CARSON CITY TRIVIA
Carson City was named after this frontier legend mountain man, who was the guide for the Fremont Expedition.
Who was Christopher "Kit" Carson?
This is the official State flower of Nevada.
What is sagebrush?
These are the two branches of DCFS GMU.
What are Child Welfare and Victim Services?
The term for a baby eagle.
What is an eaglet?
The Director of DHHS.
Who is Richard Whitley?
The Carson City Indian Colony is one of the present locations for this Native American tribe.
What is the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California?
This Native American tribe has a reservation at Pyramid Lake.
What is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe?
The number of budget accounts tht DCFS manages.
What is 26?
This icy home is where penguins live.
What is Antarctica (or the Antarctic)?
The level of State funding that DHHS ranks as having.
What is second (behind education)?
This previous Nevada Governor had the present day Ormsby House built.
Who was Paul Laxalt?
This highway that crosses Nevada is known as "The Lonliest Road in America."
What is Highway 50?
The DCFS acronym "SNACAS" stands for this.
What is Southern Nevada Child and Adolescent Services?
This 1960s television series was later revived as a 1990s television series and starred this dolphin.
Who was Flipper?
The number of Divisions within the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.
What is 5?
Curry Street was named after this Carson City founding father, who was also the first warden of the Nevada State Prison.
Who was Abraham Curry?
These limestone caves are located in eastern Nevada within Great Basin National Park.
What are Lehman Caves?
The number of DCFS rural child welfare district offices.
What is 9?
The name of Western singing cowboy/film star Roy Rogers' famous palomino horse.
Who was Trigger?
Another name for the Division of Health Care, Financing, and Policy.
What is Nevada Medicaid?
This 1976 movie, starring John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, and Ron Howard was filmed in Carson City and the surrounding area.
What is The Shootist?
This extinct reptile is the Nevada State fossil.
What is the Icthyosaur?
The 3 DCFS facilities which youth are committed to by the Juvenile Court for rehabilitation services.
Wat are Summit View Youth Center (SVYC in North Las Vegas), Caliente Youth Center (CYC in Caliente), and Nevada Youth Training Center (NYTC in Elko)?
The ancient endangered fish found in Pyramid Lake.
What is a Cui-ui?
These are the divisions other than DCFS within DHHS.
What are Division of Public and Behavioral Health, Welfare Division, Aging and Disability Services, and Division of Health Care, Financing and Policy?