Q 01/05

Alabama's nickname, the Yellowhammer State, comes from what?

A) Its official bird

B) Its coal-mining hammers

C) A Civil War regiment's uniform

D) A local nickname for a woodpecker

Answer · why

A) Its official bird

The bird is the northern flicker, a woodpecker with more than 100 folk names including yellowhammer.

Q 02/05

Which of these is NOT one of Alabama's nicknames?

A) Magnolia State

B) Yellowhammer State

C) Cotton State

D) Heart of Dixie

Answer · why

A) Magnolia State

Magnolia State belongs to neighbouring Mississippi.

Q 03/05

Alabama joined the Union as which number state?

A) 18th

B) 20th

C) 22nd

D) 24th

Answer · why

C) 22nd

It was admitted on December 14, 1819, and Huntsville hosted the first constitutional convention.

Q 04/05

Which Alabama city, the state's oldest, was founded in 1702 as capital of French Louisiana?

A) Montgomery

B) Mobile

C) Tuscaloosa

D) Selma

Answer · why

B) Mobile

It also claims the oldest organised Mardi Gras in the United States, dating from 1703.

Q 05/05

Which US city holds the country's oldest official Carnival celebration, begun in 1703?

A) Pensacola

B) Galveston

C) New Orleans

D) Mobile

Answer · why

D) Mobile

Frenchman Nicholas Langlois started it when the town was the capital of Louisiana.