Season 30, Day 12 - "Folly to Be Wise"
It's Peninsula week, and today's quiz is inspired by the Seward Peninsula.
Seward Peninsula
The Seward peninsula is a large Alaskan peninsula on the Bering Strait. The peninsula’s westernmost point (Cape Prince of Wales) is also the westernmost point on the North American mainland, being approximately 55 miles from the Chukchi (or Chukotka) Peninsula of Siberia. The Seward Peninsula’s largest city is Nome, where sled-dog teams famously delivered serum in response to a 1925 diphtheria epidemic, an event that inspired the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race (run from Anchorage to Nome). The peninsula’s Devil Mountain Lakes are the largest maars (volcanic crater lakes) in the world. The Seward Peninsula was named after William Seward, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State who negotiated the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, which critics derisively called “Seward’s Folly.”