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Wacona Georgia Quiz Bowl Team #2 NP

Total questions: 63

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the Spanish name for Georgia?

a)

Guale

b)

Alamo

2.

Georgia marble was used for what famous monument in Washington, D.C.?

a)

Stone Mountain

b)

Lincoln Memorial

3.

What Georgia Island was once the home to Thomas Spaulding and Howard Coffin?

a)

Sapelo

b)

Tybee

4.

What comedian was born in Harlem, Georgia?

a)

Hardy

b)

Teach

5.

What Savannah native founded the National Girl Scout Organization?

a)

Low

b)

Hart

6.

For whom is the state of Georgia named?

a)

Oglethorpe

b)

King George II

7.

What Polish count was killed in the siege of Savannah during the American Revolution?

a)

Pulaski

b)

Sherman

8.

What Georgian won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1960s?

a)

Hardy

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

9.

What was the name of the orphanage created by George Whitefield?

a)

Bethesda

b)

Little White House

10.

What was the name of Alexander Stephens' home and in what town is it located?

a)

Liberty Hall; Crawfordville

b)

Wren's Nest; Hawkinsville

11.

What English nobleman is considered the founder of Georgia?

a)

Oglethorpe

b)

King George II

12.

What was the real name of Blackbeard the Pirate?

a)

John Gordon

b)

Edward Teach

13.

What are the two major Native American tribes in the pre-colonial period?

a)

Cherokees and Creeks

b)

Creeks and Oconee

14.

On what date did the first European settlers arrive in the colony of Georgia?

a)

January 19, 1783

b)

February 12, 1733

15.

What U.S. President often visited Warm Springs, Georgia and what was the name of his home there?

a)

Franklin Roosevelt; Little White House

b)

Donald Trump; Roselawn

16.

In what year was the charter of Georgia granted by King George II?

a)

1732

b)

1915

17.

In what year were women first allowed to practice law in the courts of Georgia?

a)

1915

b)

1732

18.

What town in Sumter County was the boyhood home to President Jimmy Carter?

a)

Grady

b)

Plains

19.

What Union commander led the famous march to the sea during the Civil War?

a)

Teach

b)

Sherman

20.

What Georgia museum is home to the locomotive, General?

a)

Kennesaw

b)

Cycorama

21.

What Georgia museum is home to the locomotive, Texas?

a)

Cyclorama

b)

Kennesaw

22.

What was the name of the forced removal of the Cherokee Native Americans from Georgia?

a)

Relocation

b)

Trail of Tears

23.

What Atlanta newspaper editor created the term "New South"?

a)

Grady

b)

Hardy

24.

What South Georgia community was created by veterans from the Civil War and in what county is it located?

a)

Liberty Hall; Crawfordville

b)

Fitzgerald; Ben Hill

25.

What was the name of the Cherokee capital in Georgia?

a)

Kolomoki

b)

New Echota

26.

Name the three signers of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia?

a)

Gwinnett, Hall, Walton

b)

Brown, Colquitt, and Gordon

27.

What are the call letters of Georgia's first radio station?

a)

WSB

b)

FOX

28.

What was the first newspaper in Georgia and who was its first publisher?

a)

Georgia Gazette; James Johnston

b)

Georgia Times; Henry Grady

29.

What was the name of the Walt Disney movie that dedicated the chase between the locomotive, Texas and General?

a)

The Great Locomotive Chase

b)

Thomas the Train

30.

What ship did the first Georgia settlers arrive on?

a)

Ann

b)

Nina

31.

What Georgia land fraud occurred in the 1790s over lands in present Alabama and Mississippi?

a)

Yahoo

b)

Yazoo

32.

George Troup was the governor associated with the removal of what Native American tribe in Georgia?

a)

Creeks

b)

Cherokees

33.

Name the three members of the Bourbon Triumvirate?

a)

Gwinnett, Hall, and Walton

b)

Brown, Colquitt, and Gordon

34.

In what year was the Declaration of Independence approved?

a)

1776

b)

1915

35.

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

a)

Roselawn, Hawkinsville

b)

Camp Sumter; Andersonville

36.

Who developed the plan for the city of Savannah?

a)

Axson

b)

Oglethorpe

37.

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

a)

Tomochichi

b)

Chickamuga

38.

Who developed the use of ether and anesthetic?

a)

Hart

b)

Long

39.

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

a)

John and Charles Wesley

b)

Eugene and Herman Talmadge

40.

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

a)

Loisville

b)

Augusta

41.

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

a)

Michael

b)

Wesley

42.

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

a)

Bond

b)

Jones

43.

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

a)

Eli Whitney; Plantation of Mrs. Catherine Greene

b)

Musgrove; Plantation of Mrs. Elizabeth Wright

44.

What Georgian was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson?

a)

Hart

b)

Axson

45.

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

a)

Macon

b)

Augusta

46.

By what name was Atlanta known from 1842 to 1845?

a)

Marthasville

b)

Milledgeville

47.

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

a)

New Echota

b)

New Inverness - present day Darien

48.

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

a)

Methodist

b)

Southern Baptist

49.

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

a)

19th - Joseph E. and Joseph M. Brown

b)

20th - Eugene and Herman Talmadge

c)

19th- Edward and John Teach

d)

20th - Henry and Julian Bond

50.

What city is home to the Medical College of Georgia?

a)

Statesboro

b)

Augusta

51.

What city is home to Georgia College and State University?

a)

Savannah

b)

Milledgeville

52.

What town is home to Georgia Southwestern State University?

a)

Americus

b)

Augusta

53.

What city is home to Georgia Southern University?

a)

Augusta

b)

Statesboro

54.

What city is home to Armstrong Atlantic State University?

a)

Savannah

b)

Brunswick

55.

What city is home to Coastal Georgia Community College?

a)

Brunswick

b)

Americus

56.

What city is home to Mercer University?

a)

Macon

b)

Pierce

57.

What county is home to Lakeland?

a)

Wayne

b)

Lanier

58.

What county is home to Thomasville?

a)

Lanier

b)

Thomas

59.

What county is home to Ocilla?

a)

Berrien

b)

Irwin

60.

What county is the city of Atlanta located in?

a)

Fulton

b)

Tift

61.

What is the name of the longest interstate in Georgia?

a)

US 27

b)

I - 75

62.

What interstates connect Columbus and Atlanta?

a)

I - 185 and I - 85

b)

I - 75

63.

What waterway threads its way through the state's coastal islands?

a)

The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

b)

The Brunswick coastal waterway