North Carolina Quiz Questions
1. What is the North Carolina State sport?
Answer: NASCAR
2. North Carolina is bordered to the north by what state?
Answer: Virginia
3. What is the North Carolina State folk dance?
Answer: Clogging
4. What is the North Carolina State flower?
Answer: Dogwood
5. What states border North Carolina to the south?
Answer: South Carolina and Georgia
6. What are the North Carolina State colors?
Answer: The red and blue of the NC and US flags
7. Who or what was the city of Raleigh named for?
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh
8. Which US State borders North Carolina to the west?
Answer: Tennessee
9. What borders North Carolina to the east?
Answer: The Atlantic Ocean
10. Where does North Carolina rank among the states in population?
Answer: It’s the 10th most populous state
11. What is the North Carolina State carnivorous plant?
Answer: Venus flytrap
12. How many counties does North Carolina have?
Answer: 100
13. North Carolina was the last of the Confederate states to do what in regards to the Union?
Answer: Declare secession from the Union
14. What is North Carolina’s capital city?
Answer: Raleigh
15. What is the North Carolina State mammal?
Answer: Eastern Gray Squirrel
16. What is North Carolina’s largest city?
Answer: Charlotte
17. What is North Carolina’s highest point in elevation?
Answer: Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet
18. What is the North Carolina State gemstone?
Answer: Emerald
19. The climate of North Carolina’s coastal plains is strongly influenced by what body of water?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
North Carolina Trivia Questions with Answers
20. How many North Carolinians served in the military during the Civil War?
Answer: About 125,000
21. What are the names of North Carolina’s two sounds, the largest landlocked sounds in the United States?
Answer: Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound
22. What is the North Carolina State rock?
Answer: Granite
23. How many ships have been lost off the coast around Cape Hatteras which is known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic”?
Answer: More than 1,000 since 1526
24. The western section of North Carolina is part of what mountain range?
Answer: Appalachian Mountain range
25. What is the North Carolina State reptile?
Answer: Eastern Box Turtle
26. How many major river basins does North Carolina have?
Answer: 17
27. What is the North Carolina State shell?
Answer: Scotch bonnet
28. During the Civil War, how many troops from North Carolina were killed in battle?
Answer: 20,000, the most of any state in the Confederacy
29. Where do the river basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains flow to?
Answer: The Gulf of Mexico
30. How many of the 17 basins are contained entirely within the state’s borders?
Answer: Four
31. What is the North Carolina State bird?
Answer: Cardinal
32. What river is the widest river in the United States at its mouth?
Answer: Neuse
33. On average, how often does a hurricane hit North Carolina?
Answer: About once a decade
34. What was the strongest storm to make landfall in North Carolina as a Category 4 in 1954?
Answer: Hurricane Hazel
35. What was the most damaging storm of the 21st century?
Answer: Hurricane Isabel
36. What is the North Carolina State beverage?
Answer: Milk
37. How often do Tropical storms strike North Carolina?
Answer: Every 3 or 4 years
38. What is the North Carolina state tree?
Answer: Longleaf Pine
39. Only what two states are struck by hurricanes more often than North Carolina?
Answer: Florida and Louisiana
North Carolina facts
40. On average, North Carolina has about how many days of thunderstorm activity per annum?
Answer: 50
41. How many tornadoes does North Carolina experience on average per annum?
Answer: Less than 20
42. What is the North Carolina State vegetable?
Answer: Sweet potato
43. The worst tornado outbreak in the state’s history occurred in April 2011, when 30 confirmed tornadoes touched down, killing how many people?
Answer: At least 24
44. During Colonial times, what town was the state capital, beginning in 1722?
Answer: Edenton
45. In 1788 what city was picked to be the new capital because its location gave it some protection from attack?
Answer: Raleigh
46. What is the North Carolina State red berry?
Answer: Strawberry
47. How many troops from North Carolina died from disease during the war?
Answer: 21,000
48. North Carolina was where the first successful flight was executed by what pair of brothers, near Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903?
Answer: Wright Brothers
49. In the 1700s, a series of epidemics swept the South and a 1738 epidemic was said to have killed half of the Cherokee Indians What type of epidemics were they?
Answer: Smallpox
50. Most of the English colonists were indentured servants, who hired themselves out as laborers to pay for their what?
Answer: Passage to America
51. In the early years, some Africans could earn their freedom before slavery became what?
Answer: A lifelong status
52. What is the North Carolina State wildflower?
Answer: Carolina Lily
53. North Carolina’s economy was based on slave labor for the production of what?
Answer: Tobacco
54. A major American victory in the war took place when a force of 1000 mountain men from western North Carolina overwhelmed a force of some 1000 British troops led by whom?
Answer: Major Patrick Ferguson
55. In 1795, North Carolina opened the first public “what” in the United States?
Answer: University, the University of North Carolina
56. What is the North Carolina State song?
Answer: “The Old North State”
North Carolina History Trivia
57. What is the name of the oldest town in North Carolina?
Answer: Bath
58. Who was the Governor of the Lost Colony?
Answer: John White
59. The first English child born in America was born on Roanoke Island in North Carolina in 1587 What was her name?
Answer: Virginia Dare
60. The Wright Brothers made the first successful powered flight by man at Kill Devil Hill near Kitty Hawk in North Carolina In what year did this occur?
Answer: 1903
61. During the Civil War, North Carolina was the scene of a number of major battles In March of 1865 the Union’s General Sherman defeated the Confederacy’s General Johnston in a bloody battle over three days Where was this battle fought, which was the largest battle ever fought in North Carolina?
Answer: Bentonville
62. North Carolina has been the birthplace of many famous entertainers, artists, and performers in history which of the following was/is NOT a North Carolina native?
Answer: Singer Patsy Cline
63. What town or area of North Carolina did the British General Cornwallis refer to as a ‘hornet’s nest’ due to the fact the area’s citizens fought so fiercely and were constantly a thorn in the side of the British?
Answer: Charlotte-Kings Mountain area
64. North Carolina is known as the ‘Old North State’ and the ‘Tar Heel State’ Which of the following could NOT be given as the origin of the nickname ‘Tar Heel’?
Answer: This is due to the tremendous success of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball program
65. The first piece of gold discovered in the US was in North Carolina
Answer: True