Do you know your Wyoming counties?

Questions

In what mountain range was the 5,300-year-old frozen and mummified body of Ötzi the Iceman found?

What year did the first woman officially run the Boston Marathon?

What are the four smallest Wyoming counties by population, and what are their county seats?

Correctly spell the word for 10 to the 100th power.

What are the names of the tree-like humanoid and the raccoon on Guardians of the Galaxy?

Fun Facts

The Pomp and Circumstance march played at graduations was composed by Edward Elgar and was first used at a graduation ceremony by Yale University in 1905. The title comes from a line in Shakespeare’s Othello referring to war.

The city of Fairbanks was named after Charles W. Fairbanks, a powerful U.S. senator from Indiana who never actually visited the city.

The characters 3.14 written backwards spell PIE.

In 1878, a massive flour mill explosion in Minneapolis killed 18 people when airborne flour dust ignited inside the mill. The disaster shocked the nation and helped reshape industrial safety standards.

Margaret Thatcher earned a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford. After serving 11 years as British prime minister she later said she was more proud of her scientific research than her political career.

The New York City Police Department operates liaison offices in 11 countries to help coordinate information related to drug trafficking and counterterrorism.

Queen Elizabeth II served as queen for 70 years, 7 months and 2 days, the second-longest verified reign in history. Only Louis XIV ruled longer, serving 72 years, 3 months and 19 days before his death in 1715. Louisiana is named for him.

In 1848, President James K. Polk secretly authorized an offer of about $100 million to Spain to purchase Cuba, equal to roughly $4.2 billion today. Spain rejected the proposal.

If a male honeybee successfully mates with the queen, his reproductive organ is torn away and left behind in the queen, causing the drone to die shortly afterward.

Answers

The Alps (He was found with tools, a fire starter and a sack lunch.)

1967 (Kathrine Switzer entered as “K.V. Switzer” and was accepted because the application did not ask for gender.)

Niobrara County (2,300 people - Lusk), Hot Springs County (4,600 - Thermopolis), Weston County (6,800  - Newcastle), Washakie County (7,600- Worland)

G-O-O-G-O-L (A googolplex is 10 to a googol power.)

Groot and Rocket Racoon (The rest of the team is Peter Quill, Gamora and Drax.)