Test Your Southern knowledge This test really can't be cheated on... either you know it or you don't. One Yankee in my office only mustered a 2 or 3, where the natives typically score around 20+. If you get over 50, you should be living in a trailer park with the Trans Am up on blocks. 1) How many Vienna Sausages are in a can? 2) What was the number and color of Richard Petty's cars? 3) Bill Dance is good at what? 4) What university does Bill Dance root for? 5) Where did Herschel Walker play (college) football? 6) After boiling peanuts for an hour you have what? 7) In cubic inches, how big is the smallest 1966 GM small-block V8? 8) A Cajun is likely to speak what furrin' language? 9) What is a chigger? 10) What is scrapple? 11) Where is "The Redneck Riviera"? 12) What's that fuzzy stuff hanging off the oak trees? 13) What follows logically? Johnson, Mercury,_________. 14) What's the common name for a bowfin? 15) If you mated a heifer and a steer, what would you get? 16) Who sang "Your Cheatin' Heart"? 17) What are grits made out of? 18) Who was nicknamed "The Bear"? 19) Why is the Blue Ridge blue? 20) What did The Baldwin Sisters make? 21) Who was Andy Taylor's love interest? 22) What are the radio station call letters that carries "The Grand Ol' Opry"? 23) Where would you find Vidalia County? 24) What sport requires 3 legs and a rope? 25) What instrument did Bill Monroe play? (typically) 26) How many strings on a banjo? (two possible answers) 27) When you argue with a fool, what is he doing? 28) What is a scuppernong? 29) Do you want the goats to get into the kudzu? 30) Why do you want to eat "high on the hog"? 31) What color is a John Deere? 32) What do you call the offspring of a mule? 33) What will you harvest when you plant "shade"? Score 3 points per correct answer. You're given 1 point to start. Answers follow below, so don't peek... Answers: 1) 7 2) 43, red and blue 3) Fishin' 4) University of Tennessee 5) University of Georgia 6) Hard peanuts 7) 283 8) French 9) A redbug (small parasite) 10) A sausage-like loaf made out of pig parts 11) Panama City, FL 12) Spanish moss 13) Evinrude 14) Mudfish 15) Nothing. A steer has been castrated. 16) Hank Williams 17) Corn 18) Paul Bryant 19) Because of pollen 20) "The Recipe" 21) Helen 22) WSM 23) Georgia 24) Calf roping 25) Mandolin 26) 5 27) The same thing 28) A wild grape 29) Yes 30) Because that's where the better cuts of meat are. Rich folks live high on the hog. 31) Green 32) Another trick animal husbandry question. Mules are generally sterile. 33) Tobacco