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Bits of Park History Questions & Answers for 2010
    
There were 2 multiple answer questions and 3
single answer questions. Many answers in all. Here they are. How many did you get?
Questions one through three.
Location |
Question |
Answer |
Arkansas Park
Sheet
single answer |
What national park has the most visitors?
Might surprise you. |
Great Smokey Mountains National Park in
Tennessee. |
Wyoming Park
Sheet
single answer |
National parks and other national historic
sites, in their own way, tell the history of America. What is the oldest park in the
United States? |
Boston Common wasn't originally used as a park, in the
current sense of that word. Cattle grazed there as late as 1830. Elm Park in Worcester,
Massachusetts claims to be the oldest area set aside by a city or town specifically for
use as a public park. It was designed by Frederick Olmstead who was also the landscape
architect for Central Park in NYC.
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California Park
Sheet
single answer |
Later in this park series of quarters you
will learn about the largest national park in America. What is its name and in what state
is it located?. |
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve,
Alaska - 13,175,901 acres. |
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Bits of History Questions & Answers for 2010
Questions four and five.
Location |
Question |
Answer |
Arizona Sheet
multiple answer |
If you were to travel to the deepest canyon
in America, in what state or states you be? |
Oregon or Idaho in Hells Canyon. |
Oregon Sheet
single answer |
InThe park series of quarters covers
all of the United States and its territories. What state has the largest number of
National Parks and Historical Sites. |
You are in Virginia. |
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