North Carolina

Question 1

What is the most populous city in North Carolina?

Answer 1

Charlotte

Question 2

What is the state capital of North Carolina?

Answer 2

Raleigh

Question 3

What region of North Carolina is Raleigh located in?

Answer 3

Research Triangle

Question 4

Complete the analogy: North Carolina is to ___ ____ as Indiana is to Hoosier

Answer 4

Tar Heel

The origins of the Tar Heel nickname trace back to North Carolina’s prominence from the mid-18th through the 19th century as a producer of turpentine, tar, pitch, and other materials from the state’s plentiful pine trees.[1

Question 5

What is the highest point in the Eastern U.S.?

Answer 5

Mount Mitchell

Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland North America east of the Mississippi River. It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles northeast of Asheville.
Elevation: 2,037 m - Ben Nevis is only 1345m.

Question 6

In which mountain range is Mount Mitchell located?

Answer 6

Blue Ridge Mountains

Question 7

What are the names of North Carolina’s barrier islands?

Answer 7

Outer Banks

Question 8

Where did the first airplane flight take place?

Answer 8

Kitty Hawk

the small North Carolina town where the Wright brothers made the first successful, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air powered flight on December 17, 1903. I

Question 9

What was the name of the ‘Lost Colony’ established in 1585?

Answer 9

Roanoke

The Roanoke Colony was a 16th-century English settlement on Roanoke Island, which mysteriously disappeared in 1590.

The fate of the Roanoke colonists remains a mystery, with various theories ranging from assimilation into local tribes to conflict with Native Americans or death by disease.

Question 10

What is the top cash crop in North Carolina?

Answer 10

Tobacco

Question 11

What is the largest city in western North Carolina?

Answer 11

Asheville

Question 12

What is the name of the Vanderbilt estate in Asheville?

Answer 12

Biltmore

Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895[2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft (12,568 m2) of living area.[3] Still owned by George Vanderbilt’s descendants, it remains one of the most prominent examples of Gilded Age mansions.

Question 13

Which city is home to the University of North Carolina?

Answer 13

Chapel Hill

Question 14

For whom is the state of North Carolina named?

Answer 14

King Charles I

Question 15

What university’s mascot is the ‘Demon Deacons’?

Answer 15

Wake Forest

Question 16

What university’s mascot is the ‘Blue Devils’?

Answer 16

Duke

Question 17

What is the name of the famous donut chain from North Carolina?

Answer 17

Krispy Kreme

Question 18

What is the name of the Army Special Forces headquarters in North Carolina?

Answer 18

Fort Liberty

Question 19

Lexington and Eastern are styles of ____

Answer 19

Barbecue

Question 20

Who is the singer of ‘Carolina in My Mind’?

Answer 20

James Taylor

Question 21

What geographical headland is named after a Robert De Niro thriller?

Answer 21

Cape Fear

Cape Fear got its name from the fear experienced by early English explorers who nearly wrecked their ships on the treacherous waters and shoals near the cape. Sir Richard Grenville’s ship, the Tiger, was nearly wrecked in the area, leading to the name “Cape of Fear”. John White, artist for Roanoke’s Lost Colony, also nearly wrecked on the same waters.