Question: Approximately how many African Americans lived in Tennessee in 1900?
Answer: 480,430

Question: Which Tennessee Senator was the only Republican first-time Senator elected in 2006?
Answer: Bob Corker

Question: Who was elected governor of Tennessee in 2002?
Answer: Phil Bredesen

Question: Who was the first Republican Speaker of the Tennessee state senate since Democrats took control in the Reconstruction era?
Answer: Ron Ramsey

Question: Which political party did the majority of conservative Tennessee voters support in the early 20th century?
Answer: Democratic

Question: What was Tennessee's estimated population in 2015?
Answer: 6,600,299

Question: What percentage population increase did Tennessee experience between 2010 and 2015?
Answer: 4.01%

Question: How much of Tennessee's population increase between 2010 and 2015 was due to migration?
Answer: 219,551

Question: In 2008, what percentage of Tennessee residents were born outside the South?
Answer: Twenty percent

Question: What net population increase during Tennessee's last two US Census reports was due to immigration from outside the country?
Answer: 59,385

Question: What was Tennessee's most common self-reported ethnic group in 2000?
Answer: American

Question: What percent of Tennessee residents self-reported their ethnic group as Irish in 2000?
Answer: 9.3%

Question: Which European ancestries are most common among self-identified ethnic "Americans" in Tennessee?
Answer: English and Scotch-Irish

Question: What European national ancestry was claimed by 45% of Tennessee residents in 1980?
Answer: English

Question: What was Tennessee's population in 1980?
Answer: 3,221,354

Question: Which Protestant denomination has its headquarters in Nashville, TN?
Answer: National Baptist Convention

Question: Which Tennessee city contains the headquarters of the Church of God and The Church of God of Prophecy?
Answer: Cleveland

Question: The principle Bible college of the Free Will Baptists is located in which Tennessee city?
Answer: Nashville

Question: Which two major Protestant denominations are based in Memphis?
Answer: Church of God in Christ and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Question: Roughly how many farms are located in Tennesee?
Answer: 82,000

Question: Which livestock is the major focus of Tennessee agriculture?
Answer: beef cattle

Question: When did cotton first become a large-scale agricultural product in Tennessee?
Answer: 1820s

Question: Which river landform partly in Tennessee provided the most fertile land for cotton production?
Answer: Mississippi Delta

Question: Where in Tennessee is the headquarters of International Paper?
Answer: Memphis

Question: Where is Nissan Motor Company's headquarters in the United States?
Answer: Franklin

Question: Which company has a $2 billion production plant in Bradley County?
Answer: Wacker Chemie

Question: Hemlock Semiconductor produces electronic components in which Tennessee city?
Answer: Clarksville

Question: Which major global shipping company is based in Memphis?
Answer: FedEx

Question: What types of income are exempt from Tennessee state income tax?
Answer: salaries and wages

Question: At what rate is Tennessee state sales and use tax usually applied?
Answer: 7%

Question: Above which amount is inheritance tax applied in Tennessee?
Answer: $1,000,000

Question: What is the sales tax on foodstuffs in Tennessee?
Answer: 5.25%

Question: Which edible items are taxed at the higher non-food sales and use tax rate in Tennessee?
Answer: candy, dietary supplements and prepared food

Question: In which year did Tennessee tourism first exceed 100 million visitors?
Answer: 2014

Question: How many billions of dollars were spend by tourists in Tennessee in 2014?
Answer: 17.7

Question: How much tax revenue did tourism generate for Tennessee in 2014?
Answer: $1.5 billion

Question: In 2014, which three Tennessee counties took in the most money from tourism?
Answer: Davidson, Shelby, and Sevier

Question: What was the percentage increase in Tennessee's tourism-based jobs in 2014?
Answer: 2.8%

Question: Which other state sent Tennessee the most tourists in 2013?
Answer: Georgia

Question: What percentage of out-of-state tourists stayed in Tennessee for four or more nights?
Answer: 11%

Question: What average daily amount did a tourist spend in Tennessee in 2013?
Answer: $118

Question: What percentage of Tennessee tourists daily spending in 2013 went toward accommodation?
Answer: 17%

Question: In which state do the greatest percentage of Tennessee tourists reside?
Answer: Tennessee

Question: Which city is the endpoint of I-26?
Answer: Kingsport

Question: I-24 connects which two Tennessee cities?
Answer: Chattanooga to Clarksville

Question: Which interstate highway running north-south passes through Memphis?
Answer: Interstate 55

Question: Which interstate ends at a junction close to Dandridge, Tennessee?
Answer: Interstate 81

Question: What Tennessee cities are connected by I-269?
Answer: Millington to Collierville

Question: Which are the two main parties in Tennessee politics?
Answer: Republican and the Democratic

Question: Which part of Tennessee voted more Republican in the years following the Civil War?
Answer: eastern

Question: What type of farmers inhabited eastern Tennessee in the late 19th century?
Answer: yeoman

Question: Which crops grown in West Tennessee had required a great deal of slave labor?
Answer: tobacco and cotton

Question: Which party did most former slaves join when they were given the right to vote after the Civil War?
Answer: Republican

Question: In which decade did the Tennessee legislature institute a poll tax?
Answer: 1880s

Question: Which party declined in Tennessee politics following voting reform legislation during Reconstruction?
Answer: Republican

Question: What percentage of the Tennessee population was African-American in 1900?
Answer: 23.8

Question: In 1913, the Tennessee state legislature made which organizational structure the default form of city government in the state?
Answer: Board of Commission

Question: Which Republican presidential candidate did Tennessee support in 1920?
Answer: Warren G. Harding

Question: What religion was the Democratic presidential candidate that Tennessee voted against in 1928?
Answer: Catholic

Question: How many times has Tennessee supported Democratic presidential candidates in the general elections since the 1950s?
Answer: four

Question: Which Republican won the Presidency while carrying Tennessee in 1928?
Answer: Herbert Hoover

Question: In 1960, what group made up 16.45% of Tennessee's population?
Answer: African Americans

Question: What Congressional Act fully re-enfranchised African-American in Tennessee?
Answer: Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question: Which Republican Senator's 1970 victory showed the Republican Party's renewed competitiveness in Tennessee?
Answer: Bill Brock

Question: Which constituency has become the Republican Party's staunchest supporters in Tennessee?
Answer: white conservatives

Question: Which Republican was elected Tennessee Governor in 1970?
Answer: Winfield Dunn

Question: Which two Tennessee cities are most supportive of the Democratic Party?
Answer: Nashville and Memphis

Question: Which Tennessee city has the largest African-American population?
Answer: Memphis

Question: Which two eastern Tennessee congressional districts have the longest track record of favoring Republican candidates?
Answer: 1st and 2nd

Question: Since which year has Tennessee's 1st congressional district voted overwhelmingly Republican?
Answer: 1881

Question: Which two Tennessee metropolitan areas have been most supportive of the Republican Party?
Answer: Tri-Cities and Knoxville

Question: Which Democratic candidate lost his own state in the 2000 general election?
Answer: Al Gore

Question: By what percentage of the popular vote did George W. Bush carry Tennessee in 2004?
Answer: 14%