Q 01/05

Savannah holds which distinction among Georgia's cities?

A) Oldest city

B) Largest city

C) Southernmost city

D) Only seaport

Answer · why

A) Oldest city

Oldest city: founded in 1733, Savannah was Georgia's colonial capital and then its first state capital, a role it later gave up to Augusta.

Q 02/05

Which Yamacraw chief let Oglethorpe's colonists settle at Savannah and later sailed to England to meet King George II?

A) Massasoit

B) Tomochichi

C) Powhatan

D) Osceola

Answer · why

B) Tomochichi

Tomochichi gave the newcomers land on his bluff, and when he died in 1739 the colony buried him with military honours in the centre of one of Savannah...

Q 03/05

What was the name of the ship that carried Oglethorpe and the first colonists to Savannah?

A) The Mayflower

B) The Susan Constant

C) The Anne

D) The Georgia

Answer · why

C) The Anne

The Anne took two months to cross with 114 colonists, who then waited up the coast while Oglethorpe went ahead and chose Yamacraw Bluff for their town...

Q 04/05

Alongside slavery, which drink did Georgia's Trustees ban from their young colony at Oglethorpe's urging?

A) Beer

B) Tea

C) Wine

D) Rum

Answer · why

D) Rum

Rum was outlawed along with slavery, but neither ban lasted: the Trustees relaxed the rum law in 1742 and admitted slavery in 1751, both over Oglethor...

Q 05/05

How many of Savannah's original public squares survive in its Historic District?

A) 5

B) 11

C) 22

D) 44

Answer · why

C) 22

22 squares remain of the 24 laid out by 1851. Three were lost to road works and parking in the 20th century, but Ellis Square was rebuilt in 2010 once...