The year Hernando de Soto and 600 Spanish soldiers arrived in Georgia.
What was 1540?
100
$100 million of damage was done to this major transportation hub during General Sherman's "March to the Sea."
What is Atlanta?
100
This "legume" is Georgia's number one crop.
What are peanuts?
100
This city is the present day (and permanent) capital of Georgia.
What is Atlanta?
100
This amount of Georgia is covered by forests.
What is two-thirds?
200
This precious yellow metal is what Hernando de Soto and his men were looking for when they came to Georgia.
What is gold?
200
This is Georgia's first city, which was designed by Oglethorpe.
What is Savannah?
200
Live Oak, Magnolia, Dogwood, Sweet Gum, Sassafras, Cypress, Pecan, Peach, and Pine.
What are some Georgia trees?
200
These were the first four capitals of Georgia.
What are Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, and Milledgeville?
200
The rivers in Georgia flow to these two bodies of water.
What are the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico?
300
These three European countries wanted to settle and rule Georgia.
What are England, Spain, and France?
300
This major university, founded in 1785 in Athens, is a "bulldog" of a school.
What is the University of Georgia?
300
This island is the site of the Battle of Bloody Marsh that ended Spain's claim to Georgia.
What is St. Simons Island?
300
Peanuts, pecans, peaches, onions, corn, soybeans, tobacco, wheat, and cotton.
What are some of Georgia's major crops?
300
The islands named Ossabaw, Wassaw, st. Catherine, St. Simons, Jekyll, Sea, sapelo, and Cumberland make up these "isles"
What are Georgia's Golden Isles?
400
The "Father of Georgia" who led the movement to create a colony in America that would offer unemployed english citizens a chance to begin a new life.
Who was James E. Oglethorpe?
400
This northwestern Georgia city was the capital of the Cherokee Nation from 1825 to 1838.
What was New Echota?
400
This circular painting, which depicts the Battle of Atlanta, measures 50 feet (15 meters) high and 400 feet (120 meters) around with 3-D figures in the foreground.
What is Cyclorama?
400
The most densely populated region between the northern mountains and the Coastal Plain.
What is the Piedmnt Plateau?
400
This creamy-white flower with a golden buttercup in the middle is Georgia's state flower.
What is the Cherokee Rose?
500
In 1732, at Oglethorpe's request, this English King granted the charter to create the colony of Georgia.
Who was King George II?
500
The Georgia city that makes you think of a very special holiday.
What is Santa Claus?
500
He marched through Georgia during the Civil War with 60,000 Union troops, but not in a parade.
Who was General William T. Sherman?
500
This is the region south of the Piedmont Plateau that makes up most of Georgia.
What is the Coastal Plain?
500
This reddish-brown bird with a white spotted chest lives in hedges and thick shrubs and is the state bird of Georgia.