Q 01/05

What is Orlando's official nickname?

A) The Magic City

B) The City Beautiful

C) The Citrus City

D) The Sunshine City

Answer · why

B) The City Beautiful

O-Town and Theme Park Capital of the World are the unofficial ones; the official slogan dates from a 1908 City Beautiful movement campaign.

Q 02/05

The Orlando area was originally known by the name of which 1838 Seminole Wars army post?

A) Fort Mellon

B) Fort Christmas

C) Fort Brooke

D) Fort Gatlin

Answer · why

D) Fort Gatlin

Fort Gatlin was built in 1838 just south of present-day Orlando during the Second Seminole War; the settlement that grew around it, first called Jerni...

Q 03/05

According to the most widely accepted account, Orlando's name was proposed by Shakespeare admirer James Speer after a character in which play?

A) As You Like It

B) Much Ado About Nothing

C) Twelfth Night

D) The Tempest

Answer · why

A) As You Like It

Judge James Speer, a Shakespeare admirer, is credited with naming the town after Orlando in As You Like It; the rival Orlando Reeves soldier legend ha...

Q 04/05

Orlando International Airport's code is MCO because the airport was built on the site of what?

A) A McDonnell aircraft plant

B) A Marine Corps outpost

C) McCoy Air Force Base

D) The Martin County Orlando airfield

Answer · why

C) McCoy Air Force Base

MCO comes from McCoy Air Force Base, a Strategic Air Command base that closed in 1975; the airport kept the old military identifier rather than adopti...

Q 05/05

Rollins College, founded in 1885, is in which Central Florida city?

A) Winter Park

B) Winter Haven

C) Winter Garden

D) Winter Springs

Answer · why

A) Winter Park

Rollins College was founded in 1885 on Lake Virginia in Winter Park, just northeast of Orlando; its alumni include Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neigh...