Arizona Trivia Quiz No. 5 

Still fancy yourself an authority on Arizona history? Answer these questions to find out how you stack up.
1. Busy Phoenix Sky Harbor airport began in 1928 as the private field of what company?
2. Col. James H. McClintock — printer, Rough Rider, historian, Phoenix postmaster — was a colonel of what?
3. What was the name of Arizona’s first narrow-gauge railroad, powered by mules in 1879 and steam in 1880?
4. Prescott’s nightlife has been concentrated in what long block opposite Courthouse Square?
5. Outlaw traffic caused the canyon of what river to be called “The back door to Arizona?”
6. At the peak of the Spanish-Mexican era, approximately how many Hispanics lived in what would become Arizona?

Answers: 1. Scenic Airways. 2. Arizona National Guard. 3. The Coronado Railroad
. 4. Whiskey Row. 5. Blue River. 6. 1,000.

All questions and answers are taken from The Arizona Trivia Book by James E. Cook