Georgia on My Mind
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100

This Georgia county is the largest by area in the state and is located in the Okefenokee Swamp region.

What is Ware County?

100

A group of these birds is commonly called a “murder.”

What are crows?

100

This tall president issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

Discovered in 1930 and reclassified in 2006, this former ninth planet is now considered a dwarf planet.

What is Pluto?

100

This 1980s sci‑fi film features a DeLorean time machine and a teen named Marty McFly.

What is Back to the Future?

100

This element, atomic number 74, has the highest melting point of all pure metals.

What is tungsten?

200

This Georgia city is known as the “Carpet Capital of the World.”

What is Dalton?

200

These animals, whose name comes from the Greek for “many feet,” include centipedes and millipedes.

What are arthropods?

200

This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the United States.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

200

This planet has the shortest year in our solar system, completing an orbit in about 88 Earth days.

What is Mercury?

200

This actor portrayed Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and starred in the 2008 film that launched the franchise.

Who is Robert Downey Jr.?

200

The five highest volcanoes on Earth are located in this mountain range.

What are the Andes?

300

This historic trail ran through Georgia and was used for the forced relocation of Native Americans in the 1830s.

What is the Trail of Tears?

300

The fastest land animal, it can reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour.

What is a cheetah?

300

This president led the U.S. through most of World War II and died in office in 1945.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

300

This telescope launched in 1990 orbits Earth and has provided detailed images of distant galaxies.

What is the Hubble Space Telescope?

300

This 1990s sitcom followed six friends living in New York, including Ross, Rachel, and Chandler.

What is Friends?

300

In biology, this organelle is responsible for protein synthesis and can be found floating freely or attached to the endoplasmic reticulum.

What are ribosomes?

300

This President was in office during the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Who is Thomas Jefferson? 

400

This Georgia-born musician, known for songs like “Georgia on My Mind,” is a pioneer of soul music.

Who is Ray Charles?

400

This largest animal on Earth is

What is The Blue Whale?

400

This Civil War general is famous for his destructive “March to the Sea.”

Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?

400

This largest moon of Saturn is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere.

What is Titan?

400

This 2007 film starring Will Smith features him surviving in New York with only his dog for company.

What is I Am Legend?

400

This novel by James Joyce is structured to parallel Homer’s Odyssey over the course of a single day in Dublin.

What is Ulysses?

500

This mountain, the highest point in Georgia, sits near the North Carolina border.

What is Brasstown Bald?

500

This large marine animal is known for its spiral tusk, often called the “unicorn of the sea.”

What is a narwhal?

500

This belief that Americans were destined to expand westward became known as this.

What is Manifest Destiny?

500

This galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbor, is expected to collide with the Milky Way in billions of years.

What is the Andromeda Galaxy?

500

This 1982 Michael Jackson album remains the best-selling album of all time worldwide.

What is Thriller?

500

This ancient language, written in cuneiform, was spoken in Mesopotamia and is one of the earliest recorded languages.

What is Sumerian?