Q 01/05

Which president signed the 1872 act establishing the first national park in the United States?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) Benjamin Harrison

Answer · why

C) Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant signed the act creating Yellowstone National Park; its first superintendent, Nathaniel Langford, was appointed the same year but Cong...

Q 02/05

Yellowstone, the first US national park, lies almost entirely in which state?

A) Montana

B) Idaho

C) Utah

D) Wyoming

Answer · why

D) Wyoming

Wyoming holds about 96 percent of Yellowstone, with slivers in Montana and Idaho; William Henry Jackson's photographs and Thomas Moran's paintings hel...

Q 03/05

Which Arkansas national park grew from land Congress reserved in 1832, forty years before Yellowstone?

A) Mammoth Cave

B) Great Smoky Mountains

C) Congaree

D) Hot Springs

Answer · why

D) Hot Springs

Hot Springs was reserved by Congress in 1832, yet Washington exercised no direct supervision until 1877, so bathhouses and businesses crowded around a...

Q 04/05

Which is the largest national park in the contiguous United States?

A) Death Valley

B) Big Bend

C) Grand Canyon

D) Olympic

Answer · why

A) Death Valley

Death Valley covers more than 3 million acres, the most of any park outside Alaska; despite the name, tiny pupfish, survivors of a wetter age, still s...

Q 05/05

Which national park contains the highest mountain peak in North America?

A) Mount Rainier

B) Wrangell–St. Elias

C) Denali

D) Grand Teton

Answer · why

C) Denali

Denali National Park surrounds the 20,310-foot peak, which 'shrank' in 2015 when a GPS survey came in ten feet below the 20,320 feet measured in the 1...