Mount Rushmore

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Question 1

In which mountain range in southwestern South Dakota is the Mount Rushmore National Memorial located?

Question 2

Which four United States presidents are carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore?

Question 3

Which eccentric American sculptor designed Mount Rushmore and led construction from 1927 until his death in 1941?

Question 4

Approximately what percentage of the 450,000 tons of granite removed from Mount Rushmore was blasted away using precision dynamite?

Question 5

What secret, unfinished granite vault did Borglum blast into the mountain wall behind the heads to house America's founding charters?

Question 6

What sacred indigenous name was given to the mountain by the Lakota Sioux before it was seized by the US government in the 1870s?

Question 7

Why did Borglum completely blast away his initial carving of Thomas Jefferson on George Washington's right side in 1934?

Question 8

Remarkably, how many worker fatalities occurred during the entire fourteen-year construction of Mount Rushmore?

Question 9

Approximately how tall is each presidential face carved into the granite cliff from chin to forehead?

Question 10

What colossal rival mountain carving—started in 1948 by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski—stands seventeen miles away honoring an indigenous leader?

In which mountain range in southwestern South Dakota is the Mount Rushmore National Memorial located?