NC Public Art Works
NC Art Museums
Great Wide Open NC Art (outdoor exhibits)
Human Body by the Numbers
April, April
100
The former post office in Beaufort is home to four paintings by Simka Simkhovitch. One of the pieces shows a lighthouse with a black-and-white diamond pattern, and a ship delivering mail to which location?
A. Cape Fear
B. Cape Lookout
C. Cape Hatteras
B. Cape Lookout
100
The now popular Weatherspoon Art Museum that is a part of the UNCG campus has humble beginnings, first opening during 1941 in what former campus setting?
A. physics lab
B. dorms
C. theater dressing rooms
D. gymnasium
A. physics lab (The Woman's College Art Gallery that opened in the McIver Building was the first art gallery in the UNC college system. It has grown from a teaching gallery to a fully accredited professional museum.)
100
Located in Fayetteville, NC, Paul Hill's towering 16-feet tall structure made of translucent green glass and steel depicts this carnivorous plant that is known to thrive under the harshest of conditions.
What is the Venus Fly trap? 
100
By the time children are three years old, they have 20 of these—before they lose them
What are teeth? The full complement of adult teeth has 32.
100
April showers do this, according to a well-known phrase.
What is bring May flowers? The original poem from AD 1157 begins, “Sweet April showers / Do spring May flowers.”
200
Belmont’s city hall was formerly a post office and features a New Deal mural in the lobby. The painting, by Peter DeAnna, illustrates Maj. William Chronicle’s soldiers getting ready for which nearby Revolutionary War battle?
A. Cowpens
B. Kings Mountain
C. Guilford Courthouse
B. Kings Mountain
200
True or False? When the initial inspiration for the NC Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC was opened by couple Dorothy and Walter Auman in 1953, there were only 7 active potteries in the region.
True. Despite the small start of pottery businesses, Seagrove and the surrounding areas have been a center for potters for more than 250 years.
200
The breath-taking whirligig park in Wilson, NC boasts how many of these incredible moving sculptures?
A. 200
B. 10
C. 30
C. 30 of Vollis Simpson's own creations
200
You have two funny bones, which are not bones at all, but are these.
What are nerves? Each nerve runs from the neck down to the pinky finger.
200
This is the first month after April that has 30 days.
What is June? September and November also have 30 days. The only month with fewer days is February.
300
Roy Schatt’s painting Harvesting Tobacco is on display in the lobby of the auditorium at Southeastern Community College. This huge mural was originally located in the 1938 post office and city hall of which town, where the college is located?
A. Whiteville
B. Sylva
C. Roanoke Rapids
A. Whiteville
300
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) was the first major museum in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding when it opened in 1956. How much money was appropriated to begin its collection of artworks?
A. $1,000
B. $50,000
C. $1 million
C. $1 million (This money was used to purchase 139 European and American works)
300
The "Bottle Chapel" located in the Airlie Gardens is a beautiful conglomeration of bottles and glass of all shapes and sizes that took over 2 years to construct. In which coastal city can you find it?
A. Wilmington
B. Beaufort
C. New Bern
D. Shallote
A. Wilmington 
300
The typical cell in the human body has 23 pairs—46 total—of these.
What are chromosomes? Before a cell divides, it creates a copy of its chromosomes so that each new cell has a full set.
300
This most precious gem is the April birthstone.
What is diamond? It’s the hardest natural substance on the planet and was once used as an engraving tool.
400
A. Hyde Hall
B. South Building
C. Old East
C. Old East
400
True or False? Winston-Salem's Reynolda house boasts more rooms in the actual home than that of the Biltmore Estate home.
False. While both are magnificent works of art, Reynolda's 64 rooms are outweighed by Biltmore's 250 rooms (35 alone being bedrooms). 
400
Many who have lived in Greensboro have enjoyed the evening view of a magnificent sculptural net shimmering overhead. In which local park can this be found?
A. Tanger Center Bicentennial Gardens
B. Fisher Park
C. LeBaur Park
C. LeBaur Park (35 miles of fibers stretch like a spider-web between four 60-foot pillars. The pattern is an 1896 historical map of NC's textile region with Greensboro in the center.) 
400
) Babies are born with 270, but adults have between 206 and 213 of these.
What are bones? Babies’ bones are soft, and some fuse together as the baby grows, which is why adults have fewer.
400
Born April 21, 1926, she was once the constitutional monarch of more than 30 countries.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II? The longest-reigning monarch was also the supreme governor of the Church of England. Today, 15 countries fall under the monarchy, plus Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. King Charles also oversees three Crown Dependencies and 14 British Overseas Territories.
500
Hamlet’s post office features three mahogany wood carvings by Nena de Brennecke. One of these pieces takes its title from which type of large, black berry that was once an important crop in the Sandhills?
A. Gooseberry
B. Dewberry
C. Lingonberry
B. Dewberry
500
As of December 2022, Charlotte, NC is home to a museum filled with these optical wonders meant to confuse or awe the eye. What is this type of art form called? 
What are illusions? This is Charlotte's first new museum to open in more than a decade.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/museum-illusions-open-charlotte-december-231517959.html?guccounter=1
500
"The Whittling Wall" is a sculpture display that spans a downtown block of Mount Airy, NC, paying homage to some of the everyday people who built one of America's favorite small towns. What material are these sculptures made of?
A. granite
B. brick
C. aluminum
B. brick (Sculptor Brad Spencer crafts each figure in his Reidsville studio before laying the bricks and mortar on-site.)
500
The M in mRNA stands for this, and it’s used in a vital three-step process.
What is messenger? The three-step process makes proteins, and the mRNA carries the instructions to complete the process.
500
He was the first of three U.S. presidents to have been inaugurated in April.
Who is George Washington? Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789. Congress had initially scheduled it for March 4, but they were unable to count the electoral ballots fast enough. Andrew Johnson and Harry Truman were also inaugurated in April.