Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: Where can you see this rock formation?
A Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
B Garden of the Gods, Colorado
C Shiprock, New Mexico
The trick here is to look more at the flow of the water than the big rocks. Horseshoe Bend, in Arizona, was carved by the Colorado River’s water flowing through exposed sandstone millions of years ago.
The correct answer is Horseshoe Bend, Arizona.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: What do you call the Japanese art of cultivating tiny trees?
A Bonsai
B Tsuki
C Ookami
Bonsai is an ancient art form where a tree in a pot is clipped, shaped, and trained over many years to look like a miniature full-size tree.
The correct answer is Bonsai.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: What part of the mitsumata shrub is used for papermaking?
A The shiny green leaves
B The inner bark
C The yellow flowers
The tough, bendable inner bark of the mitsumata bush is steamed, boiled in alkali, bleached in cold running water, and beaten with wooden mallets. Phew. No wonder its common name in the West is ‘paperbush.’
The correct answer is The inner bark.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: What’s the Japanese name for the paper made from this flowering plant, mitsumata?
A Dashi
B Mashi
C Washi
‘Washi’ is traditional handmade Japanese paper. There are three main kinds of washi, each named after the plant it features: ganpishi, kozogami, and of course our mitsumatagami.
The correct answer is Washi.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: In 2005, Christo and Jeanne-Claude created ‘The Gates,’ 7,503 vinyl gates along the pathways of…
A Hyde Park
B Central Park
C Jardin du Luxembourg
For 16 days in February 2005, saffron-colored nylon panels hung from ‘The Gates,’ erected along 23 miles of pathways in New York City’s Central Park. The idea was initially proposed 26 years earlier.
The 7,503 gates were built to resemble Japanese torii gates placed at the entrance to Shinto shrines. They were assembled nearby on Long Island, then transported to Manhattan.
The correct answer is Central Park.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: The Arc de Triomphe was the second landmark in France to get the Christo and Jeanne-Claude treatment. What was the first?
A Notre-Dame
B Eiffel Tower
C Pont Neuf
In 1985 Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the Pont Neuf in fabric, an installation that attracted 3 million visitors in the two weeks it was on view. The Pont Neuf, finished in 1607, is the oldest standing bridge on the River Seine in Paris.
The correct answer is Pont Neuf.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: In 2021, this iconic structure was draped in fabric by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude into a large-scale art installation:
A Arc de Triomphe
B Champs-Élysées
C Sacré-Cœur
‘L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped’ became the final work of artistic partners Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Completed after their deaths, ‘Wrapped’ featured 270,000 square feet of carefully hung, silvery-blue recyclable polypropylene fabric that shimmered with the changing light in the City of Lights. It was on view for 16 days before being dismantled.
The Arc de Triomphe, one of the most recognizable monuments in Paris, and in the world, was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 to honor those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The correct answer is Arc de Triomphe.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: The boundaries of Yellowstone National Park stretch across parts of Wyoming, Montana, and which third state?
A Utah
B Colorado
C Idaho
Almost all of the park, 96%, is in Wyoming, with 3% in Montana, and 1% in a sliver of eastern Idaho.
The correct answer to this quiz is Idaho.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: What is the country’s newest national park?
A White Sands
B Death Valley
C New River Gorge
West Virginia’s New River Gorge was named the 63rd US national park as part of the December 2020 COVID relief bill.
The park and preserve consists of 70,000 acres of forest and canyon along 53 miles of the New River, which—despite its name—is one of the geologically oldest rivers in the world.
The correct answer to this quiz is New River Gorge.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: Where did the idea of dyeing eggs for Easter originate?
A Poland
B Mesopotamia
C The Paas boardroom
Historians cite the early Christians in Mesopotamia dyeing eggs red to symbolize the blood of Christ as the likely origin of this Easter custom.
The correct answer to this quiz is Mesopotamia.