Street Smarts Quiz: How much do you know about Tucson's streets?

Dec 4, 2017
Dec 4, 2017 Updated Jun 25, 2020

Did you learn anything while reading the Street Smarts column in the Arizona Daily Star or on tucson.com? If so, you may do well on this quiz. Click the answer you think is correct to see if youare right. Keep your own score and tell your friends you got them all right. We won't tell.

Street Smarts: Question 1

Updated Dec 4, 2017

M.L. King Jr Way, just south of 36th Street, is named for Martin Luther King Jr. who visited Tucson in 1959 & 1962. What did King do for the first time in his life, while in Tucson?

A) He went to his first drive-in theater (Midway Drive-In on Speedway Blvd) where he saw Rio Bravo starring John Wayne.

B) He toured the former home of author Harold Bell Wright after reading his book "The Mine with the Iron Door"

C) He visited an Indian Reservation, the Papago (Tohono O'odham) Indian Reservation

Street Smarts: Question 2

Updated Dec 4, 2017

Where does Craycroft Road get its name?

A) Frank Craycroft, a Spanish-American War veteran who owned a plumbing store downtown and built a beautiful home on a dirt road that would soon bear his name

B) Cecilia Mitman-Craycroft, a local women’s suffrage activist who homesteaded land south of Speedway Blvd.

C) The road was originally called Kenyon Road but after Craycroft Elementary School was constructed it was renamed Craycroft Road to honor the school.

Street Smarts: Question 3

Updated Dec 4, 2017

Who or what is Manlove Street, near Kino Parkway, named for?

A) Samuel A. Manlove a homesteader who was an editor for the Tucson Citizen.

B) Simon Mannin Love, an English immigrant and miner. The street was originally recorded as Mannin Love Road in 1922 but later became Manlove Street.

C) The street derives its name for the homestead it went through but its unknown where the name "Manlove Homestead" comes from.

Street Smarts: Question 4

Updated Dec 4, 2017

A tiny street downtown is called Calle Carlos Arruza, who was Carlos Arruza?

A) He was a Tucson-born Mexican race car driver killed in a car accident in 1972.

B) He was a bullfighter who was killed in a car accident.

C) He was a diarist on one of Father Kino's trips to Southern Arizona

Street Smarts: Question 5

Updated Dec 4, 2017

How did Anway Road in Marana come into existence?

A) In the 1930s, Michael Johnstone constructed a north-south runway next to his farming property for his Anway bi-plane. He called the runway the Anway strip, it later became a road.

B) Louis Anway a local farmer built the road as a shortcut to his newly-purchased property.

C) In the 1890s a small river existed called the Anway River, it was later changed toley Ri the Brawver(now Brawley Wash). When the road was built in 1898 it took its name from the river.

Street Smarts: Question 6

Updated Dec 4, 2017

What was the original name of Congress Street?

A) Calle de la Alegria (Happiness or Joy Street)

B) Camino de los fuegos (Road of the fires)

C) Calle de la Gadsden (Gadsden Street)

Street Smarts: Question 7

Updated Dec 4, 2017

Who is Blacklidge Drive named for?

A) Harry Blacklidge, the 1961 Grand Marshal of the Tucson Rodeo Parade and longtime Tucsonan

B) Frank Blacklidge, an early contractor, rancher and cook

C) Chief Blacklidge, a Pima Indian leader that lived during the mid-1800s

Street Smarts: Bonus question

Updated Dec 4, 2017

Who is Jacobs Park, near Prince Road named for?

A) S.J. Jacobs, who donated the land for the park with agreement it would be named for him

) Michael Jacobs, a Pima County Superior Court judge killed in a plane crash

C) Robert Jacobs, a coach and teacher in the Amphi School District, killed in a place crash

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