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- HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA? 8TH GRADE GLOBAL
STUDIES
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- 1. THE WINNER OF THE 2012 GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN NORTH
CAROLINA WAS: PAT MCCORY HE IS THE GOVERNOR OF NC.
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- 2. IN 2014, NORTH CAROLINAS TWO U.S. SENATORS ARE: KAY HAGAN
RICHARD BURR
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- 3. THERE ARE 100 COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. Mecklenburg
County
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- 4. NORTH CAROLINA BORDERS THE FOLLOWING STATES: VIRGINIA SOUTH
CAROLINA GEORGIA TENNESSEE
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- 5. NORTH CAROLINA BORDERS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
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- 6. THE CAPITAL OF NC IS RALEIGH AND WAS NAMED FOR SIR WALTER
RALEIGH.
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- 7. THE LARGEST CITY IN NC IS CHARLOTTE.
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- 8. THE CITY OF MEDICINE IS DURHAM.
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- 9. THE DIRECTIONS OF ODD-NUMBERED INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS IS
NORTH/SOUTH.
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- 9. THE DIRECTION OF EVEN-NUMBERED INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS IS
EAST/WEST.
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- 10. THE THREE MAIN GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS IN NC ARE: MOUNTAINS
PIEDMONT COASTAL PLAIN
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- 11. THE LARGEST SAND DUNE IN NC IS: Jockeys Ridge
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- 12. THE LARGEST RESIDENTIAL HOUSE IN NC IS THE BILTMORE HOUSE
IN ASHEVILLE, NC.
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- 13. THE BIG FOUR SCHOOLS IN NC ARE: UNC DUKE WAKE FOREST NC
STATE
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- UNC CHAPEL HILL Rameses
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- DUKE BLUE DEVILS
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- WAKE FOREST DEMON DEACONS
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- NC STATE
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- 14. THE CAPE HATTERAS LIGHTHOUSE WAS MOVED TO PROTECT IT FROM
THE OCEAN.
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- 15. MAJOR TROPICAL STORMS THAT AFFECT NC ARE CALLED
HURRICANES
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- 16. ORVILLE WRIGHT FLEW THE FIRST AIRPLANE.
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- 17. THE NORTH CAROLINA ZOO IS IN ASHEBORO, AND IT IS THE FIRST
ZOO TO KEEP ANIMALS IN THEIR NATURAL HABITAT.
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- 18. THE QUEEN CITY IS CHARLOTTE.
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- 19. THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE TEAM, THE CAROLINA PANTHERS IS
BASED IN CHARLOTTE.
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- 20. THE BLOODIEST CIVIL WAR BATTLE FOUGHT IN NC WAS BATTLE OF
BENTONVILLE.
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- 21. THE CAROLINA HURRICANES WON THE STANLEY CUP IN 2006.