National Parks Quiz

[BoSoxGal]

https://www.csmonitor.com//USA/2015/120 ... iz/Park-15

[Crackpot]

Since I didn’t get the first question right I got 0%

I couldn’t get to any other question

[Crackpot]

Found a way around it got 53%. Got one answer from the photo credits. I wonder how anyone would get a picture of the aroura borealis without guessing?

[BoSoxGal]

I got one wrong, the name of the park surrounding the White House. Really dumb one to get wrong, but I overthought it.

The aurora borealis one was easy for me, having lived in the northern tier. I guess Michigan isn’t quite north enough to get them regularly?

[Crackpot]

Yeah we do I figured the park had to be in the north but unless I knew for a fact that the others were in the south the picture was absolutely worthless. (I actually guessed right in that one)

[Econoline]

This link takes you to the first question (rather than the last question, which is where the above link goes):
https://www.csmonitor.com//USA/2015/120 ... uiz/Park-1

I got 13/15 (87%). A lot were by the process of elimination (or even just plain guessing), since a lot of the images weren't really distinctive to any one particular National Park. (For instance, there are probably at least a half-dozen parks where you might see the northern lights, several could be a home where the buffalo roam, and I think all five of the parks in Utah have at least one natural bridge or arch somewhere in them.)

[Big RR]

12/15 or 80%--a good number were guesses, some wrong.

[Lord Jim]

Here's the link that starts with the first question in the quiz, rather than the last one:

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2015/1203 ... uiz/Park-1

73%

You answered 11 of 15 questions correctly for a total score of 73%.

A few I knew, a lot of lucky guesses after eliminating some choices that I was pretty sure had to be wrong (there ain't no prairie dogs in The Smokey Mountains) ....

I have a really hard time believing that the "average" score on this is 75%...

Unless this quiz is being taken mainly by a bunch of serious camping devotees, or people are cheating...

[Long Run]

[kristina]

Baker's dozen here, with a few WAGs.

[Bicycle Bill]

Found a way around it got 53%. Got one answer from the photo credits. I wonder how anyone would get a picture of the aroura borealis without guessing?

There's a reason they're called the "Northern Lights".  Voyageurs Park is in northern MN; the other three are in CA (Sequoia); SD (Badlands); and SC (Congaree).  Just pick the one furthest north.

And incidentally, there is also a phenomenon called the Aurora Australis — or "Southern Lights" — as well.

My score — six of one, half-a-dozen of another .... which adds up to twelve.

-"BB"-

[MajGenl.Meade]

12/15

Fell badly - I was sure that the White House is the home of a gigantic artificial prairie dog

[Crackpot]

Found a way around it got 53%. Got one answer from the photo credits. I wonder how anyone would get a picture of the aroura borealis without guessing?

There's a reason they're called the "Northern Lights".  Voyageurs Park is in northern MN; the other three are in CA (Sequoia); SD (Badlands); and SC (Congaree).  Just pick the one furthest north.

And incidentally, there is also a phenomenon called the Aurora Australis — or "Southern Lights" — as well.

My score — six of one, half-a-dozen of another .... which adds up to twelve.

-"BB"-

The Northern lights have been seen as far south as New Orleans. Which precisely eliminates none of those options leaving the picture with no obvious landmarks subject to little more than an educated guess.

[Lord Jim]

12/15

Fell badly - I was sure that the White House is the home of a gigantic artificial prairie dog

A different type of giant rodent...

[BoSoxGal]

Found a way around it got 53%. Got one answer from the photo credits. I wonder how anyone would get a picture of the aroura borealis without guessing?

There's a reason they're called the "Northern Lights".  Voyageurs Park is in northern MN; the other three are in CA (Sequoia); SD (Badlands); and SC (Congaree).  Just pick the one furthest north.

And incidentally, there is also a phenomenon called the Aurora Australis — or "Southern Lights" — as well.

My score — six of one, half-a-dozen of another .... which adds up to twelve.

-"BB"-

The Northern lights have been seen as far south as New Orleans. Which precisely eliminates none of those options leaving the picture with no obvious landmarks subject to little more than an educated guess.

On very rare occasion; the only states that see them on a regular basis are the northern tier and Alaska.

[Crackpot]

Which is why I said educated guess. The point being there is nothing in the given picture distinct enough to identify it from any other location experiencing Northern Lights

[BoSoxGal]

I guess because I dream of kayaking vacations it was very easy for me to identify an otherwise lesser-known National Park with a hint in the name that points to a northerly location, assuming muddling through the process of elimination - but I’ll concede it’s a much less well known park.