Q 01/05

In which Georgia city do the Bulldogs play their home games?

A) Atlanta

B) Athens

C) Macon

D) Savannah

Answer · why

B) Athens

Athens. Sanford Stadium was built in 1929 into a natural valley on the University of Georgia campus, so its stands rest on the hillsides instead of ri...

Q 02/05

Georgia's first football team in 1892 was organised by Charles Herty, a professor of which subject who later transformed the turpentine industry?

A) Botany

B) Physics

C) Chemistry

D) Forestry

Answer · why

C) Chemistry

Chemistry. Charles Herty brought the game back from his studies at Johns Hopkins, and his cup-and-gutter way of tapping pines later kept the South's t...

Q 03/05

Georgia's home field is famously said to be 'between' what?

A) The pines

B) The rivers

C) The columns

D) The hedges

Answer · why

D) The hedges

The hedges. Privet has bordered the Sanford Stadium field since it opened in 1929, and by the early 1930s sportswriters were writing that Georgia woul...

Q 04/05

Why was the famous privet border around Sanford Stadium's field removed in 1996?

A) A fungus killed them

B) To host Olympic soccer matches

C) To widen the field for the SEC

D) Fans kept stealing cuttings

Answer · why

B) To host Olympic soccer matches

To host Olympic soccer matches. A soccer pitch is wider than a football field, so the privet came out; cuttings raised at nurseries were planted once ...

Q 05/05

Which opponent did Georgia face in the first game at Sanford Stadium in 1929?

A) Georgia Tech

B) Alabama

C) Yale

D) Notre Dame

Answer · why

C) Yale

Yale. The heavily favoured visitors from the East lost 15-0 in front of a sell-out crowd of more than 30,000, reportedly the biggest the South had yet...