Q 01/05

Columbus was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Olentangy River and which other river?

A) Cuyahoga

B) Miami

C) Muskingum

D) Scioto

Answer · why

D) Scioto

Scioto and Olentangy meet at what was dense forest in 1812, used only as a hunting ground: the legislature picked the spot for a brand-new capital bec...

Q 02/05

Which Olympic gymnastics champion was born in Columbus in 1997 and raised in Texas by her grandparents?

A) Gabby Douglas

B) Simone Biles

C) Suni Lee

D) Aly Raisman

Answer · why

B) Simone Biles

Simone Biles left Columbus as a small child when her grandparents adopted her and her sister; in Spring, Texas, a day-care field trip to a gym at six ...

Q 03/05

Which city was Ohio's first state capital and served again as capital until the government moved to Columbus in 1816?

A) Zanesville

B) Chillicothe

C) Cincinnati

D) Marietta

Answer · why

B) Chillicothe

Chillicothe hosted the government twice, with a two-year spell in Zanesville in between, before lawmakers tired of the back-and-forth and ordered a ne...

Q 04/05

At the 2020 census, Columbus was the third most populous US state capital, behind Phoenix and which other city?

A) Austin

B) Boston

C) Denver

D) Indianapolis

Answer · why

A) Austin

Austin had about 962,000 residents to Columbus's 906,000. The Ohio capital owes its rank to decades of annexing its suburbs, which had to join the cit...

Q 05/05

Which Columbus mayor of the 1940s went on to serve four terms as governor of Ohio?

A) Jack Sensenbrenner

B) Buck Rinehart

C) Tom Moody

D) Jim Rhodes

Answer · why

D) Jim Rhodes

Jim Rhodes was elected mayor at 34 and governor in 1962. His darkest day in that office came on 4 May 1970, when Ohio National Guard troops shot four ...