The Michigan state Motto is, "If you seek a pleasant (one of these), look about you."
Peninsula
The Dump her affectionate nickname for her apartment in Atlanta is where she wrote Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
James Naismith threw the ball up for the first-ever game-opening one of these
A jump ball
This three-named vice president for FDR who didn't think much of the job lived to be 98 the oldest ex-vice president ever
John Nance Garner
3 presidents died on July 4: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and who?
James Monroe
Before being moved to Lansing in 1848, the state capitol was this city.
Detroit
Travel & Leisure voted this South Carolina island the No. 1 island in the continental United States
Hilton Head
The first event of tennis' yearly Grand Slam (it used to be the last)
Australian Open
He was the first vice president to assume the presidency upon the assassination of a president
Andrew Johnson
With 3,126 miles of (freshwater) shoreline, MI comes in second, after this state.
Alaska
650 native Texas plant species live at the Austin Wildflower Center named for this First Lady
(Lady Bird) Johnson
The first octopus thrown on the ice at a home game of this NHL team came form fishmongers Pete & Jerry Cusimano in 1952
Detroit Red Wings
2 Minnesotans have served as vice president: Hubert Humphrey & this man, Jimmy Carter's vice president
Walter Mondale
Chlorastrolite, the Michigan state gem stone is more commonly known by this name.
Isle Royale Greenstone
The route of the 1965 march from this city to Montgomery was made a national historic trail in 1996
Selma
The first flag waved at a NASCAR race is one of this color
Green
This former New York governor was the vice president of both Jefferson and Madison
George Clinton
At a meeting in 1836 dubbed the "Frostbitten Convention", MI gained the U.P. in exchange for this location.
Toledo/Toledo Strip
From 1943 to 1974 this Nashville auditorium was the home of the Grand Ole Opry
Ryman Auditorium
The first event annually in horse racing's Triple Crown
Kentucky Derby
He was the last Democratic Vice President to become president
Lyndon Johnson