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Exploring Georgia: A Quiz on the Peach State

Test your knowledge about the U.S. state of Georgia with this engaging quiz covering geography, history, and culture.

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1 Which of the following places is northwest of Georgia (U.S. state)?

2 Who played centre in the Georgia (U.S. state)?

3 This event served as the historical background for the 1936 novel ________ and the 1939 film of the same name.

4 How long is Georgia (U.S. state)?

5 What is directly west of Georgia (U.S. state)?

6 As of the 2001 ________, the state has 13 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, which are currently held by 7 Republicans and 6 Democrats.

7 In recent events, Democrat Jim Martin ran against incumbent Republican Senator ________.

8 What are people from Georgia (U.S. state) known as?

9 What timezone is Georgia (U.S. state) in?

10 What office has Georgia (U.S. state) held?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the historian Robert W. Mondy's Jesse Mercer: A Study in Frontier Religion, is a biography of the founder of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
  • the Cherokee Nation was induced to cede large portions of land in Tennessee and Georgia to the United States in the Tellico Blockhouse, Monroe County, Tennessee.
  • the Peachtree Road Race, held annually on July 4 (U.S. Independence Day) in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world's largest 10 kilometer road race with 55,000 runners participating in 2007.
  • the Yamasee War of 1715-17 nearly annihilated the colony of South Carolina and paved the way for the founding of Georgia.
  • the boundaries between American Georgia and Spanish Florida were defined by the 1796 Treaty of Madrid.
  • the U.S. military's Tybee hydrogen bomb, missing off the coast of the state of Georgia since 1958, may recently have been discovered.
  • the 17th-century church built by the Tacatacuru, a Timucua chiefdom on Cumberland Island, Georgia, was said to be as big as the one in the Spanish colonial capital of St. Augustine.
  • several forts at Fort Morris Historic Site in Georgia protected the Medway River and its settlements during the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812.
  • Kelbessa Negewo was charged with murder in his home country of Ethiopia after one of the women who claims he tortured her discovered him working as a bellhop in an Atlanta, Georgia hotel elevator.
  • Holy Spirit College in Atlanta, Georgia, will admit its first class of full-time undergraduate students later this year.
  • an area of more than 60,000 square miles (160,000 km2) in the U.S. states of Georgia, North and South Carolina was exposed to airborne clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide during Operation Dew.
  • in November 1931, American country blues harmonicist Eddie Mapp was found stabbed to death at the age of 20 on an Atlanta, Georgia, street corner.
  • judge Michael W. Mosman was involved in U.S. Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick while working as his law clerk.
  • in the Frederica Naval Action of the American Revolutionary War, three galleys led by Georgian colonel Samuel Elbert (pictured) defeated a much stronger British force.
  • Cloudland Canyon State Park in the U.S. state of Georgia straddles a gorge cut into the mountain by Sitton Gulch Creek, where the elevation differs from 1,980 to 800 feet (604 to 244 m).
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