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Exploring Montana: A Quiz on Geography and Film

Test your knowledge about Montana's geography and its representation in film with this engaging quiz.

1 What timezone is Montana in?

2 What role did Robbie Coltrane play in the movie Montana?

3 Historically, the state was traversed by the main lines of three east-west transcontinental routes: the ________, the Great Northern, and the Northern Pacific.

4 What is the full name of Montana?

5 Who played Clyde in the movie Montana?

6 Who played Adam in the movie Montana?

7 How long is Montana?

8 In 1904 a group of young Native American women, after playing undefeated during their last season, went to the ________ held in St.

9 Who played Bess Guthrie in the movie Montana?

10 Who played Evelyn in the movie Montana?

šŸ’” Interesting Facts

  • the buffalo jump at Madison Buffalo Jump State Park in Montana was used for approximately 2000 years by various Native American tribes.
  • some of the thrust horses in Montana's Adel Mountains Volcanic Field fold some of the intrusions, while others are cut by them.
  • in 1979 two Montana legislators sued the United States Department of Transportation in an unsuccessful attempt to save the North Coast Hiawatha Amtrak train.
  • the stagecoach line running between Kelton, Utah and several gold mines in Idaho and Montana was robbed more often than any other stage line in the Old West.
  • the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Missoula, Montana, was named for Medal of Honor recipient Ernest Veuve.
  • the newly-named Oryctodromeus, a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first dinosaur described as making burrows.
  • the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 was a wildfire in Montana which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters.
  • although the Montana Fish and Game Board, the predecessor to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, was established in 1895, the first game warden was not hired until 1898.
  • French athlete Jason Lamy-Chappuis, who beat American Johnny Spillane in the final stretch of the individual normal hill/10 km Nordic combined event at the 2010 Olympics, was born in Montana.
  • Montana's Shonkin Sag was created when glaciers blocked the Missouri River, forcing it to cut a new channel at right angles to the existing drainage valleys.
  • Montana's 30 percent tax on coal production, upheld in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana (1981), was once called "the most significant piece of legislation enacted in Montana in this century".
  • Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer had a small role as Sheriff Strunk in the 2007 film A Plumm Summer.
  • Montana's Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area (namesake landform pictured) was designated a federal wilderness study area in 1981, delisted in 1982, and designated again in 1985.
  • Elm Coulee Oil Field, Montana, is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years.
  • Katie Blair became the first teenager from Montana to place in the Miss Teen USA pageant's 24 year history, when she won the Miss Teen USA 2006 crown.
  • Hell Gate, a ghost town in western Montana, was the scene of several notorious lynchings in 1864.
  • 'Asta Bowen's novel Wolf: A Journey Home is based on the recorded lives of a pack of wolves relocated from Pleasant Valley, Montana, to Glacier Park in 1989.