Look Smart Trivia: National Parks & Monuments
8I’m an avid indoorsman, and even I am reduced to ecstatic babbling over the greatness of U.S. National Parks (and their little siblings, National Monuments). Each one, just on its own, is a treasure beyond value. Add them all together, and open them all to anyone who can get there, and it’s one of the greatest things humans have ever done for each other and for the planet. Anyway, if you’re stuck at a desk, maybe at least you can breathe in the atmosphere of these five National Parks or National Monuments, as seen in a National Geographic book from the 70s. Be the first to name all five and you’ll score a $5 Meh coupon. Insert signoff catchphrase here!
@cinoclav stepped up to the plate, kept their eye on the ball, and knocked yesterday’s Blurry Baseball Uniforms of the 1980s quiz out of the park:
- Chicago White Sox
- Texas Rangers
- Atlanta Braves
- Pittsburgh Pirates
- Seattle Mariners
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Accurate
@medz I’m an avid indoorswoman.
@Gypsigirl213 Indoorsing is one of my favorite hobbies.
Wow. This would be a lot easier if it was just National Parks. Including National Monuments takes the list from 61 to 192. Happy Googling folks!
Yay for the baseball uniforms. So uh, I kind of have several (3 to be exact) wins that I haven’t used the codes for. Being that the code disappears once used, can they be combined into one super mega discount code of $15? Or maybe put in as 3 separate code names? Paging any CS. @tHumperchick maybe?
@cinoclav
Ask again later
/8ball Or maybe put in as 3 separate code names?
Holy smokes, I’ll take some guesses – only sure of one of these:
@lehigh Third guess! Shenandoah, White Sands, Biscayne, Dinosaur, Bryce. 4th guess swaps Everglades for Biscayne
Taking a swing at it, I was working on this then real work happened. Borrowing the last one from @lehigh
Great smoky mountains national park
Great sand dunes national park
Everglades national park
Dinosaur national monument
Bryce Canyon national oark
@djslack And now I want to cover my bases with a 2nd guess that goes Smoky, White Sands, Everglades, Dinosaur, Bryce
@djslack @lehigh Am I totally missing something on #5? Bryce Canyon looks like, um, a canyon. Red, rocky, etc. That looks like a bunch of birch trees to me. I’m guessing it’s Acadia National Park.
@djslack @lehigh I was going to say the Blue Ridge mountains of Shenandoah National Park for 1. But that’s at a glance.
@djslack @lehigh Also, you might want to check this site as to when the parks were actually designated. @JasonToon says they’re pictures from a 1970’s book. Biscayne was designated in 1980.
https://www.terragalleria.com/parks/info/parks-by-date.html
@cinoclav @djslack take a google look at “quaking aspens national park”… I knew they were aspens; just didn’t know where they were from
@djslack @lehigh @sammydog01 I feel like 1 could be a multitude of places. It also looks like Great Smoky Mountains NP.
@lehigh It’s so difficult to tell without seeing the leaves. Seems kind of annoying if that’s a picture of a small part of Bryce instead of what Bryce is known for.
@cinoclav I used to live in the Blue Ridge mountains and I know a lot of mountains look alike but that sure looks like them. They get their name from the blue haze.
@sammydog01 I think in the right light any of them could have that same hue. I’ve seen all sorts of shades of blue and green while looking. Here’s GSMNP.
@cinoclav Pretty. I guess we’ll find out on Monday.
@sammydog01
@cinoclav The most fun ones are when we don’t know until the big reveal.
Here’s a guess with a lot of plagarism:
Well, here goes nothing.
(I’ll cheat off of anyone’s paper.)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
White Sands National Monument
Everglades National Park
Dinosaur National Monument
Acadia National Park
I agree.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
White Sands National Monument
Everglades national park
Dinosaur National Monument
Rocky Mountains National Park