Question: Which area did Hammond develeop during his second term?
Answer: Delta Junction area

Question: What causes food in Alaskan cities to be relatively expensive?
Answer: shipping costs

Question: How high can the cost of transport be in some remote areas?
Answer: 50¢ per pound ($1.10/kg)

Question: Which state in the US is the only to have higher fuel prices than Alaska?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: How much does it cost to transport a gallon of milk in some rural areas of Alaska?
Answer: $3.50

Question: Why is there a debate about moving the capital of Alaska to another town?
Answer: Juneau, is not accessible by road

Question: Which part of Alaska has no road system connecting it to other areas?
Answer: western part

Question: Compared to the rest of the US, does Alaska has many or few road connections?
Answer: few

Question: What year was the Alaska Railroad built?
Answer: around 1915

Question: To what does "The Railbelt" refer?
Answer: region served by ARR tracks

Question: Which development in 1915 played a key role in developing Alaska?
Answer: Alaska Railroad (ARR)

Question: The ARR was one of the last railroads in the US to use what?
Answer: cabooses

Question: When are cabooses still used occasionally?
Answer: some gravel trains

Question: When was the Parks Highway constructed?
Answer: 1970s

Question: What is the name of Alaska's ferry system?
Answer: the Alaska Marine Highway

Question: Which other Ferry group works alongside the Alaska Marine Highway to coordinate travel?
Answer: The Inter-Island Ferry Authority

Question: Which areas does the Alaska Marine Highway serve?
Answer: southeast, the Gulf Coast and the Alaska Peninsula

Question: Which two cities are served by major airlines?
Answer: Anchorage and, to a lesser extent Fairbanks

Question: What is the most efficient means of transportation into and out of Alaska?
Answer: air travel

Question: How many visitors came to Alaska between 2012-2013?
Answer: almost 2 million

Question: Which service allows government to subsidise regular air travel in Alaska?
Answer: Essential Air Service program

Question: Which airline offers in-state travel with jet-service?
Answer: Alaska Airlines

Question: What are some Alaskan regional hubs?
Answer: Bethel, Nome, Kotzebue, Dillingham, Kodiak

Question: What are the names of a few regional Alaskan airlines?
Answer: Ravn Alaska, PenAir, and Frontier Flying Service

Question: What model is the most popular aicraft in Alaska?
Answer: Cessna Caravan

Question: How much of the subsidized bulk mail delivery program goes to carriers who offer passenger service?
Answer: 70%

Question: Which plane is considered quintessentially Alaskan?
Answer: bush seaplane

Question: Where is the busiest seaplane base in the world?
Answer: Lake Hood

Question: Which state had the most pilots per capita than any other US state?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Lake Hood is located next to what International Airport?
Answer: Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport

Question: Which Alaskan way of transport is more for sport than for transportation?
Answer: dogsled

Question: Which dog-sled race in Alaska is the most famous?
Answer: Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Question: What does the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race commemorate in Alaskan history?
Answer: the famous 1925 serum run to Nome

Question: Why were sled-dogs used to deliver medicine to Nome in 1925?
Answer: all other means of transportation had failed

Question: Which dogsled race most accurately follows the route of the 1925 serum run?
Answer: "Serum Run"

Question: Which two companies provide internet and data transport to Alaska?
Answer: GCI and Alaska Communications

Question: In what year was a project to connect Asia and rural Alaska announced?
Answer: 2011

Question: How much money did the federal government contribute via stimulus to the connectvitiy between Asia and Alaska?
Answer: $350 million

Question: Which company owns and operates the Alaska United Fiber Optic System?
Answer: GCI

Question: How does Alaska finance its state government operations?
Answer: petroleum revenues and federal subsidies

Question: How many states in the US do not have sales tax?
Answer: five

Question: How many US states do not collect an individual income tax?
Answer: seven

Question: Which state has the lowest tax burden of the entire US?
Answer: Alaska

Question: Which political party does Alaska generally support?
Answer: Republicans

Question: How many elections have Democrats won in Alaska?
Answer: one

Question: Which candidate was the only Democrat to win Alaska in a landslide election in 1964?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Question: Which Democratic candidate was the first to win 40% of the vote in Alaska since 1964?
Answer: Barack Obama

Question: The areas surrounding which university has been historically a Democratic stronghold?
Answer: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Question: Which areas of Alaska have the highest Republican concentrations?
Answer: The Matanuska-Susitna Borough, the majority of Fairbanks (including North Pole and the military base), and South Anchorage

Question: As of 2004, how many Alaskan residents refuse to select a political party?
Answer: well over half

Question: Into how many recording districts is Alaska divided?
Answer: 34

Question: What is the function of an Alaskan recording district?
Answer: a mechanism for administration of the public record in Alaska

Question: Which documents do recording districts universally use between areas?
Answer: acceptance criteria, fee schedule, etc.

Question: What are CDPs?
Answer: census-designated places

Question: How many incorporated cities and CDPs does Alaska have, according to the 2010 Census?
Answer: 355

Question: Are the majority of CDPs connected or disconnected from the North American road network?
Answer: unconnected

Question: In what area are the majority of cities and CDPS located in Alaska?
Answer: "The Bush"

Question: In 2010, what percent of Alaska's population did not live in a city or CDP?
Answer: 2.88%

Question: What four areas have not been established as CDPs by the Census Bureau?
Answer: Ketchikan, Kodiak, Palmer and Wasilla

Question: Which seven CDPs were incorporated as part of the 1980 Census?
Answer: Clover Pass, Herring Cove, Ketchikan East, Mountain Point, North Tongass Highway, Pennock Island and Saxman East

Question: In what year did Alaskan State Troopers become an official organization?
Answer: 1941

Question: What is different about a "Public Safety Officer" that distiguishes the position from a policeman?
Answer: have police training but do not carry firearms

Question: What do wildlife enforcers regulate?
Answer: hunting and fishing regulations

Question: What type of vehicles do Troopers operate?
Answer: a wide variety of land, air, and water patrol vehicles

Question: What is Alaska's most prominent orchestra?
Answer: Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Question: Which company is Alaska's only professional opera?
Answer: The Anchorage Opera

Question: What are a few of Alaska's noteworthy music festivals?
Answer: Alaska Folk Festival, the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, the Anchorage Folk Festival

Question: Which Alaskan native starred in a film also set in Alaska?
Answer: Ray Mala

Question: Where did actors on the set of The Magnificent live during their stay in Alaska?
Answer: "Camp Hollywood"

Question: In what area of Alaska was Camp Hollywood located?
Answer: Northwest

Question: Which chef was hired to prepare meals for the actors in The Magnificent?
Answer: from the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood

Question: Which classical views about the method of science did Popper reject?
Answer: inductivist

Question: Who proposed empirical falsification as the central principle of the scientific method?
Answer: Popper

Question: What is necessary for a scientific theory to be falsified?
Answer: decisive experiments

Question: Which account of knowledge did Popper contest?
Answer: classical justificationist