Gris Triv’ No. 2: Trivia returns on the weather map

Now that Debby has left the building after arriving as an unwanted house guest across South Georgia, we will begin this week’s quiz with some stormy trivia. 

1.  When the National Hurricane Center in Miami first began assigning female names to hurricanes in 1969, meteorologists were stumped when they came to the letter “C.’’ The late John Hope, a senior forecaster and nationally known hurricane expert, suggested the name of his daughter, who later became the wife of former Macon Mayor and U.S. congressman Jim Marshall. What was it?

(A) Camille
(B) Camilla
(C) Catherine
(D) Coco

2. Southern writer Flannery O’Connor died 60 years ago this past month at her family’s Andalusia farm in Milledgeville. Which of her books was made into a 1979 movie that was filmed in Macon, directed by John Huston and starred Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton and Amy Wright?

(A) The Violent Bear It Away
(B) Everything That Rises Must Converge
(C) A Good Man Is Hard To Find
(D) Wise Blood

3. Len Berg’s was one of Macon’s most famous restaurants. Located in the Post Office Alley between Walnut and Cherry streets, it closed in 2005.  Every summer, Len Berg’s would advertise HMFPIC, a local acronym for what iconic menu item?

(A) Happy Meals For People In College 
(B) Honeydew Melon Facebook Posts In Cursive
(C) Hungry Mamas First Presbyterian In Carpool
(D) Home Made Fresh Peach Ice Cream

4. The interchange at I-75 and Sardis Church Road is named after which Macon sports legend?

(A) Football Coach Billy Henderson
(B) Boxer W.L. “Young” Stribling
(C) Olympic bobsledder Chip Minton
(D) Macon Braves infielder Chipper Jones

5. Eugene Talmadge, who was born in Forsyth, was a member of one of Georgia’s most well-known political families from Telfair County. He partly blamed his 1942 Democratic primary loss to Ellis Arnold in the governor’s race on his inability to campaign while recovering from what kind of injury?

(A) He broke his hand fist-pumping supporters at a political rally.
(B) He twisted his ankle at a campaign rally in Deepstep. 
(C) He was bitten on his posterior by a black widow on a visit to the outhouse.
(D) He cut himself shaving.

6. The oldest state park in Georgia – and one of the oldest in the nation – began as a public park in 1825, although it was not officially designated as a “state park’’ until 1931. Where is it?

(A) High Falls in Forsyth
(B) Amicalola Falls in Dawsonville
(C) Indian Springs in Flovilla 
(D) Little Ocmulgee in Helena

7.  The Walter F. George School of Law on Coleman Hill was formerly North American Life Insurance and is a replica of which famous building?

(A) Independence Hall in Philadelphia
(B) Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C.
(C) National Cathedral in Washington
(D) Buc-ee’s on Russell Parkway 

8. Before Idle Hour Club became one of the premier golf courses in the state, what was located on the property?

(A) Pin Strikes bowling alley
(B) A major stop on the harness horse racing circuit, once billed as the”second-fastest racetrack in America” after Saratoga
(C) Skeet shooting range
(D) Swampy area known for the production of mayhaw jelly

9. Dudley M. Hughes, who was born in Jeffersonville, had a vocational school named after him in Macon. One of the lasting contributions of the former Georgia congressman was legislation that led to the creation of what organization in 1928?

(A) Woodmen of the World
(B) Southeastern Conference
(C) Future Farmers of America
(D) Society for Creative Anachronism

10. Blind Willie McTell was a famous blues musician during the 1920s and ‘30s, who died in Milledgeville in August 1959. Bob Dylan wrote a song about McTell in 1983, and one of McTell’s  most famous songs was recorded by Macon’s The Allman Brothers Band. What was the name of it? 

(A) Statesboro Blues
(B) Lizella Livin’
(C) ACE Academy Traffic Jam
(D) Rockin’ Warner Robins

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1. A 
2. D 
3. D 
4. A  
5. C 
6. C 
7. A
8. B
9. C
10. A

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