How much do you know about Atlanta's favorite park? Take this quiz to test your smarts.
Questions
1.How many visitors does Piedmont Park draw annually?
2. On what date did Booker T. Washington deliver his famous “Cast down your buckets where you are” speech at the present-day site of Piedmont Park during the Cotton States and International Exposition?
3. What is the name of Piedmont Park’s outdoor summer film series showing classic Hollywood movies?
4. In what year was the Piedmont Park Conservancy founded?
5. The South’s first interstate collegiate football game was held in 1892 in Piedmont Park; the University of Georgia Wildcats (with a billy goat mascot) defeated the Auburn University Tigers. What was the score?
6. What was Piedmont Park before it became a public park?
7. What is Piedmont Park’s nickname?
8. What theater brought the first motion pictures to Atlanta?
9. What was the original name of the Piedmont Driving Club at Piedmont Park?
10. How much did the 189 acres of Piedmont Park cost when they were purchased by the city in 1904?
11. Atlanta’s first public golf course, located at Piedmont Park, boasted how many holes?
12. The Atlanta Crackers games at Piedmont Park were the first professional baseball games played in the South. How many years did the Crackers play at the Park?
13. Can you translate Piedmont Park’s Dutch-named lake, Clara Meer?
14. How many acres of Piedmont Park are occupied by the Atlanta Botanical Gardens?
15. What famous sculptor designed the children’s playscape at Piedmont Park?
16. When was Piedmont Park’s annual Dogwood Festival founded?
17. For many years, Piedmont Park was the finish line for what annual Independence Day race?
18. What is the name of the historical marker erected for the Georgia brothers of an international lumberman’s fraternity?
Answers
1. More than 2 million
2. September 18, 1895
3. Screen on the Green
4. 1989
5. 10-0
6. A farm, a World War I encampment, a harness driving club, and grounds for the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition
7. Atlanta’s Green Heart
8. The Trocadero Theatre in Piedmont Park in 1895
9. The Gentlemen’s Driving Club
10. $99,000
11. 7
12. 1902-1904
13. Clear Lake
14. 30
15. Isamu Noguchi
16. 1936
17. The Peachtree Road Race
18. The Hoo Hoo Monument