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Mount Sterling, Kentucky is home to the Nestle plant that produces these popular microwavable stuffed sandwiches.
What are Hot Pockets?
This Uniontown, Pennsylvania native was U.S. Army Chief of Staff during World War II, served as Secretary of State for President Truman, and created the plan to rebuild Post-war Europe.
Who was George Marshall?
When completed in 1977, this West Virginia Bridge was the longest arched span in the world.
What is the New River Gorge Bridge?
This country music superstar has earned praise as a champion of literacy and, most recently, as a funder of vaccine research and disaster relief.
Who is Dolly Parton?
This team member prepared for the ALI by first working for the San Diego Zoo.
Who is Krysti?
While this Altoona-based chain of convenience stores sell gas, it is perhaps best known for its pioneering “Made to Order” food offerings.
What is Sheetz?
This early civil right leader, whose family fled to West Virginia after emancipation, went on to lead Tuskegee University and help establish West Virginia State University.
Who Was Booker T. Washington?
This Tennessee city is known for the fastest internet service in the world.
What is Chattanooga?
This singer’s hit songs “Lean on Me” and “Grandma’s Hands” were based on his experiences growing up in Slab Fork, West Virginia.
Who was Bill Withers?
This team member attended college with Apple CEO Tim Cook and once heckled him onstage.
Who is Tim?
Products sold at the West Virginia-based company’s 60 stores include “The Mountaineer,” “The Miner,” and “The Politician” – an offering so named because it is literally full of bologna.
What is Tudor's Biscuit World?
This legendary U.S. senator served his native West Virginia for 51 years.
Who was Robert Byrd?
A large portion of this National Park Service route, which commemorates a historic road, extends through Appalachian counties in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee.
What is the Natchez Trace Parkway?
This famous actor from Indiana, Pennsylvania also flew twenty bombing missions over Europe in World War II.
Who was Jimmy Stewart?
This team member holds the world's record for watching ESPN nonstop.
Who is Jessica?
This popular brand of glass cookware, which is resistant to thermal shock, shares a name with its corporate hometown in Steuben County, NY.
What is Corningware?
This “county lawyer” from Jamestown, New York, who never earned a law degree, became U.S. Solicitor General, a Supreme Court justice, and Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials.
Who was Robert Jackson?
When first constructed in 1882, this rail bridge was highest and longest structure of its kind in the world. Today, its remnants are part of a state park in the Pennsylvania Wilds.
What is the Kinzua Bridge?
This celebrated Pop Art founder was a popular figure in the 1970 and 1980s New York social scene, a far cry from his childhood in a Pittsburgh coal mining family.
Who was Andy Warhol?
This team member developed an appreciation for rural entrepreneurship from her parents, who operated a small-town theater and restaurant.
Who is Tasha?
In 2001, this chain of drive-thru burger restaurants, based in Kingsport, Tennessee, became the first restaurant company to win a Malcom Baldridge National Quality Award.
What is Pals?
This leader, who lost his seat in Congress after denouncing Indian removal as "wicked and unjust," famously told his opponents to "go to Hell" and then went to die in the Alamo.
Who was Davy Crockett?
Neighbors of this West Virginia complex live in a so-called “quiet zone” with restrictions on things like cell phones, wireless computers, and even microwave ovens.
What is the Green Bank Observatory?
This gold medalist, who famously upset runners from Hitler’s “master race” at the 1936 Olympics, now has a memorial park in his hometown in Lawrence County, Alabama.
Who was Jesse Owens?
As a teenager, this team member once swam across the Ohio River, while racing a coal tugboat, and then turned around and swam back.
Who is Bruce?