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Exploring Alaska: A Quiz on Its History and Culture

This quiz tests your knowledge about Alaska's history, culture, and the film 'Alaska'.

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1 Who played U.S. Marshal John Masters in the videomovie Alaska?

2 What role did Nils Asther play in the videomovie Alaska?

3 What does the following picture show?  Alaska Railroad "Glacier Discovery" train.   Alaska oil production peaked in 1988 and has declined 65% since.   St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Sitka, Alaska   U.S. troops negotiate snow and ice during the Battle of Attu in May 1943.

4 According to the ________, Alaska ranks second in the nation in crude oil production.

5 What role did Frank Ketelaar play in the videomovie Alaska?

6 What role did Perla Valencia play in the videomovie Alaska?

7 Who played Winkelmeisje in the videomovie Alaska?

8 Norwegian Americans made up 4.2% of Alaska's population and ________ made up 3.2% of the state's population.

9 What role did Ryan Kent play in the videomovie Alaska?

10 ________ made up 0.5% of Alaska's population.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the Alaska Conservation Society was the first grassroots environmental conservation organization created in the U.S. state of Alaska.
  • the Ahklun Mountains (pictured), located in the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, support the only existing glaciers in western Alaska.
  • the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 was said by opponents to be part of a Communist, Catholic, Jewish or psychiatric conspiracy to set up concentration camps in Alaska for political prisoners.
  • the Battle of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, 1942–1943, was the last battle fought on the soil of the United States.
  • the Beaver River (pictured) flows through the heart of the Yukon Flats, one of the most productive waterfowl breeding areas in North America, and the most productive in Alaska.
  • the 2008 Tanana Valley flood brought the Tanana River in central Alaska to its highest level since August 1967.
  • the tides at Kachemak Bay, Alaska have an average vertical difference of fifteen feet, and recorded extremes of twenty eight feet.
  • secondary students can take Yup'ik studies in the Yupiit School District, which is located in the Bethel Census Area of Alaska.
  • in early 2001, three teenagers in Anchorage, Alaska, conducted and videotaped a series of racially motivated drive-by shootings with a paintball gun.
  • seven whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871, but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the Alaskan coast.
  • the 7.9 Mw Denali Fault earthquake on November 3, 2002 was the strongest shock ever recorded in the interior of Alaska.
  • the sled dog Togo is considered one of the heroes commemorated by the Iditarod dog sled race which is currently running across the U.S. state of Alaska.
  • the Bobrof Volcano is an uninhabited island in the Andreanof Islands, part of Alaska's Aleutian archipelago.
  • the E. L. Patton Yukon River Bridge is the only bridge crossing of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska.
  • the proposed Rampart Dam on the Yukon River in Alaska would have created a man-made reservoir larger than Lake Erie.
  • the first road in Alaska was built on Woody Island for horses, brought in by the Russian-American Company to cut ice blocks, to exercise.
  • the rider who completes the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge in the shortest time will win $500,000 in Alaskan gold.
  • when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigns on July 26, 2009, Craig Campbell (pictured) will become the new Lieutenant Governor of Alaska.
  • while most glaciers in the Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska are receding, Margerie Glacier (pictured) is said to be stable.
  • the artwork of full-blood Tsimshian photographer Benjamin Haldane has enjoyed a revival after his glass plate negatives were discovered in an Alaskan dump.
  • the Shanta Creek fire has burned over 13,000 acres (53 km2; 20 sq mi) on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula since it was started by lightning on June 29, 2009.
  • the Hubbard Glacier is the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska.
  • the Jensen Arctic Museum in Monmouth, Oregon, is the only museum on the West Coast other than in Alaska that focuses solely on Arctic culture.
  • the Meadow Vole is a common rodent species found from Alaska to Florida, and that the subspecies from Florida is endangered.
  • the Salmon Creek Dam (pictured) in Juneau, the capital of Alaska, was built in 1914 and was the world's first constant-angle arch dam.
  • in 1978, 21-year-old Walter Muma set a record for moped trips with a three-month, 11,500-mile ride from Toronto to Alaska and back.
  • former Juneau, Alaska mayor Dennis Egan hosts a program called Problem Corner on local radio station KINY.
  • Afognak Island State Park was established as a conservation area in 1892, but did not become an Alaska state park until 1994, as a result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
  • Tabasco sauce heir Edward Avery McIlhenny was an arctic explorer who, in 1897 and 1898, helped to rescue over a hundred whaling fleet sailors stranded at Point Barrow, Alaska.
  • American Summit in Alaska is the location of what has been called one of the most remote liquor stores in the world.
  • American lions were probably cave lions who crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska.
  • Andrew Berg, a Finnish immigrant to the U.S. state of Alaska, became the Territory's first licensed hunting guide.
  • Spanish naval officer Ignacio de Arteaga y Bazán led an expedition in 1779 to Alaska, and performed a formal ceremony of possession at present-day Port Etches.
  • Nevada Governor John Henry Kinkead (pictured) was the first United States official to hold office in Alaska.
  • aviation historian Randy Acord was awarded the Alaska–Siberian Lend Lease Award for his role in improving Russian–North American relations during World War II.
  • Alaskan fiber artist Fran Reed was known for her distinctive baskets made from dried fish skins.
  • Becharof Lake within the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska contains the second largest run of sockeye salmon in the world.
  • Hudson Stuck, who was one of the first people to climb Mount McKinley's South Peak, thought Eagle Summit was one of the most difficult summits in Alaska.
  • logging in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska has put the stability of the Alexander Archipelago Wolf population at risk.
  • Augie Hiebert not only built Alaska's first television station, KTVA, but also founded the state's first FM radio station, KNIK-FM.
  • Chilkat weaving, a traditional technique of indigenous peoples of Alaska and British Columbia, is so complex that it may take a year to weave a blanket.
  • Thompson Pass holds the Alaskan records for snowfall in a single day, a whole winter, and the annual average snowfall.
  • Seward's Success, Alaska, was a proposed city enclosed by a dome, which would have had a constant controlled temperature of 68 Â°F (20 Â°C).
  • after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2007, Jason Coday headbutted his own attorney in a Juneau, Alaska, court.
  • after being kicked out of his Michigan Militia, Norman Olson moved to Alaska to attempt to start a militia there.
  • an unnamed hurricane in 1975 attained hurricane status further north than any other Pacific hurricane before dissipating near Alaska.
  • sea otter conservation efforts have included successful translocations of sea otters (pictured) from Alaska to British Columbia and Washington.
  • Rika's Landing Roadhouse in Big Delta, Alaska, was transferred from John Hajdukovich to Rika Wallen for "$10.00 and other considerations".
  • Glacier Bay (pictured) in Alaska, US, known in the 18th century as the Grand Pacific Glacier, was a single glacier that has now retreated by 65 miles to the head of the bay at Tarr Inlet.
  • Pete Overfield won a professional American football championship in 1901 and was later nominated by U.S. President William Howard Taft as a federal judge in Alaska.
  • Ramy Brooks, a competitor in the 1,049 mi 2006 Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska, is one of the few Native Alaskans competing in the event.
  • Regal Mountain (pictured), an eroded stratovolcano in the Wrangell Mountains, is the third highest thirteener (a peak between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation) in Alaska.
  • Alaska's First Gentleman Todd Palin won the world's longest snowmobile race four times.
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