Q 01/05

Atlanta is the county seat of which county?

A) Fulton

B) DeKalb

C) Cobb

D) Gwinnett

Answer · why

A) Fulton

Fulton County was carved from DeKalb's western half in 1853, so Atlanta, born a DeKalb town, became the new county's seat; part of the city still sits...

Q 02/05

Atlanta's name is said to come from which railroad?

A) Atlantic Coast Line

B) Western and Atlantic

C) Atlanta and West Point

D) Central of Georgia

Answer · why

B) Western and Atlantic

Western and Atlantic: another line's chief engineer, J. Edgar Thomson, coined 'Atlanta' for his depot in 1845, supposedly as a feminine 'Atlantic', an...

Q 03/05

What was the settlement that grew into Atlanta first called?

A) Decatur

B) Marthasville

C) Terminus

D) Five Points

Answer · why

C) Terminus

Terminus simply marked where a new state railroad was to stop; in 1843 the town became Marthasville, for the daughter of ex-governor Wilson Lumpkin, a...

Q 04/05

The state railroad that gave birth to Atlanta in 1837 was built north to which Tennessee city?

A) Knoxville

B) Nashville

C) Chattanooga

D) Memphis

Answer · why

C) Chattanooga

Chattanooga was the goal; in 1862 Union raiders stole the locomotive General on that same line and raced north wrecking track, a failed mission rememb...

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

William T. Sherman ordered the remaining residents out, then had rail depots, machine shops and factories demolished so the city could never again sup...