Question: What was Charleston's original name?
Answer: Charles Town

Question: Charles Town was named after which king?
Answer: King Charles II of England

Question: Where was the city originally located?
Answer: Albemarle Point

Question: What was Charleston's population in 2010?
Answer: 120,083

Question: What year was Charleston originally founded?
Answer: 1670

Question: Who was Charles Town named after?
Answer: King Charles II of England

Question: What was the originally name of Charleston?
Answer: Charles Town

Question: How many people lived in Charleston in 2010?
Answer: 120,083

Question: Where was Charleston's first location?
Answer: Albemarle Point

Question: How large is Charleston, South Carolina?
Answer: 127.5 square miles (330.2 km2)

Question: Which city blocks Charleston for expanding up the peninsula? 
Answer: North Charleston

Question: How much of Charleston is covered by water?
Answer: 18.5 square miles (47.9 km2)

Question: How of Charleston's total area is dry land?
Answer: 109.0 square miles (282.2 km2)

Question: What town occupies the land directly east of the Cooper River?
Answer: Mount Pleasant

Question: What season is the wettest in Charleston?
Answer: Summer

Question: In what form does half of Charleston's annual rainfall occur?
Answer: thundershowers

Question: What season is characterized as short in Charleston?
Answer: Winter

Question: What is Charleston's seasonal record of snowfall?
Answer: 8.0 in (20 cm)

Question: What season is considered short in Charleston?
Answer: Winter

Question: What is the wettest season in Charleston?
Answer: Summer

Question: Half of Charleston's annual rainfall occurs in what form?
Answer: thundershowers

Question: How much snow did Charleston's Airport recieve on December, 23 1989?
Answer: 6.0 in (15 cm

Question: What is hottest temperature recorded with Charleston's city limits?
Answer: 104 °F

Question: What hurricane hit Charleston in 1989?
Answer: Hurricane Hugo

Question: What was the lowest temperature ever recorded Charleston's city limit?
Answer: 7 °F (−14 °C)

Question: What type of storm is a major threat to Charleston in the summer and early fall?
Answer: Hurricanes

Question: What day did Charleston's airport hit the coldest day on record?
Answer: January 21, 1985

Question: How many people lived in the Charleston=North Charleston Urban Area in 2010?
Answer: 548,404

Question: What is the third largest city in South Carolina?
Answer: North Charleston

Question: How many people lived in Moncks Corner in 2000?
Answer: 9,123

Question: Charleston and Berkeley is combined with what other county to form a metropolitan statistical area?
Answer: Dorchester

Question: In which county is Moncks Corner located?
Answer: Berkeley County

Question: What era brought counties to South Carolina?
Answer: Reconstruction Era

Question: Counties replaced what system in South Carolina?
Answer: traditional parish system

Question: What is the main use of the parish system nowadays?
Answer: public service districts

Question: The city of Charleston is defined by the limits of the Parish of St. Michael and what other parish?
Answer: Parish of St. Philip

Question: What other parish besides St. John's Parish is  mostly an incorporated rural parish? 
Answer: St. Andrew's Parish

Question: What year was Charles Town founded?
Answer: 1670

Question: How long did it take to establish settlement expeditions for the Province of Carolina?
Answer: seven years

Question: What was the plan to settle and develop the Province of Carolina?
Answer: the Grand Model

Question: Who prepared the plan known as "the Grand Model"?
Answer: John Locke

Question: When was Charles II of England restored to the throne?
Answer: 1660

Question: Where did Charleston's original settlers come from?
Answer: Bermuda

Question: Bermuda is located near which North Carolina town?
Answer: Cape Hatteras

Question: Who was the first governor of Charleston?
Answer: William Sayle

Question: Who predicted Charleston would become a 'great port towne'?
Answer: Earl of Shaftesbury

Question: The settlement was relocated east to what river?
Answer: Ashley River

Question: What religious group was not allowed to settle in South Carolina?
Answer: Catholics

Question: About what year did Charleston cease to have the wealthiest Jewish community in America?
Answer: 1830

Question: What European country did many of the first Charleston settlers come from?
Answer: England

Question: After what war did the state ban on Catholics end?
Answer: American Revolution

Question: Along with Bermuda, what other English colony did many settlers come from?
Answer: Barbados

Question: Which country along with France contested England's claim to the Charleston region?
Answer: Spain

Question: Which group raided the settlement as a means to protect themselves from settlers?
Answer: Native Americans

Question: The majority of the fort walls were removed in what decade?
Answer: 1720s

Question: Whose 1704 plan was used to fortified the city?
Answer: Governor Johnson

Question: Beside European nations and Native Americans, who else attacked the Charleston settlement?
Answer: pirates

Question: What author paid for the simple bench at Sullivan's Island?
Answer: Toni Morrison

Question: What percentage of those sold as slaves in North America landed at Sullivan's Island?
Answer: 40%

Question: What stage of the slave trade provided slaves to Charles Town?
Answer: Middle Passage

Question: What peoples were brought to Charles Town to be slaves?
Answer: Africans

Question: Which African coast did many slaves that were sold in Charles Town come from?
Answer: Windward Coast

Question: African slaves had great knowledge of the cultivation of what product?
Answer: rice

Question: By what year was indigo was a leading export for the Lowcountry?
Answer: 1750

Question: Which nation subsidized indigo crops from the Lowcountry?
Answer: Britain

Question: By what year was rice a successful commodity crop for the Lowcountry?
Answer: 1700

Question: What products were exported along with indigo from the Lowcountry?
Answer: naval stores

Question: What lucrative trade contributed greatly to Charles Town's growth?
Answer: slave trade

Question: When did Charles Town become the fourth largest colonial port?
Answer: 1770

Question: Who made up the majority of Charles Town population in 1708?
Answer: slaves

Question: People of African descent were the majority in Charleston until what mass movement?
Answer: the Great Migration

Question: When did the Great Migration occur?
Answer: the early 20th century

Question: What other Native American nation supplied Charles Town with deer hides other than the Cherokee nation?
Answer: Creek nations

Question: What is the  estimation of deer slaughtered in Charles Town from 1739 to 1761?
Answer: 500,000 to 1,250,000

Question: Records indicate how many pounds of deer skins were exported from Charles Town during the height of its deerskin trade?
Answer: 5,239,350

Question: What trade was the basis of Charles Town's original economy?
Answer: the deerskin trade

Question: What was the average amount of deer skins  that Charles Town exported to Europe between 1699 to 1715? 
Answer: 54,000

Question: What is the oldest college in South Carolina?
Answer: College of Charles Towne

Question: Charleston supported the College of Charles Towne until what year?
Answer: 1970

Question: What year was the Charles Towne Library Society established?
Answer: 1748

Question: When was the College of Charles Towe founded?
Answer: 1770

Question: What is located where the first theatre building in Charles Town once stood?
Answer: Dock Street Theatre

Question: Which general tried to seize Charles Town during the American Revolution?
Answer: General Sir Henry Clinton

Question: Who was the commander of the American forces defending South Carolina?
Answer: Col. Moultrie

Question: When did General Clinton attack South Carolina?
Answer: June 28, 1776