Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz

1. Two national parks, the Grand Canyon and the Grand Tetons, were established on February 26 exactly 10 years parts. When were they established?

1900 and 1910

1850 and 1860

1919 and 1929

1923 and 1933

1964 and 1974

2. Which U.S. President started the first national park?

Theodore Roosevelt

Ulysses S. Grant

Woodrow Wilson

John Adams

Franklin Roosevelt

3. Who was the first American to explore the Grand Canyon?

John Muir

Ansel Adams

Merriweather Lewis

John Wesley Powell

Theodore Roosevelt

4. In order to conserve America's public lands, Roosevelt set aside how many acres deemed as national forests?

104 million acres

150 million acres

9 million acres

300 million acres

194 million acres

5. Which river carved out the Grand Canyon?

Snake River

Platte River

Colorado River

Utah River

Rio Grande

6. The first American to see the Grand Tetons was John Colter, with whom was he traveling before he returned east?

French fur trappers

Lewis and Clark

John Wesley Powell

Theodore Roosevelt

Thomas Jefferson

7. The desire to preserve the Grand Tetons arose when it became a destination for dudes. Who does dude refer to?

A cattle rancher

A farmer

A city dweller

A cowboy

An explorer

8. Jackson Hole was not originally incorporated into the national park. Worried about the land, the director of the National Park Service asked whom to quietly purchase the land to preserve it?

John D. Rockefeller

Woodrow Wilson

Eleanor Roosevelt

John Harriman

Leland Stanford

9. Railways built the west. Which railway would take you to the Grand Canyon?

The B&O

The Pacific

The Rio Grande

The Santa Fe

The Arizona

10. What purchase made the westward expansion of the United States possible?

The Westerly Purchase

The Rocky Mountain Purchase

The New Territories Purchase

The Jeffersonian Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase