Q 01/05

Wind Cave National Park is in which U.S. state?

A) South Dakota

B) North Dakota

C) Wyoming

D) Nebraska

Answer · why

A) South Dakota

It lies in the southern Black Hills, 10 miles north of a small spa town.

Q 02/05

Which president established the park on January 3, 1903?

A) William McKinley

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) William Taft

D) Grover Cleveland

Answer · why

B) Theodore Roosevelt

It was the sixth U.S. national park and the first cave anywhere in the world to get the title.

Q 03/05

What worldwide distinction did the 1903 designation confer?

A) Earliest cavern with a bison herd above it

B) Earliest cavern open to paying tourists

C) Earliest cavern protected as a national park

D) Earliest cavern mapped by electric light

Answer · why

C) Earliest cavern protected as a national park

A neighbouring cavern in the same county followed in 1908 as the first national monument created to protect one.

Q 04/05

Roughly what share of the world's discovered boxwork formations are found in Wind Cave?

A) About 25%

B) About 50%

C) About 75%

D) About 95%

Answer · why

D) About 95%

The honeycomb of thin mineral fins was first noted here.

Q 05/05

Boxwork is made of thin intersecting blades of which mineral?

A) Calcite

B) Quartz

C) Gypsum

D) Halite

Answer · why

A) Calcite

The fins once filled cracks in the rock; the softer bedrock around them dissolved away and left them standing proud.