State Quiz - Alaska

Wasn't it also known as Seward's Icebox? That's what I've always heard it as.

Alaska may have been called that but the question asks what the purchase of Alaska was called

Please refer to the Bering Strait as a "body of water" rather than an ocean. I was thinking Pacific or Arctic.

It's referred to as an "ocean strait". Nothing wrong with that as I see it?

For whatever reason I kept thinking "the ocean STRAIGHT to Alaska's west" I must have typed Pacific at least 5 times. :)

I thought I went to an eye doctor in Alaska one time, but it was only an optical Aleutian.

*rimshot*

Ayyyyyy

Nice quiz. I got 100 percent and I'm from Nebraska!

McKinley no longer exists

Well, it still exists. It's just not called McKinley anymore.

Well, it was called Denali by some while officially McKinley and now McKinley by some while officially Denali. In my Alaskan family, we use them interchangeably.

It's no longer called McKinley, thankfully.

Indeed, the asnwers should be reversed at the very least. And it's an American quiz ...

It's highly unlikely you'll respond to this but how do you make one box have multiple answers like you did with the provinces one?

You make a normal quiz and then merge cells.

really easy even for someone who's never been to Alaska

Got 14, from New Zealand.

what about the state nickname?

This is unnecessarily hard. Who the hell knows FIVE cities in Alaska?

I know 6

Nome, Fairbanks, Barrow, Anchorage, Sitka, Juneau

Anchorage, Faribanks, Sitka, Ketchican, Juneau, Nome, Utqiagvik, Eagle, Circle, Fox, Unakleet, King Salmon, Unalaska, False Pass, Fort Yukon, Seward, Adak, Grayling, Homer, Wasilla, Palmer, Houston, Big Lake, Moose Pass, Kenai, Russian, Bethel, Kodiak, Kotzebue, Mcgrath, Wainwright, Wrangell, Cordova, Yakutat, Whittier, Point Hope, Deering, Shishmaref, Eagle River, Sand Point, Soldotna, Valdez, Wales, Whale Pass, St. Michael, Kake, Eek, Kachemak, Holy Cross, Akhiok, and Anakthuvuk Pass.

I Live in Alaska

Kotzebue! Didn't think I would see that name again after my literary studies. The guy was a dramatist and conservative thinker whose assassination served as the pretext for harsh censorship in 19th century Germany. He and his son also worked for the Russian Empire, which is how the name ended up being used in Alaska.

Every adult American should know at least Juneau and Anchorage, and probably Fairbanks too. Barrow has been the subject of a lot of articles and documentaries and such, because its status as the northernmost city in the US brings unique challenges (all their supplies come in once a week by plane, they started a high school football problem to combat the meth epidemic that started because prospects are so bleak for young people, basic toiletries have exorbitant prices because it's hard to ship them there, and so on). Not sure where I pulled Nome from, but I've heard of it. Never heard of Sitka, but if it used to be the capital, it's fair game.

The city for the second to last question should be spelled "Cicely, Alaska"

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im pretty sure its still called Mt. McKinley

People might still call it that, but that's not the name. It's Denali.

Barrow has since been renamed Utqiagvik, just like McKinley was renamed to Denali.

btw, the Iditarod is tomorrow