Getting to Know the South
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(* answers at the bottom)
1. What was the number of Dale Earnhardt’s
car?
2. What's that hairy-looking stuff hanging
off the oak trees?
3. What's a chigger? *One bonus point if
you know the other name for it.
4. What was the name of Robert E. Lee’s
horse?
5. What is a grit?
6. Where did Herschel Walker play college
football?
7. What follows, logically? Johnson, Mercury,
8. Who was Buford T. Justice?
9. What was the very last line in the movie,
Gone With The Wind?
*One bonus point if you know who uttered
it.
10. When did the Florida-Seminole Indian
War end?
11. Can you complete this phrase? "RC Cola
and a _ _ _ _ _ _ _"
12. Who sang Your Cheatin' Heart?
13. What is a Catahoula Hog Dog?
14. What is the specialty at the Whistle
Stop Cafe?
15. Corvettes are made in only one place
in the world; where?
*One bonus point if you know what year production
began.
16. What did Barney Fife carry in his shirt
pocket?
17. What are the call letters of the radio
station that carries The Grand Ole Opry?
18. How did the Vidalia onions get their
name?
19. How many Vienna Sausages are in a can?
20. What are the Hatfields and McCoys famous
for?
21. What makes the Blue Ridge Mountains
blue?
22. How many strings on a banjo?
*Two possible answers—One bonus point if
you get both.
23. What is a scuppernong?
24. Do you want the goats to get into the
kudzu?
25. Why would you want to eat "high on the
hog"?
26. What color is a John Deere?
27. What is "Gullah" and where can you find
it?
28. Who jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge?
29. What's a Mint Julep?
30. What was the name and number of the
Dukes of Hazzard car?
*One bonus point for each of these: what
was year, make, model, color, horn sound, what was on the roof?
Answers *Click on links for pictures, more details and resources
1. Earnhardt's car number was 3. (We miss
you, Dale.)
2. That "hairy-looking stuff" on trees in
the South is Spanish Moss.
3. A chigger, or red bug, is a tiny (smaller
than a period) mite whose bite causes extreme itching.
4. Robert E. Lee's horse was named Traveler.
5. Grits, made from corn that has been dried
and ground, is a staple of the Southern breakfast.
6. Herschel Walker played for the University
of Georgia.
7. Johnson, Mercury, Evinrude -- outboard
boat motors.
8. Buford T. Justice was the sheriff in
the movie, Smokey and The Bandit.
9. Scarlett O'Hara had the last word in
Gone With The Wind with, "After all, tomorrow is another day."
10. The Seminole Indian War in Florida never
ended! The US ceased military action in 1842, but there was no official
end and no treaty was ever signed.
11. RC Cola and a Moon Pie.
12. Your Cheatin' Heart was made popular
by Hank Williams.
13. The fearless and feisty Catahoula Hog
Dog was used to flush out runaway livestock from the swamps.
14. The Whistle Stop Cafe's specialty is
fried green tomatoes.
15. Corvettes are made only in Bowling Green,
Kentucky; production began in 1953.
16. Barney Fife carried a single bullet
in his shirt pocket for his otherwise empty gun.
17. Radio station call letters are WSM.
18. Vidalia onions are grown in Vidalia,
Georgia.
19. There are seven Vienna sausages to a
can.
20. The Hatfields and McCoys are known for
their long standing (and bloody) family feud.
21. The blue haze is the result of a chemical
compound released naturally by the pine trees.
22. Five strings on a banjo is usual, although
some styles have four.
23. A scuppernong is a wild grape.
24. By all means, let the goats in to eat
that monster weed, kudzu, before it takes over completely!
25. "High on the hog" is where the choicest
cuts are.
26. John Deere tractors and other farm implements
are all painted green.
27. "Gullah" is a slave dialect that has
become it's own language, spoken only on sea islands off the South Carolina
and Georgia coasts.
28. Billy Jo McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie
bridge.
29. A Mint Julep is a drink made with bourbon,
mint, water and crushed ice.
30. The Dukes' car, named the General Lee,
was a 1969 bright orange Dodge Charger, with number 01 on the side and
a confederate flag on top. The horn played Dixie.
Scoring
0 - 9 Don't even ask. (You even missed
the grits question, didn't you?)
10 - 14 Tourist Level. (You don't like
grits, do you?)
15 - 19 Snowbird Level. (You put sugar
on your grits, don't you?)
20 - 24 Transplant Level. (You eat grits
reluctantly and only if they're served to you, don't you?)
25 - 29 A true Son or Daughter of The
South. (Breakfast is just not complete without grits, is it?)
All 30 (You cheated, didn't you?)