Q 01/05

Atlanta is the county seat of which county?

A) Fulton

B) DeKalb

C) Cobb

D) Gwinnett

Answer · why

A) Fulton

The city also extends into neighbouring DeKalb County.

Q 02/05

The name 'Atlanta' derives from which railroad?

A) Georgia Railroad

B) Western and Atlantic

C) Central of Georgia

D) Southern Railway

Answer · why

B) Western and Atlantic

It was supposedly a feminine version of 'Atlantic'.

Q 03/05

What was the settlement's first name, reflecting its role as a railroad end point?

A) Thrasherville

B) Marthasville

C) Terminus

D) Standing Peachtree

Answer · why

C) Terminus

It was later renamed Thrasherville after a local merchant, then Marthasville.

Q 04/05

Who said the site was good for 'one tavern, a blacksmith shop, a grocery store, and nothing else'?

A) John Edgar Thomson

B) Wilson Lumpkin

C) Lemuel Grant

D) Stephen Harriman Long

Answer · why

D) Stephen Harriman Long

He said it in 1837; the town was incorporated a decade later.

Q 05/05

Which Union general burned Atlanta before the March to the Sea?

A) William T. Sherman

B) Ulysses S. Grant

C) George Thomas

D) Philip Sheridan

Answer · why

A) William T. Sherman

He ordered the civilian population to evacuate on September 7, 1864.