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Photo: Invictus323, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.How well do you know the Beehive State? Test your knowledge on Utah's spectacular national parks, unique history, local delicacies, and pioneering spirit!
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Salt Lake City hosted the XIX Olympic Winter Games in February 2002. The event was highly successful, leaving behind world-class sporting venues that are still actively used today for training and international competitions.
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Park City hosted the Sundance Film Festival, linked to Robert Redford, from 1981 onwards. Every January this former silver-mining town filled up with film stars and movie fans. From 2027 the festival moves to a new home: Boulder, Colorado.
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The historic driving of the Golden Spike took place at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. This event revolutionized travel across the United States, reducing a cross-country journey from months to just days. Today, the site is preserved as a National Historical Park.
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Completed in 1867, the Salt Lake Tabernacle was designed so that a speaker could be heard clearly without modern amplification. It is home to the world-renowned Tabernacle Choir and houses a magnificent organ with over eleven thousand pipes.
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Antelope Island is the largest of the lake's islands, spanning over 28,000 acres. It is home to a famous herd of hundreds of American bison, which were introduced to the island in 1893. Visitors can access the island via a scenic causeway.
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Hoodoos are striking rock pillars formed by frost wedging and rain erosion over millions of years. Bryce Canyon holds the largest concentration of these geological formations on Earth, creating a mesmerizing maze of red, orange, and white rock.
Photo: Luca Galuzzi (Lucag), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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Philo Farnsworth was born in a log cabin near Beaver, Utah, and got his big idea as a teenage farm boy in Idaho: the parallel rows of a ploughed field showed him how to build a picture line by line. In 1927, at just 21, he sent his first all-electronic image in San Francisco.
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Pando, also known as the Trembling Giant, is a single male quaking aspen that has cloned itself into a forest of about 47,000 trunks, all joined by one root system. It weighs an estimated 6,000 tonnes, and scientists think its roots are at least 9,000 years old, possibly much older.
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The Sego lily was designated as Utah's state flower in 1911. Native to the Great Basin region, its starchy bulbs were eaten by the Mormon pioneers during a severe food shortage in the late 1840s. Interestingly, the flower thrives in dry, sandy soils where little else grows.
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Fry sauce is a staple of Utah dining, created in the 1940s by Don Carlos Edwards, the founder of the Arctic Circle restaurant chain. While the basic recipe is just mayo and ketchup, many local spots add secret ingredients like pickle juice, garlic, or spices.
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