1. Do RV’s have to go to weigh stations?
c. No, because they aren’t all truck – You don’t have to, but you may want to know the information.
2. What is the highest point on I-5?
b. Siskiyou Mountain. Summit – located in the Siskiyou Mountains in Oregon, elevation of 4,310 ft.
3. When was Abram’s Lake, CA formed?
b. ~5000 BC – it was formed around 7000 years ago.
4. How was Abram’s Lake, CA formed?
b. volcanic eruption – after an eruption, the volcano collapsed, leaving a caldera
5. Mount Shasta City Park contains the headwaters of which major river?
c. Sacramento River – it begins with where an underground spring surfaces.
6. How many seasons has Hamlet been performed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival?
d. 11 – out of the 75 years of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hamlet has run for 11 seasons.
7. Which of the following famous quotes is NOT from Hamlet?
c. “O that I were a glove upon that hand” – this is from Romeo and Juliet during the famous balcony scene.
8. What type of hole does Crater Lake fill?
c. a caldera – even though it is “Crater” Lake, it fills the caldera of Mount Mazama. The locals named it “Crater” Lake in the early 1900s because the scientific term ‘caldera’ wasn’t in use.
9. How cold is Crater Lake?
c. 38° -- it stays relatively constant yearlong because of its depth.
10. What is NOT one reason Crater Lake is so clear?
b. introduced fish – when fish were introduced in 1888, it did not help the clarity.
11. How deep is Crater Lake?
d. 1,949 feet – its depth stays balanced because snowmelt/runoff and evaporation are the same
12. How wide is Crater Lake?
a. 4 miles – four miles across, 6 miles long
13. What is a coulee?
d. a dry channel -- derived from the French word 'couler' (to flow); is used to describe a landform feature created by water erosion
14. What was the largest waterfall in world history?
c. Dry Falls – once 20 miles long and extremely high, this would have dwarfed all other waterfalls today.
15. On the Oregon Trail, what was the highest paying job?
c. ferry operator – when taking hundreds of wagons across a river each day, $2-5 per wagon adds up.
16. How much did this person (see # 15) earn?
a. $1,800 a day – almost $43,000 in today’s money. That’s quite a chunk of cash.
17. What was the final destination of the Oregon Trail?
b. Oregon City – located between Portland and Salem
18. What is the deepest gorge in North America?
a. Hells Canyon – created by the wild Snake River, this gorge (no different from a canyon, really) plunges almost 2,000 feet.
19. What does Boise mean?
b. Tree – Boise means “tree” in French.
20. What does the literal translation of the Hawaiian word A’a?
c. painful on the feet – the rough, sharp volcanic rocks are fitting of this name.
21. How was the Boy Scout Cave in Crater of the Moon National Monument created?
b. lava tube – lava entered, shaped the cave, then collapsed, forming a rocky volcanic floor.
22. What modern creature is the prehistoric Hagerman horse related to?
d. zebra – although we can never know that it had stripes, the skeletal structure of the Hagerman Horse is most similar to that of a zebra.
23. What is Idaho’s state fossil?
c. Hagerman Horse – in the Hagerman area, over 20 skeletons of the species Equus simplicidens have been found.
24. In the Minidoka Japanese Internment Camp, why were the “no-no boys” shipped away?
b. they were considered disloyal – on a quiz given to internees, questions #27 and 28 concerned the loyalty of the Japanese. If they answered no to both of these questions, they were shipped off.
25. What Idaho crop makes great ice cream?
b. Potato
26. Why is there a Star of David on the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City?
a. saw it in a catalog and thought it looked pretty – we aren’t kidding, either. On the tour of Temple Square, the guides told us exactly why they chose such a design.
27. Why are there large groups of Allosaurus fossils in Dinosaur National Monument?
c. they travel in herds – the carnivorous creatures hunted as a group, so they stuck together.
28. What is the difference between a petroglyphs and pictographs?
b. petroglyphs are carved into the rock; pictographs are painted – petroglyphs were made with chisels or rocks; pictographs are painted, usually in red.
29. Why was the damming of the Yampa River stopped?
c. protect endangered fish – 4 species of fish would go extinct if the dam were built.
30. What is one characteristic of the Montane ecosystem?
c. lots of large wildlife – here at lower elevations, there is enough food to support larger animals.
31. Why are the subalpine trees so gnarled in the Rocky Mountains?
b. 150 mph winds – during the winter, these fast, icy winds create krummenholz, German for ‘crooked wood’.
32. What is the highest continually paved road in North America?
d. Trail Ridge Road – in Rocky Mountain National Park, this road peaks at 12,183 feet.
33. What defines tundra?
a. mat-like vegetation – although our idea of tundra is from the Arctic, the 300,000 square miles in Rocky Mountain National Park are rocky and are mostly made of short grasses.
34. What type of rock are the Badlands made of?
c. sandstone – leftovers of an ancient sea, these have uplifted and eroded to form gorgeous peaks.
35. What is a hoodoo?
d. a rock formation – hoodoos are formed when looser rock erodes away from below a harder rock, forming a mushroom shape.
36. Why are the Badlands called the Badlands?
d. they were very hard to live in – for homesteaders in the 1800s, this dry, dusty area was inhospitable to farming.
37. What did the Sioux use the buffalo’s stomach liner for?
b. medicines – the Plains Indians used every part of the buffalo for survival.
38. How do you find out the age of a bighorn sheep?
c. look at his horns – each year, another ridge/ring is added to the horns.
39. What is significant about Wind Cave’s (SD) boxwork?
c. 95% of the world’s boxwork is in Wind Cave – although no one knows why Wind Cave has so much!
40. What accounts for most formations in Wind and Jewel Cave (in SD)?
a. the calcite from the limestone – as these caves were formed, calcite crystals collected and formed these spectacular features, some of which are unique to the caves.
41. Which four Presidents are on Mt. Rushmore?
a. Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln – originally, Teddy Roosevelt was going to be left out, but it was decided that he had enough influence.
42. What do the Crazy Horse memorial and Mount Rushmore have in common?
a. they were mostly carved with explosives – 90% of Mount Rushmore was blasted with Dynamite.
43. What animal do most Native American tribes associate with Devil’s Tower (in Wyoming)?
c. bear – most local tribes include the bear in legends and names of Devil’s Tower.
44. Why don’t the Grand Tetons have foothills?
d. they are the wrong type of mountain for foothills – the Tetons are uplift mountains, where a chunk of earth is uplifted, not folded mountains.
45. Why are the Tetons called the “pilot knobs”?
c. you can see them from a long distance – these are used for surveying measurements as well as navigations because they are visible from all directions.
46. What percentage of the world’s thermal features are located in Yellowstone National Park?
c. 66% – 2/3 of the world’s thermal features, including hot springs, geysers, fumaroles, and steam vents, are located in the large caldera.
47. Why is Yellowstone still considered an active volcano?
c. it is over a hot spot –once under an area near the Oregon-Nevada border, this hot spot remains active; it last erupted about 640,000 years ago.
48. Which component is NOT necessary for having a geyser?
d. hot springs – although many geysers have hot pools at the surface, it is not necessary for eruptions.
49. Why does Old Faithful have two different eruptions – a short and a long?
d. no one really knows – although the idea of two water chambers is appealing to scientists, they really have no way to know for sure.
50. Which of these facts about Old Faithful is true?
c. Its eruption height varies greatly – it can range from 100 to 180 feet, although it averages 130.
