Q 01/05

Where did Florida's government first meet in Tallahassee in 1824?

A) A Spanish mission

B) Log cabins

C) A plantation house

D) Canvas tents

Answer · why

B) Log cabins

Log cabins. A proper capitol begun two years later was never finished, and from 1839 it gave way to the building that still stands in front of the mod...

Q 02/05

Tallahassee was chosen as capital in 1824 for lying roughly midway between St. Augustine and which city?

A) Key West

B) Tampa

C) Fernandina

D) Pensacola

Answer · why

D) Pensacola

Pensacola. Spain had run East and West Florida as separate colonies from those two towns, so when the United States merged them into one territory it ...

Q 03/05

The name Tallahassee comes from a Muskogean word usually translated as what?

A) High ground

B) Old town

C) Many springs

D) Place of the sun

Answer · why

B) Old town

Old town. The Creek name is thought to join the words for a tribal town and for old; a Seminole town there seems to have borne it before the capital d...

Q 04/05

Which Spanish explorer's expedition wintered at Anhaica, in present-day Tallahassee, in 1539–40?

A) Pánfilo de Narváez

B) Juan Ponce de León

C) Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

D) Hernando de Soto

Answer · why

D) Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto. Proof came only in 1987, when a state archaeologist poking around a building site turned up a shard of early Spanish olive jar, and ...

Q 05/05

A Spanish expedition's 1539 winter camp in Tallahassee is often called the first US site to celebrate what?

A) Christmas

B) Easter

C) New Year's Day

D) Thanksgiving

Answer · why

A) Christmas

Christmas. No chronicle of the expedition mentions it: the claim rests on the priests who travelled with the army, who would have said Mass that Decem...