U.S.A: All about Arizona Trivia Quiz

Answer: Coconino County

Coconino County is located in north-central Arizona, with Flagstaff being its county seat. It is the second-largest county of the USA by area, coming second only to San Bernardino County, California.

Humphreys Peak is named after General Andrew A. Humphreys, a US military union general.

Answer: Page

The site of Antelope Canyon is sacred to the Navajo nation. The canyons were formed by the erosion of the red sandstone by flash floods and wind, over thousands of years. The way the sun beams fall through the cracks of this canyon has made it one of the most photographed and visited slot canyons of America.

Page is a city located in Coconino County, Arizona. As cities in Arizona go, Page was founded relatively early, in 1957. It originally started as a housing site for the workers building the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, and their families. Land for this site was gained from a land exchange with the Navajo Nation.

Both the building of the Glen Canyon Dam, and the discovery of the Antelope Canyon, made Page expand as a city. Many people visit Page in order to gain access to the nearby canyons, via the Glen Canyon Dam.

Answer: Copper

Arizona produces more copper than any other US state, and the Morenci Mine is the largest copper mine in Arizona, as well as being the largest open pit copper mine in the USA. Arizona's nickname is "the Copper State."

Over 3,000 people are employed by the Morenci Mine alone. There are several large copper mines in Arizona, some of which are among the largest reserves of copper in the USA.

Answer: Lake Havasu City

Robert P. McCulloch founded Lake Havasu City, and he purchased London Bridge in 1968, for $2.5 million. There have been many bridges over the history of London, which have been named "London Bridge" but this particular London Bridge was sinking into the Thames at the time, making it easier for Robert P. McCulloch to buy.

He wanted a unique attraction for his newly founded city, and the bridge is still in Lake Havasu City to this day.

Answer: Quinlan Mountains

The Kitts Peak National Observatory is located about 55 miles from the city of Tucson, Arizona, and is situated on the Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation.

Kitt Peak is just over 2,000 feet high, and is the highest peak of the Quinlan Mountains. It is also the second-highest peak of the Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation, and is considered a sacred mountain, in Native American tradition.

Founded in 1958, the Kitt Peak National Observatory holds many large telescopes, and takes credit for the discovery of methane ice on Pluto, in 1976.

Answer: Nevada

A reservoir of the Colorado River, Lake Mohave has a maximum width of about four miles. It was created in 1951 via the completion of the Davis Dam, which stretches between the border of Arizona and Nevada.

Lake Mohave is home to one of the largest and most diverse remaining populations of the endangered razorback sucker fish.

Answer: Sonora

The border Arizona shares with these two Mexican states is approximately 370 miles long. California, New Mexico and Texas also share a border with Mexico.

The Sonoran Desert is mainly in Mexico, but it is also found in the southern third of Arizona.

Answer: Utah

Monument Valley is situated on the Najavo Nation, and has been featured as the backdrop in many films and video games, due to its beautiful view and unique aesthetic. The valley floor is mainly siltstone, a sedimentary rock. The valley has a vivid red colour, due to the iron oxide from the siltstone being exposed during weathering.

John Ford, director renowned for his Western films, shot "Stagecoach" in 1939 in Monument Valley. He returned many times to film Westerns there, including "My Darling Clementine" in 1946, and "The Searchers" in 1956, although that film was set in Texas. He was not the only director to create their Westerns there: "Billy the Kid" by David Miller in 1941, for example.

The scene from the 1994 "Forest Gump" where Forest finishes his cross-country run, is also shot at Monument Valley.

Answer: Jerome

In the 1920s, the population of Jerome was over 10,000 people. Copper mining was once the town's booming industry, starting in 1914, as World War I increased the demand for copper. This continued until the 1930s, when the price of copper fell during the Great Depression. Mines were closed. This was compounded by the fact that the earth some of the buildings stood on was unsafe, with at least ten buildings sinking.

People began to move from Jerome, rapidly. The town's population in 2010 was 444, according to census.

Canadian rock band the Barenaked Ladies have a song called "Jerome" about the town.

Answer: Flagstaff

The Lowell Observatory was founded in 1894, making it one of the oldest observatories of America. Many discoveries have been made here, including asteroids, and discoveries about moons of various planets, for example, the fact that one of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede, has oxygen in its atmosphere.

Flagstaff gets its name from a flag-raising ceremony which was held on the Fourth of July, 1876. Humphrey's Peak, the highest point in Arizona, is located around ten miles north of Flagstaff.