Q 01/05

Orlando is the county seat of which Florida county?

A) Osceola

B) Orange

C) Seminole

D) Lake

Answer · why

B) Orange

Orange County was Mosquito County until 1845, when lawmakers swapped a name the settlers disliked for one honouring the fruit that would come to shape...

Q 02/05

Before it was Orlando, the settlement went by what name, after the cattlemen who first settled it?

A) Jernigan

B) Summerlin

C) Flagler

D) Ringling

Answer · why

A) Jernigan

Jernigan honoured Aaron and Isaac Jernigan. Aaron was later accused of murder after a brawl at the Orlando post office and, as the town had no jail, w...

Q 03/05

Which Second Seminole War outpost, built in 1838, is the origin of the Orlando area?

A) Fort Mellon

B) Fort Christmas

C) Fort Gatlin

D) Fort Brooke

Answer · why

C) Fort Gatlin

Fort Gatlin was abandoned by the army in 1839, within a year of being built, but settlers who arrived in the 1840s built up a community nearby that gr...

Q 04/05

What do historians say about Orlando Reeves, the man Orlando is supposedly named after?

A) No such soldier likely ever existed

B) Army records confirm his death

C) He deserted before the battle

D) He was a sentry who survived

Answer · why

A) No such soldier likely ever existed

No such soldier likely ever existed: historians found no Orlando Reeves in federal military records, yet the marker that junior high students paid for...

Q 05/05

Which Shakespeare play, whose hero is named Orlando, is one of the leading theories for the city's name?

A) Twelfth Night

B) The Tempest

C) Much Ado About Nothing

D) As You Like It

Answer · why

D) As You Like It

As You Like It: James Speer proposed the name at a heated meeting by pointing to a spot known as 'Orlando's Grave', but his descendants insist his rea...