Q 01/05

Jamestown followed which English colony, found deserted in 1590?

A) Plymouth

B) Roanoke

C) Popham

D) Cuttyhunk

Answer · why

B) Roanoke

Roanoke's governor came back from England after three years to find the village empty and a single word, CROATOAN, carved in the wood; the settlers we...

Q 02/05

Jamestown was England's first lasting American colony, but which Spanish town in Florida is 42 years older?

A) Pensacola

B) Tallahassee

C) St. Augustine

D) Jacksonville

Answer · why

C) St. Augustine

St. Augustine was founded by Spain in 1565 and has been lived in ever since, which is why Jamestown's claim always carries the words "permanent Englis...

Q 03/05

The Virginia Company that founded Jamestown in 1607 was a group of investors based in which English city?

A) Plymouth

B) Bristol

C) London

D) Southampton

Answer · why

C) London

London's company had a twin: the same 1606 charter set up a Plymouth branch, whose 1607 colony in Maine was abandoned the following year while Jamesto...

Q 04/05

Which three ships carried the first Jamestown colonists?

A) Mayflower, Speedwell, Fortune

B) Golden Hind, Elizabeth, Marigold

C) Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery

D) Arbella, Talbot, Jewel

Answer · why

C) Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery

Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery carried 104 men and boys; the two larger ships sailed home that summer, leaving little Discovery behind for the...

Q 05/05

Into which bay did the first Jamestown colonists sail in April 1607 before choosing their river site?

A) Chesapeake Bay

B) Delaware Bay

C) Massachusetts Bay

D) Albemarle Sound

Answer · why

A) Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay had drawn Europeans before: Spanish Jesuits planted a mission there in 1570 and were killed, a generation before the English ships arri...