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WorksheetsGeorgia Quiz Bowl Team #1 KA
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What county is home of the Uncle Remus Museum and Rock Eagle effigy?
Putnam
Brantley
What city calls itself the pecan capital of Georgia?
Albany
Putnam
What county is home to the King's Bay Submarine Base?
Camden
Appling
What city calls itself the Blueberry capital?
Pierce
Alma
What city is home to a Confederate Naval Museum?
Albany
Columbus
What county is home to Jekyll Island and St. Simons Island?
Glynn
Camden
What Wheeler County town is named for a mission in the Mexican War?
Cancun
Alamo
What city was home to Juliette Gordon Low?
Savannah
Brunswick
What time zone is Georgia located in?
Eastern
Western
What county is home to Nahunta, Hoboken, and Waynesville?
Brantley
Glynn
What community claims to be the "Sweet Onion" capital?
Carroll
Vidalia
What county is the city of Baxley in?
Camden
Appling
What county Statesboro located in?
Bulloch
Carroll
What county is home to Homerville?
Clinch
Bulloch
What state borders Georgia to the south?
South Carolina
Florida
What county is the youngest and what year was it created?
Bacon; 1898
Peach; 1924
What interstate circles the city of Atlanta?
I-285
I-16
What county is the town of Quitman located in?
Clinch
Brooks
What interstate connects Macon and Savannah?
I-16 (Jim Gillis Highway)
I-285
What county is Atlanta located in?
Fulton
Wayne
What county is home to Screven and Jesup?
Wayne
Pierce
What is the largest county by area in Georgia?
Ware
Coffee
What two rivers form Lake Seminole?
Chattahoochee and Flint
Ocmulgee and Oconee
What city is the home to the Georgia National Fair?
Perry
Columbus
What city claims to be the Shrimp Capital of the World?
Brunswick
Albany
What state borders Georgia to the west?
Alabama
South Carolina
What river forms most of the western border with Alabama?
Mississippi
Chattahoochee
What two states border Georgia to the north?
North Carolina and Tennessee
North Carolina and South Carolina
What state borders Georgia to the east?
Alabama
South Carolina
What county is the town of Kansas located in?
Wayne
Carroll
What city has the nickname "Classic City"?
Athens
Brunswick
What South Georgia community receives its name from a Pennsylvania city?
Adel
Clinch
What was the name of the first college to grant certificates to African American nurses an in what city is it located?
Spellman; Atlanta
Shorter; Brunswick
How many types of poisonous snakes are found in Georgia?
4
8
What is the largest reptile found in Georgia?
Snake
Alligator
Name the poisonous snakes associated with Georgia.
Cobra
Copperhead
Coral
Moccasin
Rattlesnake
What is the name of the nuclear power plant located in Burke County?
Hatch
Vogtle
What is the name of the nuclear power plant located in Appling county?
Vogtle
Hatch
What geographic region is located in northwestern Georgia?
Appalachian Plateau
Coastal Plains
What are the three major cities along the so-called Fall Line?
Atlanta, Athens, and Columbus
Columbus, Macon, and Augusta
What two waterfalls are located in northern Georgia?
Amicalola and Toccoa
Chattahoochee and Flint
What city is nicknamed the Emerald City?
Dublin
Tate
What was the name and location of Georgia's most famous Civil War prison camp?
Camp Summer; Hinesville
Camp Sumter; Andersonville
Who gave the nickname Margravate of Azilia to the state of Georgia?
Michael
Sir Robert Montgomery
Who developed the plan for the city of Savannah?
Oglethorpe
Martus
What Yamacraw Indian chief allowed the English settlers to locate in Georgia?
Tomochichi
Mary Musgrove
Who developed the use of ether and anesthetic?
Bond
Long
What two Angelican clergymen lived in Georgia before returning to England to develop Methodism?
John and Charles Wesley
Joseph E. and Joseph M. Brown
In what Georgia city did the southern Baptist Convention develop in 1845?
Augusta
Macon
What Georgian developed the practice of selling poppy flowers on Armistice Day?
Berry
Michael
What 19th century evangelist had a home in north Georgia called Roselawn?
Jones
Oglethorpe
Who developed the cotton gin and where in Georgia did it occur?
Eli Whitney; Plantation of Mrs. Catherine Greene
Joel Chandler Harris; Wren's Nest
What Georgian was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson?
Berry
Axson
In what city did President Woodrow Wilson live during part of his childhood?
Augusta
Milledgeville
By what name was Atlanta known from 1842 to 1845?
Marthasville
Savannah
What was the name of the first Scottish settlement in Georgia?
Jamestown
New Inverness - present day Darien
What is the largest Christian denomination in the state of Georgia today?
Southern Baptist
Methodism
Name the only father and son to be elected governor in the 19th and 20th centuries.
19th- John and Charles Wesley
20th- Crawford W. and James Long
19th- Joseph E. and Joseph M. Brown
20th- Eugene and Herman Talmadge
What Georgia educator lived in north Georgia in a home called Oak Hill?
Meigs
Berry
What orphanage was developed by Carrie Steele Logan?
Carrie-Pitts
Steele-Pitts
Who was the first President of the Georgia Medical Society and when did it start?
Jones; 1804
Gordon; 1804
What Georgia university was the first state chartered university and what name did it originate as?
Truett McConnell College; Franklin College
University of Georgia; Franklin College
What newspaper did Hoke Smith start his career?
Atlanta Journal
Cherokee Phoenix
What were the most important secondary schools of the 19th century called?
Academies
Normal
What were the names of schools in the 19th century that trained teachers?
Normal
Academies
What Georgia city had the first general hospital for African Americans?
Macon
Savannah
What was the name of the first commercial airline to serve Atlanta?
Delta
Jet Blue
What two crops were primarily grown in the colonial period?
Rice and Indigo
Maze and wheat
What is the number one "nut" associated with Georgia?
Peanuts
cashews
Who became the first African American president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in 1977?
Maynard Jackson
Jesse Hill, Jr.
Who is known as the Sage of McDuffie?
Watson
Hart
What Georgian created the Texas state flag?
Logan
Troutman
In what year was the first Georgia census?
1790
1890
What was the name of schools in the 19th century for common people?
Old Field Schools
Academies
Who was the first President of the University of Georgia?
Meigs
Jackson
Who received Georgia's electoral votes in 1976?
Carter
Bush
What is the name of the University of Georgia's political science division?
Abraham Baldwin
Carl Vinson Institute of Government
What Georgia university started in downtown Atlanta in a garage building?
Georgia State
University of Georgia
Who gave the original land for the University of Georgia?
Milledge
Oglethorpe
What Georgia university was Confederate veteran Nathaniel Harris associated?
Carl Vinson Institute of Government
Georgia Institute of Technology
What was the name of the first state owned railroad in Georgia and in what year was it created?
Western and Atlantic; 1836
Western and Atlantic; 1886
What Georgian was the co-founder of the first national PTA organization?
Birney
Rusk
What Georgian was the first African American to attend West Point?
Birney
Flipper
What Georgian served as Native American agent under President Washington?
McIntosh
Hawkins
What Creek chief was murdered for signing a treaty giving up his people's land?
Hawkins
McIntosh
What Georgia city is home to the New Echota Buildings?
Calhoun
Hawkinsville
Who led the removal of the Cherokees and what was it called?
Scott; Trail of Tears
Jones; Appalachian Trail
What 1790 treaty ceded Creek lands between the Ogeechee and Oconee rivers?
Treaty of New Echota
Treaty of New York
What was the name of the civil rights organization created by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Nation association for the advancement for colored people
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
What was the maiden name of Mrs. James Oglethorpe?
Wright
Axson
What Georgian was granted a charter for a steamboat?
Flipper
Longstreet
Name the three royal governors of Georgia.
Reynolds
Carter
Ellis
Wright
Who created the first modern Ku Klux Klan in 1915 and where did the first take place?
Simmons; Stone Mountain
Stephens; Rock Eagle
Who was the first African American minister in Savannah?
Bryan
Rusk
Who was the third African American Mayor of Atlanta?
Campbell
Maynard
Who were the first two U.S. senators from Georgia?
Crisp and Cobb
Few and Gunn
What Georgian politician was known as the "Wild Man from Sugar Creek"?
Talmadge
Arnall
What confederate leader was captured near Irwinville?
Jefferson Davis
Dudley Hughes
What Georgia governor is credited with building the present capitol for under the budgeted $1 million?
McDaniel
MacIntosh
What Georgian ran unsuccessfully for President in 1824?
Campbell
Crawford
What Georgia governor created Agricultural and Mechanical colleges in every Congressional District?
Terrell
Cobb
Who led the Convention of 1798 which protested the Yazoo Act?
Watson
Jackson
What Georgian served as a member of the Warren Commission to investigate the murder of President John F. Kennedy?
Thomas R. R. Cobb
Richard B. Russell, Jr.
Who defeated Herman Talmadge for U.S. Senator in 1980?
Mattingly
Gunn
What two statewide offices did Eugene Talmadge hold?
Commissioner of Agriculture and Governor
Commissioner of Agriculture and Lt. Governor
What governor was called "Georgia's Most Distinguished Soldier" in the Civil War?
Mattingly
Gordon
Who served as U.S. Speaker of the House from 1891 to 1895?
Crisp
Gunn
Who was appointed Secretary of the Trustees in 1737?
Ewen
Stephens
Who served as Director of the Office of Budget and Management under former President Jimmy Carter?
Lance
George
Who wrote most of the Confederate Constitution?
Cobb
Crawford
Who is the only person in the 20th century to serve in all three branches of state government?
Watson
Smith
What Georgia politician had a newspaper called Jeffersonian?
Watson
Smith
What governor is credited with starting the State Merit System of employment?
Arnall
Lance
What Supreme Court decision nullified the Rescinding Act?
Chisholm vs. Georgia
Fletcher vs. peck
What Georgia senator did President Franklin Roosevelt openly campaign against?
George
Jackson
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?
Scott
Callaway
What two Georgians created the legislation creating vocational education in public schools?
Dudley Hughes
Hoke Smith
Bert Lance
According to the Constitution of 1789, who selected the Governor?
State Legislator
Secretary of State
What U.S. Supreme Court decision allowed Georgia to be sued and set up the issue of state rights?
Chisholm vs. Georgia
Fletcher vs. peck
What state constitution declared schools should be erected in each county and supported by the general expense of the state?
Georgia Constitution of 1789
Georgia Constitution of 1777
What was the name of the document drawn up in 1776 to govern Georgia?
Rules and Regulations
Treaty of New Echota
What Georgia Constitution created a bicameral legislature and gave the right to vote to those who paid a tax?
Georgia Constitution of 1777
Georgia Constitution of 1789
What Georgia Constitution had only 23 amendments?
Georgia Constitution of 1798
Georgia Constitution of 1789
