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Exploring North Carolina: Trivia Quiz

Test your knowledge about North Carolina with this trivia quiz covering its history, culture, and geography.

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1 What is the capital of North Carolina?

2 State blue berry: ________ (2001)

3 Who was North Carolina succeeded by?

4 What is the motto of North Carolina?

5 ________, the first English child to be born in North America, was born on Roanoke Island on August 18, 1587.

6 What are people from North Carolina known as?

7 A popular North Carolina restaurant chain is ________.

8 What office has North Carolina held?

9 What timezone is North Carolina in?

10 Which of the following is South of North Carolina?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • modern Pentecostalism and its offshoots developed from events in North Carolina and Tennessee during the late 19th century known as the Latter Rain Movement.
  • strong waves from Hurricane Bonnie in 1998 washed thousands of tires, part of an artificial reef, ashore in North Carolina.
  • in 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
  • in 2005, Appalachian State, led by quarterback Richie Williams, became the first college or university in North Carolina to win an NCAA national championship in football.
  • construction of Interstate 140 outside Wilmington, North Carolina, was delayed in part to redesign an off-ramp to avoid a 450-year-old oak.
  • in 1865, Henry Martin Tupper founded the first historically black college in the American South, Shaw University of Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • the threatened noonday globe land snail (pictured) is known only from a two-mile-long area inside the gorge of the Nantahala River in North Carolina.
  • the Apalachia Dam in North Carolina has an underground conduit carrying water from the dam's reservoir to its hydroelectric powerhouse 12 miles (19 km) away in the neighboring state of Tennessee.
  • the first Singing Christmas Tree took place in Mississippi in 1933 while the first indoor tree debuted in North Carolina in 1958.
  • two of North Carolina's most prominent authors, Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry, are buried near each other in the Riverside Cemetery in the Montford Area Historic District in Asheville.
  • the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1884, was the first independent African-American church in Raleigh.
  • the Pea Island Life-Saving Station (pictured) on the Outer Banks of North Carolina was the first station of the United States Life-Saving Service to be staffed entirely by an African American crew.
  • the effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina were the worst from a hurricane in the state since that of 1999's Hurricane Floyd, and included US$450 million in damage and three deaths.
  • at age 36, Populist Party Chairman Marion Butler of North Carolina obtained his law degree from the University of North Carolina while serving in the U.S. Senate.
  • an area of more than 60,000 square miles (160,000 km2) in the U.S. states of Georgia, North and South Carolina was exposed to airborne clouds of zinc cadmium sulfide during Operation Dew.
  • Daniel Boyd is accused of leading a jihadist terrorist cell in North Carolina.
  • Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States.
  • North Carolina-based author Perry Deane Young's first Vietnam War article for UPI was about the Tet Offensive, which began the night he arrived in Saigon.
  • North Carolina furniture maker Thomas Day employed both African-American slaves as well as white apprentices in his Caswell County workshop, though he was himself a free person of color.
  • English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century.
  • hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner, a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina, feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch.
  • Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development.
  • Flat Top Manor, built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina.
  • Singletary Lake (pictured), a Carolina Bay in Bladen County, North Carolina, has been protected since the 1800s, but the land around it only became Singletary Lake State Park in 1939.
  • although the 1996 Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall in North Carolina, total damage amounted to only $1 million.
  • Robert Harrill, ironically known as the "Fort Fisher Hermit," received thousands of visitors per year and was once the second most popular tourist attraction in North Carolina.
  • Lunsford Lane (pictured) was a slave from North Carolina who bought his freedom, but was tarred and feathered when he returned to his hometown of Raleigh.
  • James Moore, hero of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, was one of only five generals from North Carolina to serve in the Continental Army.
  • "Carolina in My Mind", James Taylor's nostalgic 1968 song about growing up in North Carolina, was written in London and on the Mediterranean islands of Formentera and Ibiza.
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