Quiz Answers From Pg. 82

Question 1: What's the state's current population?
ANSWER: C. 18,846,493, according to Woods & Poole

Question 2: What has happened to the canal route?
ANSWER: B. The Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway, including a land bridge over six lanes of I-75, occupies much of the land once known as the Cross Florida Barge Canal. For more information, visit here.

Question 3: What major advance in computers originated in Florida and where?
ANSWER: B. IBM PC, Boca Raton. A team of 12 IBM engineers, led by William C. Lowe, designed and built what IBM called the "Acorn" in Boca Raton in 1980. The company released its new computer, renamed the IBM PC (personal computer) in August of 1981. It sold for a little under $2,000. For more information, visit here.

Question 4: What Tampa-based publicly traded company does undersea investigations looking for historic ship wrecks?
ANSWER: D. Odyssey Marine Exploration. In May, the company announced that it had recovered numerous artifacts and more than half a million gold coins from a shipwreck in an undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean. It is embroiled in a court case with the government of Spain over the discovery. For more information, visit here.

Question 5: What's the state's No. 1 cash crop?
ANSWER: B. Shrubbery. As Florida Trend reported in 2003, "the environmental horticulture industry now surpasses oranges as the state's top single crop, representing $1.5 billion of Florida's $7-billion agricultural take."

Question 6: What's the state sales tax now? How much can local communities choose to add to it?
ANSWER: A. The state sales tax is 6%. Local communities can levy up to an additional 1.5%.

Question 7: What's the largest railroad in the state?
ANSWER: C. CSX Transportation of Jacksonville owns more than 53% of the railroad track mileage in Florida.