Are You a Redneck? A Quiz

Score 3 points per correct answer. You’re given 1 point to start.
(answers below)

The Quiz

1. How many Vienna Sausages are in a can?
2. What was the number and color of Richard Petty’s car?
3. Bill Dance is good at what?
4. What university does Bill Dance root for?
5. Where did Herschel Walker play (college) football?
6. After boiling peanuts for an hour you have what?
7. In cubic inches, how big is the smallest 1966 GM small-block V8?
8. A Cajun is likely to speak what furrin’ language?
9. What is a chigger?
10. What is scrapple?
11. Where is “The Redneck Riviera”?
12. What’s that fuzzy stuff hanging off the oak trees?
13. What follows logically? Johnson, Mercury, __________________.
14. What’s the common name for a bowfin?
15. If you mated a heifer and a steer, what would you get?
16. Who sang “Your Cheatin’ Heart”?
17. What are grits made out of?
18. Who was nicknamed “The Bear”?
19. Why is the Blue Ridge blue?
20. What did The Baldwin Sisters make?
21. Who was Andy Taylor’s love interest?
22. What are the call letters of the radio station that carries “The Grand Ol’ Opry”?
23. Where would you find Vidalia County?
24. What sport requires 3 legs and a rope?
25. What instrument did Bill Monroe play? (typically)
26. How many strings on a banjo? (two possible answers)
27. When you argue with a fool, what is he doing?
28. What is a scuppernong?
29. Do you want the goats to get into the kudzu?
30. Why do you want to eat “high on the hog”?
31. What color is a John Deere?
32. What do you call the offspring of a mule?
33. What will you harvest when you plant “shade”?

The Answers

1. 7 in the small can; 11 in the big can
2. 43, red and blue
3. Fishin’
4. University of Tennessee
5. University of Georgia
6. Hard peanuts
7. 283
8. French
9. A redbug (small parasite)
10. A sausage-like loaf made out of pig parts
11. Panama City, FL (Our judge from Birmingham will accept Gulf Shores, Alabama because that’s where Kenny “Snake” Stabler hangs out.)
12. Spanish moss
13. Evinrude
14. Mudfish
15. Nothing – a steer has been castrated
16. Hank Williams
17. Corn
18. Coach Paul Bryant
19. Because of pollen
20. “The Recipe”
21. First Ellie May, then Peggy, then Helen
22. WSM
23. Georgia
24. Calf roping
25. Mandolin
26. 5 (or 4)
27. The same thing
28. A wild grape
29. Yes
30. Because that’s where the better cuts of meat are. Rich folks live high on the hog.
31. Green
32. Another trick animal husbandry question … Mules are generally sterile.
33. Tobacco

If you didn’t get at least a 7 on this test, you just aren’t American. A Yankee will usually score fewer than ten points. Those with a Southern perspective typically score over 20. If you score over 50, you should be living in a trailer park with a Trans Am up on blocks.