Q 01/05

Which white-furred animal of Canada's coastal rainforest is the official mammal of British Columbia?

A) Arctic fox

B) Mountain goat

C) Kermode bear

D) Snowshoe hare

Answer · why

C) Kermode bear

Kermode bear, or spirit bear, is a black bear whose white coat comes from a recessive gene, so dark parents can carry it unseen. By day the white ones...

Q 02/05

A small red stone in Olympic National Park's Hoh Rainforest marks one square inch set aside to protect what?

A) Silence

B) Darkness

C) Clean air

D) Starlight

Answer · why

A) Silence

Silence is the goal: sound recordist Gordon Hempton placed the stone in 2005, and the spot has been called the quietest place in the United States.

Q 03/05

Rare albino redwoods in California have ghost-white needles because they cannot produce which pigment?

A) Melanin

B) Carotene

C) Anthocyanin

D) Chlorophyll

Answer · why

D) Chlorophyll

Chlorophyll is what lets a plant feed itself, so an albino redwood lives only by taking sugar through its roots from a normal tree, usually its parent...

Q 04/05

Which legendary ape-like creature was supposedly filmed in California's Six Rivers National Forest in 1967?

A) Skunk ape

B) Bigfoot

C) Wendigo

D) Yowie

Answer · why

B) Bigfoot

Bigfoot is also called Sasquatch, a name about thirty years older. In 1958 a bulldozer operator had found 16-inch footprints in the same national fore...

Q 05/05

Which film franchise shot a 1997 sequel in Fern Canyon, a fern-walled ravine among California's redwoods?

A) Jurassic Park

B) Mortal Kombat

C) Free Willy

D) Home Alone

Answer · why

A) Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park's sequel The Lost World began filming in the canyon. The makers chose redwood country because research suggested dinosaurs lived in fore...