Yellow Dogs, Hushpuppies, and Bluetick Hounds

The Official Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Quiz Book

Jennifer Bryant, Jennifer Bryant, Jennifer Bryant

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780807845929
• eBook ISBN: 9780807868188
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Who lived at the P.O. in China Grove, Mississippi? What does NASCAR stand for? Where is the Redneck Riviera? When is Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday? What are Yellow Mama and Old Sparky? Entertaining, fun, and educational, this quiz book covers every aspect of southern culture from alligators to melungeons to zydeco. More than 800 questions — most drawn from the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture — cover literature, music, entertainment, history, politics, the law, sports and recreation, science, medicine, business, industry, and religion.

Test your southern I.Q.! Take a copy to parties and on road trips. Use it to settle supper-table squabbles. It’s a guaranteed good time. Published in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi Answers to questions: Sister, who tells her story in Eudora Welty’s 'Why I Live at the P.O.' National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. The Florida Panhandle January 15, 1929 Electric chairs in Alabama and Florida, respectively.

Originally published in 1996.

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ANSWERS

MANNERS, MYTH, AND RELIGION

1 A mule.

2 K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, where blackened redfish is a popular dish.

3 An English-based Creole language developed by the descendants of enslaved Africans in the low country and on the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia.

4 “Good old boy”

5 English peas. Just plain “peas” more often refers to field peas like black-eyed peas, crowder peas, or purple-hulled peas.

6 Bonnie Parker (1910–34) and Clyde Barrow (1909–34), who had killed at least twelve people in a two-year crime spree through Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

7 Powdered dry sassafras leaves, used to thicken gumbo. Filé originated with Choctaws on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, who sent the product to New Orleans cooks.

8 The St. Cecilia Ball. Originally held three times a year, during January and February, it featured talented musicians and dancing and was conducted with “the greatest decorum.”

9 The Devil. Of southerners, 86 percent believed in the Devil; of non-southerners, only 52 percent did.

10 African Methodist Episcopal.

11 Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.

12 In the pine forest and palmetto South, cattle herders used long rawhide strips that produced a loud cracking noise when popped over the heads of the animals. Those who employed these whips were known as “crackers.”

13 A ghost or apparition. The word is often used to describe a scary-looking woman, as in, “She can put on all the Mary Kay she wants, but she’s still going to look like a haint.” Boo Radley in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was thought to be a haint.

14 Salley, South Carolina, where 20,000 people gather each fall to celebrate chitlins and consume five tons of them.

15 Jerry Falwell (b. 1933), pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia.

16 The many debutante balls that are still held throughout the South.

17 Bourbon. About it, Walker Percy (1916–90) wrote an essay titled “Bourbon,” first published in the December 1975 Esquire and later in Signposts in a Strange Land (1991), which included this passage:

Not only should connoisseurs of Bourbon not read this article, neither should persons preoccupied with the perils of alcoholism, cirrhosis, esophageal hemorrhage, cancer of the palate, and so forth – all real enough dangers. I, too, deplore these afflictions. But, as between these evils and the aesthetic of Bourbon drinking, that is, the use of Bourbon to warm the heart, to reduce the anomie of the late twentieth century, to cut the cold phlegm of Wednesday afternoons, I choose the aesthetic.

18 The signifying monkey. This type of poetic recitation is known as a toast.

19 False. It was a spinoff of the Progressive Farmer, a newspaper founded in 1886 in North Carolina, dedicated to promoting a better rural way of life, more scientific agricultural techniques, and improved education for farm people. Time, Inc., bought Southern Living in 1985.

20 Jonesborough, Tennessee.

21 Columbia, Tennessee, where thousands of mules were raised and traded each year. Will Rogers said about Columbia, “What the thoroughfare of Wall Street will do to you if you don’t know what a stock is, Columbia will do to you if you don’t know a mule. Maiden Lane, New York City, for diamonds, but Mule Street in Columbia for mules.”

22 The nineteenth-century feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, who lived in the isolated Tug River Valley along the West Virginia-Kentucky border.

23 Sigma Alpha Epsilon, founded in 1856 at the University of Alabama.

24 Alpha Delta Pi, founded in 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.

25 “Creation science” or “scientific creationism.” This belief holds that scientific evidence supports the biblical refutation of Darwinian evolution as an explanation for human existence.

26 Charlotte “Lottie” Moon (1840–1912). The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is administered by the Women’s Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention.

27 The juice left over from the cooking of greens. This nectarlike liquor is often sopped with cornbread.

28 Wednesday, when businesses will sometimes close at noon.

29 According to writer Larry Brown, “Bluetick hounds are blue with specks or spots and have tremendously deep voices. They are probably some of the best fighters there are in all the hound breeds except for maybe Plotts, who are used primarily on bears. A bluetick has an extremely cold nose. He will find an old track and work it up, bawling once in a while, until he gets closer to the coon and then he will get ‘hotter’ and start barking more. Some may weigh as much as eighty pounds.” Blueticks are Mr. Brown’s personal favorite.

30 The country store, located at crossroads all across the South.

31 Storyville. Now covered by a federal housing project, the district lies just east of Canal Street and north of the French Quarter.

32 Atlanta, which was successful in its postwar efforts to project a positive urban image and attract growth and investment.

33 About 65 percent, as opposed to 44 percent of non-southerners. About 40 percent of all southerners own handguns.

34 Corn.

35 Black-eyed peas. It’s also a good idea to have some collards, which are symbolic of “foldin’ money”

36 Hoppin’ John.

37 The Sazerac. Modern barmen substitute Pernod for the absinthe.

38 Montreat, in western North Carolina. Methodists gather at Lake Junaluska and Southern Baptists at Ridgecrest, both in the North Carolina mountains.

39 “Woman, lovely woman of the Southland.” The toast continues, “We pledge our hearts and our lives to the protection of her virtue and chastity”

40 Juneteenth, celebrated June 19. On that day in 1865, after the Civil War, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston to command the Texas district and officially announced the freedom of slaves.

41 The Church of God in Christ.

42 A small, bob-ta...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• YELLOW DOGS, HUSH-PUPPIES, AND BLUETICK HOUNDS
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• QUESTIONS
• ANSWERS