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South Dakota has this many time zones.
What is two? Mountain & Central
This lake, near Pierre, SD has over 2,400 miles of shoreline.
What is the Oahe Reservoir? SD has more shoreline than the state of California!!
The tallest point between The Rocky Mountains and the Alps.
What is Black Elk Peak (formally Harney Peak)? altitude of 7,242ft
This is the % of body weight bison will forage daily.
What is 3-4%?
The only metal that will not oxidize, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years.
What is gold?
South Dakota is one of 12 states with this.
What is a single area code?
The world's richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds are found here.
What is Badlands National Park? Fossil beds dating 23-35 million years old
This Native American, was born and died in SD but was buried in an unkept graveyard in ND until his body was stolen and given a more fitting memorial in SD.
Who was Sitting Bull?
The number of gallons of water a female bison (cow) requires in water daily.
What is 10-20 gallons?
This nationality of people would always show up when gold was found in a town. They would open laundries, and restaurants.
Who are the Chinese?
These falls drop 90 feet over the distance of a mile.
What are the Sioux Falls?
These hills started forming ~83 million years ago.
What are the Black Hills.
This mammal is the largest in North American and can run up to 35mph.
What is Bison?
South Dakotans' own more of this, per capita, than any other state.
What is motorcycles?
This gentleman, once a lawman, was fired after he accidentally shot his own deputy.
Who is Wild Bill Hickok? He is known to have killed 36 outlaws as a lawman.
The state insect of South Dakota.
What is the honey bee? Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
This took 14 years of carving, but cost less than 1 million dollars.
What is Mt Rushmore? If any of the heads had bodies, it would be nearly 500ft tall.
SD ranks fourth in the nation behind Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico for this.
What is 4.5 million acres of land owned by American Indian tribes?
This determines the temperature inside any cave.
What is the average year-round temperature of the surface above it?
The largest county in SD with 3,471 square miles of land area.
What is Meade County? It is bigger than the state of Delaware.
Since 1892, there have been three of these structures built in Mitchell.
What is the Corn Palace? The average ear of corn has 800 kernels, arranged in 16 rows.
These two most famous Declaration signers, died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the signing in 1826.
Who are John Adams & Thomas Jefferson?
Hill City is the only school district in the US authorized to use this as their official mascot.
What is Smokey the Bear? This honor was granted after the high school athletes helped fight a massive forest fire in 1939.
This person owned a $50 drink tab to Saloon No.10 at the time of his murder.
Who is Wild Bill Hickok?
This was the year of the first commercial timber sale on Federal forested land in the US. Near the town of Nemo, SD.
What is 1898?