Statistics for History of Tennessee

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What singer was born in Tupelo, Mississippi but later relocated to Memphis?	Elvis Presley	95%
Who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968?	Martin Luther King, Jr.	93%
What scientific theory was John T. Scopes prosecuted for teaching?	Evolution	87%
What is the name of that person's mansion?	Graceland	87%
What "King of the Wild Frontier" served as a Tennessee congressman before getting killed at the Alamo?	Davy Crockett	84%
What country singer wrote "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene"?	Dolly Parton	83%
"Old Hickory" President	Andrew Jackson	82%
Impeached president	Andrew Johnson	77%
What country music radio program started broadcasting in 1925?	Grand Ole {Opry}	77%
Who founded a whiskey distillery in Lynchburg in 1875?	Jack Daniel	77%
What Native American tribe was expelled from eastern Tennessee and forced to walk to Oklahoma?	Cherokee	75%
What three-letter agency brought electricity to the Tennessee Valley in the 1930s?	TVA	58%
What Tennessee politician would have become President if he had been able to win his own state?	Al Gore	55%
Dark Horse President	James K. Polk	46%
What Tennessee native is considered the most brilliant calvary commander of the Civil War?	Nathan Bedford {Forrest}	46%
What national laboratory was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan project?	{Oak} Ridge	44%