Answers to Quiz #1

Thank you for all of your responses. (Tongue in cheek!)
Here are the correct answers:

1. Oil in the Trans-Alaska pipeline travels at around 5.5 mph, and flows the entire 800 miles in about 6 days.

2. Alaska state mineral is, of course, GOLD!

3. Alaska state sport is....Dog Mushing. (Makes sense once you see it!)

4. Alaska state bird is the Willow Ptarmigan. The willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) changes color from light brown in summer to snow white in winter for effective camouflage from predators. (The ones we saw were brown, as it was summer.)

5. Alaska contains 17 of the country's highest 20 peaks!

Of course this list is led by Mt. McKinley, the highest peak in North America at 20, 320 feet.

However, AK takes numbers 1-16 on the list as well as #18. The only entrants from the lower 48 are California's Mt. Whitney (highest peak in the Continental U.S.) at #17, then two Colorado peaks (Mt. Elbert and Mt. Massive) coming in at 19 and 20.