Local Knowledge: Brain freezes need not apply

You might know there are 15 downtown streets named after trees. 

But do you know Macon’s first “planned” suburban neighborhood and the official mascot for the Georgia National Fair in Perry?

Time to test your “Local Knowledge” again.

1. Macon-born actress Carrie Preston is best known for her roles in “The Good Wife” and “True Blood.” She is the main character in the CBS comedy-drama series “Elsbeth.’’ Where were Preston and her husband – actor Michael Emerson (of “Lost” and “Person of Interest” fame) – married in Macon in 1998?

(A) Elsbeth Sombrero

(B) Hay House

(C) Theatre Macon

(D) Terminal Station

2. What was Macon’s first “planned” suburban neighborhood?

(A) Shurlington   

(B) Cherokee Heights

(C ) Ingleside

(D)  Beall’s Hill

3. Next year will mark the 200th anniversary of Macon’s oldest church, founded in 1825. What is the name of it?

(A) Vineville Baptist

(B) Harvest Cathedral

(C) First Presbyterian

(D) Christ Episcopal Church

4. Which is the actual nickname of a South Georgia high school football team?

(A) Coffee County Cups 

(B) Vidalia Onion Rings 

(C) Cairo Syrupmakers 

(D) Bacon County Cheeseburgers 

5. What is the largest county in Middle Georgia (and third-largest in the state) with 807.3 square miles in land area?

(A) Laurens

(B) Monroe 

(C) Dooly 

(D) Dodge

6. Mac Hyman, who was born in Cordele in 1923, wrote the best-selling novel “No Time for Sergeants.” It was later made into a Broadway play and movie. It loosely served as the inspiration for which popular television comedy in the 1960s?

(A) “Hogan’s Heroes”

(B) “F Troop”

(C) “M*A*S*H”

(D) “Gomer Pyle”

7. In 1994, the Georgia National Fair adopted which animal as its official mascot? (In honor of a creature that was once a frequent visitor to the Agricenter property in Perry.)

(A) Possum

 (B) Bear

 (C) Bigfoot

 (D) Unicorn

8. Macon’s John Odom won three World Series rings as a pitcher for the Oakland A’s in the 1970s. What was his famous nickname?

(A) Dr. J

(B) The Splendid Splinter

(C) Oil Can Odom

(D) Blue Moon

9. Sunday will mark the anniversary of the founding of what organization at the Dempsey Hotel in Macon on Sept. 29, 1945?

(A) American Camellia Society

(B) American Red Cross

(C) Kiwanis Club

(D) Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association (GABBA)

10. The Sidney Lanier Bridge in Brunswick, named after Macon poet Sidney Lanier, is the longest-spanning bridge in Georgia. It is 7,779 feet across and reaches 480 feet at its highest point. The original Sidney Lanier Bridge opened in Brunswick in 1956. Scenes from which Burt Reynolds movie were filmed on the bridge 50 years ago (1974) this summer?

(A) “Smokey and the Bandit”

(B) “Deliverance”

(C) “The Longest Yard”

(D) “Cannonball Run”

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(1) C.

(2) B.

(3) D.

(4) C.

(5) A.

(6) D.

(7) B.

(8) D.

(9) A

(10) C.

REPORT CARD:

(9-10) Hot prospect

(7-8) Firecracker

(5-6) Warm Fuzzy

(3-4) Cool customer 

(0-2) Brain freeze.