ENG 237 Entrance Exam

is what grits, hominy, dogbread, mush, fritters, spoonbread, hushpuppies, and johnny cake are all made with

corn meal

is the longest recorded cave system on earth

Mammoth Cave

most commonly used hard liquor in the south

Bourbon/Whiskey

gonzo journalist from Louisville who wrote "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved"

Hunter S. Thompson

Name of the surveyor's line that separated the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland

Mason-Dixon Line

tubercular dentist from Griffin, Georgia who became a notorious gambler and gunslinger of the Old West

Doc Holiday

controversial 1915 silent film by Louisvillian D.W. Griffith

Birth of a Nation

continent where words like "boogie," "gumbo," "cooter," "okra," "jazz," and others originated

Africa

his guitar was named Lucille

B.B. King

1/5 of Mississippi's revenue in 1866 was spent for these necessities for returning soldiers

aritificial limbs

Georgia town associated with the B-52s, R.E.M, Widespread Panic, and the Drive-By Truckers

Athens, GA

the lady Hoke drove in the 1988 Pulitzer winning play and 1990 film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman

Driving Miss Daisy

Kentuckian and Centre College grad known as "the Great Dissenter" in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896

John Marshall Harlan

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is at the site of the Lorraine Motel--what happened there in 1968

MLK was assassinated

initials of the secret organization--sometimes called "the Invisible Empire"--founded by former slave trader Nathan Bedford

KKK

fictional character whose famous exit line is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"

Blauche DuBois

religion that entered America when the French brought enslaved people from Haiti to Louisiana

Voodoo

Mississippi Highway -- the "Blues Highway" -- Where, according to a song by Bob Dylan, "all that killing got done"

Highway 61

Recording studio in Memphis that launched the careers of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins

Sun Records

Allman Brothers

Macon, GA

Marshall Tucker Band

Spartanburg, SC

ZZ Top

Houston, TX

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Jacksonville, FL

The Black Crowes

Marietta, GA

Kings of Leon

Nashville, TN

My Morning Jacket

Louisville, KY

the Southern author and Southern musician both of whose reputations were damaged by marrying their 13-year-old cousins

Jerry Lee Lewis and Edgar Allen Poe

A character played by this native Chattanoogan preached from Ezekiel 25 in Pulp Fiction?

Samuel L. Jackson

Animal trickster in African American folklore who outwitted a fox

rabbit

the most famous Appalachian vendetta

Hatfields and McCoys

the godfather of soul

James Brown

famous southern condiment produced on Louisiana's Avery Island

Tabasco

country music singer--the "Coal Miner's Daughter" from Butcher Holler, KY

Loretta Lynn

TV cousins who had a souped up Dodge Charger named General Lee

The Dukes of Hazard

T/F: Vivien Leigh, who plays Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, was British

True

Name of the old Indian trace running southwest from Nashville to the Mississippi River

Natches Trace

what to eat on New Year's Day to ensure good luck all year round

Black Eyed Peas

the three most celebrated race horses, all from Kentucky

Secretariat, Man O' War, Seabiscuit

Harvard English major from Texas who wrote his senior thesis on Flannery O'Connor and went on to movie stardom in such films as No Country for Old Men, Lincoln, and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones

Atlanta hip hop group who celebrated Southern dipthongs with the chorus of "ATLiens"

OutKast

Arkansas-bred writer, director, and star of the Southern Gothic film Sling Blade:

Billy Bob Thornton

T/F: the first thanksgiving was in 1619 at Berkeley Plantation in Virginia

True

Georgia Actress known as, America´s Sweetheart

Julia Roberts

Title of the American Horror Story season set in New Orleans

Coven

where corvettes are made

Bowling Green, KY

what the word 'cajun' is a shortening of

Acadians

world renowned jazz musician from New Orleans whose nickname was Satchmo

Louis Armstrong

where Robert E. Lee surrendered

Appomattox Courthouse

best selling novelist who was killed by a speeding taxicab as she crossed Peachtree Street in Alabama

Margaret Mitchell

D.C. born soul singer killed by his own father

Marvin Gaye

the two Texas actors who headlined the HBO Southern noir sensation True Detective (Season 1):

Matthew Mcconahay and Woody Harrellson

Alabama country music legend who died in the back seat of his cadillac

Hank Williams Sr.

T/F: Civil War antagonists Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln began life in the same state

true

what a southerner is most likely to be "hit upside of"

the head

refused to go to the back of the bus

Rosa Parks

Style of music developed by Kentuckian Bill Monroe

Bluegrass

the nations oldest city

St. Augustine, FL

organization created in 1894 by women who saw themselves as guardians of the "Lost Cause"

United Daughters on Confederacy

1972 film from which the line "squeal like a pig" comes?

Deliverance

musical style that probably got its name from the Shake Rug district of Bowling Green where minstrel entertainer Ernest Hogan grew up

Ragtime

The year hot-headed South Carolinians started the Civil War by firing on Ft. Sumter

1861

Mississippi bluesman who by legend made a deal with the devil at the crossroads

Robert Johnson

Tennessee actress who played June Carter Cash in Walk the Line

Reese Witherspoon

Actress from Katy, TX, who played tough talking Ruby Thewes in Cold Mountain?

Renee Zelweger

contemporary Mississippi novelist who played tough-talking Ruby Thewes in Cold Mountain

Jessamine Ward

Mark Twain's real name

Samuel Clemens

Nashville-born dance-pop artist of "TiKToK" and "Die Young"

Ke$ha

Uptempo Louisiana music genre that combines Cajun and Soul?

Zydeco

White suited Kentuckian whose face covers signs and billboards the world over

Colonel Sanders

1781 battle in Virginia in which native son George Washington defeated Cornwallis and decided the Revolutionary War

Yorktown

"I AM THE GREATEST" was this Louisville boxer's signature phrase

Muhammad Ali

which one of the following was not one of the political thinkers of the Virginia Enlightenment?

J.E.B. Stuart

Name of the exile route of the Cherokee following the Indian Removal Act of 1830

Trail of Tears

Lil Wayne

New Orleans

Nappy Roots

Bowling Green

OutKast

Atlanta

Three 6 Mafia

Memphis

Kentucky actress (and UK basketball fanatic) who starred in Double Jeopardy

Ashley Judd

Hannibal Lecter

The Silence of the Lambs

Atticus Finch

To Kill a Mockingbird

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

a maiden named Lenore

The Raven

Willie Stark

All the King's Men

Pap Finn

Huckleberry Finn

Confederate general accidentally shot by his own men at the Battle of Chancerllorsville--his last words were "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees"

Stonewall Jackson

What "teeninecy" means

very small

Port Royal, Kentucky author of more than 80 books of poetry, fiction, and essays who is considered the country's most distinguished voice for sustainable agriculture and the environment

Wendell Berry

Alabama town famous for its recording studios, where Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Percy Sledge, Elton John, and The Black Keys all laid down tracks

Mussel Shoals

Writer from Guthrie, KY, who is the only person, Southern or otherwise, to receive a Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry

Robert Warren

Name for the discriminatory laws that held African Americans in second-class citizenship in the post bellum South (adopted from a song-and-dance caricature of African Americans performed in blackface by the white New York actor Thomas Rice)

Jim Crow Laws

Faulkner's mythical county

Yoknapatawpha

Eudora Welty

The Optimist's Daughter

Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove

Tennesse Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire

John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces

Peter Taylor

A Summons to Memphis

Alfred Uhry

Driving Miss Daisy

Natasha Trethewey

Native Guard

Cormac McCarthy

The Road

Kentucky actor who starred in O' Brother Where Art Thou

George Clooney