Q 01/05

Which California park, given to the state in 1864, was Congress's model for Yellowstone?

A) Sequoia

B) Redwood

C) Yosemite

D) Joshua Tree

Answer · why

C) Yosemite

Yosemite went to California as a state park in 1864; Yellowstone lay in territories, with no state to take it, which may be why it became the first na...

Q 02/05

Which U.S. President signed the act that established Yellowstone as a national park?

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) Andrew Johnson

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer · why

C) Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant signed the act on March 1, 1872, closing the land to settlement and sale, a break from the usual policy of passing public land into p...

Q 03/05

Approximately 96 percent of Yellowstone National Park's land area lies within which US state?

A) Utah

B) Wyoming

C) Idaho

D) Colorado

Answer · why

B) Wyoming

Wyoming holds about 96 percent of the park, yet the park is older than the state: Wyoming was a territory in 1872 and joined the Union only in 1890.

Q 04/05

Which cartoon bear raids picnic baskets in Jellystone Park, a spoof of Yellowstone?

A) Smokey Bear

B) Yogi Bear

C) Baloo

D) Paddington

Answer · why

B) Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear arrived on television in 1958, when real Yellowstone bears still begged for food along the roads; the park later stamped out feeding, and ro...

Q 05/05

What kind of volcanic system underlies Yellowstone National Park?

A) Shield volcano

B) Composite volcano

C) Supervolcano

D) Cinder cone

Answer · why

C) Supervolcano

Yellowstone sits on a supervolcano whose three giant eruptions shaped the region, yet its most recent eruption of any kind was a lava flow about 70,00...