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

South Dakota. The cave lies beneath the southern Black Hills, and in Lakota tradition its small natural opening is where the first people emerged onto...

Q 02/05

Which president signed the 1903 law that made Wind Cave a national park?

A) William McKinley

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) William Taft

D) Grover Cleveland

Answer · why

B) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt. He signed after years of lawsuits between a mining company and a homesteading family ended with Washington ruling that neither of ...

Q 03/05

Which lawman, remembered as Deadwood's first sheriff, took charge of Wind Cave for the government in 1902?

A) Wild Bill Hickok

B) Wyatt Earp

C) Seth Bullock

D) Bat Masterson

Answer · why

C) Seth Bullock

Seth Bullock. He appointed the guides, let them charge fifty cents a visitor, and banned night trips and vandalism months before the cave became a par...

Q 04/05

Wind Cave holds more boxwork than all other known caves combined; what does that formation resemble?

A) Hanging icicles

B) A honeycomb

C) Folded curtains

D) Strings of pearls

Answer · why

B) A honeycomb

A honeycomb. Its thin blades are mineral veins that once filled cracks; the softer rock between them dissolved away and left them standing out as thin...

Q 05/05

Wind Cave's boxwork is made of thin, crossing blades of which mineral?

A) Calcite

B) Quartz

C) Gypsum

D) Halite

Answer · why

A) Calcite

Calcite. It took the place of gypsum that had squeezed into cracks in the limestone, so the blades keep the shape of fractures the older mineral force...