Q 01/05

Roughly how many people lived in Virginia Beach, Virginia's biggest city, at the 2020 census?

A) About 250,000

B) About 460,000

C) About 620,000

D) About 340,000

Answer · why

B) About 460,000

The 2020 census counted 459,470 residents, about 460,000, putting Virginia Beach ahead of Chesapeake, Norfolk and Richmond as the most populous city i...

Q 02/05

What Guinness record does the city hold?

A) Largest boardwalk in the world

B) Most hotels per mile of coast

C) Longest pleasure beach in the world

D) Longest continuous sandcastle

Answer · why

C) Longest pleasure beach in the world

Guinness World Records lists Virginia Beach as the longest pleasure beach in the world, its sand running from the Chesapeake Bay shore south to the No...

Q 03/05

In 1963 Virginia Beach merged with which neighbouring jurisdiction to form the present-day city?

A) Norfolk

B) Nansemond

C) Isle of Wight

D) Princess Anne

Answer · why

D) Princess Anne

Virginia Beach and Princess Anne County merged on January 1, 1963, after voters in both approved the consolidation; the new city kept the better-known...

Q 04/05

In a 2016 referendum, Virginia Beach voters rejected extending which Norfolk light-rail line?

A) The Tide

B) The Wave

C) The Current

D) The Surf

Answer · why

A) The Tide

The Tide, Norfolk's light rail, opened in 2011; a November 2016 advisory referendum on extending it to Virginia Beach Town Center failed, and the city...

Q 05/05

On what date in 1607 did Christopher Newport's colonists land at Cape Henry?

A) May 14

B) April 26

C) June 1

D) March 10

Answer · why

B) April 26

Christopher Newport's three ships made landfall at Cape Henry on April 26, 1607, after about four months at sea; the colonists moved up the James Rive...