Transcript Trivia Week 1 - Johnston County Schools

NC Trivia
All trivia will be about North Carolina. You
will get 10 trivia questions each Monday
and they are due on Wednesday. Late
trivia is not accepted. You will have a quiz
every 2 weeks.
Trivia Week 1 – DUE WEDNESDAY –
Quiz next Thursday (9/18/14)
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What is the state bird?
What is the state tree?
What is the state flower?
What states border NC?
What ocean borders the eastern side of NC?
How many counties are in NC?
What is the highest point in NC?
What is the largest city in NC?
What does the state motto “Esse quam videri” mean?
What are 2 nicknames NC is known by?
Trivia Week 2
11. What is the state beverage?
12. What is the state mammal?
13. What is the state rock?
14. What is the state boat?
15. What is the state shell?
16. What is the state vegetable?
17. What is the state gem?
18. What is the state reptile?
19. What is the only region where natural lakes are found?
20. How many river basins are in NC?
Trivia Week 3
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What is the state insect?
What is the only breed of dog known to have originated in NC and
is the official state dog?
What is the NC state song?
Who are the 3 NC men who signed the Declaration of
Independence?
When was Thanksgiving made a national holiday?
Why did the French give the Statue of Liberty to the US and
when?
What 2 presidents, who helped found the US, both died on July 4,
1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence?
What was Paul Revere’s occupation?
What is the state mammal?
What is the state rock?
Trivia Week 4
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What is the state boat?
What is the state vegetable?
What is the state gem?
What is the state fruit?
What is the largest sound on the East Coast?
What is the meaning of “Carolina”?
What scenic highway begins in the Great Smoky Mountains of
NC?
What coastal area is known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic”?
How many federal Indian reservations are located in NC?
What was the name of the site, off NC’s Outer Banks, where the
Wright brothers flew their first powered craft?
Trivia Week 5
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The biggest and deadliest battle fought in NC during the Civil War
took place in what county?
The NC state fair is held in which city?
Where was NC’s first newspaper established?
What Wilkes County community bears the name of an article of
footwear?
To gain recognition, which community started an annual event
featuring lizard races?
What town was selected to be the site of the first capital of the
independent state of NC?
What structure is America’s tallest brick lighthouse?
Near what city is the NC Zoological Park?
What is the largest private house in the world – with 250 rooms?
How many representatives does the NC State legislature have?
Trivia Week 6
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In what scenic area is the nation’s highest swinging bridge?
Where does NC rank in population compared to other states?
What is the largest commercial port in NC?
What community is the largest bright-leaf tobacco market in the
western hemisphere?
What is NC’s second ranking crop?
What town in NC will permit horses but not motorized vehicles on
its main street?
By what nickname is US highway 301, that runs through NC,
known as?
Where does NC rank among all the states (size)?
What land region in NC has the largest population?
What town has been called the “pickle capital of the South”?
Trivia Week 7
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Spivey’s Corner gained national recognition for what annual
contest?
What is the name of America’s oldest symphonic outdoor drama?
Fort Bragg was named for what Civil War hero?
In what year was television introduced in NC?
How did NC rank chronologically in joining the union?
What was Blackbeard’s actual name?
What four crimes were defined as capital offenses under the State
Constitution of 1868?
Who was the first constitutionally elected governor of NC?
What year did the University of NC open its doors to students?
Who was the 1st woman to ever serve as a Justice of the
Supreme Court?
Trivia Week 8
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Who was the 1st African American to win an Oscar and for what
film?
Where was Krispy Kreme doughnuts founded?
Where was the first miniature golf course built?
What city in NC did Babe Ruth hit his first homerun?
Where was Pepsi first invented?
What 77 acre theme park is built in two states, NC and SC?
What NC resident is a top money winner and one of the most
famous stock-car racers of all time?
What is the mascot of NC State University? GO PACK!
The University of NC is credited with what “first” play during a
football game with Georgia in Atlanta on October 26, 1895?
What race track is home to the Coca Cola 600?
Trivia Week 9
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The Ava Gardner Museum is located in what city?
Charlotte hosts what 50 year old sporting event in which NC and
SC high school football stars compete against each other?
What is the largest natural lake in NC?
NC leads the nation in the growing and manufacturing of what
agricultural product?
What is the largest man-made lake in NC?
How many national forests are in NC?
What type of bear lives in the Great Smoky Mountains?
The Mount Olive Pickle Company produces how many jars of
pickles each year?
What national park on the NC-Tennessee border is the most
visited in the US each year?
What 3 universities joined together in 1958 to form Research
Triangle Park (RTP)?