Georgia Trivia
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99 free Georgia trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 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
Atlanta has been Georgia's capital since 1868, after Savannah, Augusta, Louisville and Milledgeville each held the role; it is also the state's largest city.
Q 02Which British general founded the colony of Georgia, landing at Yamacraw Bluff?
James Oglethorpe
James Oglethorpe led the first settlers ashore at Yamacraw Bluff to found Savannah; the Trustees planned the colony as a buffer against Spanish Florida and a fresh start for England's 'worthy poor'.
Q 03Georgia was named in honor of which British monarch?
George II
King George II granted the colony's charter in 1732 and the Trustees named it Georgia in his honour; it was the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Q 04In what year was Georgia, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, established?
1733
Georgia was established in 1733, 126 years after Virginia (1607); it went on to become the fourth state to ratify the Constitution, in 1788.
Q 05Which three states ratified the U.S. Constitution before Georgia, the fourth to do so?
Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey all ratified in December 1787; Georgia followed unanimously on January 2, 1788, and Rhode Island came last in 1790.
Q 06Which of these states does NOT share a border with Georgia?
Mississippi
Mississippi lies beyond Alabama; Georgia's five neighbours are Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama, plus the Atlantic coast.
Q 07How many counties does Georgia have, second only to Texas?
159
Georgia has 159 counties, second only to Texas's 254; the old rule of thumb was that a farmer should be able to ride to the county seat and back in a day.
Q 08What is the highest point in Georgia?
Brasstown Bald
Brasstown Bald rises 4,784 feet in the Blue Ridge, and on a clear day its observation deck shows four states.
Q 09What is Georgia's official state bird?
Brown thrasher
The brown thrasher was first named state bird 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
The Cherokee rose, adopted in 1916, 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 Vidalia onion, named state vegetable in 1990, owes its sweetness to unusually low-sulfur soil; a 1986 state law makes it illegal to sell onions grown outside the zone under the name.
Q 12Which breakfast staple did Georgia name its official state prepared food in 2002?
Grits
Grits are ground hominy corn cooked to a porridge; Georgia made them its official prepared food in 2002, 26 years after South Carolina adopted them as its 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
Q 21Which U.S. president was born in Plains, Georgia, and served as the state's governor?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was Georgia's 76th governor from 1971 to 1975 before winning the presidency in 1976; 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt first came to Warm Springs for its mineral water as polio therapy in 1924; he died there of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945 while sitting for a portrait.
Q 23Which two men founded Augusta National, home of the Masters since 1934?
Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts
Peanuts became Georgia's official state crop in 1995; the state grows roughly half of the U.S. peanut crop, far ahead of Alabama, Florida and Texas.
Q 14Which pharmacist invented Coca-Cola, first sold in 1886 at Jacob's Pharmacy for five cents a glass?
John Stith Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton marketed Coca-Cola as a patent medicine and temperance drink; within two years he had 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
Hartsfield-Jackson is named after two former mayors, William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson, and handled more than 100 million passengers in 2024.
Q 16Which north Georgia town, site of an 1829 gold rush, supplied the gold leaf on the State Capitol dome?
Dahlonega
Dahlonega's rush drew thousands of miners and Congress opened a branch of the U.S. Mint there in 1838; the Capitol 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
The Cherokee were forced west after gold was found on their land; about 4,000 died on the trek to present-day Oklahoma, and their capital, New Echota, lay in what is now Gordon County.
Q 18Which Union general's 1864 'March to the Sea' cut across Georgia to Savannah?
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman's army set out on November 15, 1864 and reached the coast on December 21; he telegraphed Lincoln offering captured Savannah as a Christmas gift.
Q 19Which September 1863 Georgia battle had the Civil War's second-highest casualty count, after Gettysburg?
Chickamauga
Chickamauga 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
Nearly 13,000 of the 45,000 prisoners died, about 28 percent, mostly from disease, exposure and starvation; commandant Henry Wirz was hanged for war crimes in November 1865.
Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts founded Augusta National; Jones, the Georgia amateur who won golf's 1930 Grand Slam, designed the course with Alister MacKenzie.
Q 24Which boxing great lit the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Games in Georgia?
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, trembling from Parkinson's, lit the flame after Evander Holyfield carried the torch into the stadium and swimmer Janet Evans ran the final leg up to him.
Q 25Chartered by the legislature in 1785, what national distinction does the University of Georgia claim?
First state-chartered public university
The University of Georgia calls itself the first state-chartered public university, its charter dating to January 1785; UNC, chartered in 1789, counters that it held classes first.
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 in Athens in April 1980, at a friend's birthday party in a converted church.
Q 27Which Albany-born singer sang 'Georgia on My Mind' to Georgia's legislature in 1979?
Ray Charles
Ray Charles's 1960 recording took the 1930 Hoagy Carmichael–Stuart Gorrell song to No. 1; weeks after his performance the General Assembly adopted it as the state song in April 1979.
Q 28Which 'Godfather of Soul' grew up shining shoes in Augusta, Georgia?
James Brown
James Brown was born in South Carolina but moved to Augusta at four or five; the city later renamed a street James Brown Boulevard and unveiled his statue in 2005.
Q 29Which 1936 Margaret Mitchell Civil War novel won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize?
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind was the only novel Margaret Mitchell 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
Girl Scouts of the USA grew from that first Savannah troop of 18 into millions of members; Low's Savannah birthplace is now a museum and pilgrimage site for troops nationwide.