NewsTracker Answers for week of July 20, 2020

Q: Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, last week cancelled local mask mandates adopted by more than a dozen cities and counties as a Covid virus safeguard. Where is his state on this map?

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Q: The mayor and council members of Georgia's capital had approved a mask-wearing requirement. What city is the state capital?

A. Savannah

B. Augusta

C. Atlanta

D. Athens

C. Atlanta is the state capital, where legislators meet and the governor has his office. With nearly 500,000 residents, it's Georgia's largest city.

Q: The state's largest newspaper, published in Atlanta, is named the . . .

A. Journal-Constitution

B. Times-Picayune

C. News & Observer

D. Post and Courier

A. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the city's only major daily newspaper with wide distribution. It's name reflects a 1950 merger between The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution.

Q: Atlanta was a major civil rights organizing center during the 1950s and 1960s. Historic sites honor a major figure of that movement who was born there. Pick his name.

A. Jesse Jackson

B. James Baldwin

C. Malcolm X

D. Martin Luther King Jr.

D. Attractions for school field days, local families and tourists include the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, which has his childhood home and grave. It also includes the original Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was baptized and where he and his father were pastors.

Q: Georgia touches five other states. Which one is its western neighbor?

A. Tennessee

B. Alabama

C. Arkansas

D. Florida

B. Alabama is directly west of Georgia, which is bordered to the north by Tennessee and North Carolina, to the northeast by South Carolina and to the south by Florida. It also touches the Atlantic Ocean.