Landmarks
Oregon’s Malheur National Forest is home to the largest known living organism, cleverly given a rhyming name: the “humongous _____.”
This is the significance of the Portland Penny, found on display at the Oregon Historical Society.
What determined Portland's name?
This children's book author was born in McMinnville. One of her most famous book series is Ramona Quimby.
Who is Beverly Cleary?
Oregon's State Capitol
What is Salem?
Oregon's State Gemstone
What is Sunstone?
This lake in South-Central Oregon is famous for its deep blue water color.
What is Crater Lake?
This was the day that Portland was officially incorporated.
What is February 8, 1851?
This woman was the first Black woman elected to Oregon's state legislature, serving in the state assembly for more than 20 years.
Who is Margaret Carter?
The Blue Sky Gallery, located on 8th Avenue in Portland, Oregon, is an art gallery that is specifically dedicated to presenting this visual medium.
What is Photography?
Oregon's State Flower
This is the distance, in miles, from the headwaters of the John Day River to the Columbia River.
What is 280 Miles?
In 1887, Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to make this an official public holiday. Seven years later, there were 29 additional states with official celebrations.
What is Labor Day?
This Seattle-based chef made it to the finals of season 18 of Bravo's "Top Chef."
Who is Shota Nakajima?
Found near the town of Gold Hill, this locale is a well-documented anomaly where perception and physics seem to bend against the rules of nature.
What is the Oregon Vortex?
Oregon's State Fish
What is Chinook Salmon?
This unique Sitka spruce tree is found on Cape Meares in Tillamook County.
What is The Octopus Tree? (Also know as the Candelabra Tree, Council Tree or Monstrosity Tree)
This was the year the first Rose Festival in Portland Oregon was held.
What is 1907?
This Ken Kesey novel, later turned into a movie, is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
Combined with North Bend, what is the largest town you will find on the coast in Oregon?
What is the Oregon Hairy Triton?
This is the total elevation, in feet, of the Three Sisters Mountains added together.
What is 30,490?
This was the year Lewis and Clark arrived in the present day boundary of Oregon.
What is 1805?
This 1980 Ashland graduate has directed notable movies such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Zodiac, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Who is David Fincher?
You can find a Shakespearean theatre in this town.
What is Ashland?
Oregon's State Fossil
What is a Metasequoia?