What does Hohokam mean? Answer: The Ancient Ones or Departed Ones.
Who were the first Native American settlers to Mesa? Answer: Hohokam Indians
What is Mesa's elevation? Answer: 1,241 feet.
How many days of sunshine does Mesa usually have? Answer: 320 days.
Who were the second settlers to Mesa? Answer: The Mormons.
What year was Mesa incorporated? Answer: 1883.
Who was the first mayor of Mesa? Answer: Alexander Findlay McDonald.
What is the 3rd largest city in Arizona? Answer: Mesa.
What is Mesa's most notable landmark? Answer: The Arizona Temple.
What was the Honeymoon Trail? Answer: The road from Winslow to Saint George, Utah. Prior to 1926, Mormon couples had to travel to the Mormon Temple in Utah to be married.
Mesa is home to what Spring Training team? Answer: The Chicago Cubs.
Name the Mesa rancher who played a leading role in bringing Spring Training baseball to the Valley? Hint: A stadium is named in his honor. Answer: Dwight Patterson
Name the east Mesa "spa" that was, for 25 years, the Giants' headquarters as a prelude to Spring Training? Answer: Buckhorn Mineral Wells.
What mountain range east of Mesa is believed to be the hiding place of the Lost Dutchman mine? Answer: The Superstitions.
Arizona is number one in the nation mining what product? Answer: Copper.
What German pioneer discovered the "Lost Dutchman Mine?" Answer: Jacob Waltz.
Of which Arizona legend was the 1949 film "Lust for Gold" concerned? Answer: The Lost Dutchman Mine.
In the movie The Mountain (1956) starring Robert Wagner and Spencer Tracy, which Arizona mountains represented, in close-ups, the Swiss Alps? Answer: The Superstitions.
What national forest is located in the Superstition Mountains? Answer: Tonto National Forest.
What were the historic 5 C's of economic support to southern Arizona? Answer: Cotton, copper, cattle, citrus and climate.
Name the dam that is northeast of Mesa and named after the 26th U.S. President. Answer: Roosevelt.
What lake is behind Horse Mesa Dam? Answer: Apache Lake.
What Arizona city was formerly known as Zenos? Answer: Mesa.
What are the 4 chain lakes northeast of Mesa? Answer: Saguaro, Canyon, Apache and Roosevelt.
What national monument is perched on the cliffs above Roosevelt Lake? Answer: Tonto National Monument.
What is Arizona's state flower? Answer: Saguaro cactus blossom.
Name the largest type of cactus in the world and found only in Arizona. Answer: Saguaro.
How can one best judge the age of a Saguaro cactus? Answer: By the number of arms.
What is the plural for cactus? Answer: cacti.
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Sentimental Journey
The B-17G aircraft is maintained at the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air force at Falcon Field in Mesa.
