North Carolina Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
What states border North Carolina to the south?
A: South Carolina and
Georgia.
What are the North Carolina State
colors?
A: The red and blue of the N.C. and U.S. flags.
Who or what was the city of Raleigh named for?
A: Sir Walter Raleigh.
Which U.S. State borders North Carolina to the west?
A: Tennessee.
What is the North Carolina State sport?
A: NASCAR.
North Carolina is bordered to the north by what state?
A: Virginia.
What is the North Carolina State folk
dance?
A: Clogging.
What is the North Carolina State flower?
A: Dogwood.
What borders North Carolina to the east?
A: The Atlantic Ocean.
Where does North Carolina rank among the states in
population?
A: It's the 10th most populous state.
What is the North Carolina State carnivorous plant?
A: Venus Flytrap.
How many counties does North Carolina have?
A: 100.
North Carolina was the last of the Confederate states to do
what in regards to the Union?
A: Declare secession from the Union.
What is North Carolina's capital city?
A: Raleigh.
What is the North Carolina State mammal?
A: Eastern Gray Squirrel.
What is North Carolina's largest city?
A: Charlotte.
What is North Carolina's highest point in elevation?
A: Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet.
What is the North Carolina State gemstone?
A: Emerald.
The climate of North Carolina's coastal plains is strongly
influenced by what body of water?
A: Atlantic Ocean.
How many North Carolinians served in the
military during
the Civil War?
A: About 125,000.
What are the names of North Carolina's two sounds, the
largest landlocked sounds in the United States?
A: Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound.
What is the North Carolina State rock?
A: Granite.
How many ships have been lost off the coast around Cape
Hatteras which is known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic"?
A: More than 1,000 since 1526.
The western section of North Carolina is part of what
mountain range?
A: Appalachian Mountain range.
What is the North Carolina State reptile?
A: Eastern Box Turtle.
How many major river basins does North Carolina have?
A: 17.
What is the North Carolina State shell?
A: Scotch bonnet.
During the Civil War, how many troops from North Carolina
were killed in battle?
A: 20,000, the most of any state in the Confederacy.
Where do the river basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains
flow to ?
A: The Gulf of Mexico.
How many of the 17 basins are contained entirely within the
state's border s?
A: Four.
What is the North Carolina State bird?
A: Cardinal
What river is the widest river in the United States at its
mouth?
A: Neuse.
On the average, how often does a
hurricane hit North
Carolina?
A: About once a decade.
What was the strongest storm to make landfall in North
Carolina as a Category 4 in 1954?
A: Hurricane Hazel.
What was the most damaging storm of the 21st century?
A: Hurricane Isabel .
What is the North Carolina State beverage?
A: Milk.
How often do Tropical storms strike North Carolina?
A: Every 3 or 4 years.
What is the North Carolina State
tree?
A: Longleaf Pine.
Only what two states are struck by hurricanes more often
than North Carolina?
A: Florida and
Louisiana.
On average, North Carolina has about how many days of
thunderstorm activity per annum?
A: 50.
How many tornadoes does North Carolina experience on
averages per annum?
A: Less than 20.
What is the North Carolina State vegetable?
A: Sweet potato.
The worst tornado outbreak in the state's history occurred
in April 2011, when 30 confirmed tornadoes touched down, killing how many
people?
A: At least 24.
During Colonial times, what town was the state capital,
beginning in 1722?
A: Edenton.
In 1788 what city was picked to be the new capital because
as its location gave it some protection from attack?
A: Raleigh.
What is the North Carolina State red berry?
A: Strawberry.
How many troops from North Carolina died from disease
during the war?
A: 21,000.
North Carolina was where the first successful flight was
executed by what pair of brothers, near Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903?
A: Wright Brothers.
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?
A: Smallpox.
Most of the English colonists were indentured servants, who
hired themselves out as laborers to pay for their what?
A: Passage to America.
In the early years some Africans could earn their freedom
before slavery became what?
A: A lifelong status.
What is the North Carolina State wildflower:?
A: Carolina Lily.
North Carolina's economy was based on slave labor for the
production of what?
A: Tobacco.
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 who?
A: Major Patrick Ferguson.
In 1795, North Carolina opened the first public "what" in
the United States?
A: University, the University of North Carolina.
What is the North Carolina State song?
A: "The Old North State".
