Pensacola, Florida Trivia Quiz

Answer: Escambia County

Pensacola is the county seat of Escambia County. The county is Alabama north of Escambia County, FL is also called Escambia County (AL).

Answer: Florida Institute of Technology

The Florida Institute of Technology is located in Melbourne, Florida. The University of West Florida, Pensacola Junior College, and Pensacola Christian College are all in Pensacola.

Answer: USSR

Great Britain, The Confederate States of America, and Spain, France and the United States of America have also owned Pensacola at one point. Obviously, Pensacola is currently a part of the United States of America.

Answer: The Emerald City

The nickname "Cradle of Naval Aviation" is because the Pensacola Naval Air Base is home to the Blue Angels and the National Museum of Naval Aviation.
Other nicknames include:
America's First Settlement
The Western Gate to the Sunshine State
Red Snapper Capital of the World
World's Whitest Beaches
City of Five Flags

Seattle is the Emerald City, and Pensacola is the Emerald Coast.

Answer: Pensacola Bay

Pensacola is located on the sea port Pensacola Bay, which connects to the Gulf of Mexico.

Answer: Democratic

Pensacola has become mostly Republican since around the 1960's.

Answer: An Officer and a Gentleman

The movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" was based off of the Officer Training Camp on Pensacola Naval Air Base. The training camp is now closed, the last group to become officers from the camp was in summer 2007. The producers of "An Officer and a Gentleman" wanted to shoot the movie on the Pensacola Naval Air Base, but the Navy refused.
The large Naval Air Base located right outside of the Pensacola city lines, near Warrington community, is home to the nationally-famous Blue Angels. The Blue Angels travel across the country performing incredible flight demonstrations for air shows.
Pensacola Naval Air Base was the first Air Base in the United States of America.

Answer: Pensacola High School

Pensacola High School is the oldest high school in Pensacola. In 1969, a fire burned down the former school, causing a new school building to be built. In 2004, Hurricane Ivan damaged Pensacola High's gym, but it was repaired in time for the 2007-2008 school year.

Answer: Hurricane Ivan

More than six billion dollars worth of damage was caused by Hurricane Ivan. Over ten thousand houses were in ruins, and twenty-seven thousand houses were heavily damaged. Hurricane Dennis was in 2005, Opal was in 1995, and Juan was in 1985. Because Pensacola is located on Florida's panhandle, it is often struck by hurricanes.

Answer: Galway

Pensacola's six sister cities include the following:
Chimbote, Peru;
Escazu, Costa Rica;
Gorlovka, Ukraine;
Gero, Japan;
Miraflores, Peru; and
Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Galway is a city in Ireland. It is the sister city to Seattle, Washington; St. Louis, Missouri; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a number of other cities not in the United States.