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QUIZZES

Did you ever collect all those state quarters? Put them to good use on this quiz about curious state monikers and the facts around them.

Question 1 of 8

Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

He spent $1000, and it was arranged in State committee that I was to go to the 8th dist.
Letters and Literary Memorials of Samuel J. Tilden, v. 1|Samuel J. Tilden
Oui dist le Roy Charles ma volonté est telle, si vers moy veux avoir paix.
The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed.|Elizabeth Stone
Unjaundiced, un-jn′dist, adj. not jaundiced, not affected by jealousy.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various
Fad′disnness; Fad′dism; Fad′dist, one who is a slave to some fad.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)|Various

It's naething but a dist o' styte and nonsense 'at's won in throu the cracks ye got i' yer heid, fechtin.
Heather and Snow|George MacDonald