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General Arizona Trivia: Can You Pass?

By Andrea Aker
June 23, 2010
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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.

Arizona State Flag1. 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?

4. Which city is higher in elevation, Tucson or Phoenix?

5. Where does one find trees that have turned to stone?

6. What Indian tribe calls itself a nation?

7. What are the well-known colorful Hopi Indian dolls called?

8. What is the water project bringing water to central Arizona from the Colorado River?

9. What popular liquor comes from the desert plant maguey (m’gay)?

10. Name Arizona’s largest employer.

11. What is Arizona’s “official neckware” (for men)?

12. What is Arizona’s rainy season called?

13. What is iron pyrite commonly called?

14. Where were the men who “died with their boots on” frequently buried?

15. What Indian tribe lives at Fort McDowell?

Answers below…

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1. The Grand Canyon State

2. Climate, cotton, cattle, cop­per and citrus

3. Navajo

4. Tucson (Tucson—2,389 ft.; Phoenix—1,389 ft.)

5. Petrified Forest near Holbrook in Navajo County

6. The Navajo Nation

7. Katsina (Kachina) Dolls

8. Central Arizona Project(CAP)

9. Tequila

10. State of Arizona

11. Bola tie

12. Monsoon season (July, Au­gust, September)

13. Fool’s gold

14. Boot Hill (Tombstone)

15. Yavapai

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6 comments

  1. Bob 24 June, 2010 at 17:50 Reply

    Missed two on this one: 10 & 15. Thanks from Phoenix!

  2. Bill 26 June, 2010 at 14:31 Reply

    The Five C’s. That goes back a while!!! Most “newbies” probably never heard of that one. Keep the trivia coming.
    Thanks.

  3. Susanna 19 June, 2011 at 08:17 Reply

    Only been here a few years, but I got 10! Not too bad!

  4. Marci 17 June, 2012 at 22:22 Reply

    I am truly ashamed to say that I have been here over 45 years, and only got nine of these right. It’s time I started studying my home state again.

  5. Gerri 25 June, 2013 at 22:22 Reply

    10 is a trick question! 😀

  6. SaraD 27 June, 2014 at 10:46 Reply

    15/15 Ha! 😀

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