Can you guess which national park these 'Jeopardy!' clues are about?
Can you guess which national park these 'Jeopardy!' clues are about?
Did you know there are 63 National Parks in the United States (perhaps soon to be 64)? The first to be established was Yellowstone National Park, in 1872; the most recent to be added to the list was West Virginia's New River Gorge in 2020. The decades in between hold a great deal of history for the National Park system, and that makes for a whole lot of facts, too. Stacker compiled a list of "Jeopardy!" questions about U.S. National Parks using J! Archive.
Clue #1
- Clue: Congress established this National Park in Arizona February 26, 1919
- Category: FEBRUARY
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: March 29, 1991
Answer #1
- Answer: the Grand Canyon
Clue #2
- Clue: The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District still has 35 structures that date back to around 1900 in this mammoth national park
- Category: COLOR, MY WORLD
- Value: $200
- Date episode aired: November 03, 2021
Answer #2
- Answer: Yellowstone
Clue #3
- Clue: California national park that's site of the world's tallest known tree
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $300
- Date episode aired: November 20, 1985
Answer #3
- Answer: Redwood National Park
Clue #4
- Clue: U.S. national park in which you'd find the Bat Cave, along with the Big Room & the Giant Dome
- Category: TRAVEL & TOURISM
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: April 12, 2000
Answer #4
- Answer: Carlsbad Caverns
Clue #5
- Clue: The USA's driest point is in this national park in the Mojave Desert
- Category: U.S. FACT SHEET
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: December 16, 2020
Answer #5
- Answer: Death Valley
Clue #6
- Clue: The waters of this Arkansas park are at a uniform 143 degrees F.
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: April 26, 1995
Answer #6
- Answer: Hot Springs National Park
Clue #7
- Clue: You'll feel like a king on this isle in Lake Superior, the least visited national park in the lower 48 states
- Category: "OY", THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: July 18, 2019
Answer #7
- Answer: Isle Royale
Clue #8
- Clue: This Arizona forest features the world's largest concentration of fossilized trees
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: July 14, 1993
Answer #8
- Answer: Petrified Forest
Clue #9
- Clue: Mount Whitney, highest point in lower 48 states, is in this park named for its trees
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: September 14, 1984
Answer #9
- Answer: Sequoia National Park
Clue #10
- Clue: The name of this national park in South Dakota tells you its rough terrain is almost devoid of vegetation
- Category: IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: May 23, 2022
Answer #10
- Answer: the Badlands
Clue #11
- Clue: This national park extends from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay
- Category: IN THE PARK
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: February 23, 2009
Answer #11
- Answer: the Everglades National Park
Clue #12
- Clue: A national park in St. Louis includes this tallest monument in the national park system
- Category: THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
- Value: $400
- Date episode aired: April 12, 2021
Answer #12
- Answer: the Gateway Arch
Clue #13
- Clue: Cadillac Mountain, the highest peak on the Eastern Seaboard, lies in this Maine national park
- Category: U.S. GEOGRAPHY
- Value: $500
- Date episode aired: June 03, 1997
Answer #13
- Answer: Acadia National Park
Clue #14
- Clue: In 1980 Mount McKinley National Park was renamed this, the native name for the mountain
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: March 23, 2012
Answer #14
- Answer: Denali
Clue #15
- Clue: Head up to Washington state to the park created in 1899 & named for this volcano, the state's highest mountain
- Category: VISIT A NATIONAL PARK
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: July 08, 2019
Answer #15
- Answer: Mount Rainier
Clue #16
- Clue: This Arizona park is named for the huge cacti that are unique to the region
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: December 04, 2000
Answer #16
- Answer: Saguaro National Park
Clue #17
- Clue: In southern New Mexico, you can literally surf the dunes of this national monument
- Category: NATIONAL MONUMENTS
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: December 23, 2005
Answer #17
- Answer: White Sands
Clue #18
- Clue: One of the most spectacular sites in this national park is Bridalveil Fall, which drops a misty curtain of water 620 feet
- Category: WATERFALLS
- Value: $600
- Date episode aired: March 23, 2001
Answer #18
- Answer: Yosemite
Clue #19
- Clue: A rainforest & coral reef make up the national park of this U.S. territory on the islands of Tutuila, Ta'u & Ofu
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: January 11, 2016
Answer #19
- Answer: American Samoa
Clue #20
- Clue: The Blue Ridge Parkway connects Shenandoah National Park in Virginia with this North Carolina-Tennessee park
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: January 05, 2006
Answer #20
- Answer: Great Smoky Mountains (National Park)
Clue #21
- Clue: Kentucky's only national park, it includes the world's longest cave system at 300 miles in length
- Category: KENTUCKY
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: April 15, 2002
Answer #21
- Answer: Mammoth Cave
Clue #22
- Clue: In the national park called "Great" these structures, you can hear a hum from air passing through millions of grains
- Category: RATTLE & HUM
- Value: $800
- Date episode aired: January 24, 2022
Answer #22
- Answer: the Great Sand Dunes
Clue #23
- Clue: This national park off California's coast consists of Santa Barbara, San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz & Anacapa Islands
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: May 22, 2006
Answer #23
- Answer: Channel Islands National Park
Clue #24
- Clue: The only national park entirely within Wyoming is this one just south of Yellowstone
- Category: AROUND THE U.S.A.
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: June 11, 2018
Answer #24
- Answer: Grand Teton
Clue #25
- Clue: In Washington State, U.S. 101 skirts this National Park and its lush rainforests
- Category: GEOGRAPHY 101
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: February 01, 2018
Answer #25
- Answer: Olympic National Park
Clue #26
- Clue: Skyline Drive rides the crest of the mountains in this Virginia national park
- Category: HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: November 19, 1985
Answer #26
- Answer: Shenandoah
Clue #27
- Clue: The only U.S. national park named for a president, its area includes the Badlands of North Dakota
- Category: TRAVEL & TOURISM
- Value: $1,000
- Date episode aired: June 27, 2000
Answer #27
- Answer: Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Clue #28
- Clue: The USA's 10th national park is this one in Montana that's named for a giant icy feature
- Category: AMERICANA
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: July 05, 2011
Answer #28
- Answer: Glacier National Park
Clue #29
- Clue: This national park whose name is Spanish for "green table" contains many well-preserved Indian cliff dwellings
- Category: "M" PLACEMENT
- Value: $1,200
- Date episode aired: May 09, 2005
Answer #29
- Answer: Mesa Verde
Clue #30
- Clue: This national park in Southwest Texas is named for a feature of the Rio Grande's course
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $1,600
- Date episode aired: January 01, 2009
Clue #31
- Clue: While president Teddy Roosevelt established 5 national parks, including this one "deep" in Oregon
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $1,600
- Date episode aired: February 13, 2002
Answer #31
- Answer: Crater Lake National Park
Clue #32
- Clue: About 70 miles west of Key West, this Florida national park was named for the many sea turtles found there
- Category: NATIONAL PARKS
- Value: $2,000
- Date episode aired: February 15, 2022
Answer #32
- Answer: Dry Tortugas
Clue #33
- Clue: Though this most-visited Utah national park doesn't have "canyon" in its name, a canyon is the big draw
- Category: OTHER RATHER GRAND CANYONS
- Value: $2,000
- Date episode aired: September 25, 2018
Answer #33
- Answer: Zion National Park
