Q 01/05

The red sun symbol on New Mexico's state flag was borrowed from a pot made at which Pueblo?

A) Zia

B) Zuni

C) Jemez

D) Isleta

Answer · why

A) Zia

Zia Pueblo's sacred sun went on the flag in 1925 without the tribe being asked, and in 2012 the state formally acknowledged taking it without permissi...

Q 02/05

Which objects did runners carry to every Pueblo in 1680 as a countdown to the day of the uprising?

A) Painted sticks

B) Notched arrows

C) Knotted cords

D) Clay tokens

Answer · why

C) Knotted cords

Knotted cords worked as a shared calendar: each morning the leaders untied one knot, and when the last was gone every Pueblo was to rise against the S...

Q 03/05

Acoma Pueblo, perched 365 feet above the New Mexico desert on a flat-topped rock, is known by which nickname?

A) Cloud Town

B) Sky City

C) High Rock

D) Eagle Nest

Answer · why

B) Sky City

Sky City is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the United States, and the Acoma say it was established in the 11th century.

Q 04/05

Which bird did Ancestral Puebloans domesticate, later weaving its feathers into blankets?

A) Quail

B) Goose

C) Turkey

D) Roadrunner

Answer · why

C) Turkey

Turkey became so important that by the 13th century it had overtaken deer as the main meat eaten at many sites.

Q 05/05

Traditional Pueblo houses were built without doors or windows at ground level, so people got inside using what?

A) Rope nets

B) Stone ramps

C) Tunnels

D) Ladders

Answer · why

D) Ladders

Ladders linked every level and doubled as a defence, because the traditional design left attackers no door or window to break through.