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"Facts" about National Parks - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 45 times
- The average score is 9 of 14
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| Arches National Park is actually named after Archie, the title character of the hit 1940s Archie Comics. | False | 100%
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| National Parks were invented in 1996, when Linkin Park named a field after himself. | False | 100%
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| There are zero glaciers in Glacier National Park. | False | 100%
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| People born in Sequoia national park are called ‘Whitneys’, after Mount Whitney. | False | 100%
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| 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 | 100%
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| Japan’s largest national park is in the ocean. | True | 100%
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| Elk Island national park, in Canada, is landlocked. | True | 100%
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| Somewhat controversially, each individual Yellowstone bison that migrates to another state is treated for legal purposes as an exclave of Wyoming. | False | 50%
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| 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 | 50%
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| 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 | 50%
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| 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 | 50%
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| On the second Wednesday of July, Saguaro National Park hosts its annual desert day, to celebrate the desert. | False | 0%
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| Grover Cleveland once described the Grand Teton as ‘The Matterhorn of Wyoming’. | False | 0%
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| A bear in Yosemite slapped so many people that it was given the nickname “the swatter”. | True | 0%
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