Name Game
Duval Street is named after this man
Who is William Pope Duval?
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This is where fresh water meets salt water
Hint: start with a E
What is an Estuary?
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This actress is best known for her role as Alice Cullen in the successful Twilight franchise. She was born in Jacksonville in 1987, growing up in the Middleburg area
Who is Ashley Greene
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Built in 1997, this is the only true orchestra hall in Florida and is home to the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra
What is the Jacoby Symphony Hall?
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In the early 1900s this area, located on what is today's Southbank of Downtown, was the city's biggest tourist draw
What is the Ostrich Farm?
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Jacksonville was named for this man, the first military governor of Florida who, incidentally, never visited Jacksonville
Who is Andrew Jackson?
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This river is one of two in North America that flows north instead of south
What is the St. John's?
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This gold medal Olympian is originally from Singapore, but attended school in Jacksonville.
Who is Joseph Schooling?
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This theater was home to one of Elvis Presley's first indoor concerts in 1956. A local judge sat through the performance to ensure Presley's body movements would not become too suggestive.
What is The Florida Theatre?
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This is a near full-scale rendering created to memorialize the 16th century French effort to establish a permanent colony in Florida.
What is Fort Caroline National Memorial?
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Hemming Plaza is named for this man, a Civil War veteran and Jacksonville native
Who is Charles Hemming?
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Planted in 1822, this tree, located on the Southbank of Downtown has a circumference of 25 feet and reaches more than 70 feet into the sky.
What is the Treaty Oak?
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This Jacksonville native is the only man to win an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring
Who is Bob Hayes?
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Jacksonville hosted the first-ever college football game played in Florida, with a crowd of 2,000 in this year.
What is 1901?
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During Florida’s plantation period (1763-1865), Fort George Island was owned by many planters. This site name comes from one of those owners, Zephaniah Kingsley.
What is the Kingsley Plantation?
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This man who founded Jacksonville, named two of the city's first streets after his daughters, Julia and Laura.
Who is Isaih Hart?
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The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Jacksonville's national park, covers approximately how many acres?
What is 46,000 acres?
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This man was an early civil rights activist, a leader of the NAACP, and a leading figure in the creation and development of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
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This man performed in Jacksonville eight times during his career, beginning in 1955 when he performed at Wolfson Park
Who is Elvis Presley?
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This tribe lived in central and northeast Florida. They were the first Native Americans to see the Spanish when they came to Florida.
Who are the Timucua (tee-MOO-qua)?
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The Spanish renamed the this river after a mission that was located near the river's mouth.
What is the St. John's River
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This bridge is the second longest concrete cable-stayed bridge in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Dames Point Bridge?
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This man is consistently viewed as one of the most influential artists in modern music history. The Blues performer, who was blind, was born in Greenville but moved to Jacksonville as a teenager
Who is Ray Charles?
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The oldest, continuously operating community theater in the country is this and has been in operation since 1919.
What is Theatre Jacksonville?
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This man lived on the land that is today known as the Theodore Roosevelt Area. He spent his whole life here and gave his property to the Nature Conservancy for preservation. In 1990, this land became a part of the National Park Service.
Who is Willie Browne III
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