Lewis & Clark- Quirky Jerky Trivia Quiz

Answer: Alcohol

Members would steal stores of alcohol while on night watch as others were sleeping. Even though it wasn't likely that anyone would try to attack the expedition while on the river, it was a major problem for Lewis and Clark, as they had been in the Army together and conducted the Corps as such.

Answer: False

Actually, Lewis was the manic-depressive. Historians believe that his depressive periods on the journey were marked by long absences of writing in his journal. After he returned from the expedition, he committed suicide. He went out on his porch, said he was waiting for Clark (who was far away and not expected), laid down inside and shot himself through the head and side.

Answer: roots

Most of them stayed in bed for almost a week. Although they were going down the Columbia, with the best salmon in the world, they preferred to eat dog and even their horses. When the Native Americans offered them boiled Camas root, which acts as a laxative, they gorged themselves on it and got wretchedly sick.

Answer: Prairie Dog

They spent almost a day trying to catch one coming out of its hole. Once captured, they sent it back live with Jefferson. It ran around the grounds of Monticello for the remainder of its life.

Answer: Sacagawea

It's true -- Sacagawea saved the legacy of Lewis and Clark. On the wild river one of the canoes with all of Lewis and Clarks's journals and scientific instruments capsized. Had it not been for Sacagawea's lucidness, it all would have been lost.