Arizona Trivia by James Crutchfield

Author:James Crutchfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

ARTS & LITERATURE

CHAPTER FOUR

Q. What writer and political activist whose novels concern the strength and endurance of poor and disenfranchised people of the Southwest wrote The Bean Trees?

A. Barbara Kingsolver.

Q. Historian William H. Prescott, for whom the city was named, wrote what two classics about the conquest of countries?

A. The Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest of Peru.

Q. Who was the author of Roadside Arizona?

A. Marshall Trimble.

Q. What Tucson resident in 1963 was awarded the Levi Strauss Saddleman Award by the Western Writers of America for lifetime achievement in preserving the history, legends, and literature of the American West?

A. Fred Grove.

Q. What award-winning writer and poet spends his time between homes in Alpine and Oracle?

A. John Duncklee.

Q. The fine production of art, nature, and photography books is the specialty of what Flagstaff publishing company?

A. Northland Publishing.

Q. When did Reginald W. Manning of the Arizona Republic win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning?

A. 1951.

Q. What book, published in 1875, told of Maj. John Wesley Powell’s adventures through the Grand Canyon?

A. Explorations of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries.

Q. Running the survey to establish the border between the United States and Mexico in the early 1850s was what former bookstore owner?

A. John Russell Bartlett.

Q. Back to Bisbee was written by what author?

A. Richard Shelton.

Q. When did the first college on an Arizona Indian reservation open for business?

A. 1969 (The Navajo Community College at Tsaile).

Q. What Scottsdale author wrote Bless the Beasts and the Children, The Homesman, and They Came to Cordura?

A. Glendon Swarthout.

Q. Glendon Swarthout received what award in 1991 from the Western Writers of America?

A. Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Q. With three thousand graduate and undergraduate students, what is Arizona’s only private Christian liberal arts university?

A. Grand Canyon University.

Q. Volumes about the life and legends of his town are written by what Tombstone resident?

A. Ben Traywick.

Q. What writer from Portal is known for her juvenile and young adult novels?

A. Jeanne Williams.

Q. A resident of Lake Havasu City, what author writes novels of the American West?

A. Gary McCarthy.

Q. When did Zane Grey first travel to Arizona?

A. 1907.

Q. In what year did Rita Dove of Arizona State University win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry?

A. 1967.

Q. Rita Dove’s Pulitzer Prize was for what book of poetry?

A. Thomas and Beulah.

Q. What is Arizona’s official song?

A. “Arizona March Song,” by Margaret Rowe Clifford and Maurice Blumenthal.

Q. What song by Rex Allen is sometimes referred to as the state song?

A. “Arizona.”

Q. What is the state motto?

A. Ditat Deus (“God enriches”).

Q. What artists’ group was founded in a bar in Sedona?

A. Cowboy Artists of America (CAA).

Q. Who is the official balladeer of Arizona?

A. Dolan Ellis.

Q. Now a national historical landmark, what winter home did architect Frank Lloyd Wright build in Scottsdale?

A. Taliesin West.

Q. During World War II what two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist created the GI characters Willie and Joe?

A. Bill Mauldin, from Phoenix.

Q. Although he is a New Mexican novelist, what writer often uses Navajoland as the locale for his books?

A. Tony Hillerman.

Q. Where can one visit the Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art?

A.

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