Q 01/05

What is the capital of Oregon?

A) Salem

B) Oregon City

C) Eugene

D) Portland

Answer · why

A) Salem

It is only the state's third-largest city; the biggest has nearly four times the population.

Q 02/05

Oregon became the 33rd state on Valentine's Day of which year?

A) 1876

B) 1859

C) 1846

D) 1850

Answer · why

B) 1859

News travelled so slowly that nobody in Oregon knew about it until March 15.

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 Columbia does the same job on the northern border with Washington, and the 42nd parallel marks the line with California and Nevada.

Q 04/05

What is Oregon's highest point, at 11,249 feet?

A) Mount Bachelor

B) Mount Jefferson

C) Three Sisters

D) Mount Hood

Answer · why

D) Mount Hood

It is a dormant volcano in the Cascades, and Timberline Lodge on its slopes played the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.

Q 05/05

Oregon's only national park surrounds the deepest body of water in the United States. What is it called?

A) Crater Lake

B) Wallowa Lake

C) Upper Klamath Lake

D) Waldo Lake

Answer · why

A) Crater Lake

It fills the caldera left when Mount Mazama collapsed about 7,700 years ago and reaches 1,949 feet deep.