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1. My home state has something for everyone "From The Mountains To The Coast". I live in Central North Carolina which connects the two. In which geographical area whose name stems from Latin is my residence?
2. I live on Florida's "First Coast". Most have heard of St. Augustine (founded September 1565), but there was a slightly earlier French colony near current Jacksonville that did not survive. Do you know the name of this colony, founded in June 1564? Neil Diamond would have thought it was a "sweet" place.
3. I always know I'm home when I see the cross atop Mount Royal, when hear Leonard's 'Suzanne' playing in the street and especially when I'm noshing some smoked meat and poutine on the Main. Where's my home?
4. Where I live was a Roman settlement on a local river, and here the Normans built St Michael's church in 1070. The double high tide at this southern English town made it a great place for shipping, and here a famous ship sailed for America and arrived there after a stop-off, while another tried but never got there. Here too, armies set forth for France in wars many centuries apart.
5. My home state, the seventeenth to be admitted to the union, is the birth place of Neil Armstrong; he was moonwalking when Michael Jackson was only eleven years old. We also have six former Presidents including William Howard Taft and U.S. Grant. When you drive north across the Brent Spence bridge from Kentucky, the first sign you'll see is, Welcome to _____?
6. Some of my early ancestors may have helped move the stones that form an ancient monument, on a plain named for this city which has a cathedral with the tallest spire in England. More recently it was the scene of an attempt to kill two Russian residents with Novichok.
7. I was born in a Great Lakes state that could be called The State Of Confusion. The saying goes, "South Bend is in the North, North Vernon is in the South and French Lick isn't what it sounds like." My home state is even split between two time zones. Which "Crossroads of America" is my birthplace?
8. Texans, even adopted ones, are proud of their history. The San Jacinto Battlefield State Park is located in the metropolitan area of the most populous city in Texas, which is named for the victor at San Jacinto, who was also sometimes called the Raven. Who gave his surname to the biggest city in Texas?
9. When I was nine years old, I lived in Silverton Ohio, next door to a guy who played Quarterback at Purcell High School, later he went on to the Naval Academy where he was the Heisman Trophy winner in 1963. After fulfilling his naval commitment he joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969 and was Super Bowl MVP in 1972. Who did my next door neighbor turn out to be?
10. When I was seven in 1940 my walk to school along the promenade of this British seaside town took me past big hotels which were surrounded by barbed wire fences. I was told this was because there were aliens inside. Turned out to be true! Where did I live?
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