Mississippi Trivia

State capital and largest city

State nickname

Largest city on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

River that flows in the capital

Major Tennessee city whose metro area extends into northern MS

Most valuable crop by far before the Civil War

Fish whose name also means an online imitator

Rock n' Roll legend from Tupelo

Singer from Pascagoula who founded Margaritaville

Actor who played both God and Fox

African-American boy who was brutally murdered and thrown into the Tallahatchie River after allegedly teasing a white store clerk in 1955

Largest city in the southeastern Mississippi Pine Belt region

City the Union took control of in the Civil War to control the Mississippi River and cut the Confederacy into two parts

Extinct Earth feature 2900ft below the capital's Coliseum

State motto ("By Valor and Arms")