Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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1919 | This president, hunter, and conservationist dies | Theodore Roosevelt | 100%
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1935 | This dam is completed, creating the reservoir that would become Lake Mead National Recreation Area | Hoover Dam | 92%
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1928 | This hotel, named for a nearby geyser, is finally completed with the construction of its west wing | Old Faithful Inn | 92%
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1920 | For the first time, annual visitation of national parks exceeds this round number | 1 Million | 88%
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1954 | This famous island, the "gateway to America", shuts its doors after processing more than 12 million immigrants. It would later become part of a National Monument | Ellis Island | 88%
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1931 | Congress passes a law providing for the creation of the first international conservation area in the US, combining Alberta's Waterton Lakes and this US National Park | Glacier | 88%
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1918 | Members of this religious group successfully lobby to rename Mukuntuweap National Monument to Zion National Monument | Mormon | 88%
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1927 | Blasting begins on this monument in the Black Hills | Mount Rushmore | 88%
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1955 | This woman refuses to surrender her seat on a bus, kicking off the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This is one of many events celebrated by the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument | Rosa Parks | 88%
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1916 | This president signs a bill which creates the National Park Service | Woodrow Wilson | 88%
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1946 | Following the end of this war, yearly visitation of national parks quadruples | WWII | 88%
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1937 | This National Scenic Trail, the first of the 'big three', is completed | Appalachian Trail | 83%
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1921 | Denali National Park established kennels for this unique sport | Dogsledding | 83%
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1939 | Marian Anderson sings a concert from this DC National Memorial, because she was barred from Constitution Hall for being black. Nearly 25 years later, Martin Luther King, Jr. would deliver his "I have a dream" speech from the same spot. | Lincoln Memorial | 83%
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1949 | San Juan National Historic Site becomes the first NPS property in this US territory | Puerto Rico | 83%
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2008 | Utah loses a geologic treasure when this sort of feature came crashing down | Sandstone Arch | 83%
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1989 | Despite the efforts of conservation groups, the superindentendent of Yosemite choses not to ban this form of transport from the park | Cars | 79%
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1967 | Just three years after this man ceased to be president, a National Historic Site is established in his honor. No other president has been honored with a NPS site more quickly. | John F. Kennedy | 79%
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1945 | This weapon is tested for the first time in what would become White Sands National Park | Nuclear Bomb | 79%
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1962 | Point Reyes National Seashore becomes the first one along this major body of water | Pacific Ocean | 79%
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1924 | This iconic copper statue is proclaimed a National Monument | Statue of Liberty | 79%
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2002 | Flight 93 National Memorial is established in Pennsylvania to celebrate the heroism of airline passengers during this major tragedy | 9/11 | 75%
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1929 | Lafayette National Park, the first east of the Mississippi, is renamed to this | Acadia | 75%
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1933 | This alliterative New Deal policy is created, putting young men to work on infrastructure projects in National Parks and other public lands | Civilian Conservation Corps | 75%
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2012 | For the first and only time in the history of Denali National Park, a tourist is killed by one of these animals | Grizzly Bear | 75%
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1971 | This National Monument in southern California, named for the largest species of yucca plant, is redesignated as a National Park | Joshua Tree | 75%
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2015 | Barack Obama forces the USGS to stop referring to Denali by this outdated name, thirty-five years after the park changed its name | Mount McKinley | 75%
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2010 | The "America the Beautiful" mint series is kicked off when Hot Springs National Park was printed on this kind of currency | Quarter | 75%
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1974 | This president leaves office, becoming the first since the passage of the Antiquities Act who did not designate a single national monument | Richard Nixon | 75%
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1987 | This National Historic Trail is designated, in honor of the 46,000 native americans who were forced out of their homeland and made to walk its bitter path | Trail of Tears | 75%
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1988 | Following the establishment of the National Park of American Samoa, the total number of National Parks reaches this round number | 50 | 71%
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1977 | 101 million acres of land in this state is preserved by a single law, including Misty Fjords, Admiralty Island, and Aniakchak National Monuments | Alaska | 71%
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2005 | An unusually wet winter creates a lake for the first time in decades in this National Park in California and Nevada | Death Valley | 71%
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2013 | This state, the last one without an NPS site, is finally given one: the First State National Historical Park | Delaware | 71%
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1965 | This object, the tallest thing in Missouri, is completed. It would later be designated, controversially, as a National Park in 2018 | Gateway Arch | 71%
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1926 | Calvin Coolidge refers to this giant sequoia, named after a president and civil war general, as "the Nation's Christmas tree" | General Grant | 71%
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1950 | Congress passes a law which established this national park, but also provided that there would be no further expansion of National Parks or Monuments in Wyoming without congressional approval | Grand Teton | 71%
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1934 | This National Park, the most-visited in the country, is established | Great Smoky Mountains | 71%
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1972 | Congress names the highway between Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks after this oil baron and philanthropist | John D. Rockefeller | 71%
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1998 | Two historic parks, one in the US and one in Canada, celebrate the centennial of this event that brought prospectors to the Yukon | Klondike Gold Rush | 71%
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2000 | Hanford Reach National Monument is established around nuclear facilities that were part of this WWII "project" | Manhattan Project | 71%
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2007 | Two men are convicted for digging up two of these iconic plants from an Arizona national park | Saguaro Cactus | 71%
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1983 | Redwood National Park is used as the filming location for the forest moon of Endor in this movie | Star Wars: Return of the Jedi | 71%
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1985 | The Election Day Floods strike Shenandoah River in this state, with more than 18 inches of rain recorded in a single day in Shenandoah National Park | Virginia | 71%
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1995 | Eight of these mammals are reintroduced to Yellowstone | Wolves | 71%
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2016 | This species, prominently featured on the NPS logo, is named the US National Mammal | Bison | 67%
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1923 | This Utah National Monument, which would later become a National Park, is named in honor of a Mormon pioneer with the first name Ebenezer | Bryce Canyon | 67%
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1952 | This river, which would later be designated as Ohio's only National Park, catches fire due to extreme levels of pollution | Cuyahoga | 67%
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1948 | A National Monmuent is dedicated to preserve this sea fort in Charleston, the site of the first battle of the Civil War | Fort Sumter | 67%
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1986 | This National Park, the only one completely inside Nevada, is established and named after a large endorheic basin that covers much of the Western US | Great Basin | 67%
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1944 | US forces land on Agat Beach on this island as part of the campaign to recapture it. Agat Beach would become the center of the War in the Pacific National Historic Park | Guam | 67%
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1964 | The home of this preservationist and Sierra Club president is protected as a National Historic Site | John Muir | 67%
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2004 | This Nicholas Cage movie features a number of NPS sites, including Independence National Historical Park in Pennsylvania | National Treasure | 67%
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1960 | The Hubbel Trading Post National Historic Site is established to celebrate trade between white settlers and this southwest tribe, on whose reservation the site sits | Navajo | 67%
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1976 | The southern half of Badlands National Park is returned to this native tribe, which now co-manages the park | Oglala Lakota | 67%
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1940 | Kings Canyon National Park, in California, is established along the northern border of this other National Park, forming the first pair of bordering parks | Sequoia | 67%
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2014 | Two boy scout leaders videotape themselves destroying a hoodoo in a park in this state | Utah | 67%
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1959 | This natural disaster strikes in Yellowstone National Park, killing 28 | Earthquake | 63%
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1961 | Yogi Bear, a resident of this fictional National Park, appears for the first time in his own show | Jellystone | 63%
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1979 | Protesters against the 1977 national monuments light an effigy of this president on fire | Jimmy Carter | 63%
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1980 | This volcano explodes, killing 57 | Mount St. Helens | 63%
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1981 | This park, which contains a 73-mile stretch of Pacific coast, an inland mountain range, and the northernmost rainforest in the US, is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site | Olympic National Park | 63%
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1982 | Construction begins on this National Memorial in DC, which consists of two long, straight walls of black granite etched with names | Vietnam Veterans Memorial | 63%
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1992 | A National Historic Site in Kansas is named after this supreme court case, possibly the most famous in US history | Brown v. Board of Education | 58%
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1925 | This fort, from which Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem, is designated a National Monument | Fort McHenry | 58%
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1968 | Backlash against development, including nuclear plants to power Miami, leads to the creation of this national monument which would later become a park | Biscayne Bay | 54%
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1993 | This latino rights advocate and co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association dies on his property in California, which would later become a national monument | Cesar Chavez | 54%
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1973 | This landmark piece of legislation is passed, providing for the protection of species near to extinction | Endangered Species Act | 54%
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1966 | Dorothy Richardson Buell is successful in her effort to preserve this stretch of Lake Michigan coastline, which would later become Indiana's first National Park | Indiana Dunes | 54%
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1969 | This pro-LGBT riot, which would be recognized in a National Monument in 2016, occurs in New York | Stonewall | 54%
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1984 | This US territory is included in the Federal Fish & Wildlife Restoration Act | American Samoa | 50%
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2011 | Hurricane Irene causes significant damage in this famous Massachusetts seashore | Cape Cod | 50%
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1994 | The first US-Mexico transboundary conservation area is created following the establishment of Canon de Santa Elena national park in this Mexican state, across the border from Big Bend | Chihuahua | 50%
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1938 | This painter, famous for paintings of New Mexico landscapes and desert flowers, visits Yosemite National Park | Georgia O'Keefe | 50%
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2009 | This famous historical documentarian, perhaps best known for his 9-part miniseries on the Civil War, releases a new series: National Parks, America's Best Idea | Ken Burns | 50%
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1943 | This all-black squadron of military pilots, who would later be honored with a National Historic site in Georgia, deploys to North Africa | Tuskeegee Airmen | 50%
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1941 | This legendary National Park photographer and Sierra Club member is contracted by the NPS for the first time | Ansel Adams | 46%
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1932 | Work begins on this project, the first major National Parkway and the most-visited unit in the NPS system | Blue Ridge Parkway | 46%
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1958 | Warren Harding and his team make the first ascent of "the nose", a climbing route on this Yosemite monolith | El Capitan | 46%
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1991 | Montana's Custer Battlefield National Monument is renamed to this as part of a plan to recognize & honor native combatants | Little Bighorn Battlefield | 46%
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1999 | This tribe launches an ambitious effort to preserve the aquatic ecosystems in the Everglades and Big Cypress National Preserve | Seminole | 46%
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2003 | Aron Ralston narrowly escapes a slot canyon in Canyonlands National Park, after foolishly endangering himself by hiking alone without telling anyone his itinerary. His 5-day ordeal would later be made into this hit movie | 127 hours | 42%
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1951 | The modern NPS logo, shaped like this object, is authorized as the official NPS emblem | Arrowhead | 42%
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1975 | A National Historical Park in this city celebrates the bicentennial of the Battle of Bunker Hill | Boston | 42%
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1997 | "Old Grey Guy", a large wolf, crosses 15 miles of ice to this national park | Isle Royale | 42%
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1947 | Marjory Stoneman Douglass famously describes the Everglades as a "River of {Grass}" in a book which started the effort to preserve the area | 42%
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2006 | This band releases Dani California, a song about a girl who dies in Badlands National Park | Red Hot Chili Peppers | 42%
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1936 | An international peace memorial is established in northern Ohio to celebrate the victory of this American commodore in one of the most important naval battles in the War of 1812 | Commodore Perry | 38%
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1996 | This national monument, whose size would later be slashed in half by President Trump, is established | Grand Staircase-Escalante | 38%
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1956 | 128 people die in this type of tragedy over Grand Canyon National Park, making this event the single most common cause of death in the park | Plane Crash | 38%
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1978 | This trail, the longest north-south National Scenic Trail, is established | Continental Divide Trail | 29%
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1963 | This new reservoir behind the Glen Canyon dam is named for a legendary explorer of the Colorado River | Lake Powell | 29%
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1953 | Bernard DeVoto publishes a widely-read article suggesting that this drastic action be taken by the NPS in order to highlight the level of underfunding and disrepair in the parks as Congress continued to pilfer funds for other purposes | Close the National Parks | 21%
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1990 | This volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, widely considered to be the most active on earth, buries the town of Kalapana and kills over 100 with a lava flow | Kilauea | 17%
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1917 | This man is appointed to be the first director of the NPS | Stephen Mather | 17%
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1970 | Ths home of this Polish-American revolutionary, who is also the namesake of the highest mountain in Australia, is added to the National Register of Historic Places | Tadeusz Kościuszko | 17%
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1930 | Sunset Crater Volcano, the largest volcano of this unique type, is protected in Arizona | Cinder Cone | 13%
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2001 | Roxanne Quimby uses her fortune to begin purchasing land around the highest mountain in Maine for the creation of this national monument | {Katahdin} Woods and Waters | 13%
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1942 | This "mountain warfare" division of the army, which would be instrumental in driving Nazis from the Italian alps, trains during the winter on snowy Mount Rainier | 10th Mountain Division | 8%
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1922 | This man, an escaped slave who was the third african american graduate of West Point and the first black superintendent of a National Park, dies on a mission in Nigeria | Charles Young | 4%
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1957 | This famous author of "The Monkey Wrench Gang" leaves his job as a park ranger in Arches National Park | Edward Abbey | 0%
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