Trivia

Test your Richmond Region knowledge with these trivia questions. Who knew...?

• That the Richmond Region is one of the top five Best Places to Live and Work in America according to BestJobsUSA.com?
• That Pocahontas lived here, Edgar Allan Poe wrote here and Arthur Ashe Jr. learned to play tennis here?
• That writer Tom Wolfe was born and raised in Richmond, and that author Patricia Cornwell used Richmond as a setting for many of her crime novels and based her fictional heroine, Kay Scarpetta, on the Region's local medical examiner?
• That the site of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has formerly been a Native American hunting ground, bike club, children's hospital and residence?
• That Richmond is the only U.S. capital city with bald eagles nesting within the city limits?
• That the Richmond Region has more shopping centers per capita than any other U.S. city?
• That Thomas Jefferson designed the Virginia State Capitol, located in downtown Richmond?
• That Hollywood Cemetery is the final resting place of former U.S. presidents John Tyler and James Monroe, writer Ellen Glasgow, Civil War general J.E.B. Stuart, and Confederate president Jefferson Davis?
• That Richmond had the first successful electric streetcar system in the country?
• That in 1948, Richmond's WTVR Channel 6/CBS became the first TV station in the south?
• That Spencer Christian, former weatherman for Good Morning America, and Matt Lauer, Today Show host, got their television starts in Richmond?
• That some of the Dave Matthews Band's earliest shows were played at the Flood Zone, now known as Have a Nice Day Cafe, in Shockoe Bottom?
• That Bruce Springsteen gave a concert in Monroe Park long before the E Street Band?
• That Richmond was the first test market for canned beer?
• That the Richmond Region is less than a day's drive from half the U.S. population?