Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz:: What city lies closest to the park?
A Anchorage
B Juneau
C Vancouver, BC
Alaska’s capital, Juneau, is about 60 miles southeast of Glacier Bay. No roads join the two. In fact, the only way to visit the park is by boat or plane—luckily the Alaska ferry system provides regular service from Juneau.
The correct answer is Juneau.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz:: How do most people visit Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve?
A By ship
B By kayak
C By car
Despite the park’s remote location, about a half million people visit Glacier Bay each year, the vast majority of whom arrive on giant cruise ships.
The correct answer is By ship.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: How do most people visit Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve?
A By ship
B By kayak
C By car
Despite the park’s remote location, about a half million people visit Glacier Bay each year, the vast majority of whom arrive on giant cruise ships.
The correct answer to this quiz is By ship.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: What city lies closest to the park?
A Anchorage
B Juneau
C Vancouver, BC
Alaska’s capital, Juneau, is about 60 miles southeast of Glacier Bay. No roads join the two. In fact, the only way to visit the park is by boat or plane—luckily the Alaska ferry system provides regular service from Juneau.
The correct answer to this quiz is Juneau.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz: Only the Huna Tlingit people are allowed to collect what in Glacier Bay National Park?
A Fish
B Eggs
C Timber
Ancestors of the Huna Tlingit people occupied the area around Glacier Bay for centuries, possibly much longer. Today, as part of efforts to preserve their cultural traditions, the Huna Tlingit are allowed to collect gull eggs around the bay twice a year. Egg harvesting is part of a long cultural heritage, but it was prohibited in the park until President Barack Obama signed legislation allowing it in 2014.
The correct answer to this quiz is Eggs.
Microsoft Rewards Bing News Quiz: Which rock star revealed he’s been reading lips for 20 years due to hearing loss from loud shows?
A Eddie Vedder
B ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
C Dave Grohl
The correct answer to this quiz is Dave Grohl.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz Question: In 2015, who signed one of Philadelphia’s murals?
A Queen Elizabeth
B Pope Francis
C Beyoncé
The nonprofit organization called Mural Arts Philadelphia bills itself as the nation’s largest public arts program. It creates between 60 and 100 projects annually in direct collaboration with more than 25,000 individuals, including young people and vulnerable adults, like prison inmates and disabled people. In 2015, Pope Francis hand-signed a mural by artist Cesar Viveros that commemorated the pope’s visit to Philadelphia that year.
The correct answer is Pope Francis.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz Question: Which of these nations is most closely associated with modern muralism?
A Thailand
B Latvia
C Mexico
While murals of one kind or another have existed since the earliest cave paintings, modern muralism is often connected to the Mexican muralism movement. The murals themselves are best exemplified by the works of ‘The Big Three’ or ‘The Three Greats’: Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, and José Orozco. The movement was typified by works with nationalistic, social, and political messages displayed in public settings such as schools, churches, and government buildings.
The correct answer is Mexico.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz Question: This beautiful mural is in the City of Brotherly Love. Where’s that?
A Philadelphia
B Los Angeles
C Atlanta
Philadelphia’s most enduring nickname derives from the literal meaning of its name in Greek—phílos (beloved) and adelphós (brotherly). A public arts program called Mural Arts Philadelphia has produced over 4,000 paintings on the city’s buildings, more than 2,000 of which are still viewable today. Take a look at some of them.
The correct answer is Philadelphia.
Microsoft Rewards Bing Homepage Quiz Question: In 2019, Icelanders held a funeral for a melted glacier called…
A Icy McIceFace
B Karl
C Ok
Okjökull, nicknamed Ok, was the first glacier in the country to be lost to climate change. Glaciers cover about 11% of Iceland’s surface, but the country loses billions of tons of ice per year, and scientists have warned all the island’s glaciers are at risk of disappearing entirely by 2200.
The correct answer is Ok.