60 free Georgia trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
52 free Georgia trivia questions with answers. This trivia about Georgia covers the U.S. state from James Oglethorpe's landing at Yamacraw Bluff in 1733 to the busiest airport on earth. In between: the first American gold rush at Dahlonega, the Cherokee removal, Sherman's March to the Sea, Coca-Cola for five cents a glass, the Masters at Augusta, the 1996 Olympics, and the state symbols every Georgia schoolkid learns (the brown thrasher, the Cherokee rose, grits). The questions run from easy (the capital, the nickname, the state fruit) through medium (why Georgia has 159 counties, what the Capitol dome is gilded with, which sweet onion is the state vegetable) to genuinely hard Georgia trivia facts, like the hydrogen bomb the Air Force lost off Tybee Island in 1958 and the secret Jekyll Island meeting that led to the Federal Reserve. One question at the end covers the other Georgia, the country in the Caucasus, so nobody leaves confused. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and official state sources before publishing, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. Good for a Georgia-themed trivia night, a classroom, or settling an argument about the Big Chicken.
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Q 01What is the capital of Georgia?
Atlanta
It is also the state's largest city. Savannah, Augusta, Louisville and Milledgeville all served as capital before the government moved there in 1868.
Q 02Which British general founded the colony of Georgia, landing at Yamacraw Bluff?
James Oglethorpe
The colony was meant as a buffer against Spanish Florida and a fresh start for England's "worthy poor". Its charter originally banned slavery and rum.
Q 03Georgia was named in honor of which British monarch?
George II
The colony's 1732 charter was issued by him. Georgia was the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Q 04Georgia was the last of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established. In what year?
1733
That made it 126 years younger than Virginia. It became a royal colony in 1752 and the fourth state to ratify the Constitution in 1788.
Q 05Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Which three beat it?
Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Georgia ratified on January 2, 1788, unanimously. Rhode Island was last, in 1790.
Q 06Which of these states does NOT share a border with Georgia?
Mississippi
Georgia touches five states: Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama, plus the Atlantic Ocean.
Q 07Georgia has more counties than any state except Texas. How many?
159
The old rule of thumb was that a farmer should be able to ride to the county seat and back in a day. Texas has 254.
Q 08What is the highest point in Georgia?
Brasstown Bald
It rises 4,784 feet in the Blue Ridge, and on a clear day the observation deck shows four states.
Q 09What is Georgia's official state bird?
Brown thrasher
It was first named in 1935 and confirmed by law in 1970. The state's short-lived NHL team, the Thrashers, borrowed the name from 1999 to 2011.
Q 10Which flower is Georgia's official state flower?
Cherokee rose
Adopted in 1916, it is actually a climbing rose native to China that naturalised across the South.
Q 11Grown only in a legally defined 20-county patch of south Georgia, what is the official state vegetable?
Vidalia onion
The sweetness comes from unusually low-sulfur soil. Growing the onions outside the zone and using the name is illegal under a 1986 state law.
Q 12Which breakfast staple did Georgia name its official state prepared food in 2002?
Grits
Ground hominy corn, cooked to porridge. South Carolina had already made it the official state food in 1976.
Q 13Georgia grows nearly half of the U.S. output of which crop, named its official state crop in 1995?
Peanuts
About 49 percent of the national acreage and output. Georgia is also the top pecan state, but the peanut got the official title in 1995.
Q 21Which U.S. president was born in Plains, Georgia, and served as the state's governor?
Jimmy Carter
He was Georgia's 76th governor from 1971 to 1975. Woodrow Wilson lived in Augusta as a boy but was born in Virginia.
Q 22Which president died at his "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, in April 1945?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He had first come for the warm mineral water as polio therapy in 1924. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage while sitting for a portrait.
Q 23Which two men founded Augusta National, the club that has hosted the Masters every year since 1934?
Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts
Q 14Which pharmacist invented Coca-Cola, first sold in 1886 at Jacob's Pharmacy for five cents a glass?
John Stith Pemberton
He marketed it as a patent medicine and temperance drink. Two years later he sold the rights to Asa Candler, whose marketing made it a giant.
Q 15Which Georgia airport was the world's busiest every year from 1998 to 2024, except 2020?
Hartsfield-Jackson
It is named after two former mayors, William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson, and handles more than 100 million passengers a year.
Q 16Which north Georgia town, site of an 1829 gold rush, supplied the gold leaf on the State Capitol dome?
Dahlonega
Congress opened a branch of the U.S. Mint there in 1838. The dome was gilded with local gold during a 1958 renovation.
Q 17Gold found in Georgia in 1828 hastened which nation's removal on the Trail of Tears?
Cherokee
About 4,000 people died on the trek to present-day Oklahoma. Their capital, New Echota, was in what is now Gordon County.
Q 18Which Union general's 1864 'March to the Sea' cut across Georgia to Savannah?
William Tecumseh Sherman
The march began on November 15 and reached the coast on December 21. He telegraphed Lincoln offering the captured port as a Christmas gift.
Q 19Which September 1863 Georgia battle had the Civil War's second-highest casualty count, after Gettysburg?
Chickamauga
It was a Confederate victory, but the Union army fell back to Chattanooga and held it, opening the road into Georgia the following year.
Q 20Roughly how many of the 45,000 Union prisoners held at Georgia's Andersonville prison camp died there?
13,000
That is about 28 percent, mostly from disease, exposure and starvation. Commandant Henry Wirz was hanged for war crimes in November 1865.
Jones, a Georgia lawyer and the greatest amateur golfer ever, designed the course with Alister MacKenzie; it opened for play in 1932.
Q 24Which boxing great lit the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Games in Georgia?
Muhammad Ali
Evander Holyfield, a Georgia native, carried the torch into the stadium and handed off before Ali, trembling from Parkinson's, lit the flame.
Q 25UGA dates its founding to a 1785 legislative act. What national distinction does it claim?
First state-chartered public university
The College of William & Mary and UNC also claim "first public university" on different grounds; Georgia's charter came first, UNC's classes did.
Q 26R.E.M. formed in 1980 in which Georgia college town, also the home of the B-52's?
Athens
Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry played their first show at a friend's birthday party in a converted church there.
Q 27Which Albany-born singer performed 'Georgia on My Mind' in the state legislature after it became Georgia's song in 1979?
Ray Charles
The song was written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell; his 1960 recording took it to No. 1.
Q 28Which 'Godfather of Soul' grew up shining shoes in Augusta, Georgia?
James Brown
He was born in South Carolina but moved to Augusta at four or five. The city renamed a street and put up a statue for him.
Q 29Which 1936 Margaret Mitchell Civil War novel won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize?
Gone with the Wind
It was the only novel she published in her lifetime. The 1939 film premiered in her home city with a three-day festival.
Q 30Juliette Gordon Low founded which organization in Savannah in March 1912, starting with 18 girls?
Girl Scouts of the USA
Her Savannah birthplace is now a museum and pilgrimage site; troops visit from across the country.