ALL Local Guides around the world are welcome to participate in the #StateChallenge!!! Everyone is invited to participate, whether they have visited the state themselves, or are daydreaming about what the featured state has to offer. Each challenge will have a #StudyGuide and a State Trivia Meetup (with questions sourced from the submitted articles). Details of the challenge are here. If you write an article, make sure to link to it in the comments so we can include it in our #StudyGuide!
Articles must be published by midnight Pacific Standard Time the day before the meetup.
500 words or less is best
Link your article in the comments so we can add it to the #StudyGuide
Attend the Meetup
Challenge: 
ARIZONA
What have youseen 
,done 
, 
eaten or 
experienced in Arizona? What do you want tosee 
,do 
,eat 
orexperience 
in Arizona?
Here is a list of interesting places in Arizona to help get you started!
Fun facts about Arizona to get you started:
- There are 22 national parks and monuments in Arizona.
- There are more than 100 wineries and 22
varietals of wine produced in Arizona. - Arizona
chefs and 
restaurants have received more than 
James Beard nominations since 2010. - Arizona’s Sonoran Desert is the only place on earth where the iconic saguaro cactus grows.
If you cut down the endangered cactus, Saguaro, you could face up to a year in prison.1. The Grand Canyon National Park is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, and the only one located within the 
United States .
- There are 13 species of
rattlesnake in Arizona, more than in any other state. - Arizona cities Phoenix and Tucson get
sunshine for 85% of the year. In Yuma, Arizona, the sun shines 90% of the time. All these cities receive more sunlight than even Hawaii or Florida! - Arizona helped revolutionize the fast-food industry in 1975 when the
McDonald’s 
in Sierra Vista opened the company’s first drive-through window.
- At the time, soldiers from Fort Huachuca were not allowed to get out of their vehicles off-post while wearing fatigues. The owner of the McDonald’s franchise near the base pushed out a bit of one wall and installed a sliding glass window. Lines of hungry soldiers stretched around the building and Big Macs flew out the window as fast as the crew could make them.1. The original London Bridge stretches across a channel of the Colorado River
in Lake Havasu City. - The structure was dismantled where each of the 10,276 granite blocks were numbered. The blocks were shipped from London to Arizona and then reassembled. Lampposts made from Napoleon Bonaparte’s cannons captured at Waterloo were also included in the transfer. It took three years for the move and reassembly.1. The world’s largest solar
telescope is located at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Sells.
Thank you @Denise_Barlock for researching these fun facts!
What is our #StateChallenge schedule for the next NINE (9) weeks?
State |
Start |
End |
Meetup |
|---|---|---|---|
Arizona |
7/17/2020 |
7/24/2020 |
7/25/2020 |
Missouri |
7/24/2020 |
7/31/2020 |
8/01/2020 |
California |
7/31/2020 |
8/07/2020 |
8/08/2020 |
Georgia |
8/7/2020 |
8/14/2020 |
8/15/2020 |
Florida |
8/14/2020 |
8/21/2020 |
8/22/2020 |
North Carolina |
8/21/2020 |
8/28/2020 |
8/29/2020 |
New York |
8/28/2020 |
9/04/2020 |
9/05/2020 |
Vermont |
9/04/2020 |
9/11/2020 |
9/11/2020 |
Massachusetts |
9/11/2020 |
9/18/2020 |
9/18/2020 |
