Q 01/05

The name Virginia was chosen in the 1580s to honor which English monarch, known as the Virgin Queen?

A) Mary Tudor

B) Elizabeth I

C) Queen Anne

D) Lady Jane Grey

Answer · why

B) Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I was on the throne when the name was first given, in about 1584, more than twenty years before Jamestown was founded.

Q 02/05

Virginia governor Alexander Spotswood sent the naval force that killed which pirate off North Carolina in 1718?

A) Calico Jack

B) Stede Bonnet

C) Black Bart

D) Blackbeard

Answer · why

D) Blackbeard

Blackbeard died fighting Lieutenant Robert Maynard's men at Ocracoke Inlet. Spotswood had sent the two armed sloops into another colony's waters witho...

Q 03/05

Which Native woman, baptized Rebecca, married a Virginia tobacco planter in 1614 and died at Gravesend, England?

A) Pocahontas

B) Sacagawea

C) Weetamoo

D) Cockacoeske

Answer · why

A) Pocahontas

Pocahontas became a celebrity in England and attended a masque at Whitehall Palace before King James. She fell ill just as her ship set out for home.

Q 04/05

Which US state is named for the Virginia governor whose fleet turned back colonists abandoning Jamestown in 1610?

A) Georgia

B) Pennsylvania

C) Delaware

D) Louisiana

Answer · why

C) Delaware

Delaware takes its name from Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, who met the departing survivors a few miles down the James River and ordered them back.

Q 05/05

The Sea Venture, flagship of a 1609 supply fleet bound for Virginia, was wrecked in a storm on which Atlantic island?

A) Barbados

B) Bermuda

C) Madeira

D) Tenerife

Answer · why

B) Bermuda

Bermuda was uninhabited, and the castaways spent about nine months there building two small ships from local cedar to finish the voyage to Jamestown.