What was secretly planned on Jekyll Island in 1910?

Ideas that led to the Federal Reserve

Georgia Barrier Islands Quiz: Cumberland, Jekyll and Tybee

Georgia's short coastline hides a chain of islands with salt marshes, maritime forests and Gilded Age history, and this Georgia barrier islands quiz explores them. Play 10 interactive questions on Cumberland Island's horses, Dungeness, Jekyll Island's millionaires' club, the 1910 meeting, the sea turtle center, St Simons, Sapelo's Gullah Geechee community and Tybee's lighthouse.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Name
What are Georgia's central coastal islands often called?
Horses
Which island is known for its wild horses?
Ruins
Whose family built the Dungeness mansion on Cumberland?
Seashore
What protects much of Cumberland Island?
Club
Which island hosted an exclusive club for wealthy families?
1910
What was secretly planned on Jekyll Island in 1910?
Turtles
Which center on Jekyll Island treats injured sea turtles?
Gullah
Which island is home to the Gullah Geechee community of Hogg Hummock?
Lighthouse
Which island near Savannah has a historic lighthouse?
Marsh
Which poet wrote The Marshes of Glynn?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What are Georgia's central coastal islands often called?
Answer: The Golden Isles
St Simons and Jekyll are among them.
Q2: Which island is known for its wild horses?
Answer: Cumberland Island
They roam freely.
Q3: Whose family built the Dungeness mansion on Cumberland?
Answer: The Carnegies
Its ruins still stand.
Q4: What protects much of Cumberland Island?
Answer: A national seashore
Visitor numbers are limited.
Q5: Which island hosted an exclusive club for wealthy families?
Answer: Jekyll Island
Members included Rockefellers and Morgans.
Q6: What was secretly planned on Jekyll Island in 1910?
Answer: Ideas that led to the Federal Reserve
Bankers met under cover.
Q7: Which center on Jekyll Island treats injured sea turtles?
Answer: The Georgia Sea Turtle Center
Loggerheads nest on Georgia beaches.
Q8: Which island is home to the Gullah Geechee community of Hogg Hummock?
Answer: Sapelo Island
It preserves West African traditions.
Q9: Which island near Savannah has a historic lighthouse?
Answer: Tybee Island
It is one of America's oldest light stations.
Q10: Which poet wrote The Marshes of Glynn?
Answer: Sidney Lanier
The marshes lie near Brunswick.

Georgia Barrier Islands Quiz – Cumberland, Jekyll and Tybee

Georgia's coast is lined with barrier islands separated from the mainland by salt marshes. The central group, including St Simons, Sea Island and Jekyll Island, is known as the Golden Isles.

Cumberland Island, largely a national seashore, is famous for wild horses and the ruins of Dungeness, a Carnegie family mansion. Jekyll Island once hosted a club for America's wealthiest families, where bankers secretly met in 1910 to plan what became the Federal Reserve. It now has the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.

Sapelo Island is home to the Gullah Geechee community of Hogg Hummock, and Tybee Island near Savannah has a historic lighthouse. Sidney Lanier's poem The Marshes of Glynn celebrates the landscape.

What This Quiz Teaches

Travelers and history fans will enjoy these questions.

Which islands line the coast
What lives on Cumberland
Which history happened on Jekyll
Which communities live there
Which landmarks stand out

Did You Know?

Loggerhead sea turtles nest on many Georgia beaches.
Live oaks draped in Spanish moss shade the islands.
Some islands are reachable only by ferry.
Georgia has about 100 miles of coastline.
Shrimp boats work the tidal creeks.