# 🐂 The Oregon Trail (Real & Game) Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What was the final destination of most travelers on the Oregon Trail?  
**Answer:** Oregon (Willamette Valley)  
**Taglines:**  
- Go west and pray  
- Manifest Destiny’s finish line  
- Where dreams died in log cabins  
- Home of trees and trauma  
- From Missouri to misery  

### 2. What was a common deadly disease in both the trail and the game?  
**Answer:** Dysentery  
**Taglines:**  
- You have died of it. Of course you did.  
- The trail’s unofficial mascot  
- Poopocalypse now  
- Trail runs: the horror edition  
- Dysentery: Oregon’s gatekeeper  

### 3. What kind of vehicle did pioneers typically use?  
**Answer:** Covered wagon  
**Taglines:**  
- 4-wheel drive for the 1800s  
- Oregon Trail’s Uber  
- Not aerodynamic, just sad  
- Roofed rattletrap of doom  
- Oregon Trail: Wagon Edition  

### 4. What company originally developed *The Oregon Trail* game?  
**Answer:** MECC (Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium)  
**Taglines:**  
- Where education met digital despair  
- Making children cry since the '70s  
- Nerds with dark ambitions  
- MECC: Manifesting Emotional Childhood Crises  
- Coding class or coping mechanism?  

### 5. What key supply did travelers often forget or underestimate?  
**Answer:** Food  
**Taglines:**  
- Hope you like buffalo jerky  
- No food, no future  
- You packed 12 bullets and one biscuit  
- Calories? Optional  
- Starvation simulator: pioneer edition  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. In the game, you must choose a ______ before starting your journey.  
**Answer:** Profession  
**Taglines:**  
- Banker, farmer, or inevitable corpse  
- Choose your fate—and salary  
- Rich or rugged, either way you’re toast  
- Class-based carnage  
- Career path to the afterlife  

### 2. The real Oregon Trail began in ______, Missouri.  
**Answer:** Independence  
**Taglines:**  
- So independent, they died  
- Independence: now with 2,000 miles of doom  
- Starting point for bad ideas  
- “Let’s do this!” said no one who made it  
- Missouri, now with bonus heartbreak  

### 3. In both the game and real life, travelers had to cross the ______ River.  
**Answer:** Snake  
**Taglines:**  
- Where the trail hisses at you  
- Snake River: surprise swimming exam  
- The name alone screams NOPE  
- Where oxen go to drown  
- Oregon Trail’s waterpark of death  

### 4. The journey could take up to ______ months.  
**Answer:** Six  
**Taglines:**  
- Six months of slow-motion disaster  
- Wagon crawl: now with suffering  
- It’s like a semester of bad decisions  
- The original long-haul nightmare  
- “Six months? How hard could it be?” Famous last words  

### 5. The Oregon Trail game was widely played on what type of computer?  
**Answer:** Apple II  
**Taglines:**  
- Green screen of doom  
- Old tech, eternal trauma  
- Apple II: where childhoods ended  
- Retro pixels, modern anxiety  
- Your first taste of loss—digitized  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What is the most famous cause of death in the Oregon Trail game?  
A) Broken leg  
B) Cholera  
C) Dysentery ✅  
D) Starvation  
**Taglines:**  
- The meme that won’t die  
- RIP to your colon  
- Even the banker couldn’t survive  
- Dysentery: 10/10 would die again  
- Not even a deluxe ox could save you  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What is the best time of year to start the Oregon Trail in-game?  
A) December  
B) March  
C) April ✅  
D) August  
**Taglines:**  
- Too early? Blizzard. Too late? Starved.  
- Spring into disaster  
- April: when death smells like daisies  
- Because May = mud and Mayhem  
- Pick wisely, suffer regardless  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What type of animal did players usually hunt for food?  
A) Bear  
B) Bison ✅  
C) Chicken  
D) Elk  
**Taglines:**  
- Bison buffet, pixel-style  
- Killed 1,000 lbs—carried back 3  
- You’ve got meat, but nowhere to put it  
- Death of the plains, now on floppy disk  
- Shooting for survival, missing everything  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What upgrade improves wagon durability in the game?  
A) Reinforced wheels ✅  
B) Extra oxen  
C) Double yoke  
D) Wagon cover  
**Taglines:**  
- Stronger wheels, still doomed  
- Reinforced, not immortal  
- A little less shattered  
- Makes no difference when you drown anyway  
- Upgraded to “slightly slower death”  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What role does the player assume in *The Oregon Trail*?  
A) Wagon leader ✅  
B) Scout  
C) Hunter  
D) Mayor  
**Taglines:**  
- Lead them... straight into a river  
- Trail boss, tragedy manager  
- Captain of catastrophe  
- Pioneer party planner  
- Herding oxen and disappointment
