Memphis City Trivia

Can you guess these facts about the city of Memphis, Tennessee?

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Most famous street	Beale Street
That street is considered to be the "birthplace" of this music genre	Blues
Name of the mansion of Elvis	Graceland
Memphis is named after an ancient capital in this country	Egypt
River on which Memphis is situated	Mississippi River
County in which Memphis is located * namesake of a high-speed auto company	Shelby
Movie about a wealthy football family who adopt a gigantic black future football player	The Blind Side
Real life NFL player who is depicted in that movie	Michael Oher
Memphis-native who starred in that movie and was the leading star of "Misery"	Kathy Bates
Activist who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968	Martin Luther King, Jr.
NBA basketball team of Memphis	Memphis Grizzlies
Memphis is home to world's tenth-tallest of this type of structure	Pyramid
City that surpassed Memphis to become Tennessee's most populous in 2017	Nashville
Delivery services company headquartered in Memphis	FedEx
Memphis has one of the four predominant regional styles of this method of cooking	Barbecue
Memphis is home to the world's busiest _______ by cargo traffic	Airport
Nickname of Memphis - due to its geography	Bluff City
The modern Memphis was founded in 1819 by John Overton, James Winchester and this U.S. President	Andrew Jackson
First European explorer to visit the area of present-day Memphis	Hernando de Soto

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