Answers:

Below are the answers to the Natchez Tricentennial quiz.

 

1. B

2. A

3. A

4. C

5. B

6. A, Natchez was officially designated the first capital, but the first legislature met in Washington because of a yellow fever epidemic. The capital was later moved to Columbia, Monticello and ultimately Jackson

7. A

8. B, Most of the deaths occurred because the tornado hit several flatboats and steamboats on the river.

9. B

10. B, A young girl by the name of Rosalie Beekman was killed and buried in the old Jewish section of the city cemetery.

11. A

12. D

13. A, Founded in 1877 as the Natchez Seminary by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the school was moved in 1882 to Jackson, where it was renamed.

14. A

15. A

16. B, The Adams County Board of Supervisors’ office was formerly the county jail, and the gallows and death row area are still intact on the third floor.

17. D

18. A, Taft visited Natchez as part of a Mississippi River tour in October 1909. Zachary Taylor owned property in Jefferson County but sold it in 1850, his first year in office.

19. C, Triton Battery is a factory that only exists in the fictional Natchez in which Greg Iles’ Penn Cage novels are set.

20. C

21. D

22. B, The city trademarked itself as the biscuit capital in the world in 2008.

23. C

24. B

25. D