SPORTS TEAMS OF UTAH
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100

This team was relocated from New Orleans to Salt Lake City on June 8, 1979.

What is Utah Jazz?

100

This 1969 movie stars Redford and Paul Newman, Wild West outlaws on the run after a string of robberies. Parts of the film were shot in Grafton, Snow Canyon, St. George, and Zion National Park.

What is Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid?

100

An American department store founded in Salt Lake City in 1868 by Brigham Young. It was known as "America's First Department Store"

What is ZCMI?

100

What is full of holes but still holds water?

Sponge

200

Everyone in the stadium sings the "Believe" anthem at the start of the game, and after points are scored.

What is Real Salt Lake?

200

"You're killing me, Smalls!"

What is The Sandlot?


200

In 1846 Trapper Miles Goodyear at a trading post named Fort Buenaventura. It was purchased in 1847 by Mormon settlers and renamed "Brownsville."  This settlement is now known as?

What is Ogden?

200

I have keys but no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can’t go outside. What am I?

A keyboard

300

The name of Utah's professional rugby union team founded in 2010.

What is Utah Warriors?

300

A marathon across the country comes to a stop in none other than Monument Valley, Utah. ("I'm pretty tired… I think I'll go home now.") Many movie buffs and travelers passing through Route 163 near the Arizona-Utah border have recreated this famous scene.

What is Forrest Gump?

300

During July 1847 Days before arriving in the Salt Lake Valley Brigham Young became very ill. They were camped at Temple Camp on the east side of this river.

What is Weber River?

300

The more of me you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?

Footsteps

400

The original team was formed in 1915 from The Salt Lake Skyscrapers who had called the city home since 1911.

What is Salt Lake Bees?

400

Among the clues that Nicolas Cage's character Benjamin Franklin Gates tracks down in this famous movie, leads him to the "Arctic." Actually, it's really just a frozen Strawberry Reservoir, but you might have to be a Utah native to catch that little detail.

What is National Treasure?

400

Jean Baptiste was a grave robber in 19th-century Utah. His crimes were uncovered in 1862 when the body of outlaw Moroni Clawson was exhumed and found stripped of its burial clothes. Baptiste was exiled to this island in the Great Salt Lake, and his ultimate fate remains unknown.

What is Fremont Island?

400

What has hands but can’t clap?

A clock.

500

This team has a mascot that wears the number 95 because he was introduced in the fall of 1995, the year this team came to Salt Lake City. Standing at 7-foot-5 and weighing 550 pounds, it is one of the biggest mascots the state has to offer.

What is the Utah Grizzlies?

500

In this movie, Will Smith dragged a knocked-out alien across a desert wasteland shot on the Bonneville Salt Flats. But the film's most famous scene — Bill Pullman's speech as President Thomas J. Whitmore — was filmed at the Wendover Historic Airfield.

What is Independence Day?

500

His name was Brooks and a participant in the murder of joseph smith.  He moved to northern Utah. He died when his cabin burned then was buried in a small graveyard. Latter a large boulder rolled of the hillside and settle over his grave. His grave is located in this small community along the upper Weber River drainage.

What is Peoa?

500

Forward, I am heavy. But backward, I am not. What am I?

A Ton