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North Carolina - the First in Flight State.

North Carolina

North Carolina was admitted to the Union on the 21st of November, 1789 making it the 12th state in the USA.

Both North Carolina and South Carolina are named after a man - the English king Charles I. He was executed in 1649 after he was defeated by Parliament in the English Civil War.

North Carolina is the 9th most populous state in the USA. In 2014 it had just under 10 million inhabitants - that's 100,000 or so more than Sweden!

On the 17th of December 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first controlled powered aeroplane flights at the Kill Devil Hills, close to the town of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

North Carolina is one of only 13 US states to have an official state sport. Stock car racing was adopted by the state in 2011 because the sport 'has played a significant role in the history, heritage, and culture of North Carolina.

The first English settlement in the Americas was Roanoke Colony on Roanoke island in what is now North Carolina. The colonists disappeared during the Anglo-Spanish War, which gave the settlement its nickname, 'The Lost Colony'.

North Carolina's state mineral is gold; its state stone is granite and its state gemstone is emerald.

North Carolina is the 28th largest of the 50 US states. It has an area of 53,819 square miles or 139,390 square km which is just slightly less than that of England.

The official state shell of North Carolina is the Scotch bonnet, a sea snail so called because of its resemblance to a tam o' shanter hat and its tartan-like colouring.

First in Flight State is currently used on North Carolina's number plates but it has a few other nicknames. Why not try this quiz and see how well you know the Tar Heel State and the Old North State?

1 .

The capital city of North Carolina is named after which English explorer?

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Francis Drake

John Cabot

Sir John Hawkins

Raleigh is North Carolina's fifth capital. The province had been governed from Bath, Edenton, Brunswick Town and New Bern before Raleigh was chosen as the state capital in 1792

2 .

In 2007 the General Assembly of North Carolina adopted an official salute to the state flag. How does it read?

I salute the flag of North Carolina and pledge to the Turpentine State love, honour and faith

I salute the flag of North Carolina and pledge to the First in Flight State allegiance, honour and fidelity

I salute the flag of North Carolina and pledge to the Old North State love, loyalty and faith

I salute the flag of North Carolina and pledge to the Tar Heel State allegiance, loyalty and fidelity

On the flag are two dates - that of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (May 20, 1775) and of the Halifax Resolves (April 12, 1776) in which North Carolina became the first of the American Colonies to call for independence from Great Britain

3 .

North Carolina is the only state with an official state carnivorous plant. Which plant is it?

Pitcher Plant

Sundew

Bladderwort

Venus Fly Trap

The Venus flytrap is grown all over the world but is native to North and South Carolina, where it is sadly at risk of extinction in the wild

4 .

North Carolina's largest city, Charlotte, is named after the wife of which historical figure?

George Washington

King George III

Thomas Jefferson

King William IV

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz married the king in 1761, around the time that the area was being settled by the British. Charlotte's nickname is appropriately The Queen City

5 .

Adopted in 1979, what is North Carolina's state reptile?

Painted Turtle

Gopher Tortoise

Eastern Box Turtle

Desert Tortoise

Box turtles can live for over a hundred years but, due to the effect of traffic and farm machinery, they are now in danger of extinction in the wild

6 .

Seen here with Barak Obama in 2010, what is the name of this Christian evangelist?

Jimmy Swaggart

Luis Palau

Billy Graham

Jorge Armando Pérez

Graham was born in 1918 and became famous for his preaching at indoor and outdoor rallies. In 2001 he was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for his international contribution to civic and religious life

7 .

What is North Carolina's state vegetable?

Parsnip

Turnip

Potato

Sweet Potato

North Carolina is the USA's largest producer of sweet potatoes. In 2007 38.5% of all the sweet potatoes grown in the US were cultivated in North Carolinas

8 .

North Carolina has been the birthplace of two US Presidents - the 17th, Andrew Johnson and the 11th who is shown in this picture. What is his name?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

James K. Polk

Ulysses S. Grant

Warren G. Harding

Some sources say that the 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was also born in North Carolina however, he was born prior to the American Revolution near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina, so we cannot be sure

9 .

Born in Smithfield, North Carolina on Christmas Eve 1922, what is the name of this Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominated actress, seen here in the 1954 film The Barefoot Contessa?

Ava Gardner

Vivian Leigh

Audrey Hepburn

Ingrid Bergman

Ava appeared in more than 60 films between 1941 and 1982. She died in 1990 at her home in London where she had lived since 1968

10 .

The Great Seal of the State of North Carolina bears the state motto, Esse Quam Videri. What does this translate into English as?

By Wisdom and Foresight

To Be Rather Than To Seem

Strength in Unity

We Govern by Serving

The seal also shows two figures, Liberty and Plenty. Liberty holds a pole topped with a liberty cap in one hand and in the other she holds a scroll bearing the word 'Constitution'. Plenty has three ears of corn in one hand and her second rests on a cornucopia

Author: Graeme Haw