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Exploring Ghost Towns: A Quiz on Abandoned Places

Test your knowledge about ghost towns and the history behind them with this engaging quiz. Explore various locations and their stories of abandonment.

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1 Thousands of communities in the northern plains states like North Dakota, South Dakota, ________ and Nebraska became railroad ghost towns when a rail-line failed to materialize.

2 Outside ________, Namibia there are two ghost towns, Elizabeth Bay and Kolmanskop.

3 The southern part of ________, also known as Varosha/Maraş is fenced off by the Turkish army.

4 Most 19th and 20th century European immigrants to ________ settled in the cities, which offered jobs, education, and other opportunities that enabled newcomers to enter the middle class.

5 What does the following picture show?  Kolmanskop, Namibia   Berlin, Nevada Ghost Town, taken in 2004.   Bannack, Montana, USA, a well-preserved ghost town that is now a state park.

6 The city of Prypiat and dozens of smaller settlements in northern Ukraine and southern ________ were abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and turned into a closed alienation zone.

7 What does the following picture show?  Belchite, Spain   Kolmanskop, Namibia   Calico, California Ghost Town.   Hashima Island, Japan

8 The 2007 Xbox 360 game ________ has a downloadable map pack that contains a multiplayer map named "Ghost Town".

9 Ghostown, a 1979 album by Irish band The Radiators From Space, is a concept album documenting the sense of social and cultural isolation felt by many ________ throughout the 1970s.

10 What does the following picture show?  Abandoned hotels in Famagusta, Cyprus   The derelict British base in Whalers Bay, Deception Island, destroyed by volcano eruption   As with many gold rush towns, the once thriving community of Cassilis is now abandoned   Hashima Island, Japan

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the ghost town of Ajax, Utah was centered on an 11,000 square foot (1,000 m²) department store lying entirely underground.
  • the ghost town of Buffalo City, North Carolina (pictured) was once the largest community in Dare County.
  • the 1925 silent film The Air Mail was filmed in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada.
  • it is believed that the ghost town of Conquerville, Alberta, began its decline when the local high school closed.
  • in the Oregon ghost town of Boyd only the wheat fields are still operational.
  • the ghost town of Melmont, Washington was only populated for twenty years.
  • the Friends Meeting House (pictured) is the only remaining structure in the ghost town of Benjaminville, Illinois.
  • the remains of the ghost town of Copano, Texas, are at risk of falling into Copano Bay.
  • the name of Shelldrake, a ghost town in the U.S. state of Michigan, was translated from the Ojibwa word for a kind of duck.
  • the colonial ghost town of Brunswick, North Carolina was named after Braunschweig, Germany, the birthplace of Great Britain's King George I.
  • the Straits Lumber mill at the ghost town of Red Gap, British Columbia was once the largest in the Pacific Northwest.
  • a movie set built for the 1961 Rat Pack film Sergeants 3 is often mistaken for the ghost town of Paria, Utah.
  • Woodside, Utah is a ghost town with a roadside cold water geyser.
  • Carvins Cove, Virginia, was abandoned and subsequently inundated to create Carvins Cove Reservoir in the 1940s.
  • Hebron, now a ghost town in Utah, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1902.
  • Belleville, California, now a ghost town, was once a gold mining boomtown with a population of nearly 10,000, the largest town in Holcomb Valley in 1860.
  • Anthracite, Alberta, now a ghost town, was once a hotspot for illegal activities.
  • Poland's only "official" ghost town, Kłomino, used to be a base of both the Wehrmacht and the Soviet Army.
  • Hell Gate, a ghost town in western Montana, was the scene of several notorious lynchings in 1864.
  • Kiz, Utah, now a ghost town, was named for the first woman to settle in the area.
  • Widtsoe, Utah was made a ghost town in 1936 by the federal Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that bought out indebted landowners.
  • Red Dog, California, now a ghost town with only a cemetery remaining, was named by a 15 year old California gold rush prospector.
  • Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic.
  • Prairie Bluff, Alabama, is a ghost town whose only remaining physical feature is a cemetery with marked graves dating from the 1830s to the 1860s.
  • Mount Silverheels was named after a popular dance-hall girl in the now-deserted ghost town Buckskin Joe, Colorado.
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