John Muir

What year was John Muir Born?

• 1838

• 1848

• 1861

• 1901

Which of these books by John Muir was the first to be published

• My First Summer in the Sierra

• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

• The Mountains of California

• Our National Parks

John Muir had an accident that changed his life. What happened to him?

• He became deaf from working in a noisy factory

• He broke is leg falling off a ladder

• He couldn't walk for 6-months

• He became temporarily blind

Where did John Muir grow up until aged 10 where he developed an early love for wild places?

• Dunbar, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Isle of Eigg, Scotland

• Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

• Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA

Muir campaigned against a destructive dam project. What was its name?

• Glen Canyon

• Hoover

• Hetch Hetchy

• Fort Peck

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Muir founded a mountaineering and conservation association called?

• The Sierra Club

• The American National Parks Club

• The Yosemite Association

• Mountain Nature Conservation Group

Muir took an American President camping to convince him to protect wild places. Which president was it?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Theodore Roosevelt

John Muir famously completed a 1,000 mile walk, which was the subject of one of his books. But which US States did he walk between?

• Indiana and Florida

• Nebraska and Ohio

• Wyoming and Oregon

• Colorado and California

Who is John Muir commonly known as?

• The Hero of Conservation

• The Father of America’s National Parks

• The Saviour of America’s Nature

• The Wilderness Expert

Muir’s legacy – looking at Muir in modern times. What controversy did some of Muir’s work hold, but has since been seen as a human flaw and he later in life change his views and work to correctly tell the story of this group. Discriminated means having an opinion on a group or other category without reason.

• Discriminated against native peoples

• Discriminated against other scientists in conservation

• Only wanted National Parks that he helped create

• Discriminated against birds