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National Park Week Quiz #9: Drinking Beer And Telling Stories

By Bob Janiskee - April 29th, 2012

Welcome to National Park Quiz #9, which is last (but not least) in the series.

Three guys meet in a Sausalito waterfront bar. After two beers apiece, the stories are flying thick and fast.

“One time while Diane and I were in South Dakota," says Jim, "I went to sleep in a National Park and woke up in a National Monument.”

“That’s nothing,” says John. “One time when Sylvia and I were backpacking, we went to sleep in a National Monument and woke up the next morning in a National Park.”

“I can top that,” says Jeremy. “One time while Judy and I were staying with some friends, we went to sleep next to a National Memorial, and when we woke up it was gone.”

“I believe you two guys are joshing me,” says Jim.

“I think you two guys are pulling my leg,” says John.

“I think you two guys are just talking to hear the wind blow,” says Jeremy.

“I don’t know if any of you guys are telling the truth,” says the bartender, “but I do know that all of you could be.”

How does the bartender know that all three of these guys could be telling the truth?

If you can supply a plausible explanation before midnight today (12:00 p.m. EST) you will be eligible for Traveler’s National Park Week prize drawing and a chance to win a National Geographic Trails Illustrated Map for the national park of your choice.

Answers and a list of readers who answered correctly will be posted in tomorrow's Traveler.

No cheating!

If we catch you engaged in sneakery of any sort, we will make you polish the brass fixtures and sort the monogrammed towels in the executive washroom here at Traveler headquarters.

Comments

Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 29, 2012 - 12:30pm.

Toothdoctor, I'll buy the first and second arguments, though you have left the Quizmeister to infer that you could provide the rest of the vital facts on demand (which I do, without hesitation). I don't buy that last argument, since the National Memorial you cite is in no sense "gone."


Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 29, 2012 - 1:08pm.

Ranger Paul, on further review, that third explanation in your first go-around is quite acceptable. You can go with it again, if you are still working on this thing.


Submitted by admin on April 29, 2012 - 1:29pm.

Whiteboard?? I thought I had won an all-expenses paid working vacation to oxymoronic Park City to restore historic artifacts and catalogue textiles. Remind me to write to my congressman about false advertising on this bait-and-switch deal!


Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on April 29, 2012 - 1:30pm.

Park City, Montana, is oxymoronic?;-)


Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 29, 2012 - 2:15pm.

Toothdoctor, JanetInKY, and others: Oklahoma City National Memorial is now, and has been since the first day of its establishment, Oklahoma City National Memorial. A person can't wake up one morning in or near that place and say that it's no longer a National Memorial or that it is no longer there (gone). The Quizmeister is standing fast on this one. You need to fish in another pond.


Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 29, 2012 - 2:24pm.

EEW, that was a wonderful repartee. Thanks for the laugh. You are hereby pardoned, but consider yourself on parole.


Submitted by Bob Janiskee on April 29, 2012 - 3:45pm.

That works just fine, toothdoctor. Gold Star Pass and 250 points toward upgrade to platinum.


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