South Carolina Trivia Quiz - US States Trivia Quizzes With Answers
South Carolina is bordered to the north by what state?
A: North Carolina.
What body of water forms the eastern border of South
Carolina?
A: The Atlantic Ocean.
South Carolina was the first state to ratify what document?
A: The Articles of Confederation.
South Carolina was the 8th state to ratify what document on
May 23, 1788?
A: The United States Constitution.
South Carolina later became the first state to vote to do
what?
A: Secede from the Union.
On what date was South Carolina readmitted to the Union?
A: June 25, 1868.
How many counties does South Carolina have?
A: 46.
What city is the capital of South Carolina?
A: Columbia.
What is South Carolina's highest point?
A: Sassafras Mountain, at 3,560 feet .
On the border between South Carolina and
Georgia, lies the
Chattooga River which is a favorite destination for what activity?
A: Whitewater rafting.
Earthquakes do happen in South Carolina, which averages
10–15 earthquakes a year below what magnitude?
A: 3.
What was the name of the largest earth quake to hit the
Southeastern United States?
A: The Charleston Earthquake of 1886.
The Charleston Earthquake of 1886 had a 7.2 magnitude and
killed how many people?
A: 60.
What is the highest ever recorded temperature in South
Carolina?
A: 113 °F in Johnston and Columbia on June 29,
2012.
What is the lowest ever recorded temperature in South
Carolina?
A: −19 °F at Caesars Head on January 21,
1985.
South Carolina is sometimes affected by tropical cyclones
which is of concern during what season?
A: Hurricane.
How many days of thunderstorms does South Carolina usually
average per annum?
A: Around 50 days.
How many tornadoes does South Carolina experience per year
on average?
A: About 14 tornadoes per year.
Slaves imported from rice-growing regions of Africa created
the dams and canals used to irrigate the South Carolina what?
A: Fields of rice.
The cultivation and processing a blue flowering plant,
Indigo, became an important commodity crop for what?
A: The dyeing of textiles.
What type of labor was necessary for the economic success
of the rice and indigo crops in South Carolina?
A: Slave.
After 1708, what group of people made up a majority of the
population of South Carolina?
A: Slaves.
South Carolina was the 8th state to ratify what, on May
23, 1788?
A: The United States Constitution.
The American Revolution disrupted slavery in the South, and
thousands of slaves fled to British authorities to obtain what?
A: Freedom.
Many of the slaves that escaped during the Revolutionary
war left with who in the last days of the
war?
A: The British.
By 1800, South Carolina had the largest population of what
type of people in the country?
A: Jews.
In 1856, what Democrat South Carolina congressman, in the
United States Senate chamber beat
Republican Senator Charles Sumner with his
metal tipped cane?
A: Preston Brooks.
What began on April 12, 1861, when the Confederate
batteries began shelling Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor?
A: The American Civil War.
The South Carolina troops suffered how many
military deaths
during the Civil War, almost one-third of the white male population of fighting
age?
A: 18,666.
In 2011, where did South Carolina rank in the rate of
women
who were killed by men?
A: Number 1.
South Carolina became the last
US state to remove what
flag, from over its statehouse?
A: Confederate flag.
In 2014, how was South Carolina rated in terms of public
cleanliness ?
A: America's worst state.
According to the Census Bureau the population of South
Carolina on July 1, 2012, was how many people?
A: 4,723,723.
How many passenger routes in South Carolina does
Amtrak
operate?
A: Four. The Crescent, the Palmetto, the Silver Meteor, and the Silver Star.
By passenger volume, the busiest airport in South Carolina
is what?
A: Charleston International Airport.
The College of Charleston, founded in 1770 is the oldest
institution of higher learning in South Carolina, and the first what in the
country?
A: Municipal college.
Furman University is a private, coeducational,
non-sectarian, liberal arts university in Greenville and is the largest what in
South Carolina?
A: Private institution.
Where is South Carolina ranked for overall health care
compared with the other US States?
A: South Carolina is ranked 33rd out of the 50 states.
South Carolina is the only state in the union that has
mandatory videotaping by the arresting officer of any what?
A: DUI arrests and breath tests.
