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Exploring the Movie Arizona

Test your knowledge about the roles and cast of the movie Arizona, along with some geographical trivia related to the state.

1 What role did Cyril Scott play in the movie Arizona?

2 Who played Lt. Denton in the movie Arizona?

3 What role did John Wayne play in the movie Arizona?

4 Which of the following came before Arizona?

5 What role did George Chandler play in the movie Arizona?

6 What role did Mike Elling play in the movie Arizona?

7 Who played Jefferson Carteret in the movie Arizona?

8 What role did Jacqueline Castro play in the movie Arizona?

9 What is directly west of Arizona?

10 What role did William Conklin play in the movie Arizona?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Global Community Communication Alliance, an Arizona religious sect led by the New Age figure Gabriel of Sedona, has been compared by the media to the Heaven's Gate group.
  • the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that operated in Arizona, New Mexico and California from July 1, 1897 till July 1, 1902.
  • the Border Governors Conference, an annual meeting of the governors of the states that form the Mexico – United States border, was moved from Arizona to New Mexico this year.
  • the Wyoming aviation pioneer Ralph S. Johnson flew until he was 82, when he sold his general aviation business in Cheyenne and retired to Arizona.
  • only 6% of Pacific hurricanes make landfall on the United States, and that the state of Arizona is affected by a tropical cyclone only about once every five years.
  • the Canadian-based fast food company Extreme Pita began to expand to include stores in the United States in 2003, beginning with Arizona.
  • the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban Tucson, Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world.
  • the tallest structure in California is a television antenna tower, while in Arizona it is a chimney.
  • the southern side of Mount Elden (pictured) in the state of Arizona was left almost entirely devoid of vegetation after a 4600-acre wildfire ran through the area in June 1977.
  • when Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park in Arizona was a U.S. Army post from 1864 to 1877, up to 900 mules were kept there to help deliver supplies to five U.S. states.
  • the population of Grasshopper Junction in Arizona, USA, received the same estimated radiation dose pre-Plumbbob (pictured) as they did afterward.
  • the Weekly Arizonian, first published in 1859, was Arizona's first newspaper.
  • the Tucson Citizen is the oldest newspaper in Arizona.
  • fossils of the temnospondyl amphibian Kourerpeton were notoriously discovered in the window of a barber's shop in Arizona.
  • controversy arose over the naughty nurse uniforms worn by staff at Arizona's Heart Attack Grill.
  • Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians, including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse.
  • Clayton Jacobson II, a banker from Arizona, is credited with inventing the personal water craft.
  • Arizona Beach State Recreation Site is not in the U.S. State of Arizona but rather in Oregon.
  • Anne Montgomery, who has been a sportscaster for several local television stations as well as SportsCenter, was the first female football referee in Arizona.
  • Arizona passed the toughest illegal immigrant law in the U.S. following the murder of rancher Robert Krentz.
  • Native American activist Jay Morago was the first Governor of the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona.
  • Edmund W. Wells, a delegate to Arizona's constitutional convention, refused to sign the final document due to its radical features.
  • Fennemore Craig, founded in 1885, is the oldest law firm in Arizona.
  • although the epicenter of the 1887 Sonora earthquake was in Mexico, it was the only historical earthquake to cause considerable damage in Arizona.
  • attempts to reintroduce a species of thick-billed parrot (pictured) into Arizona have so far failed.
  • Yavapai is an over-arching term for four distinct tribes of Native Americans from central Arizona.
  • Theodore Roosevelt Lake, a large artificial reservoir located along the Salt River, is the largest lake located entirely within the U.S. state of Arizona.
  • Jeff Groscost oversaw the passing of an alternative fuels bill in Arizona whose cost ballooned from $10 million to $140 million.
  • alternative rock musician Maynard James Keenan owns and operates his own winery, Caduceus Cellars, in rural Arizona.