Arizona Trivia Sampler: Can You Pass?
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!
13 right!!
Never knew there was a “Berry” Goldwater!! I enjoy AZ trivia. Have more of it at this site!!
I missed two.
We will have lots more trivia – hopefully without the typos!
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.
Missed on Will Rogers. Scary that I knew the rest, but I guess natives should know that stuff.
Fun! Got them all correct, am a “Arizona hobbyist” and student of AZ. Thanks from Phoenix
13 right! Missed one I shouldn’t have.
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.
Um, the first capital of Arizona was Fort Whipple.
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.
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.
15/15
Some would argue that, technically, the first capital was Mesilla, in the 1861 wannabe Confederate state of Arizona.
I got 4 right.
Not bad for somebody in Bristol England.