Q 01/05

Who is remembered as the 'Mother of Miami', the only woman to found a major US city?

A) Julia Tuttle

B) Mary Brickell

C) Marjory Stoneman Douglas

D) Barbara Capitman

Answer · why

A) Julia Tuttle

Julia Tuttle bought the riverfront land the city grew on, then gave away hundreds of acres of it to lure a railroad south. The first train arrived in ...

Q 02/05

Which railroad tycoon did Miami's founder persuade to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to the city?

A) Jay Gould

B) Henry Flagler

C) Henry Plant

D) Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer · why

B) Henry Flagler

Henry Flagler, a co-founder of Standard Oil, agreed after the freezes of 1894-95 wrecked crops across Florida but never reached Miami. In return he to...

Q 03/05

Which Miami neighbourhood began as 'Colored Town', where deeds confined the city's Black residents?

A) Overtown

B) Liberty City

C) Little Haiti

D) Allapattah

Answer · why

A) Overtown

Overtown grew into the hub of Black business and nightlife in the segregated city. It declined from the 1960s, when new expressways were driven straig...

Q 04/05

Miami's name is thought to come from 'Mayaimi', a name Spaniards recorded in the 1500s for which body of water?

A) Biscayne Bay

B) Florida Bay

C) The Gulf of Mexico

D) Lake Okeechobee

Answer · why

D) Lake Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee: a shipwrecked Spaniard who spent 17 years among Florida's tribes wrote the name down in his memoir around 1575. It is thought to have...

Q 05/05

Which tribe occupied the Miami area for around 2,000 years before Europeans arrived?

A) Tequesta

B) Seminole

C) Calusa

D) Timucua

Answer · why

A) Tequesta

The US built Fort Dallas on the Miami River in 1836 during its campaign against the Seminoles, who came to the region much later.