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The Places We've Lived Trivia Quiz


The members of Retired And Loving It have been around a while and we've lived a lot of places. Do you recognize these present and former residences of our team members?

A multiple-choice quiz by Team Retired And Loving It. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
wilbill
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
398,155
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
713
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Question 1 of 10
1. My home state has something for everyone "From The Mountains To The Coast". I live in Central North Carolina which connects the two. In which geographical area whose name stems from Latin is my residence? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. I live on Florida's "First Coast". Most have heard of St. Augustine (founded September 1565), but there was a slightly earlier French colony near current Jacksonville that did not survive. Do you know the name of this colony, founded in June 1564? Neil Diamond would have thought it was a "sweet" place. Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. I always know I'm home when I see the cross atop Mount Royal, when hear Leonard's 'Suzanne' playing in the street and especially when I'm noshing some smoked meat and poutine on the Main. Where's my home? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Where I live was a Roman settlement on a local river, and here the Normans built St Michael's church in 1070. The double high tide at this southern English town made it a great place for shipping, and here a famous ship sailed for America and arrived there after a stop-off, while another tried but never got there. Here too, armies set forth for France in wars many centuries apart. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. My home state, the seventeenth to be admitted to the union, is the birth place of Neil Armstrong; he was moonwalking when Michael Jackson was only eleven years old. We also have six former Presidents including William Howard Taft and U.S. Grant. When you drive north across the Brent Spence bridge from Kentucky, the first sign you'll see is, Welcome to _____? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Some of my early ancestors may have helped move the stones that form an ancient monument, on a plain named for this city which has a cathedral with the tallest spire in England. More recently it was the scene of an attempt to kill two Russian residents with Novichok. Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. I was born in a Great Lakes state that could be called The State Of Confusion. The saying goes, "South Bend is in the North, North Vernon is in the South and French Lick isn't what it sounds like." My home state is even split between two time zones. Which "Crossroads of America" is my birthplace? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Texans, even adopted ones, are proud of their history. The San Jacinto Battlefield State Park is located in the metropolitan area of the most populous city in Texas, which is named for the victor at San Jacinto, who was also sometimes called the Raven. Who gave his surname to the biggest city in Texas? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. When I was nine years old, I lived in Silverton Ohio, next door to a guy who played Quarterback at Purcell High School, later he went on to the Naval Academy where he was the Heisman Trophy winner in 1963. After fulfilling his naval commitment he joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969 and was Super Bowl MVP in 1972. Who did my next door neighbor turn out to be? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. When I was seven in 1940 my walk to school along the promenade of this British seaside town took me past big hotels which were surrounded by barbed wire fences. I was told this was because there were aliens inside. Turned out to be true! Where did I live? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. My home state has something for everyone "From The Mountains To The Coast". I live in Central North Carolina which connects the two. In which geographical area whose name stems from Latin is my residence?

Answer: Piedmont

The name Piedmont stems from the Latin "pedemontium" meaning "at the foot of the mountains". Our rolling hills are located between the Atlantic Coastal Plain to the East and the Blue Ridge to the West. The Piedmont is truly the heart of North Carolina.

This is where the Eastern and Western styles of barbecue overlap so I can take my choice and I do so frequently. It's also the meeting place of the Piedmont Blues music style and the easternmost home of Bluegrass music which developed in the Appalachians to the west.

The Piedmont is a great place to live. - from wilbill
2. I live on Florida's "First Coast". Most have heard of St. Augustine (founded September 1565), but there was a slightly earlier French colony near current Jacksonville that did not survive. Do you know the name of this colony, founded in June 1564? Neil Diamond would have thought it was a "sweet" place.

Answer: Fort Caroline

St. Augustine's founder, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, was not a man for half measures nor wasted time. As a hurricane scattered and wrecked the French fleet, Menendez marched north through the storm, and captured and destroyed Fort Caroline. He also put every male he could catch to the sword.

This was twelve days after he founded St. Augustine! He was similarly fierce with the castaways of the French fleet, executing nearly 250 of them. Spain was unchallenged in Florida for the next 200 years. - question from Jdeanflpa
3. I always know I'm home when I see the cross atop Mount Royal, when hear Leonard's 'Suzanne' playing in the street and especially when I'm noshing some smoked meat and poutine on the Main. Where's my home?

Answer: Montréal

I'm from Montréal, Leonard Cohen's home town, Canada's largest city, and the second largest city in the world where the official language is French. Situated on an island in the middle of the St. Lawrence river, you can admire the 18th century French colonial architecture in the old city, or take in a show at the old port. If you hike up Mount Royal you can take in the cityscape from the foot of the cross.

But if you want to really love the city, you have to eat... Montréal smoked meat, real bagels, and poutine... that french fry/cheese/gravy mess that seems to have taken North America by storm! - asked by CSLwoman
4. Where I live was a Roman settlement on a local river, and here the Normans built St Michael's church in 1070. The double high tide at this southern English town made it a great place for shipping, and here a famous ship sailed for America and arrived there after a stop-off, while another tried but never got there. Here too, armies set forth for France in wars many centuries apart.

Answer: Southampton

The Roman settlement of Clausentum was built on a bend of the river Itchen, and the Normans brought over a black marble font from France that they installed in their first church. The double tide that is a boon to shipping is due to the flood coming round each side of the Isle of Wight and up Southampton Water to the town docks.

The Mayflower sailed from here planning to go directly to America, but had to put in to Plymouth for repairs, while in 1912 the Titanic left aiming to go to New York. Henry V's army sailed from here in 1415 in the campaign that ended with the victory at Agincourt and the allied armies left from here and many other ports for the D-day landings in Normandy in 1944. - question by davejacobs
5. My home state, the seventeenth to be admitted to the union, is the birth place of Neil Armstrong; he was moonwalking when Michael Jackson was only eleven years old. We also have six former Presidents including William Howard Taft and U.S. Grant. When you drive north across the Brent Spence bridge from Kentucky, the first sign you'll see is, Welcome to _____?

Answer: Ohio

Other presidents born here include Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Warren Harding. We also have the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Our motto; "Ohio the heart of it all". - from manilow65
6. Some of my early ancestors may have helped move the stones that form an ancient monument, on a plain named for this city which has a cathedral with the tallest spire in England. More recently it was the scene of an attempt to kill two Russian residents with Novichok.

Answer: Salisbury

Stonehenge was erected on Salisbury Plain some 5000 years ago, and although I have traced ancestors in nearby Amesbury to the 1600s, I cannot be sure that my more remote generations were actually involved with its erection. It is possible they lived in the settlement of Old Sarum, a hill between Salisbury and Amesbury where there was an iron age fort, added to by the Saxons and the Normans.

The expanses of Salisbury Plain have been used by the military for training for over a hundred years and I well remember watching practice parachute drops and glider towing in the months before D-Day. - asked by davejacobs
7. I was born in a Great Lakes state that could be called The State Of Confusion. The saying goes, "South Bend is in the North, North Vernon is in the South and French Lick isn't what it sounds like." My home state is even split between two time zones. Which "Crossroads of America" is my birthplace?

Answer: Indiana

Residents of Indiana have been known as Hoosiers since at least the 1840s, but nobody seems to know what "Hoosier" means although there's no shortage of theories. Indiana towns include Greensboro, Greenwood, Greencastle, Greentown, Greenville, Greensburg, Greenfield, Greendale, and Green's Fork, but none of those can be found in Greene County.

Indiana is in the Eastern time zone with the exception of about a dozen counties in the northwest and southwest corners of the state. Confused? You're forgiven. I spent the first 35 years of my life in Indiana and I still don't understand.

But the Hoosier State is a good place to live. - asked by wilbill
8. Texans, even adopted ones, are proud of their history. The San Jacinto Battlefield State Park is located in the metropolitan area of the most populous city in Texas, which is named for the victor at San Jacinto, who was also sometimes called the Raven. Who gave his surname to the biggest city in Texas?

Answer: Sam Houston

Marquis James's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Sam Houston is entitled "The Raven". The Texans' surprise win at San Jacinto forced Mexican President and general Miguel Lopez de Santa Anna to concede Texas independence. If you live in Texas, as I did for a decade, you can't help but be drawn in to the Texans' deep pride of place and history. Stephen Austin and Juan Seguin were contemporaries of Houston (Seguin was also at San Jacinto), and do have cities named for them, as does Abraham Lufkin who founded his namesake town in East Texas fifty years after Texas won independence. - submitted by Jdeanflpa
9. When I was nine years old, I lived in Silverton Ohio, next door to a guy who played Quarterback at Purcell High School, later he went on to the Naval Academy where he was the Heisman Trophy winner in 1963. After fulfilling his naval commitment he joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969 and was Super Bowl MVP in 1972. Who did my next door neighbor turn out to be?

Answer: Roger Staubach

The lock on their front door use to stick and his dad would give me a quarter to climb through their back window and open their door. A quarter doesn't seem like a lot but in 1960 it was five packs of baseball cards with that delicious stale bubblegum, it was like hitting the lottery. - manilow65 asks
10. When I was seven in 1940 my walk to school along the promenade of this British seaside town took me past big hotels which were surrounded by barbed wire fences. I was told this was because there were aliens inside. Turned out to be true! Where did I live?

Answer: Douglas, IOM

Early in the Second World War the British Government decided that anybody of German or Italian extraction was a security risk, so they were all rounded up and put in internment camps on the Isle of Man. A few might have been potential spies, but the majority were either recent refugees from Nazi Germany, or had been settled in Britain for a generation or more. - asked by our senior member, davejacobs
Source: Author wilbill

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