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Test your Nevada knowledge. (Questions and answers courtesy of the Nevada Commission on Toursim.)

  1. What is the highest point in Nevada?
  2. What is Nevada's official state flower?
  3. What color is the dome of Nevada's 1870 State Capitol?
  4. What was Nevada's first state park?
  5. Throughout the course of the year, how many military members may be stationed in Nevada?
  6. What is the name of Nevada's national park?
  7. What is Nevada's official state animal?
  8. What year was casino gambling legalized in Nevada?
  9. What is the state slogan which appears on the flag?
  10. How many square miles does Nevada cover?
  11. What community describes itself as "The Biggest Little City in the World?"
  12. What is Nevada's smallest incorporated city?
  13. What percentage of Nevada is managed by federal government?
  14. What year was Hoover Dam completed?
  15. What is Mark Twain's real name; and of what newspaper was he editor?
  16. What are Nevada's two official state trees?
  17. What is Nevada's official state fish?
  18. What is the driest state in the nation?
  19. Where in Nevada can you find one of only two round courthouses in America?
  20. What is the only city in Nevada where casino gambling does not exist?
  21. What is Nevada's state motto which appears on the seal?
  22. What is Nevada's state capital?
  23. What are Nevada's official state colors?
  24. Where can you find a glacier in Nevada?
  25. What is Nevada's official state fossil?
  26. What is Nevada's official state rock?
  27. What is Nevada's official state bird?
  28. What is Nevada's official state grass?
  29. What are Nevada's nicknames?
  30. What year was the current flag redesigned?
  31. Where does Nevada rank in size, compared to the other states?
  32. How many states border Nevada?
  33. For whom is Carson City named?
  34. What date did Nevada become the 36th state?
  35. In what year was gold and silver discovered in Nevada?
  36. Where is Nevada's only winery?
  37. Where are the Air Force Thunderbirds stationed?


    Answers:

    1. Boundary Peak (13,143 feet) on the Nevada/California border west of Tonopah

    2. Sagebrush

    3. Silver

    4. Valley of Fire State park, located northeast of Las Vegas, became the first state park in 1935. It is also Nevada's largest at 34,880 acres.

    5. Over 70,000 members may be stationed in Nevada throughout the year.

    6. Great Basin National Park

    7. The Desert Bighorn Sheep

    8. 1931

    9. "Battle Born"

    10. 110,540 square miles

    11. Reno

    12. Gabbs, east of Hawthorne (660 people)

    13. 85.28%, or 60 million acres. This is second only to Alaska with 85.80%.

    14. 1935. It took 4 years of construction, 7 million tons of cement and stands 726 feet high.

    15. Samuel Clemens; Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City

    16. Pinion pine and Bristlecone pine

    17. Lahontan cutthroat trout

    18. Surprise, surprise. . . Nevada (9 inches annually)

    19. Pershing County Courthouse, Lovelock

    20. Boulder City

    21. "All for Our Country"

    22. Carson City, located 35 miles south of Reno

    23. Silver and blue

    24. Great Basin National Park

    25. Ichthyosaur

    26. Sandstone

    27. The Mountain Blue Bird

    28. Indian Rice Grass

    29. "The Sagebrush State," and "The Silver State"

    30. 1991

    31. Seventh

    32. Five (Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon and Utah)

    33. Kit Carson

    34. October 31, 1864. This date is celebrated every year as Nevada Day.

    35. 1859

    36. Pahrump Valley Vineyards in Pahrump, east of Las Vegas

    37. Nellis Air Force Base, outside of Las Vegas

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