Question: What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Tennessee?
Answer: 113 °F (45 °C)

Question: Where was the highest known temperature in Tennessee recorded?
Answer: Perryville

Question: What Fahrenheit temperature is the lowest ever recorded in Tennessee?
Answer: −32 °F

Question: Where in Tennessee did the temperature reach -36 degrees Celsius in December of 1917?
Answer: Mountain City

Question: Which hurricane brought damaging rains to Tennessee in 1995?
Answer: Hurricane Opal

Question: On average, how many days each year are there thunderstorms in Tennessee?
Answer: 50

Question: Which parts of Tennessee are most threatened by tornadoes?
Answer: West and Middle Tennessee

Question: How many tornadoes strike in Tennessee in an average year?
Answer: 15

Question: What year in the 1990s did an unusual blizzard visit Tennessee?
Answer: 1993

Question: Which cities other than Knoxville have been the capital of Tennessee?
Answer: Knoxville, Kingston, and Murfreesboro

Question: How many counties are part of Nashville's metropolitan area?
Answer: 13

Question: What distance in miles is Clarksville, TN from Nashville?
Answer: 45

Question: Which city is Tennessee's sixth largest by population?
Answer: Murfreesboro

Question: Which two of the six most populous Tennessee cities are nearest the Great Smoky Mountains?
Answer: Chattanooga and Knoxville

Question: How many years ago was Tennessee first inhabited by humans?
Answer: 12,000

Question: What time period corresponds with the Mississippian cultural phase in early Tennessee history?
Answer: 1000–1600 AD

Question: Which Native American people are the first group to inhabit Tennessee that we know by name?
Answer: Muscogee

Question: What do archaeologists call the cultural phase of the inhabitants of Tennessee between 1000 BC and 1000 AD?
Answer: Woodland

Question: Which European nationality first explored the Tennessee region?
Answer: Spanish

Question: Which year did Hernando de Soto explore Tennessee?
Answer: 1540

Question: Which Native American peoples were living in Tennessee when Juan Pardo explored the area?
Answer: Muscogee and Yuchi

Question: Which Native American people left Tennessee for the Virginia area because of encroaching Europeans?
Answer: Cherokee

Question: By which year had most of the Native Americans been forced out of the Tennessee region?
Answer: 1838

Question: In which year did the British first settle in what would become Tennessee?
Answer: 1756

Question: What was the name of the first British settlement in what is now Tennessee?
Answer: Fort Loudoun

Question: Which British officer oversaw the construction of Fort Loudoun?
Answer: Captain Raymond Demeré

Question: Which Cherokee faction forced the surrender of Fort Loudoun in 1760?
Answer: Overhill Cherokees

Question: Which British commanding officer was killed the day after Cherokee took Fort Loudon in 1760?
Answer: Captain Paul Demeré

Question: What did American settlers call the Cherokee who attacked Fort Watuaga in 1776?
Answer: the Chickamauga

Question: Who lead the Cherokee attack on Fort Watuaga in 1776?
Answer: Dragging Canoe

Question: What was the name of the Chickamauga leader's cousin who helped settlers escape his raids?
Answer: Nancy Ward

Question: Who left Fort Watuaga, crossed the Appalachians, and attacked the British army in South Carolina in 1780?
Answer: Overmountain Men

Question: Who lost the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina?
Answer: the British Army

Question: What was the name of the state that three North Carolina counties hoped to form in 1784?
Answer: Franklin

Question: What was the name given to the land that North Carolina transferred to the federal government in 1790?
Answer: Southwest Territory

Question: What town marked the western extent of the Cumberland Settlements?
Answer: French Lick

Question: What other name does the North Carolina Road share with Daniel Boone's passage through the Cumberland Gap?
Answer: Wilderness Road

Question: Which state was the first formed out of federally controlled territory?
Answer: Tennessee

Question: In addition to the original thirteen, which two states were admitted to the union before Tennessee?
Answer: Vermont and Kentucky

Question: Which mountain marked the starting point of the Tennessee border described by the state constitution?
Answer: Stone Mountain

Question: When Tennessee's border was first defined, territory west of which river was considered for future annexation?
Answer: Mississippi River

Question: Which US President oversaw the forced westward relocation of Cherokees beginning in 1838?
Answer: Martin Van Buren

Question: How many Cherokee-owned black slaves were also relocated between 1838 and 1839?
Answer: 2,000

Question: What Cherokee phrase means "the trail where we cried?"
Answer: Nunna daul Isunyi

Question: Which Native American nation's emigration was first associated with the term "Trail of Tears?"
Answer: Choctaw

Question: Approximately how many Cherokees died along their "Trail of Tears?"
Answer: 4,000

Question: Which Tennessee governor championed secession in February of 1861?
Answer: Isham Harris

Question: Which area of Tennessee was most resistant to secession?
Answer: East Tennessee

Question: What percentage of voters voted against secession in Tennessee's February 1861 referendum?
Answer: 54

Question: On which date did Tennessee enter a military alliance with the Confederacy?
Answer: May 7, 1861

Question: Which region of Tennessee swung in favor of secession in the June 1861 referendum?
Answer: Middle Tennessee

Question: Which side won more Civil War battles in Tennessee?
Answer: Union

Question: Which Union commander seized control of the Tennessee River in February 1862?
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

Question: During which month in 1862 did Union forces capture Memphis?
Answer: June

Question: Union control of Middle Tennessee was reaffirmed by what battle in January 1863?
Answer: Battle of Murfreesboro

Question: Which county in East Tennessee was more supportive of the Confederacy than its neighbors?
Answer: Sullivan County

Question: Which Confederate general failed to capture the Union fort at Knoxville?
Answer: James Longstreet

Question: Which Union general broke the Confederate siege of Chattanooga in November 1863?
Answer: Grant

Question: Which Confederate general launched an attack on Chattanooga from Perryville, KY?
Answer: Braxton Bragg

Question: Which battle did Confederate General Longstreet win in East Tennessee?
Answer: Battle of Bean's Station

Question: Which forces controlled most of Tennessee when slaves were emancipated?
Answer: Union

Question: Up to how many former slaves began fighting with for the Union after the Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer: 200,000

Question: Which edict freed slaves across most of the Confederacy, but technically not Tennessee?
Answer: Emancipation Proclamation

Question: Who was elected Vice President of the United States in 1864?
Answer: Andrew Johnson

Question: Which Confederate state's representation was readmitted to Congress first?
Answer: Tennessee

Question: On which date were Tennessee's elected representatives restored to their offices in Washington D.C.?
Answer: July 24, 1866

Question: Their ratification of which Amendment spared Tennessee a military governor during Reconstruction?
Answer: Fourteenth

Question: In which year did Andrew Johnson become President?
Answer: 1865

Question: Who were targeted by restrictive laws passed in Southern states at the end of the 19th century?
Answer: African Americans

Question: In which year did the Tennessee General Assembly pass electoral reform laws that disenfranchised most African Americans in the state?
Answer: 1889

Question: Who besides African Americans were victims of Tennessee's late-19th century electoral reform?
Answer: poor Whites

Question: What is the name for laws dating from the late-19th century which promoted segregation?
Answer: Jim Crow laws