Barbara Lore
Tennessee Trivia
Animal Affection
Movie & Music Mania
Family Lore
100

Barbara loves the feeling of this squishing between her toes.

What is horse manure?

100

This amusement park owned by an iconic country singer is located in Pigeon Forge, TN and hosts 3 million visitors a year.

What is Dollywood?

100

These animals get their striking color from their diet which is heavy in carotenoid pigments (found in shrimp, algae, larvae, and other sources).

What is Flamingoes? (or Roseate Spoonbills)

100

In this film, a Danish woman moves way south to start a coffee plantation with her husband Bror but falls in love with Denys and befriends the Kikuyu people.

What is "Out of Africa?"

100

The misuse of this contraption caused a break in young Bill iii's arm.

What is an escalator?

200

This activity led to Barbara's friends calling her the lady in "Maiden Form"

What is bungee jumping?

200

This "Atomic City" in Tennessee was established in 1942 as a production site for the Manhattan Project.

What is Oak Ridge?

200

This animal can survive falls of up to 100 feet.

What is a squirrel?

200

This 1987 classic is the source of the line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." It features dances like mambo, cha-cha, and merengue.

What is Dirty Dancing?

200

Barbara found her daughter at this locale playing cards and drinking beer with older men at age 16.

What happened at the Sion, Switzerland police station in the summer of 1978?

300

This activity led to one of Barbara's most important life decisions

Flipping a coin to determine if he would say yes or no to Bill's marriage proposal.

300

This brand of Tennessee whiskey is produced in a dry county, and therefore, cannot be sold where it is made.

What is Jack Daniel's?

300

This animal has a tongue so long that it wraps around the inside of its skull when not in use.

What is a woodpecker?

300

This film centers on a 1925 diphtheria antitoxin serum run to Nome through harsh conditions.

What is Togo?

300

Barbara's father secretly put this in a can of beer, then handed it to his friend to drink.

What is an oyster?

400

This situation once led to Barbara's brief stint behind bars.

What happened when Barbara did not have enough cash on the spot for to pay a speeding fine.

400

Three US presidents first came to fame in Tennessee politics (although none of them were born in TN). Name 2 of them.

Who are Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and/or Andrew Johnson?

400

These animals have 32 muscles in each ear; they can rotate them up to 180 degrees.

What is cats?

400

Bill iii can imitate characters from these two movies quite convincingly.  

What is "The Pink Panther" and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"?

400

This being was once found in downtown Federalsburg in a baby carriage, wearing a dress and licking an ice cream cone.

Who is Snicklefritz?

500

Even though Barbara is known as the A-#1 Nurse Fuzzy Wuzzy, there are some situations for which she has needed to seek a doctor's advice. When these two situations arose, she promptly reached out to her doctor for answers: 1) on the diaper changing table when Bill was a wee infant, and 2) when Jenifer was a senior in high school wondering where things would go with Bill

1) Why does my son keep crossing his eyes at me?

2) What am I to do with a love-sick daughter?

500

Participation in this war led to the nickname "The Volunteer State."

What is the War of 1812?

500

These two big cat species cannot roar.

What are cheetahs and snow leopards?

500

Even when "it's raining, it's pouring," Barbara loves to dance with her daughter to this song by these two singers.

What is "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" by Donna Summer and Barbara Streisand?

500

This animal's interaction with this human almost caused an explosion at this location.

What were Bill Jr. and the rat on the verge of creating at 710 Blows Ferry Rd?