Temple trivia
I freely admit that this page is light-hearted at best and frivolous at worst. Please excuse my obsessive-compulsive tendencies. :o) The questions come first and the answers follow. I have only included dedicated temples in these quiz questions.
Questions:
- Can you name some temples that include ‘San’, ‘St.’, or any close derivatives in their names?
- Can you name some temples that contain the names of America’s early founders or presidents?
- Can you name some temples that include trees or references to wood in their names?
- Can you name a temple that includes a season of the year in its name?
- Can you name some temples that include ‘Fort’ in their names?
- Can you name some temples that include ‘Port’ in their names?
- Can you name a temple that has the name of a prophet in its name?
- Can you name some temples that reference the Savior, His life, or His teachings?
- Can you name a temple that has a Book of Mormon name or title in its name?
- Can you name a temple that refers to heavenly beings in its name?
- Can you name some temples that have ‘columb’ in their names?
- Can you name a temple that has 2 q’s in its name?
- Can you name a temple that has 2 x’s in its name?
- Can you name some temples that have 2 k’s in their names?
- Can you name some of the temples that repeat a place name in the name of the temple?
- Many of our temples have adjacent double letters in their names? Can you name a few?
- Many of our temples refer to features in landscapes. Can you name a few?
Answers:
1- ‘San’ or ‘St.”, etc
. • San Antonio Texas
. • San Diego California
. • San José California
. • San Juan Puerto Rico
. • San Pedro Sula Honduras
. • San Salvador El Salvador
. • Santiago Chile
. • Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
. • São Paulo Brazil
. • St. George Utah
. • St. Louis Missouri
. • St. Paul Minnesota
2- Early American founders or presidents
. • Hamilton New Zealand (Alexander Hamilton)
. • Seattle Washington (George Washington)
. • St. George Utah (George Washington)
. • Washington, D.C. (George Washington)
3- Trees or wood
. • Cedar City Utah
. • Laie Hawaii (‘laie’ means ‘red leaf’)
. • Oakland California
4- Seasons of the year
. • Saratoga Springs Utah (‘spring’)
. • Winter Quarters Nebraska
5- ‘Fort’
. • Fortaleza Brazil
. • Fort Collins Colorado
. • Fort Lauderdale Florida
6- ‘Port’
. • Port-au-Prince Haiti
. • Portland Oregon
. • Porto Alegre Brazil
7- Name of a prophet
. • Brigham City Utah
. • Moses Lake Washington
8- The Savior
. • Asunciòn Paraguay (the Ascension)
. • Belém Brazil (Bethlehem)
. • Concepciòn Chile (the Concepcion)
. • Sacramento California (the Sacrament)
. • Salvador Brazil (Savior)
. • San Salvador El Salvador (Savior twice)
. • Veracruz Mexico (the True Cross)
9- Book of Mormon
. • Manti Utah
10- Heavenly beings
. • Los Angeles California (the angels)
11- Columb…
. • Columbia River Washington
. • Columbus Ohio
. • Columbus South Carolina
12- Two q’s
. • Albuquerque New Mexico
13- Two x’s
. • Oaxaca Mexico
. • Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico
14- Two k’s
. • Bangkok Thailand
. • Fukuoka Japan
. • Kyiv Ukraine
. • Louisville Kentucky
15- Repeated names
. • Guatemala City Guatemala
. • Idaho Falls Idaho
. • Mexico City D.F. Mexico
. • Oklahoma City Oklahoma
. • Panama City Panama
. • San Salvador El Salvador
16- Adjacent double letters
. • Accra Ghana
. • Barranquilla Colombia (2 doubles)
. • Bentonville Arkansas
. • Billings Montana
. • Boston Massachusetts (2 doubles)
. • Cebu City Philippines
. • Chicago Illinois
. • Dallas Texas
. • Fort Collins Colorado
. • Hartford Connecticut
. • Hermosillo Sonora Mexico
. • Idaho Falls Idaho
. • Johannesburg South Africa
. • Kansas City Missouri
. • Kona Hawaii
. • Laie Hawaii
. • Louisville Kentucky
. • Lubbock Texas
. • Manhattan New York
. • Manila Philippines
. • McAllen Texas
. • Memphis Tennessee (3 doubles!)
. • Monterrey Mexico
. • Monticello Utah
. • Nashville Tennessee (4 doubles!)
. • Nauvoo Illinois (2 doubles)
. • Oquirrh Mountain Utah
. • Papeete Tahiti
. • Philadelphia Pennsylvania
. • Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (2 doubles)
. • Pocatello Idaho
. • Red Cliffs Utah
. • Sapporo Japan
. • Seattle Washington
. • Star Valley Wyoming
. • St. Louis Missouri
. • St. Paul Minnesota
. • Taylorsville Utah
. • The Gila Valley Arizona
. • Trujillo Peru
. • Tuxtla Gutierrez Mexico
. • Twin Falls Idaho
. • Tallahassee Florida (3 doubles!)
. • Urdaneta Philippines
. • Villahermosa Mexico
. • Winnipeg Manitoba
17- Landscape or geography names
. • Anchorage Alaska (harbor)
. • Arequipa Perú (‘behind the mountain’)
. • Buenos Aires Argentina (‘good air’)
. • Campinas Brazil (grass fields)
. • Cochabamba Bolivia (‘many small lakes’)
. • Columbia River Washington
. • Idaho Falls Idaho
. • Jordan River
. • Kona Hawaii (‘the dry side of the island’)
. • Las Vegas Nevada (‘the meadows’)
. • Mesa Arizona
. • Monterrey Mexico (king mountain)
. • Montevideo Uruguay (a mountain view)
. • Monticello Utah (‘little mountain’)
. • Montreal Quebec Canada (‘royal mountain’)
. • Mount Timpanogos Utah
. • Newport Beach California
. • Oquirrh Mountains Utah
. • Porto Alegre Brazil (‘joyful harbor’)
. • Provo Utah Rock Canyon
. • Recife Brazil (reef)
. • Redlands California
. • Salt Lake City
. • Snowflake Arizona
. • Star Valley Wyoming
. • Tallahassee Florida (‘old field’ in an Indian dialect)
. • Tegucigalpa Honduras (‘silver mountain’)
. • The Gila Valley Arizona
. • Twin Falls Idaho
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