Q 01/05

Pensacola is widely known by which nickname?

A) Cradle of Naval Aviation

B) Rocket City

C) Air Capital of the World

D) Birthplace of Aviation

Answer · why

A) Cradle of Naval Aviation

Pensacola is the Cradle of Naval Aviation: NAS Pensacola has trained the Navy's aviators since 1914 and is home to the Blue Angels.

Q 02/05

Pensacola's 'Five Flags' are Spain, Great Britain, the United States, the Confederacy and which other power?

A) Mexico

B) France

C) Portugal

D) The Netherlands

Answer · why

B) France

France held Pensacola only from 1719 to 1722: forces from French Louisiana captured and burned the Spanish presidio during a European war, then handed...

Q 03/05

In what year did Tristán de Luna land at Pensacola Bay, six years before St. Augustine?

A) 1513

B) 1526

C) 1539

D) 1559

Answer · why

D) 1559

He arrived with about 1,500 people on 11 ships; a storm wrecked most of the fleet a month later.

Q 04/05

Tristán de Luna's 1559 fleet, sent by the viceroy of New Spain, sailed for Pensacola Bay from which port?

A) Havana

B) Cádiz

C) Santo Domingo

D) Veracruz

Answer · why

D) Veracruz

Luna's eleven ships sailed from Veracruz, Mexico, in June 1559; a hurricane that September wrecked most of the fleet, and the survivors abandoned the ...

Q 05/05

Spain fortified Pensacola Bay in 1698 out of alarm at which explorer's colony on the Texas coast?

A) Hudson

B) La Salle

C) Raleigh

D) Champlain

Answer · why

B) La Salle

Robert de La Salle's failed 1685 colony on the Texas coast sent Spanish ships hunting along the Gulf for it; they found Pensacola Bay, and Spain built...