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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?

I wanted to ask the question I think every mother who is fascinated by the ins and outs of the real case wants answered.
Amanda Knox: A Mother’s Obsession|Nina Darnton|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The note of authority had been struck; he was on first and Kranepool on second and there were no outs.
Murray Kempton on The Homecoming of Willie Mays|Murray Kempton|March 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That was a very bad idea, executed by a very bad man named Mohammed Dahlan, and the two parties have been on the outs ever since.
Palestinians 'Everywhere' to Vote on Any Deal with Israel|Maysoon Zayid|September 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She has a blog, Fox on Stocks, where the self-taught savant holds forth on the ins and outs of the market.
When Celebrities Like Mila Kunis Talk Stocks, It’s Time to Get Out of the Market|Daniel Gross|March 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST

At the margins, gasoline is on the outs as the U.S. fleet electrifies.
Virginia Makes an End Run Around Gas Taxes|Daniel Gross|January 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
We want no 'outs' or 'ins'—in this country every man should be 'in,' given heart and soul to honest industry.
Continental Monthly, Vol. I. February, 1862, No. II.|Various
Well, soon as Davy gets hold on him, he ups with him to the place yonder and outs with the witch.
Idolatry|Julian Hawthorne
Ye sail stay wi' me till he kens a' the ins and outs o' it, then I'll gie ye twenty pounds.
Winter Evening Tales|Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
You'd have been astonished what those two fine old chiefs knew of the ins and outs of such matters.
Rewards and Fairies|Rudyard Kipling
He thought there might be ins and outs in this affair that had not yet come to the surface.
Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series|Mrs. Henry Wood