Q 01/05

Fort Brooke, the 1824 army post Tampa grew up around, stood at the mouth of which river?

A) Withlacoochee

B) Hillsborough

C) Caloosahatchee

D) Kissimmee

Answer · why

B) Hillsborough

Hillsborough. The army planted the fort at the river's mouth in 1824 to keep watch on the Seminoles, newly confined to a reservation inland; it closed...

Q 02/05

The world's first scheduled airline to use airplanes began serving Tampa in 1914, crossing the bay in what?

A) A racing monoplane

B) A flying boat

C) A mail plane

D) A military trainer

Answer · why

B) A flying boat

A flying boat. Pilot Tony Jannus made the crossing in 23 minutes with a single passenger, a former mayor who had bid $400 at auction for the seat.

Q 03/05

At the 2020 census Tampa was Florida's third-most-populous city, behind which two?

A) Miami and Orlando

B) Jacksonville and Orlando

C) Miami and St. Petersburg

D) Jacksonville and Miami

Answer · why

D) Jacksonville and Miami

Jacksonville and Miami. Jacksonville's lead is partly a matter of borders: it merged with most of Duval County in 1968, which made it one of the large...

Q 04/05

Tampa is nicknamed 'Cigar City' and also 'The Big' what?

A) Orange

B) Mango

C) Guava

D) Papaya

Answer · why

C) Guava

Guava. A columnist coined it in the 1970s as a play on the Big Apple, recalling the fruit broker who came hunting guavas in the 1880s and ended up ste...

Q 05/05

Henry B. Plant's 1891 railroad hotel is now the main building of which institution?

A) University of South Florida

B) Florida Southern College

C) University of Tampa

D) Rollins College

Answer · why

C) University of Tampa

University of Tampa. The 511-room resort closed in 1930, and three years later a new junior college moved into the empty building and grew into the un...