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

The fort stood just south of today's city limits; the settlement that grew up around it was renamed Orlando in 1857.

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

The rival legend of a soldier named Orlando Reeves killed in 1835 has a memorial by Lake Eola, but historians have found no record that any such soldi...

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

The Strategic Air Command base closed in the 1970s, and the airport kept the old military identifier rather than adopting an ORL-style code.

Q 05/05

In 2023, where did Orlando rank among US cities for visitors, after New York, Miami, LA?

A) Fourth

B) Sixth

C) Tenth

D) Second

Answer · why

A) Fourth

That is the count of visitors to the city itself, more than 3.5 million in 2023, on top of the tens of millions who go straight to the theme parks.