I-20 by RobinJRichards

Champion(s):

SpoeriJ
I cannot sanction your buffoonery.


Runner(s)-Up:

LuskT
Giggity.


Quiz Description

Answer the following about an Interstate. It's what the cool kids are doing right now....

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1 SpoeriJ 345 97 15
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2 LuskT 334 92 15
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3 QuintongJ 314 88 15
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4 WareD 311 83 15
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5 HightB 305 78 15
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6 Mark 296 73 15
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7 WeikleB 292 69 15
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8 GambinoG 277 64 15
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9 BeningoS 262 59 15
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10 GrahamJ 251 54 15
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11 GoodmanDL 241 50 15
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12 KaufmanK 238 45 15
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13 FryedBetaKappa 233 40 15
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15 WatsonG 208 30 00
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16 chrisivision 189 26 15
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17 PruettC 188 21 15
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18 BurgerM 169 16 15
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19 RichmondJ 167 11 15
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20 PolinskyL 133 7 00
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21 LambJ 120 2 15
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Questions:

I-20, on its eastern end, dumps onto I-95 and the I-20 Business Spur near THIS SOUTH CAROLINA CITY that shares its name with a city in Italy.

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Florence

Six NCAA Div I bowl games are hosted in cities that are located along I-20. NAME ANY TWO. (And for the sake of simplicity, just give the name of the bowl and leave the sponsor's name out of it.).

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Peach Bowl, Birmingham Bowl, Independence Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Heart of Dallas Bowl, Armed Forces

I-20 runs right next to the site of THIS PIVOTAL CIVIL WAR SIEGE right before it crosses the Mississippi River.

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Vicksburg

THIS NASCAR RACETRACK is visible from I-20. An episode of The Amazing Race had contestants pedal a party bike one lap around the 2.6 mile track.

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Talladega

The portion of I-20 that runs inside I-285 in Atlanta is named in honor of THIS LIEUTENANT of Martin Luther King Jr. He was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel alongside King on April 4, 1968 (he's the man on the far right of the photo).

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(Ralph David) Abernathy

I-20 intersects with US-385 in THIS TEXAS TOWN located in the Permian Basin and made famous in the book and TV show "Friday Night Lights."

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Odessa

From Meridian, MS, to just a little outside Birmingham, AL, I-20 is co-signed with THIS OTHER INTERSTATE that eventually runs up to just west of Chattanooga, TN.

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I-59

As I-20 heads eastbound into Atlanta, it comes over terrain called Six Flags Hill. The road is perfectly aligned at times in the morning to cause THIS ALLITERATIVELY NAMED TRAFFIC CONDITION. Special glasses don't even help at times.

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Sunshine Slowdown

The original I-20 that ran through Dallas was resigned in the 1970s as I-30 and then named in honor of THIS DALLAS COWBOYS COACH.

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Tom Landry

Exit 34 in Mississippi connects I-20 to THIS 444 MILE LONG ROADWAY built in the 1930s as a CCC project and maintained by the National Park Service.

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Natchez Trace Parkway

The portion of I-20 in Georgia that runs from I-285 (on the eastern end) to US 441 is named for THIS MILITARY DECORATION in honor of soldiers since WWI.

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Purple Heart

Exit 183 of I-20 in Georgia will take you to the town of Harlem, the birthplace of one half of a 1920s COMEDY DUO known for the fine messes they got into. (edited at 1:36 pm, February 23, 2016 (PST))

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Oliver Hardy