New Mexico is Important! Trivia Quiz

Answer: July 16 1945

The first nuclear bomb was tested at the Trinity site south east of Socorro, New Mexico, it was developed in the Los Alamos Laboratories and White Sands Missile Range as well as other key areas in the US. When they inquired about the blast, many people were told that it was a large ammunitions dump had exploded.

Answer: 1610

When it was established, Santa Fe was part of the growing Spanish colony of Mexico. Now Santa Fe is known for its art galleries and architecture as well as for its beautiful mountains and climate.

Answer: Guadalupe mountains

Visitors to Carlsbad Caverns in the earlier days of its discovery were lowered down into the big room by guano buckets...yum! The big room in Carlsbad Caverns is tall enough to house a 30 story building and ten football fields. The Guadalupe Mountains are part of a range that runs into Texas and hold Texas's highest point.

Answer: 275

That's right, 275 square miles of white sand dunes. It was once part of a large lake, and it is the largest collection of gypsum sand in the world. Many of the creatures that live there are pure white as they have adapted to the color of the sand.

Answer: The Gila mountains

The Gila Wilderness was established in 1960. It was the first in the world to allow no roads or houses to penetrate its lush forests, which protected them and its many animal inhabitants for many year to come.

Answer: Clovis

The Clovis point was first discovered near Clovis in 1932. It has been dated to as far back as 14,000 years and is the oldest and first point to appear in North America. The Folsom point was also discovered in New Mexico, making New Mexico one of the most important archaeological sites in North America.

Answer: America's largest mural

That's right, in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History there is on display the world's longest dinosaur, the Seismosaurus ( 150 feet long, 45 feet tall) and the world's largest Jurassic meat eating dinosaur the Saurophaganax . The aerial tramway extends 2.7 miles to the summit of the Sandia Mountains. Of course, you know about the balloon rally that sends thousands of balloonists from around the world up into the Albuquerque sky. Albuquerque has a lot of murals, however, I am not sure where the largest is.

Answer: Microsoft

Bill Gates and the other ten original founders of Microsoft got their first start in Albuquerque, they later moved to Seattle in 1978. Bill Gates is the only original founder that stayed with the company, hence he is now the CEO and one of the world's richest men.

Answer: 30%

New Mexico has numerous large mountain ranges and grasslands. Much of the north eastern part of the state is federal grassland, the central and northern part forested mountains. Only the southern third of the state is desert, with mountains.

Answer: Wild Bill Hickok

Billy the Kid lived around Silver City and was jailed in Old Mesilla. Geronimo disappeared in south Central New Mexico. Pat Garrett was shot in what is now Las Cruces, NM. Wild Bill made his home in Arizona.