The Old North State
The famous chain of small islands and beaches off the coast of North Carolina, known for lighthouses and wild horses.
What are the Outer Banks?
This city is home to the Biltmore Estate, the largest privately-owned house in the U.S.
What is Asheville?
The small, crusty bread item served at nearly every Southern meal, often split and covered in gravy.
What is a biscuit?
This famous evangelist and Christian minister, known for his huge crusades, was born in Charlotte in 1918.
Who is Billy Graham?
The type of slow, large marine reptile, often seen nesting on NC beaches, which has a hard shell.
What is a sea turtle?
This common food item is the official state vegetable of North Carolina.
What is the sweet potato?
This city is home to the international furniture market and is often called the "Furniture Capital of the World."
What is High Point?
This common green vegetable is often slow-cooked with bacon and vinegar in the South.
What are collard greens?
This North Carolina city was the site of the first successful sustained flight in 1903.
What is Kitty Hawk (or Kill Devil Hills)?
This specific type of tall, striped structure is used to guide ships away from dangerous shallow waters at night.
The nickname for residents of North Carolina, related to sticky substance.
What is a Tar Heel?
City known for the fictional town of Mayberry on the Andy Griffith Show.
What is Mount Airy?
A southern dish made of hominy, often served for breakfast with butter and salt.
What are Grits?
This North Carolina city was the site of the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement at a Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960.
What is Greensboro?
This coastal city is home to a famous battleship memorial, the USS North Carolina.
What is Wilmington?
The two main geographic regions of North Carolina are the Mountains and the Coastal Plain, plus the third region in the middle.
What is the Piedmont?
This historical colonial town on the coast served as the capital of North Carolina from 1766 to 1794.
What is New Bern?
This classic southern dessert is made by layering vanilla wafers, sliced bananas, and custard or pudding.
What is banana pudding?
The first American President to appear on television.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
North Carolina has two famous capes: Cape Lookout and Cape this.
What is Cape Hatteras?
North Carolina is home to the highest peak east of the Mississippi River, named after a governor.
What is Mount Mitchell?
This small Outer Banks community is famous for its wild horses and distinctive black-and-white striped lighthouse.
What is Ocracoke?
This common vegetable is often pickled and served whole, or breaded and fried.
What is okra?
This famous bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, was the first steel-wire suspension bridge in the world when it opened in 1883.
What is the Brooklyn Bridge?
This historic site on Roanoke Island is known as the location of the first English colony in the New World, which mysteriously disappeared.
What is the Lost Colony?