Q 01/05

Which month did a 1990 joint resolution of Congress set aside as National American Indian Heritage Month?

A) September

B) October

C) November

D) March

Answer · why

C) November

November had first hosted an American Indian Week in 1986, four years before Congress stretched the observance to a whole month. It is now usually cal...

Q 02/05

Which Shoshone woman, a guide to Lewis and Clark, appears on the golden dollar coin introduced in 2000?

A) Pocahontas

B) Sarah Winnemucca

C) Nancy Ward

D) Sacagawea

Answer · why

D) Sacagawea

Sacagawea is shown carrying her infant son Jean Baptiste on her back. The baby on the coin was partly modelled on a real one-year-old.

Q 03/05

Which Sac and Fox athlete won both the pentathlon and the decathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics?

A) Jesse Owens

B) Jim Thorpe

C) Billy Mills

D) Louis Tewanima

Answer · why

B) Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe lost both titles a year later for having played semi-professional baseball. He was not restored as sole champion of the two events until 20...

Q 04/05

Corn, beans and squash, planted together in mounds by many Native farmers, are known by what name?

A) The Holy Trinity

B) The Three Fires

C) The Three Sisters

D) The Seven Sisters

Answer · why

C) The Three Sisters

The Three Sisters help one another grow: cornstalks act as a trellis for the beans, the beans fix nitrogen in the soil, and broad squash leaves shade ...

Q 05/05

Which team sport, known to its Native inventors as the Creator's Game, is North America's oldest organized sport?

A) Lacrosse

B) Field hockey

C) Hurling

D) Shinty

Answer · why

A) Lacrosse

Lacrosse games once ran from sunup to sundown for two or three days. They served as ceremony and as a kind of symbolic warfare.