Question: What part of the state are the Appalachian Mountains in?
Answer: Western

Question: Great Smoky mountain and Blue Ridge Parkway are located in what mountain range?
Answer: Appalachian

Question: How many tourists visited the Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge parkway in 2013?
Answer: over 25 million

Question: What North Carolina City is consistently voted one of the top places to live in the United States?
Answer: Asheville

Question: What Hockey team is located in Raleigh?
Answer: Carolina Hurricanes

Question: What league do the Carolina Hurricanes belong to?
Answer: NHL

Question: What Hall of Fame is located in Raleigh?
Answer: North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

Question: What arboretum is located in Raleigh?
Answer: J. C. Raulston Arboretum

Question: What is the center of North Carolina called?
Answer: The Piedmont Triad

Question: Where is the Krispy kreme headquarters located?
Answer: The Piedmont Triad

Question: What city is the North Carolina Zoo in?
Answer: Asheboro

Question: How many miles of shaded pathways does the Nort Carolina Zoo have?
Answer: five

Question: What North Carolina City hosts the Merlefest?
Answer: Wilkesboro

Question: Fishing, hunting, and birdwatching are what kind of activities that are provided in North Carolina?
Answer: recreational

Question: In the Fall, people go to North Carolina to see what?
Answer: fall colors

Question: What is another name for caving?
Answer: spelunking

Question: Howmany state parks are in North Carolina?
Answer: 34

Question: How many national parks are in North Carolina?
Answer: 14

Question: Where is the Uwharrie national Forest located?
Answer: central North Carolina

Question: Where is Croatan National Forest located?
Answer: Eastern North Carolina

Question: Where is the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park?
Answer: Greensboro

Question: What industry generates 1.2 billion in economic activity each year for North carolina?
Answer: nonprofit arts and culture

Question: How many full time jobs are held by those in the non profit arts and culture industry?
Answer: 43,600

Question: How much money does the nonprofit arts and culture industry raise for government?
Answer: $119 million

Question: What was the first museum in the country to be formed by legislature?
Answer: North Carolina Museum of Art

Question: How much money does the North Carolina Museum of art generate?
Answer: millions

Question: Where is SouthPark Mall located?
Answer: Charlotte

Question: What is the largest mall in the carolinas?
Answer: SouthPark Mall

Question: How big is SouthPark Mall?
Answer: 2.0 million square feet

Question: Where is the hanes Mall located?
Answer: Winston-Salem

Question: Where is the Four Seasons Town Center located?
Answer: Greensboro

Question: What is a culinary staple of North Carolina?
Answer: pork barbecue

Question: What cut of pork do those in western North carolina prefer for BBQ?
Answer: Boston butt

Question: What is another name for Western North Carolina Barbecue?
Answer: Lexington barbecue

Question: What cut of pork do those in Western North Carolina prefer for BBQ?
Answer: pork shoulder

Question: How many people visit the lexington Barbecue festival each year?
Answer: over 100,000

Question: Krispy kreme is a chain of what kind of stores?
Answer: doughnut

Question: Where is the Krispy kreme headquarters?
Answer: Winston-Salem

Question: When was pepsi-Cola first produced?
Answer: 1898

Question: Where was pepsi first produced?
Answer: New Bern

Question: What city was Cheerwine created and based in?
Answer: Salisbury

Question: What international prize winning winery is located in North Carolina?
Answer: Noni Bacca Winery

Question: What prized cheeses are made in North Carolina?
Answer: Ashe County

Question: Much tobacco land has been transformed into what kind of orchards?
Answer: grape

Question: North carolina state law allowed a jump in alcohol volume from 6% to what percent?
Answer: 15%.

Question: What city was named Beer City USA?
Answer: Asheville

Question: Winston Salem is the headquarters of what tobacco Company?
Answer: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Question: The invention of cigarettes made what popular?
Answer: Tobacco

Question: What year was RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company founded?
Answer: 1874

Question: How many packs of camel cigarettes were sold per year in 1914?
Answer: 425 million

Question: What was one of the first growing industries to develope after the civil war?
Answer: Tobacco

Question: Where is Camp Lejeune located?
Answer: Jacksonville

Question: What is Camp Lejeune?
Answer: Marine Corps Base Camp

Question: Bases making up the larges concentration of marines and sailors in the world is located in what NC city?
Answer: Jacksonville

Question: Where is Seymour johnson air force base located?
Answer: Goldsboro

Question: Where is the military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point stationed?
Answer: Southport

Question: What is the name of the last period of classical Japanese history?
Answer: Heian

Question: The Heian period is named after what city?
Answer: Heian-kyō

Question: What does heian mean in Japanese?
Answer: peace

Question: What was the name of the prominent clan during the Heian period?
Answer: Fujiwara

Question: The Heian period was known for what types of art?
Answer: poetry and literature

Question: What was the name of the period before the Heian era?
Answer: Nara

Question: The Heian period began in what year?
Answer: 794 A.D

Question: What warrior class rose during the Heian era?
Answer: samurai

Question: Heian-kyo is now what present-day city?
Answer: Kyōto

Question: What was the name of the emperor who moved Japan's capital to Heian?
Answer: Kanmu

Question: What noble family wielded power during the Heian period?
Answer: Fujiwara

Question: Who threatened the authority of Japan's central government?
Answer: Taira no Masakado

Question: Masakado led an uprising in what province?
Answer: Hitachi

Question: What member of the Fujiwara family rebelled in western Japan?
Answer: Fujiwara no Sumitomo

Question: In what year did Masakado begin his rebellion?
Answer: 939 A.D

Question: Heian was Japan's capital for how many years?
Answer: 1,000

Question: Nara was the former capital for how many years?
Answer: 70

Question: What religion was gaining popularity in Nara?
Answer: Buddhist

Question: What time period was the early Heian era?
Answer: 784–967

Question: Kanmu modeled his government after what Chinese capital?
Answer: Tang

Question: What was the name of the possible descendants of Jōmon?
Answer: Emishi

Question: What was the name of the new commander Kanmu appointed in the year 797?
Answer: Sakanoue no Tamuramaro

Question: What was Tamuramaro's military title?
Answer: Sei-i Taishōgun

Question: The Emishi were defeated in what year?
Answer: 801

Question: The imperial capital extended to the eastern edge of which Japanese island?
Answer: Honshū

Question: In what year did Emperor Kanmu die?
Answer: 806

Question: What office replaced the imperial guards?
Answer: Metropolitan Police Board

Question: What new office allowed government to issue administrative orders faster?
Answer: Emperor's Private Office

Question: Tang China's influence over Japan ended in what year?
Answer: 838

Question: In what century did the Soga family take the throne?
Answer: sixth

Question: A member of what clan became the head of the Emperor's Private Office?
Answer: Fujiwara

Question: Which emperor suspended the Fujiwara clan's power?
Answer: Daigo

Question: Emperor Daigo ruled during what years?
Answer: 897-930

Question: What type of property obtained legal status during the early Heian period?
Answer: shōen

Question: Farm laborers traded titles to shoen holders in exchange for what?
Answer: a share of the harvest

Question: The Fujiwara and other noble families became richer during which century?
Answer: early tenth century

Question: What script was developed with parts of Chinese characters?
Answer: katakana