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Lewis & Clark

Underpaid, Odious Explorers

Question: What was the physical effect that "Rushes Thunderbolts" had on the corps members?
Answer: Gave them diarrhea.

Question: In what two different kinds of boats did Lewis & Clark travel?
Answer: A pirogue and a keelboat.

Question: What was the name of Clark's slave who journeyed with the Corps?
Answer: His name was York.

Question: Who was the skilled cartographer?
Answer: William Clark.

Question: How many men died on the journey westward?
Answer: One, Charles Floyd, died of a probable burst appendix.

Indigenous Landlords

Question: What tribe is also known as the Snake Nation?

Answer: The Shoshone.

Question: What was the number of horses that the Shoshone Indians supplied to the Corps?
Answer: Twenty-nine horses.

Question: What was the only Native American tribe at which the Corps fired their weapons?
Answer: The Blackfeet.

Question: What was the name of the Native American tribe with whom the Corps spent the winter at the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: The Clatsop.

Question: Who did Meriwether Lewis refer to as "the great white father" when addressing the Native Americans?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson.

Mosquitos, Ticks and Bears, Oh My!

Question: The Corps knew they were near the Pacific Ocean when they saw this type of fish in the river.
Answer: Salmon.

Question: What insect carries many diseases including malaria and was extremely bothersome to the Corps?
Answer: Mosquitos.

Question: What was the only animal which accompanied the Corps? What type and what was its name?
Answer: Newfoundland dog. Seaman.

Question: What animal with a flat tail did the Corps savor as a culinary delicacy?
Answer: Beaver.

Question: What small brown rodents were flooded out of their "cities" and one of which was sent to Thomas Jefferson?
Answer: Prairie Dog.

Continental Sod

Question: Dried salmon and roots made the Corps members very ill when they were in which mountains?
Answer: Bitteroots.

Question: What was the name of the great expanse of land west of the Mississippi that Jefferson bought?
Answer: Louisiana Purchase.

Question: Where did Lewis and Clark's journey begin?
Answer: Camp Wood (St. Louis).

Question: On what line of latitude is Three Forks located?
Answer: 48 degrees North.

Question: What are the names of the rivers that were named after famous people?
Answer: Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin.

The Man with the Checkbook

Question: What was the code word that Jefferson and Lewis established to send secret messages?
Answer: Artichoke.

Question: What was the number of Presidents that served before Thomas Jefferson?
Answer: Two.

Question: What was the name of Jefferson's beloved home?
Answer: Monticello.

Question: Thomas Jefferson was famous for writing the Declaration of Independence, and coincidentally he died on this date. What date?
Answer: July 4th.

Question: Whose picture was on the Peace Medal that the Corps gave to the Indian tribes that they met?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson.