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Alabama Hills
  • 1. What is the origin of the name 'Alabama Hills'?
A) An early California pioneer
B) A Confederate warship
C) A local Native American tribe
D) A famous gold mining company
  • 2. Which ship sank the CSS Alabama in 1864?
A) CSS Kearsarge
B) USS Kearsarge
C) USS Normandy
D) USS Confederate
  • 3. In what year were the first known movies filmed in the Alabama Hills?
A) 1937
B) 1864
C) 1919
D) 1920
  • 4. What is the oldest surviving film shot in the Alabama Hills?
A) The Round-Up
B) Gunga Din
C) Water, Water Everywhere
D) Cupid, the Cowpuncher
  • 5. Who starred in The Round-Up?
A) Buster Keaton
B) Randolph Scott
C) Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
D) Gene Autry
  • 6. Which town is closest to the Alabama Hills?
A) Lone Pine
B) Springfield
C) Normandy
D) Black Rock
  • 7. What is the Bortle class of the Alabama Hills?
A) Bortle class 5
B) Bortle class 2
C) Bortle class 4
D) Bortle class 1
  • 8. Which museum explores the Alabama Hills' relationship to cinema?
A) Lone Pine Film History Museum
B) The Alabama Hills Cinema Museum
C) The California Film Archive
D) The Western History Museum
  • 9. Which of these films is mentioned as having a prop at the film museum?
A) How the West Was Won
B) Django Unchained
C) The Monolith Monsters
D) Iron Man
  • 10. What time of year is the Lone Pine Film Festival held?
A) Fall
B) Winter
C) Summer
D) Spring
  • 11. What can a visitor see with the unaided eye on a clear, moonless night in the Alabama Hills?
A) Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies
B) The rings of Saturn
C) The moons of Jupiter
D) The craters of the moon
  • 12. Which television show was filmed in the Alabama Hills?
A) Gunsmoke
B) Bonanza
C) Rawhide
D) The Twilight Zone
  • 13. Why is the Lone Pine Film Festival called 'the only film festival on location'?
A) The actors attend every year
B) It is the only festival held outdoors
C) Attendees watch films and visit the actual filming sites
D) It only screens movies filmed in California
  • 14. Which vehicle from the movie 'High Sierra' is housed in the film museum?
A) 1937 Ford
B) 1937 Plymouth
C) 1950 Chevrolet
D) 1920 Dodge
  • 15. What does the Alabama Hills' low light pollution meet or exceed?
A) The city of Los Angeles
B) Grand Canyon National Park
C) Joshua Tree National Park
D) Central California city parks
  • 16. In which county are the Alabama Hills located?
A) Inyo County
B) Kern County
C) Mono County
D) Tulare County
  • 17. What is the location of the Alabama Hills relative to Lone Pine?
A) East
B) South
C) North
D) West
  • 18. When were the Alabama Hills redesignated as a National Scenic Area?
A) May 1969
B) March 2019
C) March 1972
D) May 2019
  • 19. Who managed the area starting in 1969?
A) Bureau of Land Management
B) California State Parks
C) National Park Service
D) United States Forest Service
  • 20. Which major mountain is the Alabama Hills a gateway to?
A) Mount Shasta
B) Mount Whitney
C) Mount Rainier
D) Mount Lassen
  • 21. How are the lands owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power restricted?
A) Camping only
B) No access allowed
C) Hiking only
D) Day use only
  • 22. How old is the metamorphosed volcanic rock found in the Alabama Hills?
A) 85 million years
B) 150–200 million years
C) 10 million years
D) 500 million years
  • 23. What is the age of the biotite monzogranite in the Alabama Hills?
A) 85 million years
B) 150–200 million years
C) 20 million years
D) 300 million years
  • 24. What process causes the monzogranite to form large roundish boulders?
A) Tectonic uplift
B) Glacial erosion
C) Volcanic cooling
D) Spheroidal weathering
  • 25. How high does Mount Whitney tower above the Alabama Hills?
A) Ten thousand feet
B) One thousand feet
C) Five thousand feet
D) Nine thousand feet
  • 26. What is the height of the Alabama Hills above the Owens Valley floor?
A) 3,000 feet
B) 1,500 feet
C) 4,500 feet
D) 500 feet
  • 27. Which of the following is a natural arch found in the Alabama Hills?
A) Landscape Arch
B) Mobius Arch
C) Delicate Arch
D) Rainbow Arch
  • 28. Which road provides access to the natural arches?
A) Pacific Coast Highway
B) Whitney Portal Road
C) Death Valley Road
D) Mount Whitney Summit Trail
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