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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE GRAND CANYON
CAN YOU NAME THESE CANYON "FIRSTS"
This test is a mini-history lesson on people and things that were first at the Grand Canyon. Objective: answer 7 questions correctly.
1. Who was the first person to actively explore and map the Grand Canyon?
Peter Berry John Hance John Wesley Powell William Wallace Bass
2. Who was the first White woman to raise a family at the South Rim?
Pauline O'Neill Blanche M. Kolb Mary Jane Colter Ada Bass
3. Who is considered the Canyon's first non-Native American resident?
Peter Berry Bucky O'Neill John Hance Ralph Cameron
4. What was the first hotel at the Grand Canyon?
Grandview Hotel El Tovar Bright Angel Lodge Maswik Lodge
5. Who developed the first layover point for hunters and sightseers at the present day location of Phantom Ranch?
John Hance Seth Tanner Emery Kolb David Rust
6. What was the first tourist trail into the inner Canyon?
Bright Angel Toll Road Hance Trail Grandview Trail Hermit Trail
7. Who was the first non-Native woman to enter the Canyon on the trail that is the answer to the question above? A nearby Point is named in her honor.
Blanche M. Kolb Emma Powell Virginia Dox Emma Burbank Ayer
8. Who was the first naturalist at Grand Canyon NP? He drowned near Horn Creek in 1929.
Stephen Mather Francois Matthes Edwin McKee Glen Sturdevant
9. Who was the first person buried in what would become the Grand Canyon Pioneer Cemetery?
Ralph Cameron William Wallace Bass John Hance Seth Tanner
10. Who was the first woman to row a boat through the entire Grand Canyon?
Georgie White Clark Ada Bass Blanche M. Kolb Bessie Hyde
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