Southern Cooking
Southern States
Southern Places & Landmarks
Southern Traditions
Southern Music & Entertainment
100

This creamy side dish is made from ground corn and is especially popular at Southern breakfasts.
 

What are grits?

100

Atlanta is the capital of this state.
 

What is Georgia?

100

Bourbon Street is found in this Louisiana city.
 

What is New Orleans?

100

This cold drink made with tea and lots of sugar is a Southern favorite.
 

What is sweet tea?

100

Elvis Presley’s famous home, Graceland, is located in this Tennessee city.
 

What is Memphis?

200

This dessert usually combines sweet fruit with a biscuit-like or pastry topping.
 

What is cobbler?

200

Nashville is the capital of this state.


What is Tennessee?

200

This national park lies along the Tennessee-North Carolina border.
 

What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?

200

This large white flower is strongly associated with the South.
 

What is the magnolia?

200

This country singer, known for “Jolene” and “9 to 5,” was born in Tennessee.
 

Who is Dolly Parton?

300

This Louisiana stew is commonly made with a roux and may contain seafood, sausage, or chicken.
 

What is gumbo?

300

New Orleans is located in this state.
 

What is Louisiana?

300

This Texas city is home to the Alamo.
 

What is San Antonio?

300

This New Orleans celebration is known for parades, masks, beads, and floats.
 

What is Mardi Gras?

300

This legendary country singer from Alabama recorded hits including “Hey, Good Lookin’” and “Your Cheatin’ Heart.”
 

Who is Hank Williams?

400

This Southern dish is made by coating unripe tomatoes in cornmeal or flour and frying them.
 

What are fried green tomatoes?

400

Charleston and Myrtle Beach are both found in this state.
 

What is South Carolina?

400

Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia home is known by this name.
 

What is Monticello?

400

Black-eyed peas are traditionally eaten on New Year’s Day in parts of the South to symbolize this.
 

What is good luck or prosperity?

400

This singer from Tupelo, Mississippi, became known as the “King of Rock and Roll.”

Who is Elvis Presley?

500

This traditional Southern pie has a sweet custard-like filling often made with sugar, eggs, butter, and a little cornmeal.
 

What is chess pie?

500

This state is nicknamed the Magnolia State.

What is Mississippi?

500

This mountain range stretches through several Southern states, including Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia.

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

500

This dish of black-eyed peas and rice is traditionally associated with New Year’s Day in the South.
 

What is Hoppin’ John?

500

This influential bluegrass musician from Kentucky was so closely associated with the genre that his band, the Blue Grass Boys, helped give bluegrass its name.
 

Who is Bill Monroe?