U.S.A: All about Utah Trivia Quiz

Answer: Kentucky Fried Chicken

Surprisingly, Kentucky Fried Chicken did not originate in Kentucky. Colonel Harland Sanders opened his first KFC franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1952. The property was originally run by Pete Harman and his family, and originally called "Harman's Cafe." Harman met Sanders in Chicago in 1951, who then came to visit him at his family's cafe and cooked his secret recipe of fried chicken using 11 herbs and spices. Harman and his family were so impressed that he made a deal with Sanders to franchise his restaurant on his property. The original restaurant was demolished and refurbished in 2004. The restaurant still has Sanders' original white suit on display in a glass case.

Salt Lake City was originally called "Great Salt Lake City" due to how close it is to the Great Salt Lake. The name "Great" was dropped in 1868.

Answer: Arizona

Utah does border Wyoming, but Wyoming lies north, as does Idaho. Utah also borders Nevada, but Nevada lies west, and Colorado lies east. The south-eastern corner of Utah meets Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.

The border between Utah and Arizona has been hailed as a great place to view nature. Between the south-eastern border of Utah and the northern border of Arizona lies the striking sandstone buttes of Monument Valley, which is part of the Navajo Indian Nation. Some of these buttes reach over 1,000 feet (305 m) and are popular with hikers.

Answer: Clarence King

At around 13,530 feet (4,120 m) King's Peak is located in Duchesne County in the northeast of Utah. It is situated in the Ashley National Forest, which runs through the northeast of Utah, and the southwest of neighbouring Wyoming. It was not known as the highest peak in Utah until the 1960s, as before it was debated whether neighbouring mountain, South Kings Peak, was the highest.

Clarence King (1842-1901) was the first director of the United States Geological Survey between 1879-1881. A keen mountaineer, he also had Mount Clarence King in Fresno County, California, named after him, as well as the King Peak in Antarctica.

Answer: Martin Luther King

Situated on the west of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, the Salt Lake Tabernacle (also known as the "Mormon Tabernacle") was completed and opened in 1867, with construction beginning in 1863. The Tabernacle Choir sings here, with the building housing an organ with over 11,600 pipes. The Salt Lake Tabernacle was constructed to be a place for Latter Day Saints to gather and hear the word of God. The Mormon Church used this building for its biannual conferences between 1867-2000.

The President of the Mormon Church at the time, Brigham Young, specified that he wanted a dome shaped building without columns, so that worshippers would not have their view blocked in the church.

Many famous people have given speeches at the Tabernacle, including several U.S Presidents, such as Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, William Howard Taft in 1909 and again in 1911, Woodrow Wilson in 1919, Warren G. Harding in 1923, Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932 before his presidency whilst he was Governor of New York, Herbert Hoover in 1932, Harry S. Truman in 1948, Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, John F. Kennedy in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, Richard Nixon in 1970 and Jimmy Carter in 1978. American aviator, Charles Lindbergh, also gave a speech there in 1927.

Answer: Lehi

Incorporated in 1852, Lehi has had several instances of rapid expansion during its history, but in 2000 the city flourished with a tech boom. Before that it was mainly agricultural in terms of commerce, however Micron Industries changed that. Micron Industries worked with Lehi to create a microchip plant. Other tech companies began building their businesses in the area after this, including Adobe Systems establishing one of its headquarters in Lehi in 2008. Other companies who run business in Lehi include: Snapchat, Oracle, InfusionSoft, Workfront, Vivint Solar, etc. Ancestry also moved its headquarters from Provo to Lehi.

Lehi is located in Utah County, and is named after a prophet of the Latter Day Saints, Lehi.

Answer: Pink dinosaur

"Dinah the Pink Dinosaur" is a 40 feet (12 m) tall pink fibreglass statue, of a dinosaur sitting on its hind legs and holding a sign that says "Vernal, Utah's Dinosaur Land." The statue weighs around 4,200 pounds (1,900 kg). The pink dinosaur was unveiled in 1958, by a hotelier, George Millecam, who hoped that the unusual statue would lure potential customers to his nearby hotel, and the close by Dinosaur National Monument.

Located in the northeast of Utah, Vernal is the county seat of Uintah County, and is only around 20 miles (30 km) west of Utah's border with neighbouring Colorado. It lies around 175 miles (280 km) east of Salt Lake City, and was not settled by Latter Day Saints, unlike most other cities of Utah. The Uinta Mountains lie north of the city.

Answer: Farmington

Lagoon opened to the public in 1896 as an entertainment complex sporting "Bowling, Elegant Dancing Pavilion, Fine Music, A Shady Bowery and Good Restaurants." Rollercoasters and other amusement rides were established here over the years. The oldest rollercoaster still standing in the park has been there since 1921; the White Roller Coaster is made out of wood. It is in the top ten oldest rollercoasters of America. As well as two deaths on the rollercoaster between 1934-1946, a 13 year old girl fell to her death from the rollercoaster in 1989, and safety precautions have been since added to the ride. Lagoon also features Cannibal, the tallest rollercoaster in Utah at just under 210 feet (65 m) high.

Farmington is located in Davis County, in the north of Utah. Henry McBride (1856-1937) who became the fourth governor of Washington was born in Farmington.

Answer: Footloose

Lehi Roller Mills has stood in Lehi, Utah, since 1905, however the building has gone under considerable expansion work since then. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1994.

Ren McCormack, who is Kevin Bacon's character in "Footloose" (1984) works in the mill. Kevin Bacon even went as far as to work in the mill himself, as a way of preparing for his part. The film includes a dance scene in the mill, which the teenage characters establish as a form of rebellion, when dancing has been banned at their school. The film received considerable enthusiasm from the locals in Lehi, with some of the local population even playing small acting roles in the production.

Answer: Box Elder Stake Tabernacle

The original Box Elder Stake Tabernacle was completed in 1890, the area for the tabernacle being chosen by Brigham Young, with the fire that consumed the original building occurring in 1896. It was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff, President of the Church of Latter Day Saints.

Worshippers had just began to assemble at the temple when screams of "fire" suddenly rang through the air. The fire began in the basement, starting from the basement furnace. A local paper asserted that within half an hour the building was "a mass of furious, crackling flames." America had been suffering from a financial crisis since 1893, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints did not immediately have the money to repair the destroyed church. Letters were written to other church officials, asking them to encourage their members to donate to restore the Box Elder Stake Tabernacle. By 1897, the church was completely rebuilt, being dedicated to George Q. Cannon the same year.

Box Elder Stake Temple is located to the west of the Wellsville Mountains, in Brigham City, Box Elder County, in the northwest of Utah.

Answer: This Is the Place Monument

In 1847, members of the Church of Latter Day Saints were fleeing religious persecution. Leader of the church at the time, Brigham Young, arrived with his followers in Salt Lake Valley and said "this is the place," hence the name of the monument.

The monument was established by Mahonri M. Young, one of Brigham Young's grandsons. Construction on the monument began in 1939 and was completed in 1947. It was dedicated in 1947 by the eighth president of the Latter Day Saints, George Albert Smith. Made of granite, it stands at 60 feet (18 m) high, and features three of the earliest pioneers of the Latter Day Saints, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Wilford Woodruff on the top. The bottom of the monument features statues of Orson Pratt and Erastus Snow, who were the members of the scouting party who first found the valley.

Answer: Cedar City

The Utah Shakespeare Festival was established in 1961, by Fred Adams, a young theatre enthusiast and lecturer. It is one of the oldest Shakespeare festivals of the U.S.A and most of the festival's lead actors travel from all over America to take part in it. The festival received a Tony Award for America's Outstanding Regional Theatre in 2000. A Tony Award is the theatre equivalent of a film receiving an Academy Award. It takes place in Cedar City's campus of Southern Utah University.

Cedar City is located in Iron County, Utah, situated around 250 miles (400 km) south of the capital of Utah, Salt Lake City. It lies around 170 miles (270 km) north of Las Vegas, Nevada. Cedar City is also known for the natural amphitheatre, the Cedar Breaks National Monument, which runs around 3 miles (5 km) across, and reaches around 2,000 feet (610 m) deep. At approximately 11, 310 feet (3,450 m) high, the Brian Head mountain is the highest mountain within Iron County, and is located slightly north of the Cedar Breaks National Monument.

Answer: San Juan

San Juan County is situated in the southeast corner of Utah. Its county seat is Monticello, which is named for Thomas Jefferson's estate and main plantation, the Monticello, in Virginia. San Juan County's highest natural point is Mount Peale at around 12,730 feet (3,880 m) high. San Juan County is known for the Four Corners Monument, which marks the quadripoint where Utah borders the states of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. San Juan encompasses an area of around 7,820 square miles (20,255 square km).

Davis County is the smallest county of Utah at around 300 square miles (775 square km).

Answer: Sevier

The Sevier River runs for 325 miles (523 km) and gets its name from the Spanish explorers who named it "Rio Severo" ("Wild River") which became anglicized to "Sevier." Intense agriculture that regularly takes place on the Sevier Lake, the lake the river drains into, has made the lake shrink over time.

At 1,450 miles (2,330 km) long, Colorado River is the longest river in Utah, however it flows through five American states: Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and California, and it also flows through two Mexican states: Sonora and Baja California.

Answer: Lehi

The Christian and Sarah Knudsen House was built in 1909 in downtown Lehi. Made of light, buff-coloured brick (common architecture around Utah County) the Knudsen House is the largest example of such building material in Lehi. Lehi experienced a lot of growth and expansion during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the Knudsen House is one of the best preserved properties of this era. The establishment of a railroad in the area in 1872 allowed wider markets to trade with Lehi, and buy and exchange goods. The stock industry and the the Utah Sugar Company Factory flourished in Lehi, and Christian Knudsen, the builder of the Knudsen House, was a stockman.

Christian Knudsen was well known in the cattle industry, and was also known for his philanthropy and the help he gave to the Church of the Latter Day Saints.

Answer: Spiral

Built in 1970 by Robert Smithson, the Spiral Jetty is often hailed as Robert Smithson's most notable work. It consists of over 6,000 tons of black basalt rocks, mud and salt crystals assembled in a spiral shape, and is around 1,500-foot-long (460 m) and about 15-foot-wide (4.5 m)