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Games : Nugget Trivia Quiz # 1


You may want to read the Nuggets first to learn more about the topics; check your answers below.

1. Which is the largest lake in the park?
Cascade Lake
Lost Lake
Yellowstone Lake
Shoshone Lake

2. Which Yellowstone wildflower blooms rarely and has stiff, grass-like leaves on stalks as tall as five feet?
Cinquefoil
Bear grass
Lupine
Indian paintbrush

3. Black Pool in West Thumb Geyser Basin is no longer appropriately named black because. . .
vandals colored the water blue.
the calcium content has increased.
English visitors are insisting the name be changed.
A very hot 1991 eruption killed the dark bacterial mats.

4. On Beartooth Butte, how old are the fish fossils that have been discovered?
400 million years old
200,000 years old
199 million years old
20,000 years old

5. Which animals help keep the grass trimmed at Mammoth Hot Springs?
Black bears
Bison
The resident elk herd
Pack horses

6. What chemical compound is the travertine of Mammoth's terraces made of?
Sodium chloride (NaCl)
Silicon dioxide (SO2)
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S)
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3)

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