Here is the question :
THE SONG “AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL” WAS INSPIRED BY A TRIP TO WHAT FAMOUS “PURPLE MOUNTAIN MAJESTY”?
Here is the option for the question :
- Mt. Rainier
- Pikes Peak
- Denali
- Grand Teton
The Answer:
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Explanation:
[STC001845] In the year 1893, Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, went to Colorado Springs in order to teach a summer course at a college in the area. On July 22, she went to the summit of Pikes Peak with some of her coworkers by taking a carriage ride. Her visit to the peak, which lasted only thirty minutes, gave her the motivation to put pen to paper, and when she returned back to Colorado Springs, she wrote the poem that would later be known as “America the Beautiful.” “We stood at last on that Gate-of-heaven top… and gazed in speechless joy over the distant expanse of mountain ranges and the sealike sweep of plain,” Katharine wrote in her later journal. Right then and there, the first lines of “America the Beautiful” were conceived of and written down. People eventually began singing the poem to the tune of a folk song written in 1882 by Samuel Ward, but before they settled on that, any tune that fit the rhythm of the words was used — including Auld Lang Syne.