Locations
The state in which the Iditarod takes place.
What is Alaska?
This man's nickname was "Father of the Iditarod."
Who was Joe Redington?
This is awarded to the last musher.
What is the Red Lantern Award?
This is how many calories each dog consumes in a day during the race.
What is $10,000-12,000?
This command tells dogs to turn left.
What is "Haw"?
This town holds the ceremonial start of the Iditarod race.
What is Anchorage?
This woman's nickname was "Mother of the Iditarod."
Who was Dorothy Page.
This is first lit on the first Sunday and March and extinguished when the last musher crosses the finish line.
What is The Widow's Lamp?
A musher must have this many dogs to run the race.
What is between 12-16?
This command tells sled dogs to turn right.
What is Gee?
This is an approximation of how many miles the race is.
What is 1,049 miles?
These are the two reasons Joe Reddington organized the long-distance Iditarod race.
1. What is to mark the 100th anniversary of Alaska becoming a US territory?
2. What is to preserve the sled dog culture?
This is the only person to win the Iditarod five times.
Who is Rick Swenson?
This is where the dog's food is kept during the race.
What is each checkpoint?
This is the epidemic that hit Nome, killing and making many children ill.
What is diptheria?
The two routes that the Iditarod takes are called this.
What is the Northern Route and the Southern Route?
This is the year of the first Iditarod race.
What is 1973?
This person is the youngest musher to run the Iditarod.
Who is Dallas Seavey?
This person needs to be at each checkpoint to make sure the dogs are healthy.
What is a veterinarian?
This was the historic year that the epidemic broke out in Nome.
What was 1925?
The Iditarod ends in this town.
What is Nome?
This was the emergency reason the route was used in 1925.
What is to deliver medicine to Nome?
This what Iditarod means.
What is "clear water" or "distant place?"
What is dropped?
What is Siberian Husky and Alaskan Malamute?