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This quiz has been taken 36 times
The average score is 8 of 14

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Question	Answer	% Correct
National Parks were invented in 1996, when Linkin Park named a field after himself.	False	90%
Arches National Park is actually named after Archie, the title character of the hit 1940s Archie Comics.	False	86%
There are zero glaciers in Glacier National Park.	False	76%
The last known military engagement between the US and the UK occurred in San Juan Historical Park, and climaxed with the cold-blooded murder of a single pig.	True	76%
Elk Island national park, in Canada, is landlocked.	True	76%
Japan’s largest national park is in the ocean.	True	71%
People born in Sequoia national park are called ‘Whitneys’, after Mount Whitney.	False	67%
A bear in Yosemite slapped so many people that it was given the nickname “the swatter”.	True	48%
Somewhat controversially, each individual Yellowstone bison that migrates to another state is treated for legal purposes as an exclave of Wyoming.	False	43%
A hemlock tree that floats in Crater Lake, perfectly vertical, is thought to be a weather deity because it breaks free of its ropes in a freak storm whenever it’s tied up.	True	43%
Quebec refers to its provincial parks as ‘national parks’. This is because the government of Quebec still thinks it’s an independent nation, rather than part of Canada.	True	38%
The sharp stones along roadways in Acadia are known as ‘Rockefellers Teeth’, an homage to his philanthropy as well as to his remarkably poor dental hygiene.	True	38%
Grover Cleveland once described the Grand Teton as ‘The Matterhorn of Wyoming’.	False	29%
On the second Wednesday of July, Saguaro National Park hosts its annual desert day, to celebrate the desert.	False	19%

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