How much do you know about North Carolina History? | Quiz

Answer: The Battle of Alamance

The battle was named for the nearby Great Alamance Creek. Royal governor Tryon would lose nine men with another 61 wounded, the number of wounded and killed on the Regulator's side was much higher. After the battle, Governor Tryon took between twelve and fifteen Regulators prisoner, executing between six and seven of these men.

Answer: Richard Petty

Petty does the voice of the character Strip Weathers, better know as "The King," in Pixar's 2006 movie Cars. Ironically, "The King," as depicted in the movie, looks very much like Petty's own Plymouth Superbird race car. Petty is known to NASCAR fans as simply Richard, King Richard, and The King.

Answer: Nags Head

According to legend, land pirates on what is today known as Nags Head would place a lantern around a nags neck and proceed to walk it up and down the sand dunes. This would give the appearance of a ship riding at anchor in a safe harbor at night. Ships' captains seeing this would then be likely to head towards the light, only to be wrecked on the treacherous shoals. Then the land pirates could recover the salvage from the wreck.

Answer: Ambrose Burnside

The Battle of Roanoke Island was the first battle of Burnside's North Carolina Expedition, an expedition that would largely prove successful for Burnside. But this largely unknown campaign would be overshadowed for Burnside by his failure to cross what is now known as Burnside's bridge in a timely fashion at the Battle of Antietam and then his debacle as commander of the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Fredricksburg.

Answer: Paul Green

Green was born in 1894 in Lillington, North Carolina. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1927 for his play "In Abraham's Bosom." 1937 saw the first preformance of "The Lost Colony."

Answer: April 29, 1962

The North Carolina-class of battleships was the first designed after the signing of the Washington Treaty in the 1920's. She was commissioned April 9, 1941 along with her sister ship, the USS Washington. When she opened as a memorial in 1962, she was dedicated to all North Carolinians who had served in the US armed forces during World War II.

Answer: James K. Polk

The eleventh president was born in the town of Pineville on the second of November, 1795. North Carolina also can claim being the birth place of the seventeenth president, Andrew Johnson. Both North Carolina and South Carolina claim Andrew Jackson was born in each state because he was born near the border of both states, although Jackson himself claimed to have been born in South Carolina.

Answer: Manteo and Wanchese

Manteo remained friendly to the English and may have suggested that the 1587 Roanoke colony, which today is known as "The Lost Colony", move to Croatan Island.

Answer: Salem

In 1849 an area of fifty acres was sold to Forsyth County to serve as the county seat. This land became the town of Winston, which would merge with Salem in 1913 to become the city of Winston-Salem in 1913. Today the old town of Salem is the living history museum Old Salem.

Answer: King Charles I

At first glance it may seem surprising that both Carolinas were named for King Charles I of England. However, Charles is 'Carolus' in Latin.