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April 26, 2006 By: Betty Ramsey, LEOASC/BETT R PACKING ROUND: 1. Mississippi shares a border with all of these other states except: GEORGIA 2. This city is the capital of Mississippi: JACKSON 3 This historic route once linked the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations: NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY 4. Mississippi is known as the _____ state: MAGNOLIA 5. The Mississippi Delta is famous for this music genre: BLUES 6. The city of Natchez is famous for its annual pilgrimage of: ANTEBELLUM HOMES Picture: white capitol-like building DEPARTURE ROUND: 1. This food earned the nickname "Biloxi bacon" when meat was scarce during World War II: MULLET 2. This current governor was a prominent figure on national TV after Hurricane Katrina: HALEY BARBOUR 3. The powerful 1988 film "Mississippi Burning" is a fictional account of the 1964 murder of 3: CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS 4. All of these rivers are found in Mississippi except for the _____ River: CHATTAHOOCHEE 5. The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) football team is nicknamed the: REBELS Picture: small white house with a swing on the porch ON TOUR: 1. This Frenchman founded the first European settlement near what is now Ocean Springs: PIERRE LE MOYNE 2. Biloxi's IP, Palace and Isle of Capri reopened just 4 months after Hurricane Katrina: CASINO RESORTS 3. Clarksdale is home to the famous _____ Museum: DELTA BLUES 4. William Faulkner called his home town of Oxford "_____" in his novels of Yoknapatawpha County: JEFFERSON 5. The John C. Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis is named for a former Mississippi: SENATOR 6. The Yazoo River town of Belzoni is known as the _____ capital of the world: CATFISH 7. The Southern Delta city of Greenwood is one of the largest _____ markets in the U.S.: COTTON Picture: large plantation-style home 8. A _____ made by Gustav Dentzel is a national historic landmark in Meridian: CAROUSEL 9. The Pascagoula, near the Alabama border, is nicknamed the _____ river: SINGING 10. The Mississippi Gulf Islands include all of these except: PENDER ISLAND 11. All of these famous people are Mississippi natives except: ELLEN DEGENERES 12. The river town of Tunica is billed as the third largest _____ destination in the U.S.: GAMING Bonus Question One: This memorial arch is the start of a 16-mile tour through this Civil War site: VICKSBURG Bonus Question Two: Where on the map of Mississippi is Vicksburg found? Area 3 Picture: large mansion SLIDE SHOW: 1. The capitol in Jackson is a beautiful example of the _____ style of architecture: BEAUX ARTS 2. This two-room frame house where _____ was born is a landmark in Tupelo: ELVIS PRESLEY 3. This landmark home of confederacy President Jefferson Davis was devastated by Katrina: BEAUVIOR 4. This landmark mansion in Natchez is said to be America's largest octagonal house: LONGWOOD Clues for next destination: Caribbean Islands Port of Spain Red House |