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Home›Recreation›Arizona Hotspots & Leisure Trivia 2: Can You Pass?

Arizona Hotspots & Leisure Trivia 2: Can You Pass?

By Andrea Aker
May 12, 2013
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Test your knowledge of Arizona hotspots and leisure activities 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. Arizona State FlagWhat is the highest single steel arch bridge in the country?
  2. What “happy-go-lucky” community was developed by Tom Darlington and K.T. Palmer?
  3. What Arizona community is named for a cousin of Winston Churchill’s mother?
  4. Name Arizona’s pioneer luxury resort developed by Dr. A. J. Chandler.
  5. What famous natural bridge is near Lake Powell?
  6. What community was named for Ellsworth Schnebly’s sister-in-law?
  7. Name the national monument near Clarkdale that over­ looks the Verde River.
  8. Where is McFarland State Park?
  9. What is Tumacacori?
  10. What is known as the “White Dove of the Desert”?
  11. Where did Frank Lloyd Wright live and work (near Scottsdale)?
  12. What is the name of the futuristic 20-story cliff dwelling being built near Cordes Junction?
  13. What is the nation’s largest man-made lake (by volume)?
  14. What small, eastern Arizona community owns its own prehistoric ruins?
  15. On which Indian Reservation is the Sunrise Ski Area located?
  16. Name the town west of Phoenix that is named for a tire company.
  17. Where is 800 ft. Spider Rock located?
  18. What famous Sinagua Indian cliff dwelling is located in the Verde Valley?
  19. Name the oldest continuously occupied town in America.
  20. Name the experimental project near Oracle, Arizona that is an independent, self-contained three-acre living habitat.
  21. What northern Arizona community is named after a small red fruit?

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  1. Glen Canyon Bridge (U.S. 89)
  2. Carefree
  3. Jerome (Eugene Jerome)
  4. San Marcos Hotel (1912)
  5. Rainbow Bridge
  6. Sedona (Sedona N. Schnebly)
  7. Tuzigoot
  8. Florence
  9. Early Spanish mission south of Tucson and a National Monument
  10. San Xavier del Bac Mission
  11. Taliesen West
  12. Arcosanti
  13. Lake Mead
  14. Springerville (Casa Malpai)
  15. Apache (Fort Apache Reser­vation)
  16. Goodyear
  17. Monument Canyon (Canyon de Chelly)
  18. Montezuma Castle
  19. Old Oraibi (Hopi Mesas)
  20. Biosphere II
  21. Strawberry or Cherry
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3 comments

  1. Anne 12 May, 2013 at 23:50 Reply

    I am an Arizona native and I got one: Biosphere II. Many of the others seemed common sense, in hindsight.

  2. SaraD 13 May, 2013 at 10:17 Reply

    17/21. Two I knew but couldn’t remember (pfft). Two (3 & 8) I just did not know.

  3. Stone Krafter 30 March, 2020 at 17:30 Reply

    Marshall Trimble grew up around the corner from me in Maryvale,his house was within eyesight of “Muggs Up” drive-in. It’s nice to see a fellow Maryvalian love Arizona as much as the rest of us that were born/raised here.

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