Can you guess which national park these 'Jeopardy!' clues are about?

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August 8, 2022
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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

Answer #30

- Answer: Big Bend

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

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