Q 01/05

What is the capital of Georgia?

A) Atlanta

B) Macon

C) Augusta

D) Savannah

Answer · why

A) Atlanta

It is also the state's largest city. Savannah, Augusta, Louisville and Milledgeville all served as capital before the government moved there in 1868.

Q 02/05

Which British general founded the colony of Georgia, landing at Yamacraw Bluff?

A) John Winthrop

B) James Oglethorpe

C) Walter Raleigh

D) William Penn

Answer · why

B) James Oglethorpe

The colony was meant as a buffer against Spanish Florida and a fresh start for England's "worthy poor". Its charter originally banned slavery and rum.

Q 03/05

Georgia was named in honor of which British monarch?

A) George I

B) Queen Anne

C) George II

D) George III

Answer · why

C) George II

The colony's 1732 charter was issued by him. Georgia was the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Q 04/05

Georgia was the last of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established. In what year?

A) 1701

B) 1607

C) 1681

D) 1733

Answer · why

D) 1733

That made it 126 years younger than Virginia. It became a royal colony in 1752 and the fourth state to ratify the Constitution in 1788.

Q 05/05

Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Which three beat it?

A) Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey

B) Virginia, Massachusetts and New York

C) Delaware, Maryland and Virginia

D) Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island

Answer · why

A) Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Georgia ratified on January 2, 1788, unanimously. Rhode Island was last, in 1790.