Appalachian History
The Appalachian region was the United States' primary producer of this commodity throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
What is coal?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1920, granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the name of the endangered Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people.
What is Tsalagi?
This tuition plan ensures students pay tuition expenses of just $500 per semester for in-state students and $2,500 per semester for out-of-state students.
What is NC Promise?
This natural landmark, located on the border between Ontario, Canada, and New York, USA, is known for its powerful waterfalls.
What is Niagara Falls?
This trail, one of the longest continuously marked footpaths in the world, runs through 14 states from Georgia to Maine.
What is the Appalachian Trail?
This North Carolina agency is responsible for administering and overseeing elections within the state.
What is the North Carolina State Board of Elections?
This historic Cherokee site in North Carolina features reconstructed Cherokee buildings and offers insights into 18th-century life.
What is Ocanaluftee Indian Village?
This is the name of the ancient Cherokee community that once occupied the land that Western Carolina University is currently situated upon.
What is Two Sparrows Town?
This 1994 film, directed by Quentin Tarantino, follows two hitmen in Los Angeles and popularized nonlinear storytelling in cinema.
What is Pulp Fiction?
In 1965, this U.S. President signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act.
To be elected president, a candidate must receive this number of electoral votes from the electoral college.
What is 270?
This Cherokee leader, born in 1775, fought alongside Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and later resisted the President's Indian Removal Policy.
Who is Junaluska?
This is the year that Western Carolina University joined the Southern Conference.
What is 1976?
This British singer-songwriter holds the record for the most weeks at number one on the UK albums chart for a solo male artist, with a total of 79 weeks.
Who is Ed Sheeran?
The Appalachian mountain range's highest peak is in western North Carolina and is also the highest elevation in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
Mount Mitchell
This term describes the redrawing of electoral district boundaries to benefit a particular political party, a practice that has been a contentious issue in North Carolina.
What is gerrymandering?
In Cherokee legend, this powerful being, also known as Tsul 'Kalu, is a giant with slanting eyes who is believed to have ruled the mountains and could leap from peak to peak.
Who is Judaculla?
In 1932, this man became the first head coach of football and basketball at Western Carolina University.
Who is C.C. Poindexter?
This branch of science studies the atmosphere and processes that cause weather patterns and climate.
What is meteorology?
In the United States, this dance form was popularized in western North Carolina.
What is clogging?
This term describes an election in which voters select party nominees for a general election.
What is a primary election?
This sacred site in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is an important spiritual place for the Cherokee and is known for its medicinal plants.
What is Clingmans Dome?
During the 2012 Summer Olympics, this WCU alumni completed the first leg of the 4x400 metres relay with a broken fibula.
Who is Manteo Mitchell?
This rare neurological disorder, named after a French neurologist, is characterized by sudden and uncontrollable "sleep attacks."
What is narcolepsy?