Q 01/05

What is the capital of Oregon?

A) Salem

B) Oregon City

C) Eugene

D) Portland

Answer · why

A) Salem

Salem has had to rebuild its capitol twice: fires destroyed the statehouse in 1855 and again in 1935, and the present marble building was finished in ...

Q 02/05

Oregon became the 33rd state in 1859 on which holiday?

A) Halloween

B) Valentine's Day

C) St Patrick's Day

D) Independence Day

Answer · why

B) Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day 1859 ended a long wait: Oregonians had ratified their state constitution in November 1857, fifteen months before Congress admitted the...

Q 03/05

Which river forms most of Oregon's eastern border with Idaho?

A) The Deschutes

B) The Owyhee

C) The Snake

D) The Willamette

Answer · why

C) The Snake

The Snake marks the Idaho line for more than 200 miles, and in 1805 Lewis and Clark became the first outsiders known to see it on their way to the Pac...

Q 04/05

Which Cascade volcano is the highest point in Oregon?

A) Mount Bachelor

B) Mount Jefferson

C) Three Sisters

D) Mount Hood

Answer · why

D) Mount Hood

Mount Hood has a film credit too: Timberline Lodge, high on its slopes, supplied the exterior of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

Q 05/05

Which lake, the deepest in the United States, lies at the heart of Oregon's only national park?

A) Crater Lake

B) Wallowa Lake

C) Upper Klamath Lake

D) Waldo Lake

Answer · why

A) Crater Lake

Crater Lake has no rivers flowing in or out: it is filled only by rain and snow, which helps make its water some of the clearest of any lake.