Alaska Trivia Quiz Questions And Answers
The First Russian Orthodox Church was founded in 1795 in
what Alaskan city?
A: Kodiak.
Alaska is the largest U.S. state by what?
A: Area.
Of the 50 US states, which is the least densely populated?
A: Alaska.
During World War II, which three Aleutian Islands were
invaded by Japanese troops?
A: Attu, Agattu and Kiska.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, managed by the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, is the world's largest what?
A: Wildlife refuge, comprising 16 million acres .
About half of Alaska's population resides in what area?
A: The Anchorage metropolitan area.
How much money did the United States pay for Alaska when it
bought Alaska from Russia?
A: $7.2 million
On what date was Alaska organized as a territory?
A: May 11, 1912.
Of all the US states, Alaska has the largest percentage of
what religious group members in its population?
A: Quakers.
The Census Bureau, as of 1960, reported Alaska's American
Indian and Alaska Native population to be what percentage of the total
population?
A: 18.8%
How much precipitation does Juneau average per year?
A: Over 50.
In 2010, what type of community broke ground on the first
mosque in the state of Alaska.
A: a Muslim.
Ketchikan averages how many inches of precipitation a year?
A: Over 150 in.
How much snow does Anchorage receive on average per year?
A: About75 in.
On March 27, 1964, the massive "Good Friday
Earthquake"
killed how many people in Alaska?
A: 133 people
Alaska has been identified as being one of the 3 least
religious states of the USA judging by what?
A: Church membership.
The Good Friday Earthquake was the third-most-powerful
earthquake in history and was over one thousand times more powerful than the
1989 where?
A: San Francisco.
Alaska was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on what
date?
A: January 3, 1959.
Alaska has a longer "what" than all the other U.S. states
combined?
A: Coastline.
Alaska has how many indigenous languages known locally as
"native languages"?
A: 22.
Studies of DNA done in Alaska have provided evidence for
the settlement of North America by way of what?
A: The Bering land bridge.
Alaska's territorial waters touch what other countries
territorial waters in the Bering Strait?
A: Russia's.
An oil boom resulted after the 1968 discovery of oil at
Prudhoe Bay and the 1977 completion of the what?
A: Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
What two bodies of water largely determine the climate of Western Alaska?
A: The Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska.
The climate of the interior of Alaska is what?
A: Subarctic.
In 1989, what ship hit a reef in the Prince William Sound,and spilled over 11 million gallons of crude oil?
A: The Exxon Valdez.
What is the size of Alaska in square miles?
A: 586,412
Alaska is over twice the size of, the next largest state which is what state?
A: Texas.
Panhandle or Inside Passage is the part of Alaska that is
closest to the rest of the what?
A: United States.
In Alaska, some of the highest and lowest temperatures
occur in the area near what city?
A: Fairbanks.
What is the highest recorded temperature in Alaska?
A: 100 °F in Fort Yukon. June 27, 1915
What is the is the highest peak in Alaska?
A: Mount McKinley.
In Alaska, the North Slope is known for its huge reserves of what?
A: Crude oil.
The National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field are located in what part of Alaska?
A: The North Slope.
What is the lowest recorded temperature ever taken in Alaska?
A: −80 °F in Prospect Creek on January 23, 1971.
What city is the northernmost city in the United States?
A: Barrow.
The What is generally held to be the first European vessel
to reach Alaska ?
A: The St. Gabriel .
In 1741, Vitus Bering led an expedition for the Russian
Navy aboard what ship?
A: The St. Peter
The Aleutian Islands are over 300 small,
volcanic islands
which stretch over 1,200 miles into the what?
A: Pacific Ocean.
In July, the average low temperature in Barrow is what?
A: 34 °F
Why was the International Date Line drawn west of 180° ?
A: To keep the entire North American continent within the same
legal day.
When was the first permanent European settlement
established in Alaska?
A: In 1784.
Alaska is the northernmost, easternmost and "what " state
in the union?
A: Westernmost.
How many miles of tidal shoreline does Alaska have?.
A: 34,000 miles .
Between 1774 and 1800, in an effort to assert its claim
over the Pacific Northwest, what country sent expeditions to Alaska?
A: Spain.
Alaska has many active what?
A: Volcanoes.
Mount Shishaldin, an occasionally active volcano, has the most perfect what?
A: Volcanic cone.
In 1789, where was a Spanish settlement and fort established?
A: Nootka Sound.
In Turnagain Arm, just south of Anchorage, one of the world's largest tides occurs with tidal differences that can be more than how many feet?
A: 35 feet
How many lakes does Alaska have?
A: More than three million.
How many square miles are covered by marshlands and wetland permafrost?
A: 188,320 square miles
Glacier ice covers how many square miles?
A: Some 16,000 square miles land and 1,200 square miles of tidal zone.
How many glaciers does Alaska have?
A: Over 100,000.
The Aleutian Islands are home to what people?
A: The Aleut people.
The Aleut people were the first Native Alaskans to be exploited by who?
A: Russians.
What people occupy the North Slope and Little Diomede Island?
A: The Inupiat people.
In the 1890s and into to the early 1910s, what brought thousands of miners and settlers to Alaska?
A: Gold rushes in Alaska and the nearby Yukon Territory.
