This act restructured Mississippi's public education system.
What is the Education Act of 1982
100
Native Americans were living at this eight-acre mound site when Europeans first came to Mississippi.
What is Emerald Mound?
100
Annual football showdown that is the biggest sports event of the year in Mississippi
What is the game between the University of Mississippi Rebels and the Mississippi State Bulldogs?
100
It is rated as "one of America's top 20 hot spots" for bass fishing.
What is Columbus Lake?
100
Organization for parents and teachers that was founded in Mississippi in 1909
What is the Parent Teacher Association (PTA)?
200
This first free public school in Mississippi was opened in 1821 at Columbus.
What was the Franklin Academy?
200
Indians known as Flats or Flatheads who had a democracy for their tribal government
Who were the Choctaw?
200
Located in Jackson, this is devoted to the famous athletes of Mississippi.
What is the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum?
200
The world's longest artificially created beach, it stretches 26 miles along the Gulf Coast.
What is the Harrison County Sand Beach?
200
Mississippi's longest river
What is the Mississippi River?
300
He was the first black student admitted to the University of Mississippi in 1962.
Who was James Meredith?
300
Indians who carried their chief on a special litter so his feet wouldn't touch the ground
Who were the Natchez?
300
Columbia native who played for the Chicago Bears and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993
Who is Walter Payton?
300
A popular coastal resort since 1840, this city is called a "museum without walls."
What is Biloxi?
300
Home of the Norris Bookbinding Company, the largest Bible-binding plant in the country
What is Greenwood?
400
The first two black female students to attend Heidelberg High School.
Who are Brenda Payton and Diane Walker?
400
The first European explorer to enter Mississippi in 1540 was looking for gold.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
400
Graduated at Heidelberg High in 2011, and now plays at Mississippi State University.
Who is Zachary Jackson?
400
The site of the first test facility for for the Saturn V rocket program in 1969 and also the site for the test firing of the space shuttle's main engine in 1975
What is the John C. Stennis Space Center?
400
The world's largest nursery for this nut-producing tree is in Lumberton.
What are pecans?
500
The first female Superintendent of East Jasper School District
Who is Samantha Jones?
500
French explorer who claimed all of the land drained by the Mississippi River for King Louis XIV of France
Who was Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle?
500
A player in the Negro League from 1922 to 1950, he was probably the fastest runner to play baseball and was named to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
Who was James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell?
500
The 444-mile highway that stretches across Mississippi closely follows the course of the original.