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| WRONG! You have to be kidding! In 1889 the capitol of the Arizona Territory was moved to Phoenix in large part because Phoenix had a really nice city hall and offered the elegantly furnished spaces on the second floor for the use of the Governor. Phoenix still has a really nice city hall, but the second floor can be used for something else since the Governor got to move into the even nicer capitol building when it was completed in 1900.1 |
| WRONG! Try again. Located near Prescott, Fort Whipple was the first albeit temporary capitol of the Arizona Territory from its formation in 1863 out of the western half of the New Mexico Territory. The act creating the territory, signed by President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the Civil War, was an apparent response to the formation of Confederate Arizona Territory, to give the sparsely settled portion of the New Mexico Territory its own closer and more responsive government. The captitol was moved from Fort Whipple in 1864.1 |
| WRONG! Try again. The old pueblo had enough political clout to wrestle the capitol from Prescott in 1867, but its grasp was short lived and the "Capitol on Wheels" returned to Prescott in 1877.1 |
| RIGHT! Give yourself a pat the back or wherever else
you desire. Flagstaff must have missed its place in line, since it never got its shot at hosting the capitol. |
| WRONG--Twice! Prescott had two shots at being the capitol of Arizona, but lost both times. It was the capitol from 1864 until it lost to Tucson in 1867. It regained the capitol in 1877 but lost to Phoenix in 1889.1 |
| WRONG! Now twirl around and select something else. Loretta Young (1913-2000) did have a TV show, cleverly titled The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1960. Each week she would enter wearing the latest fashion and make one spin to display the gown before introducing that night's episode. The TV series was an anthology so she did not play a continuing character, saloon madam or otherwise. She moved to Phoenix in 1971 to start a youth project helping teenagers, not cats, where she lived until the 1980's.2.1 |
| RIGHT! Pour yourself a drink. Amanda Blake (1927-1989) played Miss Kitty Russell, proprietor of Dodge City's Longbranch Saloon, for 19 years on Gunsmoke. At her four-acre Phoenix home, she operated a cat-house of different kind. There she kept a lion and 10 rare cheetahs.2.2 |
| WRONG! Time for a gender check. Alice Cooper (1948- ) is not an actress and did not have a 50's TV show. Alice, whose real name is Vincent Furnier, is Phoenix's home grown sadomosochistic rock star. In 1999, he combined his interest in sports with his rock celebrity to opened his own twist on Alice's restaurant, Alice Cooper'stown. A second Cooper'stown was to open in Lodo, Colorado, in 2001.2.3 |
| WRONG! Now see if you can tap out the right answer. Ann Miller (1919- ), the tap dancing veteran of over 40 motion pictures from the 1930's, 40's & 50's, is a part time Sedona resident. From 1969 to 1970 she appeared on and off Broadway in the stage--not TV--show, "Sugar Babies" with Mickey Rooney.2.4 |
| WRONG! Now open both eyes and try again. Jack Williams (1909-1998), the first Arizona governor to serve a 4 year term, was governor from 1967 to 1975, notwithstanding an unsuccessful recall attempt. He was called "One Eyed Jack" by detractors because his right eye had been removed to get to a cancerous tumor when he was 5. In an experimental treatment to stop the spreading cancer, doctors placed a radium pellet on loan from Madame Curie in the socket overnight. Glasses with one frosted lens became his trademark.3.1 |
| WRONG! Raul Castro (1916- ) started a 4 year term in 1975, but resigned in 1977 to become ambassador to Argentina. Secretary of State Wesley Bolin succeeded as governor but died in 1978. Although Rose Mofford was then serving as Secretary of State, she had been appointed, not elected, and succession skipped over her to the state's youthful Attorney General, Bruce Babbitt. Rosie would later get her turn, courtesy of Evan Mecham.3.2 |
| WRONG! After four unsuccessful trys for the governor's office, car dealer Evan Mecham (1924- ) won in a three way race in 1986. In just 6 months in office, he managed to offend so many groups (blacks, Hispanics, women, Jews, Asians, homosexuals) that a voters forced a recall election. Before the election could be held, he became the first U.S. governor in 59 years to be removed from office by impeachment. Although Mecham was indicted on felony charges of violating campaign laws, he was found not guilty after he was no longer in office.3.3 |
| RIGHT! Fife Symington served as governor from 1991 to 1997 when he was convicted of fraud invloving loans he obtained for his development company prior to taking office. The conviction was overturned on appeal, but before he faced retrial he was pardoned by President Clinton.3.4 |
| RIGHT! The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established Daylight Savings Time nationally, but allowed states to opt out. Arizonans tried it once but found the supply of daylight so abundant there was no need for economy measures and opted out. Only Hawaii and parts of Indiana joined Arizona in this profligate behavior.4.1 |
| WRONG! On January 28, 1996, the Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburg Steelers 27 to 17 in Super Bowl XXX before 76,347 fans at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. This was the Cowboys fifth Super Bowl victory, and Arizona's only time to host the event.4.2 |
| WRONG! Check your time line and try again. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968. His birthday was first observed as a national holiday on January 20, 1986, third Monday in January instead of his birthday, January 15. Evan Mecham's first act as governor was rescind the MLK holiday, saying that MLK did not deserve the holiday. The holiday was legally adoped by referendum in 1992, making Arizona the next to the last state to adopt the holiday. 4.3 |
| WRONG! In 1987 Pope John Paul II visited Arizona, giving mass in Sun Devil Stadium.4.4 |
| RIGHT! The name Hohokam is from the Papago "huhugam," which means "those who are gone." They have been gone since the mid 15th century, so they do not need a reservation. They left a nifty set of canals, some of which the white settlers dug out to provide the beginnings of the the canal system in use today in the Salt River Valley.5.1 |
| WRONG! Hit the trail and try again. Many a white settler and well as other indians might have wished that the Apaches relocated with the Hohokams. Although the Apaches originally lived primarily on the bison, when their territory was encroached on by the Comanches they began raiding for food to survive. The original Apache Trail is in the area of the trails that the Apaches followed to raid other tribes, and later, white settlers. Today Apache reservation takes up a large portion of Apache County.5.2 |
| WRONG! The 25,000 square miles of the Navajo Nation are situated in Northeastern Arizona, and extend into portions of New Mexico and Utah. The Navajo Code Talkers that provided an unbreakable code in World War II were recruited from the reservation by Sgt. Phillip Johnston, a missionay's son, who was raised on the Navajo Reservation.5.3 |
| WRONG! The Hualapai, people of the Grand Canyon, who traditionally hunted game, gathered seeds and cultivated gardens have added tourism, ranching and timber to their activities. The Hualapai reservation is in Northwestern Arizona along 108 miles of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon.5.4 |
| WRONG! Get out your Atlas and try again. You were thinking, maybe, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and California? Consider two words: four corners. |
| WRONG! Get out your international Atlas and try
again. If you refer to your good ole' U.S. of A. map, you would see that Arizona has a length of border with the four states of California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico, and a tiny point with Colorado. But, there's a big blank spot at the bottom of your map. This is not the only country to have states! |
| WRONG! Time for a recount. You're getting really, really close, but you've still left one out! |
 RIGHT!Arizona shares a border with the U.S. states California, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico, and a tiny point with Colorado. Arizona also shares a border with the Mexican states of Baja California Norte and Sonora. |
| Footnotes and Sources | |
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1. Michael D. Carman,
Under the Copper Dome: The Arizona Capitol 1898=1974, Arizona Capitol
Museum, Arizona State Library, 2000, p. 1-2. 2.1 Tad Tuleja, "Young,
Loretta," The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana,
01-01-1994. 2.2 TRIBUTE: COWBOYS EVERYWHERE
TIP A HAT AT THE PASSING OF AMANDA BLAKE, GUNSMOKE'S MISS KITTY," People,
09-04-1989, pp 100. 2.3 John Walters, "Athletes
and Music: Alice's Restaurant Rock meets jock over chili fries at Alice
Cooper's new eatery," Sports Illustrated, 05-24-1999, pp
106. 2.4 Ann
Miller. 3.1 Charles Kelly, also
contributing Dave Walker, "JACK WILLIAMS IS DEAD AT 88\ EX-GOVERNOR
SERVED IN TOUGH TIME," The Arizona Republic, 08-26-1998, pp
A1. 3.2 Marshall Trimble, Arizona--A
Cavalcade of History, Treasure Chest Publications, Tucson, 1989, pp.
281-282. 3.3 Marshall Trimble, Arizona--A
Cavalcade of History, Treasure Chest Publications, Tucson, 1989, pp.
273-277. 3.4 "PUBLIC PULSE," The
Arizona Republic, 05-06-2001, pp V1. 4.1 "ABOUT ARIZONA," The
Arizona Republic, 07-01-2001, pp B1. 4.2 SUPER
BOWL HISTORY - 1991-2001. 4.3 MLK:
The Holiday - Timeline, seattletimes.com 4.4 ELIZABETH VARGAS, FORREST
SAWYER, ABC NEWS THURSDAY NIGHT, ABC News Saturday Night,
06-18-1998. 5.1 "Hohokam," The
American Heritage� Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition �
1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. 5.2 "Apache," Encarta�
98 Desk Encyclopedia � & 1996-97 Microsoft Corporation. 5.3 "Navajo (people),"
Encarta� 98 Desk Encyclopedia � & 1996-97 Microsoft Corporation. 5.4 The
Hualapai--A People of the Grand Canyon, Cristalen �1999-2000. |
