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

Sanford Stadium sits right on the University of Georgia campus.

Q 02/05

Georgia's first football team in 1892 was organised by a professor of which subject?

A) Classics

B) Physics

C) Chemistry

D) History

Answer · why

C) Chemistry

Dr. Charles Herty scheduled a game against Mercer, the first intercollegiate football game in the Deep South.

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

Grantland Rice coined the phrase in the 1930s for the English privet hedges that have ringed the field since 1929.

Q 04/05

Why was the famous privet border around the 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

Offshoots were replanted after the Atlanta Games; the hedges also hide a crowd-control fence.

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

Georgia's founder Abraham Baldwin was a Yale man, and the school's Bulldog nickname is traditionally traced to that link.