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Question 1

With a total of 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of inland waterways, _____ has among the most of any state.

Answer 1

Alabama

Question 2

______ is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird.

Answer 2

Alabama

Question 3

is also known as the “Heart of Dixie” and the “Cotton State”

Answer 3

Alabama

Question 4

The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia.

Answer 4

Alabama

Question 5

Largest Alabama city by population

Answer 5

Birmingham

Question 6

Largest Alabama city by area

Answer 6

Huntsville

Question 7

The oldest city in Alabama is ____, founded by French colonists in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana.[

Answer 7

Mobile

Question 8

An 1842 article in the Jacksonville Republican proposed it meant “Here We Rest.”[14] This notion was popularized in the 1850s through the writings of Alexander Beaufort Meek.[14] Experts in the Muskogean languages have not found any evidence to support such a translation.

Answer 8

Alabama

Question 9

The agrarian Mississippian culture covered most of the state from 1000 to 1600 AD, with one of its major centers built at what is now the Moundville Archaeological Site

Answer 9

Alabama

Question 10

Who lost the Seven Years War?

Answer 10

The French lost to the British

Question 11

State song(s): “Alabama”

Answer 11

Alabama

Question 12

Highest point: Mount Cheaha

Answer 12

Alabama

Question 13

Governor Kay Ivey (R)

Answer 13

Alabama

Question 14

U.S. Senators	Richard Shelby (R)
Doug Jones (D)

Answer 14

Alabama

Question 15

State tree of Alabama

Answer 15

Longleaf pine

Question 16

State flower of Alabama

Answer 16

Camellia

Question 17

Highest point in Alabama

Answer 17

Mount Cheaha

Question 18

Current governor of Alabama

Answer 18

Kay Ivey

Question 19

Current senators from Alabama

Answer 19

Richard Shelby (R) and Doug Jones (D)

Question 20

This state has four National Forests: Conecuh, Talladega, Tuskegee, and William B. Bankhead

Answer 20

Alabama

Question 21

A natural wonder in this state is “Natural Bridge” rock, the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies, located just south of Haleyville.

Answer 21

Alabama

Question 22

Where is Wetumpka Crater

Answer 22

Alabama

Question 23

Crater in Alabama

Answer 23

Wetumpka

Question 24

Area in this state administered by the National Park Service include Horseshoe Bend National Military Park near Alexander City; Little River Canyon National Preserve near Fort Payne; Russell Cave National Monument in Bridgeport; Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Tuskegee; and Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site near Tuskegee.

Answer 24

Alabama

Question 25

is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by the Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884,[2][3] with several later modifications by Köppen, notably in 1918 and 1936.[4][5] Later, the climatologist Rudolf Geiger (1954, 1961) introduced some changes to the classification system, which is thus sometimes called the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system.[6][7]

Answer 25

Koppen Climate Classification

Question 26

The area of Alabama and Mississippi most affected by tornadoes is sometimes referred to as _____, as distinct from the Tornado Alley of the Southern Plains.

Answer 26

Dixie Alley

Question 27

The 1991 ______, also known as The No-Name Storm (especially in the years immediately after it took place) and the Halloween Gale/Storm, was a nor’easter that absorbed Hurricane Grace and ultimately evolved back into a small unnamed hurricane late in its life cycle.

Answer 27

Perfect Storm

Question 28

Where is Chilton County?

Answer 28

Alabama

Question 29

The Five Civilized Tribes

Answer 29

Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole.

Question 30

The oldest Jewish congregation in the state is Congregation Sha’arai Shomayim

Answer 30

Alabama

Question 31

On May 14, 2019, _______ passed the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country, banning the procedure at any stage of pregnancy unless there is a “serious health risk”, with no exceptions for rape and incest. Doctors who perform abortions may receive 10 to 99 years imprisonment.

Answer 31

Alabama

Question 32

The American federal minimum wage

Answer 32

$7.25

Question 33

Biggest employer in what state is Redstone Arsenal

Answer 33

Alabama

Question 34

NASA’s George C. Marshall Space Flight Center

Answer 34

Huntsville, Alabama

Question 35

U.S. Army Materiel Command, headquartered at Redstone Arsenal.

Answer 35

Huntsville, Alabama

Question 36

Richard J. Kramer (Chairman, President, and CEO)

Answer 36

Goodyear

Question 37

CEO Fabrice Brégier

Answer 37

Airbus

Question 38

UAB Hospital is the only Level I trauma center in

Answer 38

Alabama

Question 39

At almost 800 amendments and 310,000 words, it is by some accounts the world’s longest constitution and is roughly forty times the length of the United States Constitution.

Answer 39

Alabama Constitution

Question 40

(1964), was a United States Supreme Court case which ruled 8-1 that unlike in the election of the United States Senate, in the election of any chamber of a state legislature the electoral districts must be roughly equal in population: one man, one vote.

Answer 40

Reynolds v. Sims

Question 41

has the highest per capita death penalty rate in the country.

Answer 41

Alabama

Question 42

(1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that decided that redistricting (attempts to change the way voting districts are delineated) issues present justiciable questions, thus enabling federal courts to intervene and to decide redistricting cases. The defendants unsuccessfully argued that redistricting of legislative districts is a “political question”, and hence not a question that may be resolved by federal courts.

Answer 42

Baker V. Carr

Question 43

In United States history, the _______ were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War. _____ were the Southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats, the conservative, pro-business faction in the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy.

Answer 43

Redeemers

Question 44

was a term used in the United States in the later 19th century (1872–1904) to refer to members of the Democratic Party, usually Southern, who were ideologically aligned with conservatism or classical liberalism, especially those who supported presidential candidates Charles O’Conor in 1872, Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, President Grover Cleveland in 1884–1888/1892–1896, and Alton B. Parker in 1904.

Answer 44

Bourbon Democrats

Question 45

In the history of the United States, ______ was a derogatory term applied by former Confederates to any person from the Northern United States who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War; they were perceived as exploiting the local populace.

Answer 45

Carpetbagger

Question 46

is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves were freed either by manumission (granted freedom by their owner) or emancipation (granted freedom as part of a larger group). A fugitive slave is one who escaped slavery by fleeing.

Answer 46

Freedman

Question 47

were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War.

Like the similar term carpetbagger, the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates.

Answer 47

Scalawags

Question 48

was the 45th Governor of Alabama, a position he occupied for four terms, during which he promoted “low-grade industrial development, low taxes, and trade schools.”[1] He sought the United States presidency as a Democrat three times, and once as an American Independent Party candidate, unsuccessfully each time. He is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views.[2][3][4] _______ was known as “the most dangerous racist in America”[5] and notoriously opposed desegregation and supported the policies of “Jim Crow” during the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his 1963 inaugural address that he stood for “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”[6]

Answer 48

George Wallace

Question 49

enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[4] It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.

Answer 49

Civil Rights Act

Question 50

is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.[7][8] It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.[7] Designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Act secured the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Act is considered to be the most effective piece of federal civil rights legislation ever enacted in the country.[9]

Answer 50

Voting Rights Act

Question 51

was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He had a brief stint in the Western Theater, but he is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas) in the East.

Answer 51

John Pope

Question 52

was the electoral voting bloc of the states of the Southern United States for issues that were regarded as particularly important to the interests of Democrats in the southern states.

Answer 52

The Solid South

Question 53

is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term originally referred to the region’s rich, black topsoil, much of it in the soil order Vertisols. The term took on an additional meaning in the 19th century, when the region was developed for cotton plantation agriculture, in which the workers were enslaved African Americans. After the American Civil War, many freedmen stayed in the area as sharecroppers and tenant farmers, continuing to comprise a majority of the population in many of these counties.

Answer 53

The Black Belt

Question 54

was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students.[3] It supported standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals could improve individual outcomes in education. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills. To receive federal school funding, states had to give these assessments to all students at select grade levels.

The act did not assert a national achievement standard—each state developed its own standards.[4] NCLB expanded the federal role in public education through further emphasis on annual testing, annual academic progress, report cards, and teacher qualifications, as well as significant changes in funding.[3]

The bill passed in the Congress with bipartisan support.[5] By 2015, criticism from right, left, and center had accumulated so much that a bipartisan Congress stripped away the national features of _______. Its replacement, the Every Student Succeeds Act, turned the remnants over to the states.[6][7]

Answer 54

No Child Left Behind

Question 55

Follow-up act to No Child Left Behind Act

Answer 55

Every Student Succeeds Act

Question 56

Crimson Tide school

Answer 56

University of Alabama

Question 57

was chartered on February 1, 1856, as East Alabama Male College,[14] a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1872, under the Morrill Act, it became the state’s first public land-grant university and was renamed as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama.[15] In 1892, it became the first four-year coeducational school in Alabama, and in 1899 was renamed Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) to reflect its changing mission. I

Answer 57

Auburn University

Question 58

is a public research university in Birmingham, Alabama. Developed from an academic extension center established in 1936, the institution became a four-year campus in 1966 and a fully autonomous institution in 1969

Answer 58

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Question 59

In a 1913 speech then-president George H. Denny extolled the university as the “capstone of the public school system in the state [of Alabama],” lending the university its current nickname, The Capstone.

Answer 59

University of Alabama

Question 60

Name of Auburn University teams

Answer 60

Tigers

Question 61

Bryant–Denny Stadium is the home of the

Answer 61

University of Alabama football team

Question 62

Jordan-Hare Stadium is the home field of the

Answer 62

Auburn Football Team

Question 63

Nascar oval in Alabama

Answer 63

Talladega aka The Big One

Question 64

was a U.S. civil rights activist who led the fight against segregation and other forms of racism as a minister in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, initiated and was instrumental in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, and continued to work against racism and for alleviation of the problems of the homeless in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he took up a pastorate in 1961.[2] He returned to Birmingham after his retirement in 2007. He helped Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement.

The Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport was named in his honor in 2008.

Answer 64

Fred Shuttlesworth

Question 65

is a major Interstate Highway in the central United States. As with most interstates that end in a five, it is a major cross-country, north-south route, connecting the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. Its southern terminus is located at an interchange with I-10 in Mobile, Alabama, and its northern terminus is at an interchange with I-90, U.S. Route 12 (US 12), and U.S. Route 20 (the Dunes Highway) in Gary, Indiana, just southeast of Chicago.

_______ connects several major metropolitan areas in the Midwest and Southern United States. It connects the four largest cities in Alabama: Mobile, Montgomery, Birmingham, and Huntsville. It also serves as one of the main north–south routes through Nashville, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky and Indianapolis, Indiana; each a major metropolitan area in each respective state.

Answer 65

I-65

Question 66

is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. _____ runs 1,535 miles (2,470 km) beginning near Kent, Texas, at I-10 to Florence, South Carolina, at I-95.[2] Between Texas and South Carolina, _____ runs through northern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The major cities that ______ connects to includes (from west to east) Fort Worth, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Shreveport, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; Birmingham, Alabama; Atlanta, Georgia; Augusta, Georgia; and Columbia, South Carolina.

From its terminus at I‑95, the highway continues about 2 miles (3.2 km) eastward into the city of Florence as Business Spur 20.

Answer 66

I-20

Question 67

is an Interstate Highway located in the southeastern United States. It is a north–south route that spans 445.23 miles (716.53 km) from a junction with I-10 and I-12 at Slidell, Louisiana, to a junction with I-24 near Wildwood, Georgia.

The highway connects the metropolitan areas of New Orleans, Louisiana; Birmingham, Alabama; and Chattanooga, Tennessee, running closely parallel to the older U.S. Route 11 (US 11) corridor for the entire distance. Approximately one-third of the route, spanning 153 miles (246 km) from Meridian, Mississippi, to Birmingham, Alabama, overlaps that of the east–west I-20.

______ is a four-lane freeway along its entire route, other than a short stretch extending from north of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, through Birmingham, where it widens to six lanes or more.

Answer 67

I-59

Question 68

is a major Interstate Highway in the Southeastern United States. Its current southern terminus is at an interchange with I-65 in Montgomery, Alabama; its northern terminus interchanges with I-95 in Petersburg, Virginia, near Richmond. It is nominally north–south, but physically mostly northeast–southwest. While most interstates that end in a “5” are cross-country routes, ______ is mainly a regional route, serving five southeastern states. Major metropolitan areas served by _____ include the Greater Richmond Region in Virginia, the Research Triangle, Piedmont Triad, and Metrolina regions of North Carolina, Upstate South Carolina, the Atlanta metropolitan area in Georgia, and the Montgomery metropolitan area in Alabama.

Answer 68

I-85

Question 69

is the southernmost cross-country interstate highway in the American Interstate Highway System. It stretches from the Pacific Ocean at California State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) in Santa Monica, California, to I-95 in Jacksonville, Florida. Major cities connected by I-10 include (from west to east) Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, San Antonio, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Mobile, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville. This freeway is part of the originally planned interstate highway network that was laid out in 1956, and its last section was completed in 1990. I-10 is the fourth-longest interstate highway in the United States, following I-90, I-80, and I-40. About one-third of its length is within the state of Texas, where the freeway spans the state at its widest breadth.

Answer 69

I-10

Question 70

is a 202.5-mile-long (325.9 km) Interstate Highway in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama, connecting I-269 near Byhalia, Mississippi to I-65 near Birmingham, Alabama. I-22 is also Corridor X of the Appalachian Development Highway System. Designated in 2012, _____follows the route of the older U.S. Route 78. The freeway mainly spans rural areas and passes numerous small towns along its route, including Jasper, Winfield, and Hamilton, Alabama; and Fulton, Tupelo, New Albany, and Holly Springs, Mississippi.

_____ was designated to close a gap in the Interstate network, allowing for more direct connections between cities in the southeast with cities in the central part of the country. ______ indirectly connects I-240, I-40, I-55, and I-69 in the northwest via US 78 and I-269 with I-65 and I-20/I-59 in the southeast.

Answer 70

I-22

Question 71

Alabama’s only saltwater port, is a large seaport on the Gulf of Mexico with inland waterway access to the Midwest by way of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

Answer 71

Port of Mobile

Question 72

Nicknames: “The Magic City”, “Pittsburgh of the South”

Answer 72

Birmingham, Alabama

Question 73

Nickname(s): “The Gump”, “Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement”, “Cradle of the Confederacy”
Motto(s): “Capital of Dreams”

Answer 73

Montgomery, Alabama

Question 74

s a city located primarily in Madison County in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama.[9] Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County.[10] The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County[11] and south into Morgan County.[12]

It was founded in 1805 and became an incorporated town in 1811. The city grew across nearby hills north of the Tennessee River, adding textile mills, then munitions factories, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command nearby at the Redstone Arsenal. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Huntsville to its “America’s Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2010” list.[13]

Answer 74

Huntsville, Alabama

Question 75

Nickname(s): “The Port City,” “Azalea City,” “The City of Six Flags”

Answer 75

Mobile, Alabama

Question 76

first capital of colonial La Louisiane (New France)

Answer 76

Mobile, Alabama

Question 77

is located in southern Alabama in the United States. Formed out of the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, the approximately 45-mile-long (72 km) river drains an area of 44,000 square miles (110,000 km2) of Alabama, with a watershed extending into Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Its drainage basin is the fourth-largest of primary stream drainage basins entirely in the United States. The river has historically provided the principal navigational access for Alabama. Since construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, it also provides an alternative route into the Ohio River watershed.

Answer 77

Mobile River

Question 78

is a 981-mile (1,579 km) long river in the midwestern United States that flows southwesterly from western Pennsylvania south of Lake Erie to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the second largest river by discharge volume in the United States and the largest tributary by volume of the north-south flowing Mississippi River that divides the eastern from western United States. The river flows through or along the border of six states, and its drainage basin includes parts of 15 states. Through its largest tributary, the Tennessee River, the basin includes several states of the southeastern U.S. It is the source of drinking water for three million people.[2]

The lower ______ just below Louisville is obstructed by rapids known as the Falls of the _____ where the water level falls 26ft. in 2 miles and is impassible for navigation. The McAlpine Locks and Dam, a shipping canal bypassing the rapids, now allows commercial navigation from the Forks of the Ohio at Pittsburgh to the Port of New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico.

The name “Ohio” comes from the Seneca, Ohi:yo’, lit. “Good River”.[3] Discovery of the Ohio River may be attributed to English explorers from Virginia in the latter half of the 17th century. In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82, Thomas Jefferson stated: “The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle, waters clear, and bosom smooth and unbroken by rocks and rapids, a single instance only excepted.”[4] In the late 18th century, the river was the southern boundary of the Northwest Territory. It became a primary transportation route for pioneers during the westward expansion of the early U.S.

The river is sometimes considered as the western extension of the Mason–Dixon Line that divided Pennsylvania from Maryland, and thus part of the border between free and slave territory, and between the Northern and Southern United States or Upper South. Where the river was narrow, it was the way to freedom for thousands of slaves escaping to the North, many helped by free blacks and whites of the Underground Railroad resistance movement.

The Ohio River is a climatic transition area, as its water runs along the periphery of the humid subtropical and humid continental climate areas. It is inhabited by fauna and flora of both climates. In winter, it regularly freezes over at Pittsburgh but rarely farther south toward Cincinnati and Louisville. At Paducah, Kentucky, in the south, near the Ohio’s confluence with the Mississippi, it is ice-free year-round.

Answer 78

Ohio River

Question 79

Motto(s): Latin: Audemus jura nostra defendere We dare defend our rights

Answer 79

Alabama

Question 80

is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean,[1] largely surrounded by the North American continent.[2] It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida border the Gulf on the north, which are often referred to as the “Third Coast”, in comparison with the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

_______ formed approximately 300 million years ago as a result of plate tectonics.[3] The Gulf of Mexico basin is roughly oval and is approximately 810 nautical miles (1,500 km; 930 mi) wide and floored by sedimentary rocks and recent sediments. It is connected to part of the Atlantic Ocean through the Florida Straits between the U.S. and Cuba, and with the Caribbean Sea (with which it forms the American Mediterranean Sea) via the Yucatán Channel between Mexico and Cuba. With the narrow connection to the Atlantic, the Gulf experiences very small tidal ranges. The size of the Gulf basin is approximately 1.6 million km2 (615,000 sq mi). Almost half of the basin is shallow continental shelf waters. The basin contains a volume of roughly 2,500 quadrillion liters (550 quadrillion Imperial gallons, 660 quadrillion US gallons, 2.5 million km3 or 600,000 cu mi).[4]_______ is one of the most important offshore petroleum production regions in the world, comprising one-sixth of the United States’ total production.[5]

Answer 80

Gulf of Mexico