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Are You A Southerner?

This is a true assessment of your Southern-ness. This test really can’t be cheated on, either you know it or you don’t. The true southerner should achieve a minimum score in the high teens. (I assume Crit has probably already fired up Google, since he’ll likely freely admit he’s no southerner)

1. How many Vienna sausages are there in a standard can?

2. What was the number and colour of Richard Petty’s cars?

3. Bill Dance is good at what?

4. What university does Bill Dance root for?

5. Where did Hershel Walker play college football?

6. After boiling peanuts for an hour, what have you got?

7. In cubic inches, how big is the smallest 1966 GM small-block V8?

8. A Cajun is likely to speak what Furrin language?

9. What is a chigger?

10. What is scrapple?

11. Where is the “Redneck Riviera?”

12. What’s that fuzzy stuff hanging off the oak tree?

13. What follows logically: Johnson, Mercury, __________?

14. What’s the common name for a bowfin?

15. If you mated a heifer and a steer, what would you get?

16. Who sang, “Your Cheatin’ Heart?”

17. What are grits made out of?

18. Who was nicknamed “The Bear?”

19. Why is the Blue Ridge blue?

20. What did the Baldwin Sisters make?

21. Who was Andy Taylor’s love interest?

22. What are the call letters for the radio station that originates “The Grand Ol’ Opry?”

23. What sport requires three legs and a rope?

24. What instrument did Bill Munroe typically play?

25. How many strings on a banjo? (2 possible answers)

26. When you argue with a fool, what is he doing?

27. What is a scuppernong?

28. Do you want the goats to get into the kudzu?

29. Why do you want to eat “high on the hog?”

30. What colour is your John Deere?

31. What do you call the offspring of a mule?

32. What do you harvest when you plant “shade?”

33. Where would you grow yellow onions?

Each correct answer is worth three points, and you get a one point bonus just for starting. Total - 100 points.

Answers - Tomorrow, mostly.