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This is the capital city of Yukon.
What is Whitehorse.
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The name of the city that formed due to the Klondike Gold Rush.
What is Dawson City.
100
This river starts in B.C., flows through Yukon and Alaska and empties into the Bering Sea.
What is the Yukon River.
100
This is the longest season of the year in Yukon at five month long.
What is the winter.
100
This season runs from June to August in the Yukon.
What is the summer.
200
Yukon shares a border to the east with this territory.
What is the Northwest Territories.
200
The number of people that "rushed" to Yukon in hopes of striking it rich mining gold.
What is 100,000.
200
This coastal mountain range is in Alaska, Yukon and B.C.
What are the St. Elias Mountains.
200
There are more of 
this animal in the Yukon then there are people.
What are moose.
200
This is the name of the flower found on the flag of Yukon.
What is the fireweed.
300
This province is directly south of Yukon.
What is British Columbia.
300
The profession/job of Klondike Kate.
What is a dancer and confident to men who paid to chat with her.
300
This is a mountain range in eastern Yukon and western Northwest Territories.
What are the Selwyn Mountains.
300
This is the highest mountain peak in Canada.
What is Mount Logan.
300
Name three winter activities available to do in the Yukon.
What are: dog sledding, fat biking, ice fishing, Yukon Wildlife Preserve, Yukon Rendezvous, Snow shoeing, cross country skiing, snowmobiling, skiing, and ice climbing.
400
This US state is to the west of Yukon.
What is Alaska.
400
The number of pounds of gear each man had to carry.
What is 1000 pounds. It was supposed to be enough supplies to last one year.
400
Ivvavik National Park is important calving grounds for this animal.
What are caribou.
400
True or False: There is the world's smallest desert in the Yukon.
What is true. It is called the Carcross Desert.
400
Name one activity that happens during the Sourdough Rendezvous Festival in the Yukon. (From the Rick Mercer video).
What is the hairy leg contest (women), chainsaw toss, Can Can dancers.
500
Yukon extends northward above the Arctic Circle to this body of water.
What is the Beaufort Sea.
500
Men had to build these to travel the Yukon River to Dawson City.
What are boats.
500
Kluane National Park is home to the most genetically diverse population of this type of animal.
What are grizzly bears.
500
The number of first nation languages in the Yukon.
What is eight.
500
Yukon has over 2000 of these landforms.
What are glaciers.