Georgia Trivia

Question 1 Georgia was the ____ state to enter the union.

Answer to #1 4th

Question #2 The largest city in Georgia (population).

Answer to #2 Atlanta

Question #3 This is the land area of the state of Georgia.

(or 149, 976 square kilometers) Answer to #3 57, 906 square miles (or 149, 976 square kilometers)

Question #4 What is the state motto?

Answer to #4 “Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation”

Question #5 What is the state song of Georgia?

Answer to #5 Georgia on My Mind

Question #6 Which Atlanta sports team is named for the state bird?

Answer to #6 The Atlanta Thrashers (hockey team)

Question #7 What is the state fish of Georgia?

Answer to #7 The Largemouth bass

Question #8 What is the state butterfly?

Answer to #8 Tiger swallowtail

Question #9 What is the state insect?

Answer to #9 Honeybee

Question #10 What is the state marine mammal?

Answer to #10 Right whale

Question #11 What is the state flower?

Answer to #11 Cherokee rose

Question #12 What is the state wildflower?

Answer to #12 Azalea

Question #13 What is the state tree?

Answer to #13 Live oak

Question #14 What is the state gem?

Answer to #14 Quartz

Question #15 What is the state mineral?

Answer to #15 Staurolite (often called “fairy crosses” or “fairy stones”, staurolite crystals are collected as good luck charms)

Question #16 What is the state crop?

Answer to #16 Peanut

Question #17 What is the state fossil?

Answer to #17 Shark tooth

Question #18 What is the state fruit?

Answer to #18 Peach

Question #19 What is the state vegetable?

Answer to #19 Vidalia onion

Question #20 What is the state nickname?

Empire State of the South Answer to #20 Empire State of the South Or Peach State

Question #21 What major interstate runs north to Tennessee and south to Florida?

Answer to #21 Interstate 75

Question #22 What major interstate runs west to Alabama and east to South Carolina?

Answer to #22 Interstate 20

Question #23 What is the capital of Georgia?

Answer to #23 Atlanta

Question #24 Name the five states that border Georgia.

Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee Answer to #24 Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee

Question #25 What popular beverage was invented in Atlanta?

Answer to #25 Coca Cola

Question #26 What three leaders of the Confederacy are carved on the face of Stone Mountain?

Answer to #26 Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson

Question #27 How many counties are there in the state of Georgia?

Answer to #27 159

Question #28 What major broadcasting network has its headquarters in Atlanta?

Cable News Network (CNN) Answer to #28 Cable News Network (CNN)

Question #29 Which President of the United States was from Georgia?

President Jimmy Carter Answer to #29 President Jimmy Carter

Question #30 What was Jimmy Carter’s occupation before entering politics?

Answer to #30 He was a peanut farmer

Question #31 What is the name of the state possum?

Answer to #31 Pogo