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Georgia Quiz Bowl Team #1 KA

Total questions: 123

Worksheet time: 1hrs 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What county is home of the Uncle Remus Museum and Rock Eagle effigy?

a)

Putnam

b)

Brantley

2.

What city calls itself the pecan capital of Georgia?

a)

Albany

b)

Putnam

3.

What county is home to the King's Bay Submarine Base?

a)

Camden

b)

Appling

4.

What city calls itself the Blueberry capital?

a)

Pierce

b)

Alma

5.

What city is home to a Confederate Naval Museum?

a)

Albany

b)

Columbus

6.

What county is home to Jekyll Island and St. Simons Island?

a)

Glynn

b)

Camden

7.

What Wheeler County town is named for a mission in the Mexican War?

a)

Cancun

b)

Alamo

8.

What city was home to Juliette Gordon Low?

a)

Savannah

b)

Brunswick

9.

What time zone is Georgia located in?

a)

Eastern

b)

Western

10.

What county is home to Nahunta, Hoboken, and Waynesville?

a)

Brantley

b)

Glynn

11.

What community claims to be the "Sweet Onion" capital?

a)

Carroll

b)

Vidalia

12.

What county is the city of Baxley in?

a)

Camden

b)

Appling

13.

What county Statesboro located in?

a)

Bulloch

b)

Carroll

14.

What county is home to Homerville?

a)

Clinch

b)

Bulloch

15.

What state borders Georgia to the south?

a)

South Carolina

b)

Florida

16.

What county is the youngest and what year was it created?

a)

Bacon; 1898

b)

Peach; 1924

17.

What interstate circles the city of Atlanta?

a)

I-285

b)

I-16

18.

What county is the town of Quitman located in?

a)

Clinch

b)

Brooks

19.

What interstate connects Macon and Savannah?

a)

I-16 (Jim Gillis Highway)

b)

I-285

20.

What county is Atlanta located in?

a)

Fulton

b)

Wayne

21.

What county is home to Screven and Jesup?

a)

Wayne

b)

Pierce

22.

What is the largest county by area in Georgia?

a)

Ware

b)

Coffee

23.

What two rivers form Lake Seminole?

a)

Chattahoochee and Flint

b)

Ocmulgee and Oconee

24.

What city is the home to the Georgia National Fair?

a)

Perry

b)

Columbus

25.

What city claims to be the Shrimp Capital of the World?

a)

Brunswick

b)

Albany

26.

What state borders Georgia to the west?

a)

Alabama

b)

South Carolina

27.

What river forms most of the western border with Alabama?

a)

Mississippi

b)

Chattahoochee

28.

What two states border Georgia to the north?

a)

North Carolina and Tennessee

b)

North Carolina and South Carolina

29.

What state borders Georgia to the east?

a)

Alabama

b)

South Carolina

30.

What county is the town of Kansas located in?

a)

Wayne

b)

Carroll

31.

What city has the nickname "Classic City"?

a)

Athens

b)

Brunswick

32.

What South Georgia community receives its name from a Pennsylvania city?

a)

Adel

b)

Clinch

33.

What was the name of the first college to grant certificates to African American nurses an in what city is it located?

a)

Spellman; Atlanta

b)

Shorter; Brunswick

34.

How many types of poisonous snakes are found in Georgia?

a)

4

b)

8

35.

What is the largest reptile found in Georgia?

a)

Snake

b)

Alligator

36.

Name the poisonous snakes associated with Georgia.

a)

Cobra

b)

Copperhead

c)

Coral

d)

Moccasin

e)

Rattlesnake

37.

What is the name of the nuclear power plant located in Burke County?

a)

Hatch

b)

Vogtle

38.

What is the name of the nuclear power plant located in Appling county?

a)

Vogtle

b)

Hatch

39.

What geographic region is located in northwestern Georgia?

a)

Appalachian Plateau

b)

Coastal Plains

40.

What are the three major cities along the so-called Fall Line?

a)

Atlanta, Athens, and Columbus

b)

Columbus, Macon, and Augusta

41.

What two waterfalls are located in northern Georgia?

a)

Amicalola and Toccoa

b)

Chattahoochee and Flint

42.

What city is nicknamed the Emerald City?

a)

Dublin

b)

Tate

43.

What was the name and location of Georgia's most famous Civil War prison camp?

a)

Camp Summer; Hinesville

b)

Camp Sumter; Andersonville

44.

Who gave the nickname Margravate of Azilia to the state of Georgia?

a)

Michael

b)

Sir Robert Montgomery

45.

Who developed the plan for the city of Savannah?

a)

Oglethorpe

b)

Martus

46.

What Yamacraw Indian chief allowed the English settlers to locate in Georgia?

a)

Tomochichi

b)

Mary Musgrove

47.

Who developed the use of ether and anesthetic?

a)

Bond

b)

Long

48.

What two Angelican clergymen lived in Georgia before returning to England to develop Methodism?

a)

John and Charles Wesley

b)

Joseph E. and Joseph M. Brown

49.

In what Georgia city did the southern Baptist Convention develop in 1845?

a)

Augusta

b)

Macon

50.

What Georgian developed the practice of selling poppy flowers on Armistice Day?

a)

Berry

b)

Michael

51.

What 19th century evangelist had a home in north Georgia called Roselawn?

a)

Jones

b)

Oglethorpe

52.

Who developed the cotton gin and where in Georgia did it occur?

a)

Eli Whitney; Plantation of Mrs. Catherine Greene

b)

Joel Chandler Harris; Wren's Nest

53.

What Georgian was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson?

a)

Berry

b)

Axson

54.

In what city did President Woodrow Wilson live during part of his childhood?

a)

Augusta

b)

Milledgeville

55.

By what name was Atlanta known from 1842 to 1845?

a)

Marthasville

b)

Savannah

56.

What was the name of the first Scottish settlement in Georgia?

a)

Jamestown

b)

New Inverness - present day Darien

57.

What is the largest Christian denomination in the state of Georgia today?

a)

Southern Baptist

b)

Methodism

58.

Name the only father and son to be elected governor in the 19th and 20th centuries.

a)

19th- John and Charles Wesley

20th- Crawford W. and James Long

b)

19th- Joseph E. and Joseph M. Brown

20th- Eugene and Herman Talmadge

59.

What Georgia educator lived in north Georgia in a home called Oak Hill?

a)

Meigs

b)

Berry

60.

What orphanage was developed by Carrie Steele Logan?

a)

Carrie-Pitts

b)

Steele-Pitts

61.

Who was the first President of the Georgia Medical Society and when did it start?

a)

Jones; 1804

b)

Gordon; 1804

62.

What Georgia university was the first state chartered university and what name did it originate as?

a)

Truett McConnell College; Franklin College

b)

University of Georgia; Franklin College

63.

What newspaper did Hoke Smith start his career?

a)

Atlanta Journal

b)

Cherokee Phoenix

64.

What were the most important secondary schools of the 19th century called?

a)

Academies

b)

Normal

65.

What were the names of schools in the 19th century that trained teachers?

a)

Normal

b)

Academies

66.

What Georgia city had the first general hospital for African Americans?

a)

Macon

b)

Savannah

67.

What was the name of the first commercial airline to serve Atlanta?

a)

Delta

b)

Jet Blue

68.

What two crops were primarily grown in the colonial period?

a)

Rice and Indigo

b)

Maze and wheat

69.

What is the number one "nut" associated with Georgia?

a)

Peanuts

b)

cashews

70.

Who became the first African American president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in 1977?

a)

Maynard Jackson

b)

Jesse Hill, Jr.

71.

Who is known as the Sage of McDuffie?

a)

Watson

b)

Hart

72.

What Georgian created the Texas state flag?

a)

Logan

b)

Troutman

73.

In what year was the first Georgia census?

a)

1790

b)

1890

74.

What was the name of schools in the 19th century for common people?

a)

Old Field Schools

b)

Academies

75.

Who was the first President of the University of Georgia?

a)

Meigs

b)

Jackson

76.

Who received Georgia's electoral votes in 1976?

a)

Carter

b)

Bush

77.

What is the name of the University of Georgia's political science division?

a)

Abraham Baldwin

b)

Carl Vinson Institute of Government

78.

What Georgia university started in downtown Atlanta in a garage building?

a)

Georgia State

b)

University of Georgia

79.

Who gave the original land for the University of Georgia?

a)

Milledge

b)

Oglethorpe

80.

What Georgia university was Confederate veteran Nathaniel Harris associated?

a)

Carl Vinson Institute of Government

b)

Georgia Institute of Technology

81.

What was the name of the first state owned railroad in Georgia and in what year was it created?

a)

Western and Atlantic; 1836

b)

Western and Atlantic; 1886

82.

What Georgian was the co-founder of the first national PTA organization?

a)

Birney

b)

Rusk

83.

What Georgian was the first African American to attend West Point?

a)

Birney

b)

Flipper

84.

What Georgian served as Native American agent under President Washington?

a)

McIntosh

b)

Hawkins

85.

What Creek chief was murdered for signing a treaty giving up his people's land?

a)

Hawkins

b)

McIntosh

86.

What Georgia city is home to the New Echota Buildings?

a)

Calhoun

b)

Hawkinsville

87.

Who led the removal of the Cherokees and what was it called?

a)

Scott; Trail of Tears

b)

Jones; Appalachian Trail

88.

What 1790 treaty ceded Creek lands between the Ogeechee and Oconee rivers?

a)

Treaty of New Echota

b)

Treaty of New York

89.

What was the name of the civil rights organization created by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

a)

Nation association for the advancement for colored people

b)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

90.

What was the maiden name of Mrs. James Oglethorpe?

a)

Wright

b)

Axson

91.

What Georgian was granted a charter for a steamboat?

a)

Flipper

b)

Longstreet

92.

Name the three royal governors of Georgia.

a)

Reynolds

b)

Carter

c)

Ellis

d)

Wright

93.

Who created the first modern Ku Klux Klan in 1915 and where did the first take place?

a)

Simmons; Stone Mountain

b)

Stephens; Rock Eagle

94.

Who was the first African American minister in Savannah?

a)

Bryan

b)

Rusk

95.

Who was the third African American Mayor of Atlanta?

a)

Campbell

b)

Maynard

96.

Who were the first two U.S. senators from Georgia?

a)

Crisp and Cobb

b)

Few and Gunn

97.

What Georgian politician was known as the "Wild Man from Sugar Creek"?

a)

Talmadge

b)

Arnall

98.

What confederate leader was captured near Irwinville?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Dudley Hughes

99.

What Georgia governor is credited with building the present capitol for under the budgeted $1 million?

a)

McDaniel

b)

MacIntosh

100.

What Georgian ran unsuccessfully for President in 1824?

a)

Campbell

b)

Crawford

101.

What Georgia governor created Agricultural and Mechanical colleges in every Congressional District?

a)

Terrell

b)

Cobb

102.

Who led the Convention of 1798 which protested the Yazoo Act?

a)

Watson

b)

Jackson

103.

What Georgian served as a member of the Warren Commission to investigate the murder of President John F. Kennedy?

a)

Thomas R. R. Cobb

b)

Richard B. Russell, Jr.

104.

Who defeated Herman Talmadge for U.S. Senator in 1980?

a)

Mattingly

b)

Gunn

105.

What two statewide offices did Eugene Talmadge hold?

a)

Commissioner of Agriculture and Governor

b)

Commissioner of Agriculture and Lt. Governor

106.

What governor was called "Georgia's Most Distinguished Soldier" in the Civil War?

a)

Mattingly

b)

Gordon

107.

Who served as U.S. Speaker of the House from 1891 to 1895?

a)

Crisp

b)

Gunn

108.

Who was appointed Secretary of the Trustees in 1737?

a)

Ewen

b)

Stephens

109.

Who served as Director of the Office of Budget and Management under former President Jimmy Carter?

a)

Lance

b)

George

110.

Who wrote most of the Confederate Constitution?

a)

Cobb

b)

Crawford

111.

Who is the only person in the 20th century to serve in all three branches of state government?

a)

Watson

b)

Smith

112.

What Georgia politician had a newspaper called Jeffersonian?

a)

Watson

b)

Smith

113.

What governor is credited with starting the State Merit System of employment?

a)

Arnall

b)

Lance

114.

What Supreme Court decision nullified the Rescinding Act?

a)

Chisholm vs. Georgia

b)

Fletcher vs. peck

115.

What Georgia senator did President Franklin Roosevelt openly campaign against?

a)

George

b)

Jackson

116.

What Republican candidate for Governor in 1996 pooled more votes than the Democratic candidate Lester Maddox but was defeated when the General Assembly chose Maddox?

a)

Scott

b)

Callaway

117.

What two Georgians created the legislation creating vocational education in public schools?

a)

Dudley Hughes

b)

Hoke Smith

c)

Bert Lance

118.

According to the Constitution of 1789, who selected the Governor?

a)

State Legislator

b)

Secretary of State

119.

What U.S. Supreme Court decision allowed Georgia to be sued and set up the issue of state rights?

a)

Chisholm vs. Georgia

b)

Fletcher vs. peck

120.

What state constitution declared schools should be erected in each county and supported by the general expense of the state?

a)

Georgia Constitution of 1789

b)

Georgia Constitution of 1777

121.

What was the name of the document drawn up in 1776 to govern Georgia?

a)

Rules and Regulations

b)

Treaty of New Echota

122.

What Georgia Constitution created a bicameral legislature and gave the right to vote to those who paid a tax?

a)

Georgia Constitution of 1777

b)

Georgia Constitution of 1789

123.

What Georgia Constitution had only 23 amendments?

a)

Georgia Constitution of 1798

b)

Georgia Constitution of 1789