Statistics for History of Idaho

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What national park was established between Idaho, Wyoming and Montana in 1872?	Yellowstone	95%
By what religious group was the first organized town in Idaho settled in 1860?	Latter-day Saints	90%
What Native American girl, born in Salmon, Idaho, met and helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition?	Sacagawea	81%
The original European settlers in Idaho were traders looking for what?	Fur	79%
What future Alaska governor was born in Idaho in 1964?	Sarah Palin	75%
What daredevil tried to jump over the Snake River in a steam-powered rocket?	Evel Knievel	72%
What was Chief Joseph's tribe?	{Nez} Perce	71%
What type of natural disaster killed 86 and destroyed three million acres of land Idaho Panhandle in 1910?	Wildfire	70%
What 2004 cult film, starring Jon Heder, was set in Idaho?	Napoleon Dynamite	66%
What author committed suicide in his summer house in Ketchum in 1961?	Ernest Hemingway	64%
Arco, Idaho was world's first community to be lit by electricity generated solely by what type of power?	Nuclear Power	61%
What did Emma Edwards Green design in 1863 for Idaho, the only to be designed by a woman among the states?	{Seal} of Idaho	40%
Who was the last Democratic presidential candidate Idaho voted for in a presidential election?	Lyndon B. Johnson	39%
What city became the first capital of the newly created Idaho Territory?	{Lewis}ton	28%