...

Q 04/05

In what year did Congress create the National Park Service?

A) 1872

B) 1906

C) 1916

D) 1933

Answer · why

C) 1916

Congress created the National Park Service through the Organic Act of August 25, 1916, putting the growing roster of parks and monuments under one age...

Q 05/05

Which photographer became famous for black-and-white images of America's national parks?

A) Dorothea Lange

B) Ansel Adams

C) Edward Weston

D) Alfred Stieglitz

Answer · why

B) Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams took his first Yosemite pictures at 14, on a 1916 family trip, with a Kodak Brownie box camera his parents had given him; the park stayed ...