1. What is your age? Under 18 Years Old 18 to 24 Years Old 25 to 30 Years Old 31 to 40 Years Old 41 to 50 Years Old 51 to 60 Years Old Over 60 Years Old2. What is your gender? Male Female3. Besides 'Big Sky Country' and 'The Treasure State,' what is another nickname for Montana? 'Inland Empire' 'The Show Me State' 'Land of Shining Mountains' 'Mother of Waters' 'The Great Land' 'Oro Y Plata'4. What's the name of the 400 mile long area way up north along US Highway 2, from around Cut Bank or Shelby, east past Malta to over by Glasgow and Wolf Point? The Top Hat Canada South Two-Corridor The Highline The Strip5. What Cornish food item is a famous specialty of Butte-Silverbow? Cornish hen Cornish rarebit Cornish rabbit Cornish pasties Cornish pies Cornish pastries6. What's the name of the warm, dry wind that blows off the east slope of the divide, and melts a lot (or all) of the snow in the winter? Rocky Mountain foehn Santa Anna Chinook Siksika Twister7. What's the name of the famous college footbal rivalry in Montana, one of the oldest rivalries of its kind in the entire nation? MSU-UM Cat-Griz Griz-Cat Scat-Grid East-West8. You're in the area of the state that natives call 'The Pryor(s).' What do you see? tons of lodgepole pines, elk red desert, trees on slopes, wild horses glaciers and mountain lakes, mountain goats rolling hills with wheat very tall jagged blackrock peaks and cliffs railroad tracks, warehouses with anarchist graffiti9. People in Western Montana, especially the Missoula area, have a tongue-in-cheek name for the eastern third of the state. What is it? Dakota West Dakota South Saskatchewan North Wyoming Mongolia10. Who/what was Big Medicine? A respected Blackfeet chief A smokestack in Great Falls A famous frontier pharmacy in Plentywood An albino bison A 19th century health rally at Big Arm on Flathead A lichen-covered boulder revered by the Shoshone11. The food/music/speech of North Central Montana has a subtle Southern (Dixie Scotch-Irish, Cajun, etc.) influence. How the heck did this get there? French-Canadians and Irish Newfoundlanders coming down from Canada in the early 19th century Southerners retiring to Great Falls in the last 20 years Southerners stationed at Malmstrom AFB since WWII People taking steamboats up the Mississippi and Missouri from New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, etc. in the mid 19th century Descendants of Helena's Four Georgians moved north in the early 20th century Texans bringing cattle to southern Montana in the late 19th century12. What's the name of the area way up north and west of Missoula --north of Troy, forming the NW corner of the state. The Seeley-Swan The Yaak The Highline The Big Dry Glacier NP13. You're driving around and see a car going 20 miles past the speed limit on the interstate. They have Montana plates and some numbers starting with '12.' on them. Where are they from? Lewistown Happy's Inn Harlowton Hamilton Livingston Havre14. Which Montana city had more millionaires per capita than any place on earth for around a generation and a half? Butte Billings Helena Missoula Great Falls15. You're driving past Lima, heading south, which state will you be in in a short time? North Dakota Idaho Wyoming Colorado South Dakota16. What's the nickname of Great Falls? The Magic City The Electric City The River City The Garden City The Queen City Birthplace of Montana17. Who did most Montanans vote for in the 1992 Presidential election? George H.W. Bush George W. Bush William J. Clinton Ross Perot Ralph Nader Mickey Mouse18. You're in Makoshika. What do you see? vast fields of green wheat and oats, three small mountains way in the distance a medium-sized lush valley, surrounded by tall forested mountains grass and sagebrush with occasional large granite boulders gold and white badlands with strange rock formations Mars-red hills with junipers and tall mountains in the distance Victorian houses and old brick buildings full of transplants from Boulder, CO19. You and your sweetheart just ate some good Thai food and washed it down with local microbrewed beer. Now it's time to move onto some famous chocolates made at a traditional malt shop with an avian name. What's the most likely place you're at? strip mall on Westside of Billings Uptown Butte Downtown Helena Uptown Helena Downtown Billings Missoula's Southside20. You're going antelope hunting with cousins. What's a likely place you'd head to? Jordan Yellowstone Park Trego Lake Como The Beartooths21. What's the name of the area southeast of Shelby, north of Great Falls and southwest of Havre? The Golden Triangle The Golden Square The Tractor Triangle The Cowboy Diamond Fort Benton Missouri Breaks22. How many Indian Reservations are in Montana? 2 3 4 5 6 723. If football is king in the larger high schools of the cities, what sport rules in the small towns, especially in Eastern and Central Montana? girls' and/or boys' soccer girls' and/or boys' rodeo girls' and/or boys' basketball girls' and/or boys' swimming girls' and/or boys' skiing girls and/or boys' snowmobiling24. You're in the middle of nowhere out on the plains. You're walking. You're lost. It's hot and will be for hours. You are out of water. Where can you find a temporary source of water so you won't kick the bucket? dig up some sagebrush roots and eat them wait for rain and catch it in your boot suck on some rocks chew on some yucca and grass scrape the needles off some prickly pear and eat it use Verizon wireless and its amazing service to call a Culligan man25. Glacier National Park is the only place on earth where... headwaters feed three oceans bighorn sheep live with mountain goats temperate rain forests, glaciers, dry forest and dry plains can be found within several miles of each other you can see the ocean from the tallest mountains even though you are 375 miles from the coast you can see grizzly bears and black bears the huckleberry candies cost more than a beer or a latte26. Minnesotans make fun of Iowa. What state do native Montanans have jokes about? Washington South Dakota Wyoming Idaho California North Dakota27. You're driving from Billings to Flathead lake, but don't want to go through Missoula and up Hwy 93. What's the shortest alternate route? up to Great Falls and through Glacier Park due north to Hwy 2 and then through Glacier Park up past Helena and through the Seeley-Swan pass Missoula on the interstate, take Thompson Falls cuttoff and then backtrack toward the lake take a plane from Billings to Glacer NP International airport28. Montana was one of the first states to give women the vote. It was also the first state to: elect a woman governor elect a woman to U.S. Congress elect a woman mayor elect a female sheriff elect a woman prime minister29. You're touring one of the largest antique car museums in the entire West. What town are you in? Deer Lodge Red Lodge Big Lodge Big Sky Bigfork Red Rock30. How do you say MEAGHER as in 'Meagher County?' MEE-gur MORE mee-GUR mee-AH-gur MAHR MEER31. Flathead Lake is the largest real lake (not an inland salt sea and not a manmade reservoir) west of the Mississippi River. The Fieldhouse at MSU is the world's largest free-standing solid dome structure. The Beartooth Plateau is the largest what? Plateau on Earth Continuous area above 10,000 feet in the lower 48 Mass of limestone in North America Homeland of mountain buffalo in the Northern Hemisphere County in Montana Folk region in Montana32. Montana touches more Candadian provinces than any state. Which places does MT border? Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta Alberta, Manitoba and British Columbia Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta Alberta, the Yukon and Manitoba33. Which of the following movies didn't have Montana as a filming location? 'The Untouchables' 'Chronicles of Narnia' 'Forrest Gump' 'Hidalgo' 'What Dreams May Come' 'Dumb and Dumber'34. What are the five largest ethnic backgrounds in Montana (in no particular order)? German, Irish, Norwegian, Native American and English Irish, English, Norwegian, German and Dutch Native American, English, Irish, Norwegian and Swedish Irish, German, Italian, French-Canadian and English German, English, Swedish, Cornish/Welsh and Native American German, Irish, Swiss, Basque and Native American35. Montana, aptly meaning 'mountainous,' has how many named mountain ranges (more than any other state)? 22 25 33 55 77 102