WONDER #500: What Is a Smokejumper?

Question 1 of 3

Wilderness firefighters who jump out of airplanes and parachute into remote areas to fight wildfires are called what?

1. smokejumpers
2. parafighters
3. planefires
4. flysmokers

Question 2 of 3

Which of the following countries does NOT use smokejumpers?

1. United States
2. Canada
3. Mongolia
4. Nigeria

Question 3 of 3

The idea of smokejumping was first proposed in which year?

1. 1865
2. 1900
3. 1934
4. 1999

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