# 🌵 The Mojave Desert Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. In which U.S. state is the majority of the Mojave Desert located?  
**Answer:** California  
**Taglines:**  
- The dry part of California (as opposed to the droughty part)  
- Where tumbleweeds pay rent  
- Sunburn guaranteed  
- California’s sandy afterthought  
- So hot, even the lizards are cranky  

### 2. What famous national park is located within the Mojave Desert?  
**Answer:** Death Valley National Park  
**Taglines:**  
- Death Valley: great place for a picnic if you hate comfort  
- America’s official “Nope Zone”  
- Hottest place on Earth, even without your ex  
- Death Valley: where hydration dreams go to die  
- The oven with a welcome sign  

### 3. What tree is commonly associated with the Mojave Desert?  
**Answer:** Joshua Tree  
**Taglines:**  
- The only tree that looks like it could punch you  
- Nature’s spiky sculpture  
- U2 wrote about it, lizards live in it  
- Alien yoga poses, in tree form  
- 10/10 desert aesthetic, 0/10 shade provider  

### 4. What is the largest city in the Mojave Desert?  
**Answer:** Las Vegas  
**Taglines:**  
- Casinos in the sand  
- Mojave’s neon fever dream  
- Sin City meets skin-melting heat  
- Bright lights, dry nights  
- You lose water faster than your wallet  

### 5. What major military base is located in the Mojave?  
**Answer:** Edwards Air Force Base  
**Taglines:**  
- Where jets scream and sand listens  
- Testing the skies, ignoring the terrain  
- Mojave’s high-speed no-fly fly zone  
- Home of things that break the sound barrier and the thermostat  
- The base that bakes  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The Mojave Desert is located primarily in the southwestern United ______.  
**Answer:** States  
**Taglines:**  
- Homegrown desert madness  
- USA’s sand trap  
- Stars, stripes, and scorched earth  
- Western dreams, parched reality  
- Dry, but proudly so  

### 2. The Mojave Desert receives less than ______ inches of rain per year.  
**Answer:** 6  
**Taglines:**  
- Hydration not included  
- Rain? That’s a rumor  
- Cloud cameo optional  
- Six inches of nope  
- Bring your own water (or die)  

### 3. The Mojave is named after the ______ people.  
**Answer:** Mohave  
**Taglines:**  
- Indigenous name, scorched fame  
- The people before the tourists  
- Mohave: the OG desert dwellers  
- Name it, claim it, fry in it  
- Credit where it’s due  

### 4. The Mojave shares a border with the ______ Desert.  
**Answer:** Sonoran  
**Taglines:**  
- Desert neighbors with trust issues  
- Mojave meets Sonoran: dry handshake  
- Welcome to the heat exchange  
- Borderline hellscape  
- Even the deserts need friends  

### 5. The Mojave Desert lies in the ______ Rain Shadow.  
**Answer:** Sierra Nevada  
**Taglines:**  
- Mountains hoard the water, Mojave gets the crust  
- Rain shadow: nature’s middle finger  
- Thanks for nothing, Sierra  
- Where water goes to get ghosted  
- Shadowed and shriveled  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What kind of climate characterizes the Mojave Desert?  
A) Tropical  
B) Mediterranean  
C) Arid ✅  
D) Temperate  
**Taglines:**  
- Arid as your ex’s texts  
- Forecast: Dry, with a chance of more dry  
- The “no moisture allowed” zone  
- Sunburns and dehydration, daily  
- Climate: oven  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] Which of these animals is native to the Mojave Desert?  
A) Polar Bear  
B) Desert Tortoise ✅  
C) Kangaroo  
D) Bengal Tiger  
**Taglines:**  
- Slow, shelled, and surviving  
- Tortoise in the oven  
- Reptilian resilience  
- Mojave’s chillest resident  
- No polar bears allowed  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What geological feature is commonly found in the Mojave?  
A) Fjords  
B) Sand dunes ✅  
C) Glaciers  
D) Coral reefs  
**Taglines:**  
- Waves of sand, not sea  
- Glaciers’ evil twin  
- Sand surfing, wipeouts guaranteed  
- Where wind plays architect  
- Nature’s kitty litter  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] The Mojave Desert is classified as a ______ desert.  
A) Cold  
B) Subtropical  
C) Rain shadow ✅  
D) Coastal  
**Taglines:**  
- Blocked rain = burning pain  
- Shadowed by mountains, cursed by sun  
- Geography’s passive-aggressive prank  
- Rain said “I’ll pass”  
- Shadow of doom  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What famous highway runs through the Mojave?  
A) Route 66 ✅  
B) Highway 1  
C) Interstate 5  
D) Autobahn  
**Taglines:**  
- Get your kicks... and dehydration  
- Route 66: detour to heatstroke  
- Asphalt and mirages  
- The Mother Road goes dry  
- Great road, terrible tan line
