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Arizona Trivia Sampler: Can You Pass?

By Andrea Aker
May 6, 2010
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Test your knowledge of Arizona with this quick sampler, 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. In what city was the “Gunfight at OK Corral”?

2. What city took its name as the result of a card game?

3. In what city was the infamous Territorial Prison?

4. What famous copper mining city began an infamous “slide” down the mountain in the 1920’s?

5. Fill in the missing lyric from this classic tune, “Get Your Kicks On Route 66,” “Flagstaff, Arizona, don’t forget …..

6. Where was the first territorial capital of Arizona?

7. What city was known as the “Old Pueblo”?

8. What city owes its name to a firebird?

9. What city was known as the “Queen of the Copper Camps”?

10. Who was the first (and only) native Arizonan to be nominated by a major party for the Presidency of the United States?

11. Name the highest mountains in Arizona.

12. Which national forest will dull a logger’s ax faster than any other?

13. What humorist took a look at a dry Arizona lake and mused, “If that was my lake, I’d mow it”?

14. What highway traversing the state was referred to by writer John Steinbeck as the “Mother Road”?

15. What city was originally called Flagpole?

Answers below…

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1. Tombstone

2. Show Low

3. Yuma

4. Jerome

5. Winona

6. Prescott

7. Tucson

8. Phoenix

9. Bisbee

10. Barry Goldwater

11. The San Francisco Mountains (Humphrey’s Peak is 12,633 feet.)

12. The Petrified Forest National Park.

13. Will Rogers

14. Route 66

15. Flagstaff

Leave us a comment with  your score and thoughts!

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13 comments

  1. Annette 6 May, 2010 at 12:42 Reply

    13 right!!

  2. Bill 6 May, 2010 at 18:40 Reply

    Never knew there was a “Berry” Goldwater!! I enjoy AZ trivia. Have more of it at this site!!
    I missed two.

  3. Andrea 7 May, 2010 at 07:19 Reply

    We will have lots more trivia – hopefully without the typos!

  4. Cyndee 7 May, 2010 at 07:31 Reply

    OK, I screwed up on #5 – no idea and #9 guessing Globe. Well, it should be Globe! Didn’t catch the typos, guess that tells you what a great speller I am too. Will e-mail this to hubby and see how HE does.

  5. Jim 24 May, 2010 at 10:36 Reply

    Missed on Will Rogers. Scary that I knew the rest, but I guess natives should know that stuff.

  6. Bob 24 June, 2010 at 17:48 Reply

    Fun! Got them all correct, am a “Arizona hobbyist” and student of AZ. Thanks from Phoenix

  7. Karen 10 April, 2011 at 12:12 Reply

    13 right! Missed one I shouldn’t have.

  8. Jim Horning 14 April, 2011 at 18:09 Reply

    14 out 15, missed Will Rogers anyone that grew up here should know most if not all. I like this site a whole lot. Thanks.

  9. Charles Whipple 9 January, 2013 at 07:42 Reply

    Um, the first capital of Arizona was Fort Whipple.

    • RM 31 July, 2016 at 12:28 Reply

      Wrong, first capital of Arizona was Navajo-not for very long though. At least that was where the flag was first planted in Arizona Territory. They wanted to make sure they were far enough inside of Arizona and not New Mexico. THEN it was Ft. Whipple. But, technically Ft. Whipple was Prescott.

  10. Donna 10 January, 2013 at 18:39 Reply

    Technically, the first capital was accidentally set up by the army near Chino Valley in 1863. It moved to Prescott (Ft. Whipple) within a year.

  11. SaraD 16 November, 2013 at 15:21 Reply

    15/15

    Some would argue that, technically, the first capital was Mesilla, in the 1861 wannabe Confederate state of Arizona.

  12. Martin Lawes 9 July, 2017 at 02:56 Reply

    I got 4 right.
    Not bad for somebody in Bristol England.

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