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Georgia Trivia

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Categories: State Symbols / People / Cities and Counties
Geographical Features / Historic Dates / Presidential Trivia

Previous GeorgiaInfo Daily Trivia Questions

State Symbols:

What is Georgia's State Amphibian?	What is Georgia's State Bird?	What is Georgia's State Butterfly?	What is Georgia's State Crop?	What is Georgia's State Fish?
What is Georgia's State Flower?	What is Georgia's State Fossil?	What is Georgia's State Fruit?	What is Georgia's State Game Bird?	What is Georgia's State Gem?
What is Georgia's State Insect?	What is Georgia's State Marine Mammal?	What is Georgia's State Mineral?	What is Georgia's State Prepared Food?	What is Georgia's State Reptile?
What is Georgia's State Seashell?	What is Georgia's State Song?	What is Georgia's State Tree?	What is Georgia's State Vegetable?	What is Georgia's State Wildflower?

State Symbols of Georgia

People:

Who founded the colony of Georgia?	Who befriended the early colonists (Native American)?	Who signed the Declaration of Independence, only to die from a duel shortly afterwards?	Who played a pivotal role in the Constitutional Covention of 1787?	Who invented the cotton gin?
Who pioneered the use of ether as an anesthetic?	Who delivered a famous "New South" speech?	Who wrote the Uncle Remus stories?	Who was the first black graduate of the U.S. Military Academy?	Who founded the Girl Scouts of America?
Who broke the color barrier in major league baseball?	Who was the first woman to break the sound barrier?	Who was part of a world famous comic duo from the 1920s-1950s?	Who wrote Gone with the Wind?	Who was known as the "Godfather of Soul?"
Who led the Civil Rights movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize?	Who played a major role in the Star Trek television and movie series?	Who won the Heisman Trophy in 1982?	Who wrote The Color Purple?	Who founded the Chick-Fil-A restaurant chain?

Famous Georgians

Cities and Counties:

What is Georgia's largest county by area?	What is Georgia's smallest county by area?	What is Georgia's largest county by population?	What is Georgia's smallest county by population?	What is Georgia's largest city and current capital?
What is Georgia's oldest city and was the first capital?	What was Georgia's second capital and is home to the Masters golf tournament?	What city served as Georgia's third capital, from 1796-1807?	What city served as Georgia's fourth capital, from 1807-1868?	What small north Georgia town was the site of the bloodiest Civil War battle in Georgia?
What Georgia city was adopted as a second home by a U.S. President?	What is the Classic City, home to the University of Georgia?	What is the only county in Georgia named for a woman?	What Georgia county is named for a former governor of Alabama?	What Georgia city is the home to the official state vegetable?
What inland Georgia city is home to the Civil War Naval Museum?	What Georgia city was the site of America's first gold rush?	What is Georgia's easternmost county?	What is Georgia's westernmost county?	What is Georgia's southernmost county?
What Georgia city is known as the Carpet Capital of the World?	What Georgia city is known as the Granite Capital of the World?	What northeast Georgia city is famous for its poultry industry?	What was the last Georgia county created?	How many total counties are in the state of Georgia?

Georgia Counties

Geographical Features:

What is Georgia's highest elevation?	What is the largest and southernmost of Georgia's coastal islands?	What Georgia geographical feature is known as the Little Grand Canyon?	What Georgia river forms the largest watershed east of the Mississippi?	What Georgia river forms most of the eastern border with South Carolina?
What is Georgia's longest river and forms most of the western border with Alabama?	What is the name of the Georgia geographical feature that means "Land of the Trembling Earth?"	What Georgia river originates as groundwater running under Hartsfield-Jackson airport?	What is Georgia's deepest lake?	What Georgia river is damned to form Lake Allatoona?
What is the northernmost of Georgia's coastal islands?	What scenic Georgia feature is located on the western edge of Lookout Mountain?	What is the name of the scenic spot on Pine Mountain where FDR liked to picnic?	What is the largest of Georgia's five different geographical regions?	What is the effigy mound, likely built by Woodland Indians, in Putnam County?
What geographical feature divides Georgia's two largest geographical regions?	What Georgia waterfall is the highest east of the Mississippi?	What mineral is mined primarily in middle Georgia and is one of the state's greatest natural resources?	What Georgia mountain river cuts a gorge and has a waterfall with the same name?	What famous geographical formation (and tourist attraction) is located atop Lookout Mountain?

Georgia Photo Gallery

Georgia Tourism

Historic Dates:

What happened in Georgia, or important to Georgia history, on...

February 1, 1733?	July 7, 1742?	February 14, 1779?	January 27, 1785?	January 2, 1788?
May 12, 1791?	June 20, 1793?	February 15, 1796?	October 27, 1828?	May 26, 1838?
March 30, 1842?	December 10, 1850?	January 19, 1861?	September 18-20, 1863?	November 15, 1864?
May 8, 1886?	August 27, 1893?	September 18, 1895?	September 22, 1906?	April 26, 1913?
August 17, 1915?	October 3, 1924?	January 15, 1929?	April 6, 1936?	June 30, 1936?
December 14, 1939?	April 12, 1945?	October 12, 1958?	January 10, 1961?	April 7, 1968?
April 8, 1974?	November 2, 1976?	January 1, 1981?	October 28, 1995?	July 19, 1996?

This Day in Georgia History

Presidential Trivia:

Who was the first sitting President to visit Georgia?	Who was the first Georgian to run for the Presidency?	Who was the first Republican candidate for the Presidency; he was also born in Savannah?	What former Georgia governor was a vice-presidential candidate (with Stephen Douglas) in 1860?	What Georgian served as Vice-President of the Confederacy?
What future President fought in the Battle of Atlanta?	What President was arrested in Georgia?	What Georgia Congressman, known as the Father of Rural Free Delivery, was a presidential candidate?	Who is the only sitting President to address a joint session of the Georgia General Assembly?	Which President's mother lived in Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia?
What future President spent part of his youth in Augusta and practiced law in Atlanta?	Which former First Lady is buried in Georgia?	Who is the only Georgia Senator to run for President?	What President died in Georgia?	Which Georgian, after serving as lieutenant governor, ran for President?
Who is the only Georgian to be elected President of the United States?	Which President attended a G-8 summit on Sea Island, Georgia?	What vice-president visited the site of the Battle of Chickamauga (his ancestor fought there)?	What former Georgia congressman was the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 2008?	What former Georgia congresswoman was the Green Party presidential candidate in 2008?
What Augusta native served as a personal aide to presidents T. Roosevelt and Taft before becoming a casualty when the Titanic sank in 1912?	What Columbus-born presidential contender (in 1996) attended the University of Georgia in the 1960s, obtaining a BBA and PhD?	What presidential contender was nominated at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta's Omni in 1988?	What president visited Augusta, Georgia 45 times, even having a cabin built for him at Augusta National?	How many Georgia counties are named for Presidents?

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