Local Knowledge: Outside the box trivia

While “Local Knowledge” largely focuses on trivia questions about Macon, we are stepping outside the city limits this week to test your intellectual acumen.

Those of you who have been bragging about your scores in recent rounds may find yourselves overmatched this time around.

1. Actress Victoria Principal, who starred as Pam Ewing in the nighttime soap opera “Dallas,’’ attended high school in what Middle Georgia city?

(A) Warner Robins

(B) Wrightsville

(C) Vienna

(D) Oglethorpe

2. Samuel Henry Rumph was a pioneer in the Georgia peach industry. In 1870, he discovered a delicious yellow-skinned peach variety, which he named after his wife, Elberta. Where were Rumph’s roots?

(A) Abbeville

(B) Dudley

(C) Marshallville

(D) Musella

3. Nigel Talton gained fame as “The Freeze,’’ giving baseball fans a head start and racing them in the outfield at Atlanta Braves games. He even had his own bobblehead night. Which Middle Georgia city is Talton’s hometown?

(A) Bolingbroke

(B) Fort Valley

(C) Bonaire

(D) Jeffersonville

4. Mac Hyman wrote the best-selling novel “No Time for Sergeants.’’  It was later made into a Broadway play and movie and loosely served as the model for the “Gomer Pyle” television comedy in the 1960s. Where was Hyman born in 1923?

(A) Cordele

(B) Gray

(C) Barnesville

(D) Chester

5. As a teenager, comedian Oliver Hardy, of “Laurel and Hardy” fame,   had a job as a movie projectionist at The Rose, the first theater in which town?

(A) Rochelle

(B) Tennille

(C) Ocilla

(D) Milledgeville

6. Tom Forkner, the co-founder of the Waffle House chain of restaurants, was born in which Middle Georgia city?

(A) Jackson

(B) Hawkinsville

(C) McRae

(D) Irwinton

7. The birthplace of authors Joel Chandler Harris (“Uncle Remus”) and Alice Walker (“The Color Purple”) is also home of the Georgia Writers Museum. Where is it?

(A) Eatonton

(B) Wrightsville

(C) Americus

(D) Ashburn

8. What town is the birthplace of Frank Gordy, founder of the Varsity in Atlanta, one of the largest drive-in restaurants in the world?

(A) Perry

(B) Gordon

(C) Thomaston

(D) Montrose

9. Which Middle Georgia town is the birthplace of Roger Kingdom, who won gold medals in the 110-meter high hurdles at the Summer Olympics in 1984 and 1988?

(A) Haddock

(B) Dry Branch

(C) Alamo

(D) Vienna

10. Scenes from the 1992 movie “My Cousin Vinny” were filmed in this community, which is also the hometown of country singer Trisha Yearwood. What is the name of it?

(A) Juliette

(B) Monticello

(C) Culloden

(D) Pineview

ANSWERS: (1) A. (2) C. (3) B. (4) A. (5) D. (6) B. (7) A. (8) C. (9) D. (10) B.

REPORT CARD:

(9-10) Hometown hero (7-8) Local yokel (5-6) Just passing through (3-4) Recalculating route (0-2) Geographically challenged