1. How many of the 50 states have zero acres of national parks?
2. Which U.S. president added the most total acreage to the NPS system?
3. Who is the only fictional character with an NPS site?
4. Designated in 1872, Yellowstone is often called the first national park. But one of the 58 national parks arguably predates it, having been the very first site established as a "preservation" by Congress in 1832. Which park is it?
5. Of the 58 national parks, how many are west of the Mississippi?
6. Who was the only president to have been employed by the NPS in a national park?
7. America's 58 designated national parks contain a combined 81,398 square miles. What percentage of that area is in Alaska?
8. After Alaska, which state has the most land devoted to national parks?
9. The National Park Service Recovery Act will deliver $920 million to the NPS as part of the stimulus package. Grand Teton National Park will receive $18.8 million, which is second only to the $57.9 million to be received by which of the following parks?
10. Since Kilauea began erupting again in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in 1983, approximately how many acres of land have been added to the Big Island?
11. Which of the following U.S. territories in the Pacific has a national park?
12. Which of the following parks has the most plant and animal species—41—listed under the Endangered Species Act?
13. Which of the following national parks does not have views painted by Hudson School artist Thomas Moran?
14. Which of these NPS sites has the world's longest system of subterranean caves?
15. The oldest exposed rocks in the United States (about 2 billion years old) are in a national park. Which one?
16. Which U.S. president added the most sites to the entire NPS system?
17. Which two states will be connected by America's longest hiking trail—the meandering 4,600-mile North Country National Scenic Trail—when it is completed by the NPS?
18. What percentage of America's 1,010 endangered plant and animal species (as of June 24, 2009) have habitats found in the NPS system?
19. Which is the only NPS area designated an International Historic Site?
20. Which is the only warship to be a designated an NPS memorial?
21. Which of the following American poets does not have an NPS site?
22. Which of the following African Americans does not have an NPS site?
23. Which state has the NPS's only ecological preserve on the mainland?
24. Where is the only National Park for the Performing Arts?
25. The largest national park outside of Alaska is:
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