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

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

      Boise, ID ...... 379
      Portland, OR ... 816
      Seattle, WA .... 987
      Phoenix, AZ .... 499
      Sacramento, CA . 454
      Las Vegas, NV .. 229
      Salt Lake City . 259
      San Fransico, CA 540
      Denver, CO ..... 691
      Los Angeles, CA. 547
      Reno, NV ....... 317


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


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    2. Sagebrush


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    3. Silver


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    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.


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


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    6. Great Basin National Park


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    7. The Desert Bighorn Sheep


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    8. 1931


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    9. "Battle Born"


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    10. 110,540 square miles


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    11. Reno


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    12. Gabbs, east of Hawthorne (660 people)


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


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


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    15. Samuel Clemens; Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City


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    16. Pinion pine and Bristlecone pine


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    17. Lahontan cutthroat trout


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


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    19. Pershing County Courthouse, Lovelock


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    20. Boulder City


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    21. "All for Our Country"


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    22. Carson City, located 35 miles south of Reno


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    23. Silver and blue


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    24. Great Basin National Park


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    25. Ichthyosaur


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    26. Sandstone


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


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    28. The Mountain Blue Bird


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    29. Indian Rice Grass


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    30. 1991


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    31. Seventh


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


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    33. Kit Carson


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


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    35. 1859


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


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    37. Nellis Air Force Base, outside of Las Vegas


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