The End of the Road Trivia Quiz

Answer: Snohomish River

The Snohomish runs through Everett. It is a fairly short river, only about 20 miles long, but its basin takes up much of western Washington. The Pilchuck is a tributary of the Snohomish.

The Stillaguamish is a small river north of Everett, and the Nisqually runs from Mount Rainier to Tacoma.

The first section of US 2 runs from Moulton, Maine to Rouses Point, NY. The western section begins in St Saint Marie, Michigan and ends in Everett, Washington. US 2 terminates when it intersects with Interstate 5, right after you cross the river.

Answer: Logan Airport

Interstate 90 ends just outside Logan Airport when it intersects with Highway 1A. Logan first opened as Jeffrey Field in 1923, before gaining its current name in 1943. It has flights all around the world, including Africa. The airport is named after World War I General Edward Lawrence Logan.

Interstate 90 begins in Boston, runs through the northern United States (including Chicago) and heads across the western states before terminating in Seattle.

Picture: The animal is a wolverine. In the X-Men comics universe, Wolverine's real name is Logan.

Answer: Yaquina Bay

Yaquina Bay is a large bay just south of Newport. It flows into the Pacific Ocean. The bay is named after the Yaquina tribe, which lived in the area prior to the arrival of Europeans. The town of Newport was founded in the 1870s.

Coos Bay is located along the Pacific Coast in Southwestern Oregon. Tillamook Bay is located along the Pacific Coast and is almost directly west of Portland. DePoe Bay is in Lincoln County; it is notable as the location of the boating scene in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). The town claims it is the world's smallest navigable harbor.

US Highway 20 is the longest road in the United States, running 3237 miles between Boston, Massachusetts and Newport, Oregon. It terminates in Newport, when it intersects with US Highway 101, a major north-south highway running down the Pacific Coast. Highway 20 ends about half a mile east of the Pacific Ocean. If you follow Olive Street west to Don Davis Park, you can do some whale watching.

Answer: Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Monument

The Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Monument was begun at the end of the US Civil War and completed in 1872. Among those at the unveiling were George Armstrong Custer and Phillip Sheridan. The statue was designed by Randolph Rogers. There are statues of soldiers from navy, infantry, cavalry and artillery, and the monument is topped by an Amazon figure.

The Michigan Labor Legacy Moument is on Hart Plaza, a few blocks south. The Marbury Monument is in Grand Circus Park, a few blocks north. The Spirit of Detroit is a large bronze statue outside the municipal building, which is a few blocks south.

US Highway 12 travels 2483 miles from Aberdeen to Detroit. It travels through Washington, Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.

Answer: Teaneck

Interstate 80 ends in Teaneck, when the highway intersects with Interstate 95 in Overpeck County Park. Teaneck is a bedroom suburb of New York City. Its historic claim to fame is having George Washington come through on his retreat from Washington.

Hackensack is directly adjacent to Teaneck, just on the other side of the Hackensack river. Fort Lee is a few miles east of the end of I-80 and is the western end of the George Washington Bridge. Newark is miles south of I-80, but is crossed by Interstate 76.

Interstate 80 starts just outside of New York City and heads west all the way to San Francisco. Significant parts of I-80 follow the Pony Express route, and there are several stations in Nebraska just off the highway, The total length of I-80 is just shy of 2900 miles.

Answer: Columbia

The mighty Columbia, which makes up much of the border between Washington and Oregon. US Highway reaches the Columbia near Boardman, and travels 250 miles to the Pacific at Astoria. The Columbia begins in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, and then flows through Washington State and Oregon. It is 1,243 miles long.

In November 1805, Lewis and Clark followed the Columbia and reached the Pacific Ocean near Astoria. They set up Fort Clatsop as a winter base, just southwest of present day Astoria. The town was founded in 1811, and is the oldest European settlement west of the Rocky Mountains. Clatsop comes from the Native Americans who lived in the area.

US Highway 30 runs 3073 miles between Atlantic City and Astoria, It follows the Columbia river for much of its time in Oregon, passing through Portland on its way to the Pacific Coast. The highway ends near the intersection with US Highway 101. The Oregon Film Museum is nearby - it focuses heavily on "The Goonies" (1985), which was filmed in Astoria.

Answer: Assateague Island

Assateague Island is a 37 mile long barrier island that is located in in Maryland and Virginia. Most of the island is federally protected as a National Seashore or Wildlife Refuge. The island is best known for its wild horses. The horses of the island were made famous by children's novelist Marguerite Henry.

Fenwick Island is where Ocean City, the terminus of US 50, lies. It extends north into Delaware. Cobb and Wreck Islands are part of the Virginia Barrier Islands, located near where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic.

US Highway 50 stretches from Ocean City to West Sacramento. It is just over 3000 miles long - 3011 to be precise.

Answer: Bishop is the county seat

Inyo County is home to Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet, the highest point in the lower 48 states. There are higher mountains in Alaska, including Denali, the highest point in North America. Inyo is also home to Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, at 282 feet below sea level, the lowest point in North America.

Methuselah, a great basin bristlecone pine, is believed to be over 4800 years old, making it one of the oldest living organisms in the world. It is located in Inyo National Forest.

Bishop, while being the largest city in Inyo County, is not the county seat. That would be Independence, about 40 miles south. Independence is near the site of Manzanar, the World War II era detention camp for Japanese Americans.

US 6 begins in Provincetown, at the very tip of Cape Cod, and travels almost all the way across the United States before terminating in Bishop. The highway once went all the way to Long Beach, but was cut short when California changed its highway plans in 1964. Much of what was US Highway 6 is now Highway 395. It ends in Hesperia, near San Bernadino.

Answer: Wilmington

While the other three lie along Interstate 40, the road ends at Wilmington, which is on the Atlantic Ocean. Wilmington lies along the Cape Fear River. The town was founded in 1732, and named after Spencer Comton, the Earl of Wilmington. The city has one of the best river fronts in the United States, a major tourist attraction. Since 1984, it has been home to one of the largest film production studios in the United States, and Wilmington has become a major center for film and television production.

Raleigh, the state capitol, is about 130 miles northwest of Wilmington. Greensboro is about 75 miles father west, and Asheville, in the far west part of the state, is about 175 miles farther along Interstate 40.

Interstate 40 runs 2555 miles from Wilmington to Barstow. In its journey across the country, Interstate 40 passes through Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Albuquerque and Flagstaff.

Answer: Plomosa Mountains

The Plomosa range lies just east of Quartzsite. One of the the high points of the Plomosas is Ibex Peak, 2824 feet.

Quartzsite in a mecca for rock and gem collectors. Quartzsite is also home to a monument to Hi Jolly, a camel driver who was brought to the United States as part of a strange experiment in 1856 by then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (yes, that Jefferson Davis). The idea was to use camels to transport people across the desert southwest. The civil war intervened, so the idea never really got off the ground. Hi Jolly is an Americanization of the Arabic name Hadji Ali.

The Chocolate Mountains lie about 50 miles southwest of Quartzsite in southwestern Arizona. The Cabeza Prieta range lies near the Mexican border. The Harauqhala range is about 40 miles east of where Highway 60 and contains the highest mountains in southwest Arizona.

US Highway 6- begins in Virginia Beach and terminates at Interstate 10 in western Arizona near Quartzsite. The terminus is in the Sonoran Desert, which straddles the border between Arizona and Mexico. Its total distance is 2670 miles.

Picture: The Spanish translation of Plomosa is "lead colored."