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100
The number of counties in the State of Utah
What is 29?
100
Which county is named after an animal that builds dams?
What is Beaver County.
100
The number of Indian tribes in Utah when the Pioneers arrived.
What is five (Utes, Paiutes, Goshutes, Shoshone, Navajo).
100
How many different land form regions are in Utah?
What is three (The Great Basin, The Colorado Plateau, & the Rocky Mts ).
100

What infamous outlaw was born in Utah?

Butch Cassidy He was born in Beaver

200
What is the most important metal mined in Utah today?
What is copper
200
Which county is named after the coal that is mined in great abundance there?
What is Carbon County.
200
What was the largest Indian tribe in Utah when the pioneers arrived?
What are the Utes.
200
The three mountain ranges we learned about.
What the Oquirrah Mts., the Wasatch Range, & the Unitah Mts.?
200
Which mountain man discovered the Great Salt Lake and set up a trading post?
Who is Jim Bridger.
300
A bill becomes a law after it passes the House of Representatives, the Senate, and is not vetoed by the...
What is the governor.
300
In which county was the Golden Spike driven when the Union Pacific & the Central Pacific meet in 1869?
What is Box Elder County.
300
Who were the "Gathering Indians"?
What is the Paiutes.
300
Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, & Arizona come together.
What states meet in the Four Corners area?
300

What was the purposed name for Utah before it became Utah?

Deseret

400
What is the branch of government that enforces the laws?
What is legislative.
400
Which county is named after a huge salty sea or lake?
What is Salt Lake County.
400
Who were the "Digger Indians"?
What are the Gosiutes.
400
Why is Utah considered a desert?
What is because it gets less than 10 inches of rainfall per year.
400

What annual festival happens in Park City?

Sundance Film Festival

500
The head of the Executive Branch in the state?
Who is the governor?
500
Which county was named after a president?
What is Washington County
500

What does the word Ute mean?

Land of the Sun

500
Which river connects the Great Salt Lake with Utah Lake?
What is the Jordan River.
500

What did the mountain men do in Utah?

early explorers that played a crucial role in the region's history. hunting beaver for pelts, fur and trade. They were tough and independent.