Test your knowledge of Arizona Geography with this short quiz, originally published in Marshall Trimble’s Official Arizona Trivia. Don’t scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below the questions. When you’re finished, leave a comment with your score. Did any answers surprise you?
1. Name one of three Arizona dams named after U.S. Presidents.
2. What mountain range is north of Tucson?
3. What Indian reservation is located completely within the boundaries of another?
Test your knowledge of Arizona with this short quiz, originally published in Marshall Trimble’s Official Arizona Trivia. Don’t scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below the questions. When you’re finished, leave a comment with your score.
1. What is Arizona’s best-known nickname>
2. Name Arizona’s five C’s.
3. What is the largest Indian tribe in the United States?
Excerpt from “Arizoniana” by Marshall Trimble, the state’s official historian. Most folks believe the art of pullin’ legs attached to tenderfeet began with the arrival of windjammin’ mountain men, prospectors and cowboys. But it seems that Arizonans have been tellin’ whoppers to newcomers much earlier. Latter-day liars would be hard pressed to match the native [...]
Although the history of Montezuma Castle is pretty well documented, considering that nobody wrote down much of anything when it was a hot spot of ancestral civilization, there’s this one thing that sticks out as a case of mistaken identity. Or make that, mistaken transplantation.
