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1. What is the Georgia state Amphibian?
American Green Tree Frog
2. Which state is bordered to the north of Georgia?
Tennessee and North Carolina
3. Georgia was established in 1732 and was the last of the original what?
Thirteen Colonies.
4. What is the capital of Georgia?
Atlanta
5. What major golf tournament is held annually the second weekend of April at the Augusta National Golf Club?
The Masters
6. How many bird species are there in Georgia?
350
7. What is the Georgia state tree?
Live oak
8. How many species of reptiles live in Georgia?
About 79
9. When did Georgia join the Union?
In 1776
10. What is the Georgia state Fish?
Largemouth bass
11. At which number did the state join the Union?
4th
12. Who or what was the US state of Georgia named after?
King George II of Great Britain
13. At which number did the state join the Confederacy?
5th
14. What is the highest temperature ever recorded in the state of Georgia?
112 °F in Louisville on July 24, 1952.
15. When did the state join the Confederacy?
In 1861
16. What is the Georgia state, Shell?
Knobbed Whelk
17. Which city of Georgia is known as the Granite Capital of the World?
Elberton, Georgia
18. Among the largest performing arts venues in Georgia are the Fox Theatre, and the Alliance Theatre both located where?
Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta.
19. Which Super Bowl games did Atlanta’s Georgia Dome host?
Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994 and Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000
20. Georgia ratified the US Constitution, becoming the fourth state to do so on what date?
On January 2, 1788
21. Who explored Georgia?
Hernando de Soto
22. What is the Georgia state soil?
Tifton
23. When does he explore Georgia?
In 1540
24. What is Georgia’s official state song?
Georgia on My Mind
25. What is the nickname of the state?
The Peach State
26. What are Georgia’s two major Interstate Highways?
I-75 and I-85
27. What is the Georgia state Rock?
Granite
28. What is Georgia’s state bird?
Brown Thrasher
29. What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Georgia?
−17 °F in northern Floyd County on January 27, 1940.
30. Which is the state flower?
Cherokee Rose
31. What is the Georgia state dance?
Square dance
32. Which state is in the south of Georgia?
Florida
33. On what date did Georgia declare its secession from the Union?
January 19, 1861
34. Which U.S. state grows the most peanuts in the country?
Georgia
35. Georgia was one of the original seven, what?
Confederate states
36. What is the motto of the state?
Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation
37. What is the Georgia state Reptile?
Gopher tortoise
38. Which is the highest peak in the state?
Brass-town Bald
39. Where does Georgia rank in population compared to the other states?
It is 8th most populous.
40. How much is the height of the Brass-town Bald?
4,784 feet
41. What mountain range is located in the northern part of the state?
The Blue Ridge Mountains
42. What is the highest recorded temperature in the state?
112 degree Fahrenheit
43. Where is the highest point in Georgia?
Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet
44. Where the highest temperature was recorded?
At Louisellie and at Greenville
45. What is the Georgia state Mineral?
Staurolite
46. Where was the lowest temperature recorded?
At CCC Camp F-16
47. What is the lowest point in Georgia?
The Atlantic Ocean.
48. Which is the state game bird?
Quail
49. Inland area, Georgia is the biggest state east of the Mississippi River, but fourth in what?
In total area
50. Which is the state vegetable?
Vidalia Onion
51. What is the Georgia state Mammal?
Right whale
52. Who adopted Georgia’s flag?
The 2003 General Assembly
53. The stadium built to host Olympic events is now called Turner Field, and is the what?
Home of the Atlanta Braves
54. Who created Lake Blackshear?
Crisp County Power Company
55. What is the Georgia state Butterfly?
Eastern Tiger Swallowtai
56. What was the purpose of the lake creation?
Power supply
57. In 1838, Martin Van Buren had the Cherokee deported west of the what?
Mississippi
58. When was West Point lake created?
In 1974
59. What is Georgia’s primary commercial airport?
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL).
60. How many forests are there in the state?
Six
61. What is the most widely recognized orchestra and largest arts organization in the southeastern United States?
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
62. How many state parks are there?
64
63. What is the Georgia state Insect?
European honey bee
64. Who is the famous poet of the state?
Conrad Aiken
65. In 1877 white Democrats passed a poll tax, which disfranchised who?
Many poor blacks and whites
66. Who is the famous baseball player of the state?
Ty Cobb
67. In Georgia, where can one find white-tailed (Virginia) deer?
In nearly all counties
68. Where is the first American college to grant women college degrees located?
Macon, Georgia
69. What was the time period of the Gold Rush in Georgia?
1829-1861
70. What is the Georgia state Gem?
Quartz
71. How much gold does it produce?
Approximately 870,000 ounces
72. How many bird species live in the state of Georgia?
160
73. Which famous drink was invented in Atlanta, Georgia?
Coca-Cola
74. On July 1, 2013, the population of Georgia was what?
9,992,167
75. What was the first capital of Georgia?
Savannah
76. Georgia, as of the year 2010, has the sixth-highest number of what, in the country?
Illegal immigrants
77. How many counties are there in Georgia?
159
78. What is the Georgia state Fossil?
Shark tooth
79. Which is the only county in Georgia named after a woman?
Hart County
80. From 1990 to 2000, Georgia had the second-fastest growth rate in the population of which ethnic group?
Asians
81. As of 2008, Georgia has the third-lowest percentage of what type of people?
Seniors. (65 or older)
82. In 2011, what was Georgia’s Per Capita personal income?
$35,979
83. Georgia is the world’s biggest supplier of what type of tree nuts?
Pecans
84. Which U.S president was a peanut farmer in Georgia?
Jimmy Carter
85. What is the state theater of Georgia, that is located in Columbus?
The Springer Opera House
86. How many varieties of peaches are from Georgia?
About 4 dozen
87. What 1980s TV show was set in the fictional Hazzard County in Georgia?
The Dukes of Hazzard
88. What is the rank of the state by area?
24th
89. What are the bordering states of Georgia?
Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
90. What two motion pictures set in Atlanta were awarded Oscars for Best Picture?
Gone with the Wind, and Driving Miss Daisy
91. Ty Cobb was the first baseball player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. What was his nickname?
The Georgia Peach
92. What are two major college football teams in the NCAA Division I FBS?
The Georgia Bulldogs and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
93. Where is the Dixie 500 NASCAR stock car race held each year?
Atlanta Motor Speedway
94. How many public colleges, universities, and technical colleges does Georgia have?
Almost 70
95. How many cities with populations above 50,000 does Georgia have?
Fourteen
96. The colony of Georgia, as originally established prior to statehood, was intended as a buffer zone to protect the English in the Carolinas from the Spanish, who held Florida. For the most part, what type of people were imported from England to settle in the coastal area between these two opposing factions?
Debtors and criminals
97. Which city was the capital of Georgia during the U.S. Civil War?
Milledgeville
98. The east end of River Street is where you will find The Waving Girl statue. What was the real Waving Girl’s name?
Florence Martus
99. What was the first place outside of Asia to house whale sharks?
Georgia Aquarium
100. The Indians who first inhabited Jekyll Island were the__________?
Guale
101. What does the word “Okefenokee” mean in the language of the Seminoles?
Land of the Trembling Earth
102. What landmark restaurant sits at the corner of Highway 120 and U.S. 41 in Marietta?
The Big Chicken
103. Name one great invention that was developed in Georgia?
Cotton gin
104. In Georgia what animal may not be kept in a bathtub?
Donkey
105. What is the county seat of Forsyth County?
Cumming
106. Located on historic Auburn Avenue, this memorial to America’s principal spokesman for racial equality is only a block from the house he was born in. Who was he?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
107. Who was elected mayor of Atlanta in 2001?
Shirley Franklin
108. Which “lost” historic square was refurbished, featuring a statue of Johnny Mercer, a play fountain, and an enormous underground parking garage?
Ellis Square
109. Where can you see giant pandas, as well as one of the largest gorilla populations in North America?
Zoo Atlanta
110. What is the county seat of Floyd County? Rome
Rome
111. In what Georgia city is it illegal to throw rocks at birds?
Dublin
112. Which Georgia city is called the second-oldest city in the U.S.?
St. Marys
113. The Globe, located at DeRenne Avenue and White Bluff Road, was once a storage tank for what?
Oil
114. Where can guests see how a real news television station works?
Inside CNN Studio Tour
115. In Savannah, you can visit the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low. What organization did she found?
Girl Scouts of America
116. Where can visitors see dinosaur skeletons, an IMAX theater, and the fauna and flora of Georgia?
Fernbank Museum of Natural History
117. What is the county seat of Richmond County?
Augusta
118. In Atlanta, it is illegal to tie a ________ to a telephone pole?
A Giraffe
119. What famous Atlanta journalist said of General Sherman that he was an able military man, but “a might careless about fire”?
Henry Grady
120. Which major interstate hiking trail begins in the north Georgia mountains?
Appalachian Trail
121. Which Atlanta university is consistently ranked among the top ten in the nation for its College of Engineering?
Georgia Tech
122. In 1995, the Georgia Assembly designated Georgia as the _________ Capital of the World?
Poultry