The Evergreen Questions

1. Were you born in the South?
Yes
No
I'm not sure

2. Do you live in the South?
Yes
No
I'm not sure

3. Do you consider yourself a Southerner?
Yes
No
I never thought about it

All About BBQ

4. I spell it:
Barbeque
Barbecue
BBQ

5. Best barbecue/barbeque/bbq meat:
Pork
Beef
Chicken

6. Yeah, it really tastes different, so I like it:
Chopped
Shredded

7. It’s all about the sauce, though, and I prefer:
Vinegar-based
Ketchup-based
Mustard-based

Well, It Ain't All About BBQ

8. I like my iced tea:
Sweet
Unsweet

9. Okra is always:
Fried
Stewed

10. Deviled eggs:
Love 'em
Hate 'em

11. Like we don’t know the answer to this one, I drink:
Coke
Pepsi

12. Fruitcake (hey, we gotta ask, after all we have a whole book about it):
Love it
Hate it

13. If not Coke, the best drink a whole bunch of people never heard of is:
Yoo-hoo
RC Cola
Blenheim's
Stewart's

14. Hard choice, but which is better?
Moon Pie
Goo Goo Clusters

15. Peanuts:
Boiled
Roasted

16. Fatback:
Love it
Won't touch it
What is it

17. Pork Rinds:
Love 'em
Get 'em away from me

18. Best fried chicken:
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Chick-Fil-a
Bojangles
Popeye's
Mrs. Winner's

19. Most Southern whiskey:
Jack Daniels
Southern Comfort

Ain't It Entertainin’

20. Best Southern country music duo:
George & Tammy
Jim & Tammy
Conway & Loretta
Kenny & Dolly
Carter & Cash
Brooks & Dunn

21. Greatest Southern rock bank of all time:
Allman Brothers
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Charlie Daniels Band
Marshall Tucker Band

22. Most typically Southern rock song:
Devil Went Down to Georgia
Sweet Home Alabama
Freebird

23. Hippest hip-hop:
Mystical
Ludacris
Master P
Arrested Development
Goodie Mob
Usher
Outkast

24. Best blues artist:
Muddy Waters
Buddy Guy
B.B. King
John Lee Hooker
Robert Cray
Guitar Gabriel

25. Who's best?
Hank Williams
Hank Williams Jr.
Hank Williams III

26. Best Southern drag queen:
RuPaul
Sophia Low Rent
Tequila Mockingbird
Dixie Carter (Sorry, Dixie!)
Coretta Scott Queen
Lady Chablis
Drag queens aren't my thing

27. Favorite Hee-Haw Honey:
Marianne Rodgers
Misty Rowe
Kathy Lee Gifford
Alice Ripley

28. Worst Hillbilly TV show of all time:
The Dukes of Hazzard
Beverly Hillbillies
Green Acres

29. Worst non-Hillbilly (although that is relative) Southern TV comedy of all time:
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Petticoat Junction
Designing Women
Real McCoy's

30. Most Southern cartoon character:
Foghorn Leghorn
Yosemite Sam
Hank Hill
Brer Rabbit
Huckleberry Hound

31. Best Southern accent from a non-Southern actor:
Clarke Gable in Gone with the Wind
Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Marlon Brando in Streetcar Named Desire
Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird
Alec Baldwin in Heaven’s Prisoner’s

32. Best Southern accent from a non-Southern actress:
Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy
Vivian Leigh in Gone with the Wind
Sally Field in Places in the Heart
Melanie Griffith in Bonfire of the Vanities
Mary Stuart Masterson in Fried Green Tomatoes
Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple

33. Best Tennessee Williams movie:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Streetcar Named Desire
Tennesse Williams wrote these?

34. Worst Burt Reynolds film:
Smokey and the Bandit
Boogie Nights
Breaking in
Gator
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Longest Yard
Deliverance
Hooper
Striptease
Mystery, Alaska
Any/all of the Cannonball films
I love everything by Burt Reynolds

35. Read the book, saw the movie, which is better:
Gone With the Wind—the movie
Gone With the Wind—the book
Come on, that is so yesterday, who cares?

36. I prefer:
Gone With the Wind
The Wind Done Gone
Didn't read either, don't care

37. Which is better?
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Time to Kill

You Call This Livin’

38. You know the question—what's the answer?
Ford
Chevy
I don't know the question

39. Washington DC:
Southern
Not Southern

40. Texas:
Southern
Not Southern

41. Maryland:
Southern
Not Southern

42. Oklahoma:
Southern
Not Southern

43. Missouri:
Southern
Not Southern

44. Best televangelist hair:
Tammy Faye (in the glory days)
Ernest Angley
Jan Crouch
Paul Crouch
I don't understand the question

Translations

45. Jeet Jet:
Rocket engine strapped onto a CJ-7
Have you dined?

46. Naw Jew:
I have not—and what about yourself?
A Jewish person in New Orleans

47. Piss-ant:
An ant species, native to the South, that builds its hills where dogs urinate
A person of small character or integrity

48. Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced & peppered:
Waffle House order
Gang slang for street fighting

49. How-dee:
Hello
To what depth shall we dig the hole?

50. Nekkid dog walkin:
Uga left his jersey in the doghouse
Hotdog without chili, to go, at Atlanta’s Varsity Restaurant

51. Huddle up:
Pastor cry at the revival
Quarterback cry on the football field

52. Fixinta:
Getting obsessed with something
Getting ready to do something

53. Nome:
Kind of like a troll
A polite answer to your mama

Wild Card

54. My favorite pasttime:
Muddin’
Cow tippin’
Low ridin’
Frog giggin’
Chewin’ ‘n’ spittin’
Crawdaddin’
Skinny dippin’
Cheatin'
Fishin’
Huntin’
Porch Sittin’
Where are all the g’s

55. Best historically black college in the South:
Morehouse
Fisk
Howard
Tuskegee
Spelman
Grambling State
Hampton

56. Worst stereotype of Southerners:
They are barefoot all the time
They wear overalls all the time
They talk and think real slow
They all drive trucks
They all chew tobacco
They all sleep with their relatives
All of the above
Stereotypes?

Sports

57.Best football program:
Georgia
Tennessee
Georgia Tech
Auburn
Alabama
Ole Miss
Clemson
Kentucky
South Carolina
Florida
Florida State
Virginia

58. Best Southern college sports mascot:
Uga—University of Georgia
Blue Devil—Duke
Razorback—Arkansas
Tiger—Clemson
Gators—University of Florida
Gamecocks—University of South Carolina

59. Best Southern pro sports mascot:
Harry the Hawk—Atlanta Hawks
Freddie the Falcon—Atlanta Falcons
Stuff—Orlando Magic
Captain Fear—Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Homer—Atlanta Braves
Mambo—New Orleans Saints
Billy—Florida Marlins
Burnie—Miami Heat
T-rac Raccoon—Tennessee Titans
Sir Purr—Carolina Panthers
Thrash—Atlanta Thrashers
Gnash—Nashville Predators

60. Greatest NASCAR driver of all time:
Richard Petty
Dale Earnhardt
Jeff Gordon
Bill Elliott
Rusty Wallace

61. Best wrestler of all time:
Hulk Hogan
Andre the Giant
Goldberg
Stone Cole
The Rock
Jake the Snake Roberts
Macho Man Randy Savage
Hacksaw Jim Duggan

62. Have you ever carried your fishing pole in your gun rack:
Yes
No
I don’t own a gun rack
I don’t own a fishing pole
I don’t own a fishing pole or a gun rack

And Politics...

63. Best Southern President:
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Jimmy Carter
George Bush
Bill Clinton

64. Worst Southern President:
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Lyndon Johnson
Jimmy Carter
George Bush
Bill Clinton

65. George Bush: Southern?
Yes
No

66. George W. Bush: Southern?
Yes
No

67. Better President:
George
George W

68. Most unknown Southern President:
Zachary Taylor
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Jackson
James Madison
John Tyler
James Polk
Who are these people?

69. Affirmative Action has:
Solved "race problems" in the South
Improved "race problems" in the South, but there is a long way to go
Failed and has increased racial tensions
Don’t know, don’t care

70. The confederate stars-and-bars battle flag:
Retire it once and for all
Should fly high and proud
I just don’t care

Dead or alive?

71. Colonel Sanders:
Dead
Alive

72. Strom Thurmond:
Dead
Alive

73. Sam Walton:
Dead
Alive

74. Jesus Christ:
Dead
Alive

75. George Wallace:
Dead
Alive

76. Charles Kuralt:
Dead
Alive

77. B.B King:
Dead
Alive

78. Muddy Waters:
Dead
Alive

79. Albert Gore Sr.:
Dead
Alive

80. Elvis:
Dead
Alive

Southern Institutions?

81. Mini-burger restaurant:
Krystal
White Castle

82. Headache relief:
Goody’s
Stanback

83. Department store:
Neiman Marcus
K-Mart

84. Soft drink:
Coca-Cola
Pepsi

85. Fix-it store:
Home Depot
Ace Hardware

86. Chicken:
Bojanges
Chick-fil-a

87. Doughnuts:
Dunkin Donuts
Krispy Kreme

88. Shipper:
Federal Express
UPS

89. Hotel:
Ritz-Carlton
Holiday Inn

Who is more Southern?

90. Powerhouses:
Pat Conroy
John Grisham

91. Greats:
Mark Twain
O’Henry

92. Wolfes:
Thomas Wolfe
Tom Wolfe

93. Strong women:
Harper Lee
Alice Walker

94. Geniuses:
Flannery O’Connor
Eudora Welty

95. Williams:
Tennessee Williams
William Faulkner

96. Scary:
Anne Rice
Christopher Rice

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