Trivia Bits for Jul 19, 2023

Leslie Elman
Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:00:00 -0700
Lifestyle

Other parks have private landing strips, but Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is the only U.S. national park that contains a commercial airport. Opened in the 1930s, Jackson Hole Airport became part of the park in 1943, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recommended expanding Grand Teton National Park to include Jackson Hole National Monument. That proposal was finalized in 1950. Rather than turn the area into a ghost town, as some local businessmen feared, it brought robust tourist trade to the region.

Which natural formation played a key role in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"?
Updated: Wed Jul 19, 2023

Other parks have private landing strips, but Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is the only U.S. national park that contains a commercial airport. Opened in the 1930s, Jackson Hole Airport became part of the park in 1943, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recommended expanding Grand Teton National Park to include Jackson Hole National Monument. That proposal was finalized in 1950. Rather than turn the area into a ghost town, as some local businessmen feared, it brought robust tourist trade to the region.

Which natural formation played a key role in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"?

A) Devils Tower in Wyoming

B) El Capitan in California

C) Landscape Arch in Utah

D) Zuma Rock in Nigeria

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