Statistics for Memphis City Trivia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Activist who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968	Martin Luther King, Jr.	92%
River on which Memphis is situated	Mississippi River	90%
Name of the mansion of Elvis	Graceland	89%
City that surpassed Memphis to become Tennessee's most populous in 2017	Nashville	89%
Memphis is named after an ancient capital in this country	Egypt	87%
Delivery services company headquartered in Memphis	FedEx	78%
That street is considered to be the "birthplace" of this music genre	Blues	77%
Most famous street	Beale Street	74%
NBA basketball team of Memphis	Memphis Grizzlies	74%
Memphis is home to the world's busiest _______ by cargo traffic	Airport	62%
Movie about a wealthy football family who adopt a gigantic black future football player	The Blind Side	62%
Memphis is home to world's tenth-tallest of this type of structure	Pyramid	55%
Memphis has one of the four predominant regional styles of this method of cooking	Barbecue	49%
The modern Memphis was founded in 1819 by John Overton, James Winchester and this U.S. President	Andrew Jackson	45%
First European explorer to visit the area of present-day Memphis	Hernando de {Soto}	41%
Memphis-native who starred in that movie and was the leading star of "Misery"	Kathy Bates	41%
Real life NFL player who is depicted in that movie	Michael Oher	38%
County in which Memphis is located * namesake of a high-speed auto company	Shelby	38%
Nickname of Memphis - due to its geography	{Bluff} City	21%