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

That put it ahead of Norfolk, Chesapeake and Richmond, and it is also the state's largest city by total area.

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

The city's nickname is 'The Resort City', and the oceanfront resort strip alone runs three miles.

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

Voters in both approved a referendum, and the new city kept the better-known resort name.

Q 04/05

How many days had the Jamestown colonists been at sea when they reached Cape Henry in 1607?

A) 144

B) 60

C) 98

D) 210

Answer · why

A) 144

They named the cape after Henry, Prince of Wales; Cape Charles across the bay honours his brother.

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

They moved on to found Jamestown on May 14; the park was Seashore State Park until 1997.