HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA? 8TH GRADE GLOBAL STUDIES

1. THE WINNER OF THE 2012 GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN NORTH CAROLINA WAS: PAT MCCORY HE IS THE GOVERNOR OF NC.

2. IN 2014, NORTH CAROLINA’S TWO U.S. SENATORS ARE: KAY HAGAN RICHARD BURR

3. THERE ARE 100 COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. Mecklenburg County

4. NORTH CAROLINA BORDERS THE FOLLOWING STATES: VIRGINIA SOUTH CAROLINA GEORGIA TENNESSEE

5. NORTH CAROLINA BORDERS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.

6. THE CAPITAL OF NC IS RALEIGH AND WAS NAMED FOR SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

7. THE LARGEST CITY IN NC IS CHARLOTTE.

8. THE “CITY OF MEDICINE” IS DURHAM.

9. THE DIRECTIONS OF ODD-NUMBERED INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS IS NORTH/SOUTH.

9. THE DIRECTION OF EVEN-NUMBERED INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS IS EAST/WEST.

10. THE THREE MAIN GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS IN NC ARE: MOUNTAINS PIEDMONT COASTAL PLAIN

11. THE LARGEST SAND DUNE IN NC IS: Jockey’s Ridge

12. THE LARGEST RESIDENTIAL HOUSE IN NC IS THE BILTMORE HOUSE IN ASHEVILLE, NC.

13. THE BIG FOUR SCHOOLS IN NC ARE: UNC DUKE WAKE FOREST NC STATE

UNC CHAPEL HILL Rameses

DUKE BLUE DEVILS

WAKE FOREST DEMON DEACONS

NC STATE

14. THE CAPE HATTERAS LIGHTHOUSE WAS MOVED TO PROTECT IT FROM THE OCEAN.

15. MAJOR TROPICAL STORMS THAT AFFECT NC ARE CALLED HURRICANES

16. ORVILLE WRIGHT FLEW THE FIRST AIRPLANE.

17. THE NORTH CAROLINA ZOO IS IN ASHEBORO, AND IT IS THE FIRST ZOO TO KEEP ANIMALS IN THEIR NATURAL HABITAT.

18. THE “QUEEN CITY” IS CHARLOTTE.

19. THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE TEAM, THE CAROLINA PANTHERS IS BASED IN CHARLOTTE.

20. THE BLOODIEST CIVIL WAR BATTLE FOUGHT IN NC WAS BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE.

21. THE CAROLINA HURRICANES WON THE STANLEY CUP IN 2006.