Q 01/05

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

A) Minnesota

B) Wisconsin

C) Michigan

D) North Dakota

Answer · why

A) Minnesota

It is the state's only national park, hard against the Canadian border.

Q 02/05

The park is named after which historical group?

A) Norwegian loggers

B) French-Canadian fur traders

C) Ojibwe canoe builders

D) Jesuit missionaries

Answer · why

B) French-Canadian fur traders

The word simply means 'travellers' in French; at their peak in the 1810s about three thousand of them worked the canoe routes.

Q 03/05

In what year was the park established?

A) 1938

B) 1956

C) 1964

D) 1975

Answer · why

D) 1975

The state legislature had first asked for a national park back in 1891, nearly eighty years earlier.

Q 04/05

Which president signed the 1971 law authorising the park?

A) Lyndon Johnson

B) Gerald Ford

C) Richard Nixon

D) Jimmy Carter

Answer · why

C) Richard Nixon

Establishment followed four years later, once the land had been assembled.

Q 05/05

How is the main body of the park reached in summer?

A) Only by boat

B) By a single paved road

C) By a scenic railway

D) By a chairlift

Answer · why

A) Only by boat

In winter you can drive, snowmobile, ski or snowshoe across the frozen lakes instead.