function LoadHardQuestions() { hardQuestions.length = 0; //**** #1 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/granite-lakes.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"700\" height=\"473\""; ans.question = "What have we here?"; ans.hint = "The trail to this lake starts from the highest spot along the Tioga Road."; ans.moreInfoURL = "../tioga-road/gaylor-lakes/gaylor-lakes.htm"; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = "Gaylor Lakes"; ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Upper Sardine Lake", "No. Upper Sardine Lake is on the parched eastern slope of the Sierras, overlooking Mono Lake. It looks like this." ); ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Lower Granite Lake", "Right! Its sibling Upper Granite Lake is lurking in the bowl at the back of the photo." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Upper Gaylor Lake", "No, although it's nearby. It looks like this." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Lower Cathedral Lake", "No, Lower Cathedral Lake is several miles away, in the Tuolumne Meadows area. It looks like this." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Rocks and grass and water and stuff", "No, this is actually just a photograph." ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #2 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/white-cascade-350w.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"350\" height=\"518\""; ans.question = "This is the view from:"; ans.hint = "This fall is part of the White Cascade."; ans.moreInfoURL = "../tioga-road/glen-aulin/glen-aulin.htm"; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = "Glen Aulin"; ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Yosemite Lodge at the Falls", "Nope. Yosemite Falls would require a much larger camera. This is the view from the Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp, along the Tuolumne River." ); ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp", "Right! This spot is about five miles downstream from Tuolumne Meadows." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "The Glacier Point Hotel", "The Glacier Point Hotel, which burned down in 1969, actually had even better views than this. This is the Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Downstream of that waterfall there", "Your powers of observation are keen, but the correct answer is \"Glen Aulin\"." ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #3 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/cathedral-peak-and-lake.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"720\" height=\"487\""; ans.question = "This is:"; ans.hint = "Hey, this is the hard level! We can't just go around giving away hints for every question."; ans.moreInfoURL = "../tioga-road/cathedral-lakes/cathedral-lakes.htm"; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = "Cathedral Lakes"; ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Mirror Lake", "It wishes! Mirror Lake is just a pool in the Merced River. This magnificent sight is Lower Cathedral Lake." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Upper Cathedral Lake", "Close, but wrong. This is Lower Cathedral Lake. You can tell because it's not as high as the upper lake." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "The Cape Horn Strait", "No, but really, really close! Just like Cape Horn, Lower Cathedral Lake is on one of the major American continents." ); ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Lower Cathedral Lake", "Right! The trail to here leaves from Tuolumne Meadows. Or more accurately, you would, if you took the trail. The trail pretty much stays where it is." ); ans.AddAnswer( 1, "The Ahwahnee Hotel", "Are you letting the cat play with your computer again?" ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #4 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/half-dome-peak-700w.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"700\" height=\"473\""; ans.question = "Where are these people?"; ans.hint = "If the gentleman in red fell over backwards, he'd have a 4,800-foot fall to Yosemite Valley (or thereabouts)."; ans.moreInfoURL = "../yosemite-valley/half-dome/half-dome.htm"; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = "Half Dome"; ans.AddAnswer( 0, "At Glacier Point", "No, though if you turned around, you could look down on Glacier Point. This is the highest point on Half Dome." ); ans.AddAnswer( 1, "On top of Half Dome", "Right! More precisely, they're at the highest point of the top of Half Dome." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "On a veranda at the Wawona Hotel", "Nope; you can tell because there aren't any adirondack chairs. This is actually the very top of Half Dome." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "On Mt. Hoffman", "No. You could see Mt. Hoffman from here if you rotated to about 10 o'clock, though. This is the top of Half Dome." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Who knows? They've probably left by now.", "Good point. If you can figure out where they are now, you get full credit." ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #5 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/columbia-rock-700w.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"700\" height=\"473\""; ans.question = "This view of Half Dome is from:"; ans.hint = "Another half mile up this trail and you'll start getting drenched in mist (at least in the springtime)."; ans.moreInfoURL = "../yosemite-valley/columbia-rock/columbia-rock.htm"; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = "Columbia Rock"; ans.AddAnswer( 0, "North Dome", "No, though the views of Half Dome from North Dome, being much closer, are easily as spectacular. North Dome is visible in this photo, by the way; it's the knob sticking up in the left side of the picture. This view is from Columbia Rock, a vantage point along the Upper Yosemite Falls trail." ); ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Columbia Rock", "Right! Columbia Rock is about halfway up the Upper Yosemite Falls trail." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "The lido deck of the Queen Mary", "No, the Queen Mary has been retired. There's probably no one left alive who remembers seeing her steam up the Merced River. This view is from Columbia Rock, about halfway up the Upper Yosemite Falls trail." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Glacier Point", "No; Glacier Point is just out of sight around the corner to the right. This is the view from Columbia Rock, along the Upper Yosemite Falls trail." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "A zeppelin", "If only! Zeppelins are the only thing that could make Yosemite cooler than it already is. This view is from Columbia Rock, along the Upper Yosemite Falls trail." ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #6 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/flowers/bigelows-sneezeweed-2-700w.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"700\" height=\"459\""; ans.question = "This wildflower, common in the meadows along Glacier Point Road, is known as:"; ans.hint = "Its name doesn't actually mean anything; it was chosen because it's an anagram for 'Dweebs Seize Eel Gown'."; ans.moreInfoURL = ""; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = ""; var wrAns = "Nope! Not silly enough. The correct answer is 'Bigelow's Sneezeweed'. You've gotta love botanists." ; ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Bigelow's Sneezeweed", "Yes! Always pick the silliest name and you'll be right. You've gotta love botanists." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Lemmon's Catchfly", wrAns ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Davidson's Fritillary", wrAns ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Bacigalupi's Downingia", wrAns ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Zaphod's Beeblebrox", wrAns ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #7 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/tuolumne-meadows-lembert-dome.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"650\" height=\"439\""; ans.question = "What's that giant rock poking up into the sunset?"; ans.hint = "There's a grim story behind this mountain's etymology, which you'll hear about if you choose the right answer."; ans.moreInfoURL = "../tioga-road/tuolumne-meadows/tuolumne-meadows.htm"; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = "Tuolumne Meadows"; ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Lembert Dome", "Right! It was named for John B. Lembert, an Angora goat rancher and botanical collector who settled in Tuolumne Meadows in the 1880's. He was discovered murdered in his winter cabin in the Merced River Canyon in 1897. The cabin was padlocked from the outside and his neighbors assumed he had already left for Tuolumne Meadows; his body wasn't found until he'd been dead for at least two weeks. The killer remains at large." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Taft Point", "No, this is Lembert Dome, and that's Tuolumne Meadows and the Tuolumne River in the foreground. Taft Point is on the south rim of Yosemite Valley and was named for the only president who wouldn't have fit through the fissures there." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "The Cliffs of Insanity", "No, Guilder and Florin are both in Europe, near the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. This is Lembert Dome, with the Tuolumne River and Tuolumne Meadows in the foreground." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "The Devil's Doorstop", "Nope. Has a nice ring to it, though. This is actually Lembert Dome, which, along with Pothole Dome, bookends Tuolumne Meadows." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "The ramp Evil Knievel used to jump over Tuolumne Meadows", "It might be time to crack the window open and let some smoke out." ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #8 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/dana-meadows-mammoth-peak-700w.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"700\" height=\"473\""; ans.question = "This is Dana Meadows, at Tioga Pass (elevation 10,000 feet). What are you most likely to see here?"; ans.hint = "The correct answer does not come equipped with either gills or television."; ans.moreInfoURL = ""; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = ""; // ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Simba", "No, Simba was just a regular lion. Here you get mountain lions." ); // ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Ceiling Cat", "No iz ceelingz here!" ); // ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Bambi", "There are no cartoon characters in Dana Meadows." ); // ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Chewbacca", "Sorry, have we exceeded your attention span?" ); // ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Chewbacca", "Sorry, but Chewbacca lived long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away. If he hasn't found us yet, what makes you think he will anytime soon?" ); // ans.AddAnswer( 0, "El Chupacabra", ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Bigfoot", "Excellent deduction! No doubt you've already seen Bigfoot's entirely accidental appearance on the Sentinel Dome webcam and realized that he must be the one who keeps disabling the Dana Meadow webcam in the winter so he can prevent this sort of thing from happening again." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Nessie", "Sorry, but where exactly in this photo did you see the huge body of water that Nessie would require to live? Are you condemning her to asphyxiate in a High Sierra meadow? For shame." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Yeti", "Yeti has never been seen in the Americas. The loss, no doubt, is entirely ours." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "A grizzly bear", "Sorry, grizzlies have been extinct in California (zoos excepted) for many decades. Yosemite is inhabited by black bears, which are far less dangerous (although you don't want to get between a sow and her cubs or let one get too close to your food)." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Tinky Winky", "Teletubbies, alas, haven't been seen in the wild since 2001 and are likely extinct. When will mankind's wanton destruction of his fellow creatures end?" ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #9 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/half-dome-approach-725w.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"725\" height=\"490\""; ans.question = "Why aren't all these tiny people falling off Half Dome?"; ans.hint = "Funny, isn't it, that they're all taking the same route up the side of the dome?"; ans.moreInfoURL = "../yosemite-valley/half-dome/half-dome.htm"; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = "Half Dome"; ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Spidey genes", "Unlikely." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Crampons on their climbing crocs", "Crampons are handy for ice, but not so much for granite. These people are actually maintaining death grips (though they probably think of them more as 'life grips') on the Half Dome cables." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "'Cause this isn't Half Dome", "Nope. This may be a view of Half Dome you haven't seen before, since getting to this spot requires a six-mile hike that climbs three thousand feet. And that's the easy part of the trail." ); ans.AddAnswer( 1, "They're clinging for their lives to the Half Dome cables", "Right! It's lucky for them that mountains can't smell fear." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Don't worry, they will", "Perish the thought! People do fall off the cables occasionally, but none of these did." ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #10 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/mono-sardine-lakes.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"700\" height=\"473\""; ans.question = "What's that patch of blue in the background?"; ans.hint = "The namers of this lake were clearly in a creative funk when they filled in this part of the map, since its name is also used to label a meadow, a pass, an Indian tribe, and a disease."; ans.moreInfoURL = "../tioga-road/mono-pass/mono-pass.htm"; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = "Mono Pass"; ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Tenaya Lake", "No. It's definitely time for you to visit Tenaya Lake. Having once seen it, you won't mistake anything else (Mono Lake, in this case) for it again." ); ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Backstory for the movie Chinatown", "Right, at least in part. Los Angeles has been siphoning water from the Mono Lake area for the better part of a century, and only in the last decade has relinquished enough to let the lake start rising again toward its normal levels." ); ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Mono Lake", "Right! This view is looking east from the Mono Pass trail. That's Upper Sardine Lake in the foreground." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Lake Yosemite", "Nope, it's Mono Lake. Lake Yosemite, in a case of dubious marketing, isn't in Yosemite at all - it's a reservoir in the Central Valley near Merced." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "The collected tears of Chicago Cubs fans", "No, you're probably thinking of Lake Michigan. That's Mono Lake in the background and Upper Sardine Lake in the foreground, all seen from the Mono Pass trail." ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; //**** #11 ans = new liyQuestion; ans.image = "../images/wawona-meadow-650w.jpg"; ans.imageSize = "width=\"650\" height=\"439\""; ans.question = "What's this fence protecting?"; ans.hint = "This spot is about a two-iron shot away from the only place in Yosemite where two irons are in use."; ans.moreInfoURL = "../southern-yosemite/wawona-meadow/wawona-loop.htm"; ans.moreInfoAnchorText = "Wawona Meadow"; ans.AddAnswer( 1, "Wawona Meadow", "Right! Wawona is an Indian word meaning "big tree," perhaps a bit ironic since meadows are generally marked by their absence of trees of any size." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Tuolumne Meadows", "Nope. Tuolumne Meadows is unfenced and therefore, it follows, completely open to invasion by vacuuming robots." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Summit Meadow", "Nope, this is Wawona Meadow, near the park's southern entrance." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "The Channel Islands", "No, but at least you're missing with style." ); ans.AddAnswer( 0, "Protecting? From what, Roombas?", "A fair point, but it won't seem so funny after the singularity." ); hardQuestions[ hardQuestions.length ] = ans; }