Both or Neither Trivia Quiz

Answer: Both

Alabama has 53 miles of coastline which border the Gulf of Mexico. Alabama cities on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico include Mobile and Gulf Shores.

Mississippi has 44 miles of coastline which border the Gulf of Mexico. Mississippi cities include Gulfport and Biloxi.

Answer: Both

The border between Alabama and Tennessee is 186 miles long. The Alabama counties of Lauderdale, Madison, and Jackson border Tennessee.

The border between Mississippi and Tennessee is 220 miles long. The Mississippi cities of Horn Lake, Olive Branch, and Corinth border Tennessee.

Answer: Both

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a collegiate athletic conference formed in 1932. The University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University are schools from Mississippi in the SEC. The University of Alabama and Auburn University are schools from Alabama in the SEC.

Answer: Neither

There are five Great Lakes in the northern United States. The states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin all border the Great Lakes. Neither Mississippi nor Alabama borders the Great Lakes.

Answer: Both

The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center is a NASA space research center located in Huntsville, AL. The John C. Stennis Space Center is a NASA rocket testing facility located in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Answer: Neither

Wal Mart is a large retail corporation which operates a chain of supercenters, department stores, and grocery stores. The corporation's headquarters is located in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Wal Mart corporation was founded by the Walton family in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas.

Answer: Both

During the United States Civil War, eleven states seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America. Mississippi seceded from the United States on January 9, 1861. Alabama seceded from the United States on January 11, 1861.

Answer: Both

The Natchez Trace Parkway is a highway which travels from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. The highway runs for 444 miles. The highway runs 308 miles in Mississippi and for 33 miles in Alabama.

Answer: Neither

United States Route 66 is a highway which travels from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California. The highway travels 2,448 miles. The road travels north of both Alabama and Mississippi.

Answer: Neither

Margaret Mitchell wrote the novel "Gone with the Wind" in 1936. The novel focuses on the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era in Clayton County and Atlanta, Georgia. In 1939, a movie was released based on this novel.

Answer: Neither

Hurricane Sandy formed October 22, 2012, and dissipated on November 2, 2012. The storm formed in the Caribbean Sea. The storm hit Jamaica, the Bahamas, Cuba and the Atlantic states of the USA. The storm did not hit Alabama or Tennessee.

Answer: Neither

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as author Mark Twain, wrote about life on the Mississippi River. He lived in Missouri, New York and Connecticut. He never lived in Mississippi or Alabama.

Authors from Mississippi include William Faulkner, John Grisham, and Eudora Welty. Authors from Alabama include Harper Lee, Truman Capote, and Fannie Flagg.