Q 01/05

Chattanooga is the seat of which Tennessee county?

A) Bradley

B) Knox

C) Marion

D) Hamilton

Answer · why

D) Hamilton

It is Tennessee's fourth most populous city, after Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville.

Q 02/05

What is Chattanooga's official nickname?

A) Gig City

B) The Scenic City

C) The River City

D) The Dynamo of Dixie

Answer · why

B) The Scenic City

The others are unofficial; Gig City refers to its claim of the fastest internet in the western hemisphere.

Q 03/05

The name Chattanooga is thought to come from a Muskogean or Creek phrase meaning what?

A) Two waters meeting

B) Place of the eagle

C) Rock rising to a point

D) River between hills

Answer · why

C) Rock rising to a point

The rock in question is believed to be Lookout Mountain.

Q 04/05

The 1816 landing that became Chattanooga was established by which future Cherokee Principal Chief?

A) John Ross

B) Major Ridge

C) Sequoyah

D) Dragging Canoe

Answer · why

A) John Ross

In 1838 the US Army used the landing as one of three internment camps before the Trail of Tears.

Q 05/05

Which Union general led the November 1863 Battles for Chattanooga that broke the Confederate siege?

A) Ambrose Burnside

B) George McClellan

C) William Rosecrans

D) Ulysses S. Grant

Answer · why

D) Ulysses S. Grant

Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland had been bottled up in the city since its defeat at Chickamauga in September.