An Andrew Johnson statue
To introduce our wonderful, kid-friendly virtual tours, we've created this quiz to test your knowledge. The answers to every question here can be found on the tours, listed down the left column.

1. What East Tennessee town did Andrew Johnson call home?
2. How many freshwater pearl farms are there in North America?
3. What town used to be known as Pencil City, U.S.A.?
4. What is the place where the Transylvania Purchase occurred and the Overmountain Men mustered before the Battle of Kings Mountain?
The Ducktown Basin in the 1960s
PHOTO: Ducktown Basin Museum
5. What element was mined and smelted in Polk County in a manner that laid waste to the environment there?
6. How long, to the nearest hundred feet, is the man-made railroad tunnel through the mountain near Cowan?
7. In what year did the famous Scopes Trial occur in Dayton?
8. What was the original government name for Oak Ridge?
The Tennessee History Festival
9. During what year was the original Fort Loudon built?
10. After the Union Army took Fort Donelson, what notable Tennessee city did the Union Army occupy shortly thereafter?
11. Name the "ghost town" located at where the Red River and Sulphur Fork Creek, at the boundary between Montgomery and Robertson counties.
12. What do the phrases "strict low midding" and "good ordinary" refer to?
The York Grist Mill in Fentress County
13. In what war did Alvin York win the Congressional Medal of Honor?
14. How many Americans were killed, wounded, or missing at the Battle of Shiloh (to the nearest thousand)?
15. Name the three states that meet a few hundred yards from the Cumberland Gap.
16. What businessman financed the construction of the tunnel at the Narrows of the Harpeth?
Hint: This is the answer to number 17
17. At the time of Christ, what is believed to have been the tallest man-made object in the land now occupied by the United States?
 18. How old do paleontologists estimate the fossils discovered at the Gray Fossil Site to be?
19. The "playground" for the Cumberland Homestead development is today known as what?
20. What is the name of the town in Tennessee originally created for the second sons of English gentry?

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