Q 01/05

Giant sequoias are the world's most massive trees, but which of their close relatives is the tallest?

A) Dawn redwood

B) Coast redwood

C) Bald cypress

D) Incense cedar

Answer · why

B) Coast redwood

Coast redwood. It can top 380 feet, partly because it drinks summer fog straight through its leaves, while the bulkier giant sequoia lives inland, hig...

Q 02/05

Which national park adjoins Sequoia to the north and is administered together with it?

A) Yosemite

B) Kings Canyon

C) Joshua Tree

D) Pinnacles

Answer · why

B) Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon. Created in 1940, it swallowed tiny General Grant National Park, which had been set up in 1890 a week after Sequoia, and the two neighbou...

Q 03/05

Sequoia became a national park in 1890, making it America's second-oldest after which park?

A) Grand Canyon

B) Yellowstone

C) Mount Rainier

D) Glacier

Answer · why

B) Yellowstone

Yellowstone, created in 1872. Neither park had rangers at first, so the US Army ran them, with cavalry arriving in Yellowstone in 1886 and in Sequoia ...

Q 04/05

Which president signed the 1890 law creating Sequoia National Park?

A) Benjamin Harrison

B) Grover Cleveland

C) William McKinley

D) Chester A. Arthur

Answer · why

A) Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison signed it on September 25, 1890, and a week later approved a second act that created two more national parks in the same mountains.

Q 05/05

What is the name of the largest known living tree on Earth by volume, which grows in Sequoia National Park?

A) General Sherman

B) General Grant

C) General Lee

D) President

Answer · why

A) General Sherman

General Sherman. It is neither the tallest nor the widest tree; it wins on bulk because its trunk barely tapers, staying about 14 feet thick even 180 ...