Q 01/05

Olympic National Park sits on a peninsula in which U.S. state?

A) Oregon

B) California

C) Washington

D) Alaska

Answer · why

C) Washington

Washington's Olympic Peninsula was walled off by ice-age glaciers and is ringed by salt water on three sides, an isolation that left it with animals a...

Q 02/05

What effect of the Olympic Mountains leaves the park's east side drier than its west?

A) Rain band

B) Rain shadow

C) Heat island

D) Dry line

Answer · why

B) Rain shadow

Rain shadow is what the peaks cast: storms off the Pacific drop 12 to 14 feet of rain a year on the west-facing valleys, and the air that crosses the ...

Q 03/05

Which president first protected the Olympic Mountains as a national monument in 1909?

A) William Howard Taft

B) Woodrow Wilson

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) Theodore Roosevelt

Answer · why

D) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the monument on March 2, 1909, two days before he left the White House, in one of his last acts as president.

Q 04/05

Which president toured the Olympic Peninsula, then signed the bill creating its national park?

A) Calvin Coolidge

B) Herbert Hoover

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) Harry S. Truman

Answer · why

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt was greeted on his 1937 visit by about 3,000 schoolchildren beside a sign asking him for an Olympic national park; he backed the...

Q 05/05

Which elk, North America's largest by body mass, was the main reason for the 1909 monument in the Olympic Mountains?

A) Roosevelt elk

B) Tule elk

C) Rocky Mountain elk

D) Manitoban elk

Answer · why

A) Roosevelt elk

Roosevelt elk, once known as Olympic elk, were in such steep decline by 1909 that saving their calving grounds and summer range drove the creation of ...