Q 01/05

The U.S. Navy first set up a base at Key West in 1823 to drive out which enemy?

A) British warships

B) Caribbean pirates

C) Seminole raiders

D) Mexican gunboats

Answer · why

B) Caribbean pirates

Caribbean pirates. Commodore David Porter hunted them through the West Indies with a squadron of shallow-draft schooners and barges, yet by 1826 the N...

Q 02/05

Key West's original Spanish name, Cayo Hueso, literally means what?

A) Sun cay

B) Bone cay

C) Fish cay

D) Shell cay

Answer · why

B) Bone cay

Bone cay. In the usual telling, Spanish visitors found the island strewn with the bones of earlier native inhabitants, who are said to have used it as...

Q 03/05

Key West is the county seat of which Florida county?

A) Dade

B) Collier

C) Monroe

D) Broward

Answer · why

C) Monroe

Monroe County also takes in a huge slice of the mainland Everglades, most of its land, yet almost nobody lives there: nearly all of its people are out...

Q 04/05

Which famous roadway has its southern terminus in Key West?

A) Interstate 95

B) U.S. Route 41

C) Interstate 75

D) U.S. Route 1

Answer · why

D) U.S. Route 1

U.S. Route 1 starts at mile marker 0 in Key West and runs some 2,370 miles to the Canadian border; out along the Keys, street addresses simply follow ...

Q 05/05

What is Key West's main commercial street, running from the Gulf to the Atlantic?

A) Duval

B) Whitehead

C) Simonton

D) Fleming

Answer · why

A) Duval

Duval Street crosses the whole island in just 14 blocks, and bar-hopping from one end to the other is a ritual known as the Duval Crawl.