Q 01/05

Saguaro National Park is in which U.S. state?

A) Arizona

B) New Mexico

C) Texas

D) Nevada

Answer · why

A) Arizona

Its two districts flank the city of Tucson.

Q 02/05

Roughly how far is each of the park's two districts from the centre of Tucson, the city between them?

A) About 2 miles

B) About 10 miles

C) About 30 miles

D) About 60 miles

Answer · why

B) About 10 miles

The city's name comes from Papago-Piman words meaning 'dark spring' or 'brown spring'.

Q 03/05

Which desert do both districts of the park preserve?

A) Sonoran

B) Mojave

C) Chihuahuan

D) Great Basin

Answer · why

A) Sonoran

The giant cactus grows naturally nowhere else on Earth.

Q 04/05

Which president created Saguaro National Monument by proclamation on March 1, 1933?

A) Herbert Hoover

B) Franklin D. Roosevelt

C) Calvin Coolidge

D) Woodrow Wilson

Answer · why

A) Herbert Hoover

Tucson Citizen publisher and former Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock talked him into it days before he left office.

Q 05/05

Which president added the Tucson Mountain District to the monument in 1961?

A) Dwight Eisenhower

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Lyndon Johnson

D) Harry Truman

Answer · why

B) John F. Kennedy

Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, an Arizonan, pushed for the 16,000-acre addition carved from a county park.