Trivia
Mississippi's Nickname
What is Magnolia State
State that borders Mississippi on the east
What is Alabama?
Established in Biloxi to train pilots during WWII
Mississippi has more of these per capita than any other state
What are churches?
Some of the richest farmlands in the world; large crops of cotton and soybeans are grown here
What is the Mississippi Alluvial Plain?
Mississippi's capital
What is Jackson?
Forty-four miles of the southern part of the state borders this body of water
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Activated by the Army during WWI and WWII to train soldiers south of Hattiesburg
What is Camp Shelby?
Mississippi's largest city
What is Jackson?
Cat, Horn, East Ship, West Ship, and Petit Bois Islands are separated from Mississippi's mainland by this body of water
What is the Mississippi Sound?
Mississippi's state song
What is "Go, Mississippi"?
States that borders Mississippi to the north
What is Tennessee?
The first permanent settlement in Mississippi and the first capital of the French colony in North America
What is Fort Maurepas?
Most of the state's African-American residents are the descendants of slaves brought from this place in the 18th 19th century
What is West Africa?
It covers all of the state east of the Alluvial Plain and has lowlands, prairies, and hilly regions
What is the East Gulf Coastal Plain?
Vine that grow everywhere and some joke "is trying to eat the South"
What is kudzu?
The river that forms the western border of the state
What is the Mississippi River?
What is Fort Massachusetts?
They are the descendants of farm laborers brought from California in the 1870s
A lake that is created when a river cuts through the neck of one of its loops, setting a shorted course and leaving the former loop as a lake
What is an oxbow lake?
Probably from the Ojibwa words Mici Zibi, which means "great river" or the "gathering of all the water"
What is the origin of Mississippi's name?
The states on Mississippi's western border
What are Arkansas and Louisiana?
Built between 1718-1721, it was actually a carpenter's or blacksmith's shack
Members of this Native American group either live on the reservation, or its surrounding counties, in east-central Mississippi
Who are the Choctaw?
Marshy, slow-moving streams
What are bayous?