Match the Native American Name to the English Quiz

Answer: Lake Superior

Lake Superior is called "Gichigami", meaning "big water" in the Ojibwe language. It is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area.

From Gordon Lightfoot's tribute, "Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald":

"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down,
Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee'..."

Answer: Mt McKinley

Mount McKinley [known as Denali since August 2015] is actually a taller mountain than Mount Everest. Everest's peak is about 9000 ft (2700 m) higher than McKinley's peak as measured from sea level, however, Everest's base sits at about 17000 feet (5200 m), giving it a height of just over 12000 ft (3600 m). McKinley sits on only a 2000-foot (600m) plateau, giving it a base-to-peak height of 18000 ft (5500m).

There's half again as much vertical mountain to climb if you start at McKinley's base than if you start at Everest's!

Answer: Mount Saint Helens

Mount St. Helens' famous eruption occurred on May 18, 1980 - the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. The summit's elevation was reduced from 9677 feet (2950 m) to 8365 feet (2550 m), replaced with a mile-wide crater.

Answer: Tahoma (or Tacoma)

I hope you got this one right! Fuji is Japan's premier mountain, Kilimanjaro is in Africa, and Suribachi is the famous mountain on Iwo Jima.

Toyota makes a Tacoma truck and Tahoma is a Windows font.

Answer: Block Island

Amity Island is a fictional place in the story, "Jaws". Nantucket is a real island but it belongs to Massachusetts, not RI, and the name itself is derived from the original Native American name, rather than being a creation of the Europeans.

Plum Island belongs to New York and has on it an animal disease research facility. In the story, "The Silence of the Lambs" it was offered as a possible future home to convicted murderer Hannibal Lecter who referred to it as "Anthrax Island".

Answer: Mount Washington

At 6288 feet (1917 m), Mount Washington has some nasty weather, claiming it's the "Home of the World's Worst Weather". Visitors can drive their own car or hike to the summit. They can also use the Mount Washington Cog Railway which opened in 1869 and pulls tourists up to the summit of Mount Washington using a Marsh rack system.

Unfortunately, the view from the summit is often obscured by cloud cover.

Answer: Mount Mansfield

Mount Mansfield is the tallest mountain in Vermont at 4393 ft (1339 m) above sea level. Stowe Mountain Resort and the town of Stowe, VT are located at the mountain. Stowe is the American home of the Austrian von Trapp family, made famous through the story, "The Sound of Music".

Answer: Mount Rushmore

Over the course of 14 years, the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt were carved into the granite surface of the mountain. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial has approximately 2 million visitors a year.

Answer: Mount Hood

Mount Hood is the highest in Oregon, at 11249 feet (3429 m). It is located about 50 miles (80 km) east-southeast of the city of Portland, near the center of the northern (Washington) border of Oregon.

Answer: Devil's Tower

Devil's Tower is located in the Black Hills of northeastern Wyoming. It rises 1267 feet (386 m) above the local terrain, making its peak at 5112 feet (1558 m) above sea level.

It also holds the distinction of being the first declared United States National Monument, made by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1909.