Georgia Trivia
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99 free Georgia trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
52 free Georgia trivia questions with answers. This trivia about Georgia covers the U.S. state from James Oglethorpe's landing at Yamacraw Bluff in 1733 to the busiest airport on earth. In between: the first American gold rush at Dahlonega, the Cherokee removal, Sherman's March to the Sea, Coca-Cola for five cents a glass, the Masters at Augusta, the 1996 Olympics, and the state symbols every Georgia schoolkid learns (the brown thrasher, the Cherokee rose, grits). The questions run from easy (the capital, the nickname, the state fruit) through medium (why Georgia has 159 counties, what the Capitol dome is gilded with, which sweet onion is the state vegetable) to genuinely hard Georgia trivia facts, like the hydrogen bomb the Air Force lost off Tybee Island in 1958 and the secret Jekyll Island meeting that led to the Federal Reserve. One question at the end covers the other Georgia, the country in the Caucasus, so nobody leaves confused. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and official state sources before publishing, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. Good for a Georgia-themed trivia night, a classroom, or settling an argument about the Big Chicken.
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Q 01What is the capital of Georgia?
Atlanta
Atlanta replaced Milledgeville as capital in 1868, only four years after Union troops had burned much of the city; Savannah and Augusta had each held the role earlier.
Q 02Which British general founded the colony of Georgia, landing at Yamacraw Bluff?
James Oglethorpe
James Oglethorpe led the first settlers ashore at Yamacraw Bluff to found Savannah; the Trustees planned the colony as a buffer against Spanish Florida and a fresh start for England's 'worthy poor'.
Q 03Georgia was named in honor of which British monarch?
George II
George II granted the colony's charter in 1732 and the Trustees named it in his honour; two years later he received the Yamacraw chief Tomochichi, who had sailed to London with the colony's founder.
Q 04Which drink did Georgia's founding Trustees outlaw?
Rum
Rum was outlawed in Georgia by a 1735 act of the Trustees, but colonists chafed at the ban on strong liquor and the Trustees relaxed it in 1742, seven years later.
Q 05Which three states ratified the U.S. Constitution before Georgia, the fourth to do so?
Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey all ratified in December 1787, Delaware's 30–0 vote earning it the nickname The First State; Georgia's convention followed on January 2, 1788, also without a dissenting vote.
Q 06Along with Tennessee, which state lies directly above Georgia on the map?
North Carolina
North Carolina sits beside Tennessee on Georgia's northern edge; an 1818 survey put the Tennessee stretch about a mile too far south, and Georgia lawmakers still dispute it because it cut the state off from the Tennessee River.
Q 07Georgia has 159 counties, more than any other state except which one?
Texas
Texas has 254 counties to Georgia's 159; by tradition Georgia drew them small so that a farmer could ride to the county seat, do his business and be home the same day.
Q 08Which Blue Ridge peak is the highest point in Georgia?
Brasstown Bald
Brasstown Bald tops out at 4,784 feet near the state's northern edge, more than twice the elevation of Georgia's most famous summit, Stone Mountain.
Q 09What is Georgia's official state bird?
Brown thrasher
The brown thrasher was proclaimed state bird by the governor in 1935, but lawmakers made it official only in 1970, after the Garden Clubs of Georgia pressed them; the state's former NHL team, the Thrashers, took its name.
Q 10Georgia is nicknamed the Peach State, but which state grows the most peaches?
California
California grew about three-quarters of the U.S. peach crop in 2021, and South Carolina also out-produced Georgia, which earned its nickname during an orchard boom in the decades after the Civil War.
Q 11What is Georgia's official state vegetable?
Vidalia onion
The Vidalia onion owes its sweetness to a lack of sulfur, the element that makes onions pungent, and a 1986 state law lets only onions from a 20-county zone of south Georgia carry the name.
Q 12Which breakfast staple did Georgia name its official state prepared food in 2002?
Grits
Grits, ground corn or hominy boiled to a porridge, were first prepared by Native Americans centuries ago; Georgia made them its official prepared food in 2002.
Q 13Georgia grows nearly half of the U.S. output of which crop, named its official state crop in 1995?
Peanuts
Peanuts are not nuts at all but legumes native to South America; Georgia made them its official state crop in 1995 and grows almost half of the national harvest.
Q 21Which U.S. president was born in Plains, Georgia, and served as the state's governor?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter stunned his own supporters at his 1971 inauguration as governor by declaring that the time for racial discrimination was over; five years later he won the presidency.
Q 22Which president died at his "Little White House" in Warm Springs, Georgia, in April 1945?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt first came to Warm Springs for its mineral water as polio therapy in 1924; he died there of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1945 while sitting for a portrait.
Q 23Which two men founded Augusta National, home of the Masters since 1934?
Q 14Which pharmacist invented Coca-Cola, first sold at Jacobs' Pharmacy in Georgia in 1886?
John Stith Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton marketed Coca-Cola as a patent medicine and temperance drink; he died in 1888, and druggist Asa Candler, who bought up the rights, turned it into a giant.
Q 15Georgia's Hartsfield-Jackson airport is named after two men who held which office?
Mayor
Mayor is the office both held: William B. Hartsfield founded the airfield on an abandoned racetrack in 1925, and Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, had his name added in 2003, after his death.
Q 16Which north Georgia town, site of an 1829 gold rush, supplied the gold leaf on the State Capitol dome?
Dahlonega
Dahlonega's rush drew thousands of miners and Congress opened a branch of the U.S. Mint there in 1838; the Capitol dome was gilded with local gold during a 1958 renovation.
Q 17Gold found in Georgia in 1828 hastened which nation's removal on the Trail of Tears?
Cherokee
The Cherokee were rounded up into stockades and marched west after gold was found on their land; an estimated 4,000 or more died before the survivors reached present-day Oklahoma.
Q 18Which Union general's 1864 'March to the Sea' cut across Georgia to Savannah?
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman's army set out on November 15, 1864 and reached the coast on December 21; he telegraphed Lincoln offering captured Savannah as a Christmas gift.
Q 19Which September 1863 Georgia battle had the Civil War's second-highest casualty count, after Gettysburg?
Chickamauga
Chickamauga was a Confederate victory, but the Union army fell back to Chattanooga and held it, opening the road into Georgia the following year.
Q 20What became of Henry Wirz, commandant of Georgia's Andersonville prison camp, in 1865?
Hanged
Hanged for war crimes in November 1865 on the verdict of a military court in Washington, Wirz had run a camp where nearly 13,000 of some 45,000 Union prisoners died.
Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts
Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts built Augusta National on a former plant nursery, which is why each hole carries the name of a tree or shrub; Jones designed the course with Alister MacKenzie.
Q 24Which boxing great lit the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Games in Georgia?
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, trembling from Parkinson's, lit the flame after Evander Holyfield carried the torch into the stadium and swimmer Janet Evans ran the final leg up to him.
Q 25Dating to 1785, the University of Georgia claims which national distinction?
First state-chartered public university
The University of Georgia calls itself the first state-chartered public university, its charter dating to January 1785; UNC, chartered in 1789, counters that it held classes first.
Q 26R.E.M. formed in 1980 in which Georgia college town, also the home of the B-52's?
Athens
Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry played their first show in Athens in April 1980, at a friend's birthday party in a converted church.
Q 27Which Albany-born singer's 1960 hit version of 'Georgia on My Mind' became the state song in 1979?
Ray Charles
Ray Charles left Albany as a baby and grew up in Florida, yet his No. 1 recording of the 1930 Hoagy Carmichael tune became Georgia's official state song.
Q 28Which soul singer grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where a statue of him stands?
James Brown
James Brown, the 'Godfather of Soul', was born in South Carolina and moved to Augusta at four or five; he shined shoes there as a boy and later bought a local radio station.
Q 29Which Georgia author published only one novel in her lifetime, the Pulitzer-winning Gone with the Wind?
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell, a former newspaper reporter, began the book in 1926 to relieve the boredom of being laid up with a broken ankle; it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.
Q 30Juliette Gordon Low founded which organization in Savannah in March 1912, starting with 18 girls?
Girl Scouts of the USA
Girl Scouts of the USA began after Low met Scouting's founder, Robert Baden-Powell, in Britain in 1911 and brought the idea home to Savannah the following year.