Foreign Factoids
This European nation has the most cars per mile of road anywhere in the world.
What is Great Britain?
World War II saw the service of the first African American to earn this military officer rank.
What is brigadier general?
True North Carolina barbecue is always made with this type of meat.
What is pulled pork?
This is the only New England state that does not border the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Vermont?
Farmers plant winter wheat during this season.
What is fall?
In Germany, a bibliothek is this kind of public institution.
What is a library?
On this date, that shall live in infamy, Japanese air forces launched a devastating attack on U.S. Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, HI.
What is December 7, 1941?
This nickname for North Carolinians has stuck around since the colonial period.
What are Tar Heels?
This state is home to the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
What is Minnesota?
These large land animals disappeared from North Carolina in the early 1800s.
What are bison?
This libation, derived from agave azul, is the national alcoholic beverage of Mexico.
What is tequila?
This infamous diplomatic telegram was the catalyst for U.S. entry into the First World War.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This brightly colored bird is that state bird of North Carolina.
What is a cardinal?
This state is known as the Empire State, and has a skyscraper to prove it.
What is New York?
The national flower of the United States is this woody perennial, popular in February.
What is a rose?
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 on this Mediterranean island.
The first atomic bomb tested by the Manhattan Project was detonated there, a remote, isolated, and unpopulated area in the American Southwest.
What is Trinity Site, New Mexico?
NC State, UNC, and Duke all play basketball in this collegiate conference.
What is the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)?
CIA Headquarters are located at Langley in this commonwealth.
What is Virginia?
Each year, Monarch butterflies migrate to this country from the United States.
What is Mexico?
This Asian nation recently announced that its population had declined for the first time in 65 years.
What is China?
This was the name given to the German plan for fighting a two-front war in 1914.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
East Carolina University sports teams are known by this maritime nickname.
What are the Pirates?
Pickleball is the official sport of this state.
What is Washington?
The highly venomous Black Mamba species of snake is native only to this continent.
What is Africa?