History
This is the state capital of North Carolina
What is Raleigh?
This visible geographic feature is believed to have formed about 1 billion years ago when the area was a marine environment. Now the peak is a state park.
What is Pilot Mountain?
This professional female athlete is the only player to be named ACC player of the year 3 times in soccer.
Who is Mia Hamm?
This museum established in 1948 is one of the nation's oldest tribal museums.
What is the Museum of the Cherokee People?
Blackbeard's other name.
What is Edward Teach?
This early English settlement on the coast of North Carolina remains a mystery today.
What is the Lost Colony?
North Carolina is home to the landform that has the highest elevation east of the Mississippi River.
What is Mt. Mitchell?
This professional NFL player from NC become a well-known visual artist.
Who is Ernie Barnes?
This museum displays thousands of feline-themed artwork and memorabilia collected by Dr. Harold Sims.
What is the American Museum of the House Cat located near Sylva?
In 1996, this wreckage was discovered off the coast of Beaufort.
What is Queen Anne's Revenge?
The year that NC ratified the U.S. Constitution
What is 1789?
NC is composed of three major geographic regions.
What is the coastal plain, the Piedmont and the Mountains?
This sport became the official state sport of North Carolina in 2011.
What is stock car racing?
Visitors at this museum can learn about the soldiers who helped popularize parachuting as a means of entering combat.
What is U.S. Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville?
Blackbeard’s second-in-command — was captured in Bath while recovering from a leg wound
Who was Pirate Israel Hands?
North Carolina had had many constitutions. The present constitution was adopted this year.
What is 1971?
NC is home to what is believed to the one of the oldest rivers in the world by geologists.
What is New River?
This boxing legend from Wilmington, NC, won world titles in 5 weight divisions as well as a gold metal at the 1976 Olympics.
Who is Ray Charles 'Sugar Ray' Leonard?
This museum is one of the largest natural history museums in the Southeast.
What is the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh?
This pirate's areas of piracy included the region near the Cape Fear River and Southport.
Who is the "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet?
Archaeologists trace the arrival of Native Americans to North Carolina about this many years ago.
What is 12,000 years ago?
North Carolina has the only significant deposits of this gem in North America
What is emerald?
This classic game is widely believed to have been first played in North Carolina
What is miniature golf?
This museum occupies the former Spencer shops, once among the largest steam locomotive maintenance and repair facilities in the Southeast.
What is the North Carolina Transportation Museum?
Pirate John “Timberhead” Brierly, from this Beaufort County community, was a member of Stede Bonnet’s crew.
What is Bath?