Florida trivia works best on the drive to the Keys. From the mainland, US 1 becomes the Overseas Highway and hops island to island for more than a hundred miles, with water on both sides and a green mile marker counting down every mile. The deck includes the questions this drive answers for you: the Seven Mile Bridge, Mile Marker 0 in Key West, and the park you can only reach by boat or seaplane beyond it.
Play it by mile marker
On the Overseas Highway, let the mile markers run the game. Ask one question at every marker that ends in 0. Somewhere past Marathon, the long bridge comes up; hold the Seven Mile Bridge question until you’re on it. When the markers get close to zero, switch to the Key West and Dry Tortugas questions.
Kids can keep score by marker: whoever answers at marker 50 gets to call out when 40 appears.
Other drives, other questions
I-95 down the Atlantic coast. St. Augustine comes first if you’re arriving from Georgia. The Castillo de San Marcos is right on the waterfront, a short detour from the interstate. Farther south, the Space Coast around Cape Canaveral is where the Kennedy Space Center and moonstone questions belong.
Across the Everglades. Tamiami Trail (US 41) runs from the Miami area toward Naples through the Everglades. Keep the alligator and “river of grass” questions for this road, and have someone watch the canals beside it.
The Panhandle. Tallahassee is closer to Georgia than to Miami, which surprises most people who’ve only seen the peninsula. Ask the capital question on I-10.
Three Florida facts that aren’t in the deck
- Tarpon Springs, north of Tampa, has sponge docks where Greek immigrant divers built a sponge-fishing industry. You can still buy natural sea sponges there.
- The zebra longwing, a black butterfly with yellow stripes, is Florida’s state butterfly.
- Walt Disney World opened near Orlando in 1971.