Question: Whom did Nikolai Durkin say lived in a village on the Kheuveren River?
Answer: "bearded men" who "pray to the icons"

Question: During which years did Nikolai Durkin visit Alaska?
Answer: 1764–1765

Question: What event brought thousands of people to Alaska in the 1890s to early 1910s?
Answer: gold rushes

Question: What year was Alaska officially incorporated as a territory?
Answer: 1912

Question: In what year was Alaska's capital officially changed to Juneau?
Answer: 1906

Question: Which industries did European settlers in Alaska begin?
Answer: fishing and logging

Question: From what countries were European settlers in Alaska?
Answer: Norway and Sweden

Question: On what day was Alaska officially named a state?
Answer: January 3, 1959

Question: In what year did Alaskan Statehood gain momentum following a territorial referendum?
Answer: 1946

Question: What cause did James Wickersham focus on in his early Congressional tenure?
Answer: Statehood for Alaska

Question: From which areas did Alaskan supporters face political challenges?
Answer: mostly in the U.S. Congress but also within Alaska

Question: On what day was Alaskan Statehood finally approved by Congress?
Answer: July 7, 1958

Question: What major event happened in Alaska on March 27, 1964 killing 133 people?
Answer: Good Friday earthquake

Question: Did the earthquake or resulting tsunamis and landslides do the most damage to Alaskan communities?
Answer: resultant tsunamis and landslides

Question: How did the Good Friday earthquake compare to other documented earthquakes in the world?
Answer: second-most-powerful earthquake in the recorded history of the world

Question: Which factors concerning the Good Friday earthquake do some believe caused a higher survival rate?
Answer: The time of day (5:36 pm), time of year and location of the epicenter

Question: How did the Good Friday earthquake compare to the 1989 San Francisco earthquake?
Answer: over one thousand times more powerful

Question: At least how many native Alaskan languages exist, according to the Alaska Native Language Center?
Answer: at least 20

Question: What are the two main native Alaskan language families?
Answer: Eskimo–Aleut or Na-Dene

Question: How many of Alaska's native languages are in danger of becoing dormant or extinct languages according to a 2014 study?
Answer: nearly all

Question: A study completed in what year found that nearly all of Alaska's native languages are at risk of becoming extinct?
Answer: 2014

Question: According to the Association of Religion Data in 2010, what percentage of Alaskans are members of a relgious congregation?
Answer: 34%

Question: Which religion is most prevalent in Alaska?
Answer: Evangelical Protestants

Question: How does Alaska compare with other states in church membership?
Answer: least religious states of the USA

Question: Which other nearby states are also considered to be less religious than others?
Answer: Washington and Oregon

Question: Which church was established in Kodiak in 1795?
Answer: First Russian Orthodox Church

Question: What was one way in which Russian immigrants integrated into Alaskan society?
Answer: Intermarriage with Alaskan Natives

Question: Alaska has the largest population of what religious lifestyle of any state?
Answer: Quaker population

Question: What religious tradition may be a problem for Alaskan Jews?
Answer: observance of halakha

Question: What was the per capita personal income in Alaska in 2007?
Answer: $40,042

Question: How does Alaska's per capita personal income rank against other states?
Answer: 15th in the nation

Question: How much of Alaskan state revenue comes from petroleum extraction?
Answer: 80%

Question: Beyond petroleum, what is Alaska's largest export?
Answer: seafood, primarily salmon, cod, Pollock and crab

Question: In which Alaskan areas are military bases prevalent as an important part of the local economy?
Answer: Fairbanks North Star, Anchorage and Kodiak Island boroughs, as well as Kodiak

Question: What program allows Alaska to keep low taxes?
Answer: Federal subsidies

Question: What are some of Alaska's industrial products?
Answer: crude petroleum, natural gas, coal, gold, precious metals, zinc and other mining, seafood processing, timber and wood products

Question: How, specifically, have tourists helped the local economy in Alaska?
Answer: supporting local lodging

Question: What other states rank higher than Alaska in crude oil production?
Answer: Texas, North Dakota, and California

Question: How does Alaska rate in comparison with other states in crude oil production?
Answer: fourth

Question: Which area in Alaska is the nation's second highest-yielding oil field?
Answer: Prudhoe Bay

Question: How many barrels of oil does Prudhoe Bay produce per day?
Answer: 400,000

Question: Prudhoe Bay is second place in production to what other oil field in the US?
Answer: North Dakota's Bakken Formation

Question: How much oil can the Trans-Alaska Pipeline transport per day?
Answer: up to 2.1 million barrels

Question: How much recoverable gas is still undiscovered in Alaska, according to the US Geological Survey?
Answer: 85.4 trillion cubic feet

Question: Alaska's coastline also has potential in which two environmentally friendly energy types?
Answer: wind and geothermal energy

Question: Alaska's large rivers have potential for what environmentally friendly type of energy production?
Answer: hydroelectric

Question: Why were alternative energy sources judged uneconomical in 2001?
Answer: low (less than 50¢/gal) fuel prices, long distances and low population

Question: How much does gas cost in Alaska, in comparison to the national average?
Answer: 30–60¢ higher

Question: What are some reasons why gas prices may vary in Alaska, especially?
Answer: transportation costs, seasonal usage peaks, nearby petroleum development infrastructure

Question: What does Alaska's economy heavily rely on?
Answer: diesel fuel

Question: What purpose does diesel fuel have in Alaska?
Answer: heating, transportation, electric power and light

Question: What is the Alaska Permanent Fund?
Answer: constitutionally authorized appropriation of oil revenues

Question: In what year was the Alaska Permanent Fund established?
Answer: 1976

Question: Why was the Alaska Permament Fund established?
Answer: to manage a surplus in state petroleum revenues from oil

Question: Who originally proposed the Alaska Permanent Fund?
Answer: Governor Keith Miller

Question: Why did Governor Keith Miller propose the Alaska Permanent Fund before the Prudhoe Bay sale?
Answer: fear that the legislature would spend the entire proceeds of the sale (which amounted to $900 million) at once

Question: Was Alaska's Constitution written to encourage or discourage state funds being used for a particular purpose?
Answer: discourage

Question: Why is the Permanent Fund an exception to the premise of the Alaskan Constitution?
Answer: political climate of distrust existing during the time of its creation

Question: Where is the principal of the Permanent Fund invested?
Answer: outside Alaska

Question: How much was the initial principal of the Permanent Fund?
Answer: $734,000

Question: How high has the principal of the Permanent Fund grown?
Answer: $50 billion

Question: How long must an Alaskan have lived in the state in order to receive a Permanent Fund Dividend?
Answer: minimum of 12 months

Question: What percentage of the Permanent Fund is divided betwen Alaska's eligible residents?
Answer: 5%

Question: When did disembursements from the Permanent Fund begin?
Answer: 1982

Question: How much was the initial disembursement from the Permanent Fund?
Answer: $1,000

Question: Which crops are produced in the Delta-area?
Answer: barley and hay

Question: Small farms west of Fairbanks cater to whom?
Answer: restaurants, the hotel and tourist industry, and community-supported agriculture