North_Carolina

context: North Carolina consists of three main geographic sections: the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which occupies the eastern 45% of the state; the Piedmont region, which contains the middle 35%; and the Appalachian Mountains and foothills. The extreme eastern section of the state contains the Outer Banks, a string of sandy, narrow barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and two inland waterways or "sounds": Albemarle Sound in the north and Pamlico Sound in the south. They are the two largest landlocked sounds in the United States.
qas: answers: text: three
question: How many main geographical sections make up North Carolina?

answers: text: Atlantic Coastal Plain
question: What section of North carolina makes up 45% of the state?

answers: text: the Piedmont region
question: What is the section in the middle 35% of North Carolina called?

answers: text: North Carolina
question: Tha Appalacian mountains and foothills make up a region of what state?

answers: text: Outer Banks
question: The extreme eastern section of North Carolina is called what?

context: The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, a line which marks the elevation at which waterfalls first appear on streams and rivers. The Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the state's most urbanized and densely populated section. It consists of gently rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. Small, isolated, and deeply eroded mountain ranges and peaks are located in the Piedmont, including the Sauratown Mountains, Pilot Mountain, the Uwharrie Mountains, Crowder's Mountain, King's Pinnacle, the Brushy Mountains, and the South Mountains. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 to 400 feet (91 to 122 m) in elevation in the east to over 1,000 feet (300 m) in the west. Because of the rapid population growth in the Piedmont, a significant part of the rural area in this region is being transformed into suburbs with shopping centers, housing, and corporate offices. Agriculture is steadily declining in importance. The major rivers of the Piedmont, such as the Yadkin and Catawba, tend to be fast-flowing, shallow, and narrow.
qas: answers: text: Piedmont
question: Pilot Mountain and South Mountains are located in what region of North Carolina?

answers: text: The Piedmont region
question: What section of Central North Carolina has the most dense population?

answers: text: 1,000 feet
question: What is the average elevation in the west Piedmont region?

answers: text: Atlantic Seaboard fall line
question: What do you call the line that marks the elevation that waterfalls first appear on rivers?

answers: text: along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line
question: At what point does the coastal plin transition to the Piedmont region?

context: The western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, Great Balsam Mountains, and Black Mountains. The Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet (2,037 m) the highest point east of the Mississippi River. Although agriculture still remains important, tourism has become a dominant industry in the mountains. Growing Christmas trees has recently become an important industry as well. Because of the higher altitude, the climate in the mountains often differs markedly from that of the rest of the state. Winter in western North Carolina typically features high snowfall and subfreezing temperatures more akin to those of a midwestern state than of a southern state.
qas: answers: text: Appalachian Mountain range
question: The weatern part of North Carolina is part of what mountain range?

answers: text: Appalachians
question: The Great Smokey Mountains and the Black Moutains are subranges of what mountains?

answers: text: The Black Mountains
question: What mountains are the highest in the eastern United States?

answers: text: Mount Mitchell
question: What is the name of the highest point east of the Mississippi river?

answers: text: 6,684 feet
question: How high is Mt. Mitchell?

context: The climate of the coastal plain is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean, which keeps conditions mild in winter and moderate, although humid, in summer. The highest coastal, daytime temperature averages less than 89 °F (32 °C) during summer months. The coast has mild temperatures in winter, with daytime highs rarely below 40 °F (4 °C). The average daytime temperature in the coastal plain is usually in the mid-50s °F (11–14 °C) in winter. Temperatures in the coastal plain only occasionally drop below the freezing point at night. The coastal plain averages only around 1 inch (2.5 cm) of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all.
qas: answers: text: Atlantic
question: What ocean influinces the climate of North Carolinas coastal plain?

answers: text: mild
question: What is the climate of the coastal plain in the winter?

answers: text: moderate, although humid
question: What is the climate of North Carolinas coastal plain in the summer?

answers: text: 89 °F
question: What is the average high North Carolina coastal temperature on the plains in the summer?

answers: text: occasionally
question: How often do temperatures on the coastal plain of NC drop below freezing at night?

context: The Atlantic Ocean has less influence on the climate of the Piedmont region, which has hotter summers and colder winters than in the coast. Daytime highs in the Piedmont often reach over 90 °F (32 °C) in the summer. While it is not common for the temperature to reach over 100 °F (38 °C) in the state, such temperatures, when they occur, typically are found only in the lower-elevation areas of the Piedmont and far-inland areas of the coastal plain. The weaker influence of the Atlantic Ocean also means that temperatures in the Piedmont often fluctuate more widely than in the coast.
qas: answers: text: Piedmont
question: What region of North Carolina has hotter summers and colder winters than the coast?

answers: text: 90 °F
question: In summer, daytime highs often reach what temperature in the Piedmont region?

answers: text: .
question: Temperatures over 100 degrees will typically be found in what elevation of the Piedmont?

answers: text: weaker
question: What type of influence of the Atlantic Ocean makes the temperatures fluctuate more than on the coast?

context: In winter, the Piedmont is colder than the coast, with temperatures usually averaging in the upper 40s–lower 50s °F (8–12 °C) during the day and often dropping below the freezing point at night. The region averages around 3–5 in (8–13 cm) of snowfall annually in the Charlotte area, and slightly more north toward the Virginia border. The Piedmont is especially notorious for sleet and freezing rain. Freezing rain can be heavy enough to snarl traffic and break down trees and power lines. Annual precipitation and humidity are lower in the Piedmont than in the mountains or the coast, but even at its lowest, the average is 40 in (1,020 mm) per year.
qas: answers: text: winter
question: The Piedmont is colder than the coast in what season?

answers: text: upper 40s–lower 50s °F
question: What is the average winter daytime temperature in the Piedmont?

answers: text: below the freezing point
question: What do the temperatures often drop to at night in the piedmont region in the winter?

answers: text: 3–5 in
question: What is the average snowfall per year in Charlotte?

answers: text: sleet and freezing rain
question: What type of precipitation is the Piedmont known for?

context: The Appalachian Mountains are the coolest area of the state, with temperatures averaging in the low 40s and upper 30s °F (6–3 °C) for highs in the winter and falling into the low 20s °F (−5 °C) or lower on winter nights. Relatively cool summers have temperatures rarely rising above 80 °F (27 °C). Average snowfall in many areas exceeds 30 in (76 cm) per year, and can be heavy at the higher elevations; for example, during the Blizzard of 1993 more than 60 in (152 cm) of snow fell on Mount Mitchell over a period of three days. Mount Mitchell has received snow in every month of the year.
qas: answers: text: The Appalachian Mountains
question: What mountain range makes up the coolest part of North Carolina?

answers: text: low 40s and upper 30s °F
question: What are the average high winter temperatures in the Appalachians?

answers: text: low 20s °F (−5 °C) or lower
question: What are the low winter temperatures in the Appalachians?

answers: text: 80 °F
question: Temperatures rarely go higher than what temperature in the Appalachians?

answers: text: 30
question: Average snowfall in the Appalachians can exceed how many inches?

context: Severe weather occurs regularly in North Carolina. On the average, a hurricane hits the state once a decade. Destructive hurricanes that have struck the state include Hurricane Fran, Hurricane Floyd, and Hurricane Hazel, the strongest storm to make landfall in the state, as a Category 4 in 1954. Hurricane Isabel stands out as the most damaging of the 21st century. Tropical storms arrive every 3 or 4 years. In addition, many hurricanes and tropical storms graze the state. In some years, several hurricanes or tropical storms can directly strike the state or brush across the coastal areas. Only Florida and Louisiana are hit by hurricanes more often. Although many people believe that hurricanes menace only coastal areas, the rare hurricane which moves inland quickly enough can cause severe damage; for example, in 1989, Hurricane Hugo caused heavy damage in Charlotte and even as far inland as the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northwestern part of the state. On the average, North Carolina has 50 days of thunderstorm activity per year, with some storms becoming severe enough to produce hail, flash floods, and damaging winds.
qas: answers: text: once a decade
question: Hoe often do hurricanes hit North Carolina?

answers: text: hurricanes
question: Floyd, Fran, and Hazel are examples of what that hit the state of North Carolina?

answers: text: Hurricane Hazel
question: What was the strongest storm to make landfall in North Carolina?

answers: text: 4
question: What category of hurricane was Hazel?

answers: text: 1954
question: What year did Hurrican Hazel hit North Carolina?

context: North Carolina averages fewer than 20 tornadoes per year, many of them produced by hurricanes or tropical storms along the coastal plain. Tornadoes from thunderstorms are a risk, especially in the eastern part of the state. The western Piedmont is often protected by the mountains, which tend to break up storms as they try to cross over; the storms will often re-form farther east. Also a weather phenomenon known as "cold air damming" often occurs in the northwestern part of the state, which can also weaken storms but can also lead to major ice events in winter.
qas: answers: text: fewer than 20
question: How many tornadoes does North Carolina have per year?

answers: text: tornadoes
question: Houuricanes and tropical stors can produce what across the coastal plain?

answers: text: eastern
question: What part of the state holds the highest risk for tornadoes?

answers: text: mountains
question: What protects the western piedmont from tornadoes?

answers: text: cold air damming
question: What weather phenomenom can weaken storms but cause major ice events in NW North Carolina?

context: Before A.D. 200, residents were building earthwork mounds, which were used for ceremonial and religious purposes. Succeeding peoples, including those of the ancient Mississippian culture established by A.D. 1000 in the Piedmont, continued to build or add onto such mounds. In the 500–700 years preceding European contact, the Mississippian culture built large, complex cities and maintained far-flung regional trading networks. Historically documented tribes in the North Carolina region included the Carolina Algonquian-speaking tribes of the coastal areas, such as the Chowanoke, Roanoke, Pamlico, Machapunga, Coree, Cape Fear Indians, and others, who were the first to encounter the English; Iroquoian-speaking Meherrin, Cherokee and Tuscarora of the interior; and Southeastern Siouan tribes, such as the Cheraw, Waxhaw, Saponi, Waccamaw, and Catawba.[citation needed]
qas: answers: text: Before A.D. 200
question: During what time period did people buid earth mounds used for religious and ceremonial purposes?

answers: text: ancient Mississippian culture
question: By 1000 AD, what culture of people settled in the Piedmont?

answers: text: 500–700 years
question: About how many years before European contact did ancient Mississippian culture build large cities?

answers: text: Algonquian-speaking tribes
question: Pamlico and Cape fear indians are examples of what?

answers: text: the coastal areas
question: Where did the Algonquin speaking tribes of North Carolina live?

context: In June 1718 Blackbeard, aka Edward Teach, ran his flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, aground at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, in present-day Carteret County. After the grounding her crew and supplies were transferred to smaller ships. In 1996 Intersal, Inc., a private firm, discovered the remains of a vessel likely to be the Queen Anne's Revenge, which was added to the US National Register of Historic Places. In November, after losing his ship and appealing to the governor of North Carolina who promised safe-haven and a pardon, the notorious pirate, Blackbeard (Edward Teach) was killed in an ambush by troops from Virginia.
qas: answers: text: Edward Teach
question: What was another name for Blackbeard?

answers: text: the Queen Anne's Revenge
question: What was the name of blackbeards ship?

answers: text: Beaufort Inlet
question: Where in North Carolina did Blackbeards ship crash?

answers: text: 1718
question: What year did Blackbeard run his ship aground in North Carolina?

answers: text: 1996
question: What year were the remains of the Queen Anne's Revenge discovered?

context: North Carolina became one of the English Thirteen Colonies and with the territory of South Carolina was originally known as the Province of Carolina. The northern and southern parts of the original province separated in 1729. Originally settled by small farmers, sometimes having a few slaves, who were oriented toward subsistence agriculture, the colony lacked cities or towns. Pirates menaced the coastal settlements, but by 1718 the pirates had been captured and killed. Growth was strong in the middle of the 18th century, as the economy attracted Scots-Irish, Quaker, English and German immigrants. The colonists generally supported the American Revolution, as the number of Loyalists was smaller than in some other colonies.
qas: answers: text: the Province of Carolina
question: North carolina and Sounth Carolina together were known as what?

answers: text: 1729
question: What year were the northern and southern carolinas seperated?

answers: text: small farmers
question: What was the profession of most of the settlers in the Province of Carolina?

answers: text: Pirates
question: What people were a menace to the coastal areas of the Province of carolina?

answers: text: 1718
question: By what year had all of the pirates in the NC Province been captured or killed?

context: During colonial times, Edenton served as the state capital beginning in 1722, and New Bern was selected as the capital in 1766. Construction of Tryon Palace, which served as the residence and offices of the provincial governor William Tryon, began in 1767 and was completed in 1771. In 1788 Raleigh was chosen as the site of the new capital, as its central location protected it from attacks from the coast. Officially established in 1792 as both county seat and state capital, the city was named after Sir Walter Raleigh, sponsor of Roanoke, the "lost colony" on Roanoke Island.
qas: answers: text: Edenton
question: What was the state capital of North Carolina in 1722?

answers: text: New Bern
question: What city became the capital of North Carolina in 1766?

answers: text: William Tryon
question: Who was the governor of North carolina in 1767?

answers: text: Tryon Palace
question: What was the name of the offices and residence built for William Tryon?

answers: text: Raleigh
question: What central North carolina cuty was chosen for the capital in 1788?

context: North Carolina made the smallest per-capita contribution to the war of any state, as only 7,800 men joined the Continental Army under General George Washington; an additional 10,000 served in local militia units under such leaders as General Nathanael Greene. There was some military action, especially in 1780–81. Many Carolinian frontiersmen had moved west over the mountains, into the Washington District (later known as Tennessee), but in 1789, following the Revolution, the state was persuaded to relinquish its claim to the western lands. It ceded them to the national government so that the Northwest Territory could be organized and managed nationally.
qas: answers: text: North Carolina
question: What state made the smallest contribution to the revolutionary war of any state?

answers: text: 7,800
question: How many men from NC joined the continental army?

answers: text: 1780–81
question: What years were the highest concentration of military action in NC during the revolutionary war?

answers: text: General George Washington
question: Who led the continental army?

answers: text: Washington District
question: Frontiersmen from the Carolinas moved west into what area that is now known as Tennessee?

context: After 1800, cotton and tobacco became important export crops. The eastern half of the state, especially the Tidewater region, developed a slave society based on a plantation system and slave labor. Many free people of color migrated to the frontier along with their European-American neighbors, where the social system was looser. By 1810, nearly 3 percent of the free population consisted of free people of color, who numbered slightly more than 10,000. The western areas were dominated by white families, especially Scots-Irish, who operated small subsistence farms. In the early national period, the state became a center of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, with a strong Whig presence, especially in the West. After Nat Turner's slave uprising in 1831, North Carolina and other southern states reduced the rights of free blacks. In 1835 the legislature withdrew their right to vote.
qas: answers: text: After 1800
question: After what year did cotton and tobacco become important crops in North Carolina?

answers: text: eastern
question: The Tidewater region was in what half of North Carolina?

answers: text: the Tidewater region
question: What region of North Carolina used slave labor and developed a slave society?

answers: text: the frontier
question: Where did free black people migrate to because of the looser social system?

answers: text: 3
question: By 1810, what percentage of the free population was black?

context: With the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, the Reconstruction Era began. The United States abolished slavery without compensation to slaveholders or reparations to freedmen. A Republican Party coalition of black freedmen, northern carpetbaggers and local scalawags controlled state government for three years. The white conservative Democrats regained control of the state legislature in 1870, in part by Ku Klux Klan violence and terrorism at the polls, to suppress black voting. Republicans were elected to the governorship until 1876, when the Red Shirts, a paramilitary organization that arose in 1874 and was allied with the Democratic Party, helped suppress black voting. More than 150 black Americans were murdered in electoral violence in 1876.
qas: answers: text: 1865
question: What year was the confederacy defeated?

answers: text: Reconstruction Era
question: What Era began following the defeat of the confederacy?

answers: text: compensation
question: The US abolished slavery without giving what to slave owners?

answers: text: 1870
question: When did white Democrats regain control of the state legislature?

answers: text: black voting
question: What did the KKK target with violence and terrorism at the polls?

context: Democrats were elected to the legislature and governor's office, but the Populists attracted voters displeased with them. In 1896 a biracial, Populist-Republican Fusionist coalition gained the governor's office. The Democrats regained control of the legislature in 1896 and passed laws to impose Jim Crow and racial segregation of public facilities. Voters of North Carolina's 2nd congressional district elected a total of four African-American congressmen through these years of the late 19th century.
qas: answers: text: Democrats
question: What political party was elected to the legislature and Governors office?

answers: text: Populists
question: What political group attracted voters displeased with Democrats?

answers: text: 1896
question: What year did a biracial Populist fusion gain the Governors office?

answers: text: 1896
question: What year did the Democrats regain control of the governors office from the biracial Populists?

answers: text: four
question: In the 19th century, how many african american congressmen were elected?

context: In 1899 the state legislature passed a new constitution, with requirements for poll taxes and literacy tests for voter registration which disfranchised most black Americans in the state. Exclusion from voting had wide effects: it meant that black Americans could not serve on juries or in any local office. After a decade of white supremacy, many people forgot that North Carolina had ever had thriving middle-class black Americans. Black citizens had no political voice in the state until after the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed to enforce their constitutional rights. It was not until 1992 that another African American was elected as a US Representative from North Carolina.
qas: answers: text: a new constitution
question: What did the NC state legislature pass in 1899?

answers: text: poll taxes
question: What type of taxes were required by the new NC constitution?

answers: text: literacy tests
question: What did the new constitution require for voter registration?

answers: text: voting
question: Being excluded from doing what, made it so that black people could not serve on juries or in public office?

answers: text: 1964
question: What year was the Federal Civil Rights Act?

context: As in the rest of the former Confederacy, North Carolina had become a one-party state, dominated by the Democratic Party. Impoverished by the Civil War, the state continued with an economy based on tobacco, cotton and agriculture. Towns and cities remained few in the east. A major industrial base emerged in the late 19th century in the western counties of the Piedmont, based on cotton mills established at the fall line. Railroads were built to connect the new industrializing cities. The state was the site of the first successful controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, by the Wright brothers, near Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903. In the first half of the 20th century, many African Americans left the state to go North for better opportunities, in the Great Migration. Their departure changed the demographic characteristics of many areas.
qas: answers: text: Democratic
question: What political party Dominated NC after the confederacy?

answers: text: tobacco, cotton and agriculture
question: What was the economy of North Carolina based on after the confederacy?

answers: text: late 19th century
question: When did a major industrial base appear in North Carolina?

answers: text: western counties of the Piedmont
question: Where did the major industrial base appear in North Carolina?

answers: text: cotton mills
question: What was the emergence of the industrial base of North carolina based on?

context: North Carolina was hard hit by the Great Depression, but the New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt for cotton and tobacco significantly helped the farmers. After World War II, the state's economy grew rapidly, highlighted by the growth of such cities as Charlotte, Raleigh, and Durham in the Piedmont. Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill form the Research Triangle, a major area of universities and advanced scientific and technical research. In the 1990s, Charlotte became a major regional and national banking center. Tourism has also been a boon for the North Carolina economy as people flock to the Outer Banks coastal area and the Appalachian Mountains anchored by Asheville.
qas: answers: text: New Deal programs
question: What programs created by FDR helped North Carolina during the Great Depression?

answers: text: farmers
question: Who did the new deal programs benefit?

answers: text: cotton and tobacco
question: What crops was the New Deal Program made for?

answers: text: World War II
question: After what war did the states economy improve?

answers: text: Charlotte
question: In the 1990's what NC city became a national banking center?

context: North Carolina was inhabited for thousands of years by succeeding cultures of prehistoric indigenous cultures. Before 200 AD, they were building earthwork mounds, which were used for ceremonial and religious purposes. Succeeding peoples, including those of the ancient Mississippian culture established by 1000 AD in the Piedmont, continued to build or add on to such mounds. In the 500–700 years preceding European contact, the Mississippian culture built large, complex cities and maintained far-flung regional trading networks. Its largest city was Cahokia, located in present-day Illinois near the Mississippi River.
qas: answers: text: prehistoric indigenous cultures
question: What inhibited North Carolina for thousands of years?

answers: text: earthwork
question: Before 200 AD, people built what kind of mounds for religious purposes?

answers: text: Succeeding peoples
question: Who continued to build on to the religious mounds?

answers: text: Mississippian culture
question: Before European contact, who built large cities and regional trading networks?

answers: text: Cahokia
question: What was the largest city in the Piedmont before European contact?

context: Spanish explorers traveling inland in the 16th century met Mississippian culture people at Joara, a regional chiefdom near present-day Morganton. Records of Hernando de Soto attested to his meeting with them in 1540. In 1567 Captain Juan Pardo led an expedition to claim the area for the Spanish colony and to establish another route to protect silver mines in Mexico. Pardo made a winter base at Joara, which he renamed Cuenca. His expedition built Fort San Juan and left a contingent of 30 men there, while Pardo traveled further, and built and garrisoned five other forts. He returned by a different route to Santa Elena on Parris Island, South Carolina, then a center of Spanish Florida. In the spring of 1568, natives killed all but one of the soldiers and burned the six forts in the interior, including the one at Fort San Juan. Although the Spanish never returned to the interior, this effort marked the first European attempt at colonization of the interior of what became the United States. A 16th-century journal by Pardo's scribe Bandera and archaeological findings since 1986 at Joara have confirmed the settlement.
qas: answers: text: Joara
question: In the 16th century, where did Spanish explorers meet Mississipian cultureal people?

answers: text: a regional chiefdom
question: What is Joara?

answers: text: near present-day Morganton
question: Where would present day Joara be?

answers: text: Hernando de Soto
question: What was the name of the Spanish man that met the people in Joara?

answers: text: 1540
question: What year did hernando de Soto arrive in Joara?

context: In 1584, Elizabeth I granted a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, for whom the state capital is named, for land in present-day North Carolina (then part of the territory of Virginia). It was the second American territory which the English attempted to colonize. Raleigh established two colonies on the coast in the late 1580s, but both failed. The fate of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island remains one of the most widely debated mysteries of American history. Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in North America, was born on Roanoke Island on August 18, 1587; Dare County is named for her.
qas: answers: text: Sir Walter Raleigh
question: Who is the North Carolina state capital named for?

answers: text: Elizabeth I
question: Who granted the charter for Sir Walter Raleigh to travel to present day North Carolina?

answers: text: 1584
question: What year did Elizabeth I grant the charter to Raleigh to travel to North Carolina?

answers: text: North Carolina
question: What was the second american territory the English attempted to colonize?

answers: text: two
question: How many colonies did Raleigh establish on the coast of carolina in 1580?

context: As early as 1650, settlers from the Virginia colony moved into the area of Albemarle Sound. By 1663, King Charles II of England granted a charter to start a new colony on the North American continent; it generally established North Carolina's borders. He named it Carolina in honor of his father Charles I. By 1665, a second charter was issued to attempt to resolve territorial questions. In 1710, owing to disputes over governance, the Carolina colony began to split into North Carolina and South Carolina. The latter became a crown colony in 1729.
qas: answers: text: Virginia
question: In 1650, settlers from what colony moved in to Albemarie Sound?

answers: text: 1663
question: What year did King Charles II grant a charter to North America?

answers: text: North Carolina's borders
question: What did King Charles II's charter establish?

answers: text: Charles I
question: Carolina was named after King Charles iI's father, what was his name?

answers: text: 1665
question: What year was a second charter made to establish the borders of Carolina?

context: After the Spanish in the 16th century, the first permanent European settlers of North Carolina were English colonists who migrated south from Virginia. The latter had grown rapidly and land was less available. Nathaniel Batts was documented as one of the first of these Virginian migrants. He settled south of the Chowan River and east of the Great Dismal Swamp in 1655. By 1663, this northeastern area of the Province of Carolina, known as the Albemarle Settlements, was undergoing full-scale English settlement. During the same period, the English monarch Charles II gave the province to the Lords Proprietors, a group of noblemen who had helped restore Charles to the throne in 1660. The new province of "Carolina" was named in honor and memory of King Charles I (Latin: Carolus). In 1712, North Carolina became a separate colony. Except for the Earl Granville holdings, it became a royal colony seventeen years later. A large revolt happened in the state in 1711 known as Cary's Rebellion.
qas: answers: text: English colonists
question: After the Spanish, who were the first Europeans to settle North Carolina?

answers: text: Virginia
question: Where did the English colonists that settle North carolina come from?

answers: text: less available
question: The English colonist  left virginia because of what issue with the land there?

answers: text: Nathaniel Batts
question: Who was one of the first Virginian migrants to reach the carolinas?

answers: text: 1655
question: What year did Nathaniel Battes settle in North Carolina?

context: Differences in the settlement patterns of eastern and western North Carolina, or the Low Country and uplands, affected the political, economic, and social life of the state from the 18th until the 20th century. The Tidewater in eastern North Carolina was settled chiefly by immigrants from rural England and the Scottish Highlands. The upcountry of western North Carolina was settled chiefly by Scots-Irish, English, and German Protestants, the so-called "cohee". Arriving during the mid- to late 18th century, the Scots-Irish from what is today Northern Ireland were the largest non-English immigrant group before the Revolution; English indentured servants were overwhelmingly the largest immigrant group before the Revolution. During the American Revolutionary War, the English and Highland Scots of eastern North Carolina tended to remain loyal to the British Crown, because of longstanding business and personal connections with Great Britain. The English, Welsh, Scots-Irish, and German settlers of western North Carolina tended to favor American independence from Britain.
qas: answers: text: Low Country
question: Eastern North Carolina is also known as what?

answers: text: uplands
question: Western North carolina is also known as what?

answers: text: eastern North Carolina
question: Where was The Tidewater located?

answers: text: The Tidewater
question: Where did immigrants from England and the Scottish Highlands settle?

answers: text: the British Crown
question: Who did the Tidewater settlers remain loyal to during the American revolution?

context: Most of the English colonists had arrived as indentured servants, hiring themselves out as laborers for a fixed period to pay for their passage. In the early years the line between indentured servants and African slaves or laborers was fluid. Some Africans were allowed to earn their freedom before slavery became a lifelong status. Most of the free colored families formed in North Carolina before the Revolution were descended from unions or marriages between free white women and enslaved or free African or African-American men. Because the mothers were free, their children were born free. Many had migrated or were descendants of migrants from colonial Virginia. As the flow of indentured laborers to the colony decreased with improving economic conditions in Great Britain, planters imported more slaves, and the state's legal delineations between free and slave status tightened, effectively hardening the latter into a racial caste. The economy's growth and prosperity was based on slave labor, devoted first to the production of tobacco.
qas: answers: text: indentured servants
question: Most English colonists arrived as what?

answers: text: laborers
question: Indentured servants hired theirselves out as what?

answers: text: passage
question: What did the English settlers get in return for their labor?

answers: text: African slaves
question: Indentured servants were similar to what people in the early days?

answers: text: slaves
question: As indentured servants improved the economy, there became a greater need to import more what?

context: On April 12, 1776, the colony became the first to instruct its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for independence from the British Crown, through the Halifax Resolves passed by the North Carolina Provincial Congress. The dates of both of these events are memorialized on the state flag and state seal. Throughout the Revolutionary War, fierce guerrilla warfare erupted between bands of pro-independence and pro-British colonists. In some cases the war was also an excuse to settle private grudges and rivalries. A major American victory in the war took place at King's Mountain along the North Carolina–South Carolina border; on October 7, 1780, a force of 1000 mountain men from western North Carolina (including what is today the state of Tennessee)and Southwest Virginia overwhelmed a force of some 1000 British troops led by Major Patrick Ferguson. Most of the soldiers fighting for the British side in this battle were Carolinians who had remained loyal to the Crown (they were called "Tories" or Loyalists). The American victory at Kings Mountain gave the advantage to colonists who favored American independence, and it prevented the British Army from recruiting new soldiers from the Tories.
qas: answers: text: 1776
question: What year did North Carolina instruct its delegates to vote for independence?

answers: text: the British Crown
question: Who was north carolina seeking independence from in 1776?

answers: text: 1780
question: What year was Americas Victory at King's Mountain?

answers: text: 1000
question: How many North Carolina mountain men fought at King's Mountain?

answers: text: 1000
question: How many British troops fought at king's Mountain?

context: The road to Yorktown and America's independence from Great Britain led through North Carolina. As the British Army moved north from victories in Charleston and Camden, South Carolina, the Southern Division of the Continental Army and local militia prepared to meet them. Following General Daniel Morgan's victory over the British Cavalry Commander Banastre Tarleton at the Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781, southern commander Nathanael Greene led British Lord Charles Cornwallis across the heartland of North Carolina, and away from the latter's base of supply in Charleston, South Carolina. This campaign is known as "The Race to the Dan" or "The Race for the River."
qas: answers: text: the Southern Division of the Continental Army and local militia
question: Who met the British army as they moved north?

answers: text: the British Cavalry
question: Who lost the battle of Cowpens?

answers: text: Commander Banastre Tarleton
question: Who led the British calvary at Cowpen?

answers: text: January 17, 1781
question: What was the date of the battle of Cowpens?

answers: text: The Race for the River
question: What is another name for the race to the Dan?

context: In the Battle of Cowan's Ford, Cornwallis met resistance along the banks of the Catawba River at Cowan's Ford on February 1, 1781, in an attempt to engage General Morgan's forces during a tactical withdrawal. Morgan had moved to the northern part of the state to combine with General Greene's newly recruited forces. Generals Greene and Cornwallis finally met at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in present-day Greensboro on March 15, 1781. Although the British troops held the field at the end of the battle, their casualties at the hands of the numerically superior Continental Army were crippling. Following this "Pyrrhic victory", Cornwallis chose to move to the Virginia coastline to get reinforcements, and to allow the Royal Navy to protect his battered army. This decision would result in Cornwallis' eventual defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, later in 1781. The Patriots' victory there guaranteed American independence.
qas: answers: text: Catawba
question: The Battle of Cowan's Ford was fought on the banks of what river?

answers: text: 1781
question: What year was the battle of Cowans Ford?

answers: text: Greensboro
question: What is the present day name of the city that the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought at?

answers: text: Virginia coastline
question: After losing the battle of Guilford Courthouse, Cornawallis moved his troops where?

answers: text: to get reinforcements
question: What did Cornwallis move to the coastline after losing the battle of Guilford Courthouse?

context: On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the Constitution. In 1840, it completed the state capitol building in Raleigh, still standing today. Most of North Carolina's slave owners and large plantations were located in the eastern portion of the state. Although North Carolina's plantation system was smaller and less cohesive than that of Virginia, Georgia, or South Carolina, significant numbers of planters were concentrated in the counties around the port cities of Wilmington and Edenton, as well as suburban planters around the cities of Raleigh, Charlotte, and Durham in the Piedmont. Planters owning large estates wielded significant political and socio-economic power in antebellum North Carolina, which was a slave society. They placed their interests above those of the generally non-slave-holding "yeoman" farmers of western North Carolina. In mid-century, the state's rural and commercial areas were connected by the construction of a 129-mile (208 km) wooden plank road, known as a "farmer's railroad", from Fayetteville in the east to Bethania (northwest of Winston-Salem).
qas: answers: text: the Constitution
question: North Carolina was the twelth state to ratify what document?

answers: text: November 21, 1789
question: What date did North Carolina ratify the constitution?

answers: text: 1840
question: What year was the state capitol building of North Carolina completed?

answers: text: Raleigh
question: Where was the capitol building completed in 1840?

answers: text: eastern
question: What part of the state were most slave and plantation owners concentrated in?

context: Besides slaves, there were a number of free people of color in the state. Most were descended from free African Americans who had migrated along with neighbors from Virginia during the 18th century. The majority were the descendants of unions in the working classes between white women, indentured servants or free, and African men, indentured, slave or free. After the Revolution, Quakers and Mennonites worked to persuade slaveholders to free their slaves. Some were inspired by their efforts and the language of the Revolution to arrange for manumission of their slaves. The number of free people of color rose markedly in the first couple of decades after the Revolution.
qas: answers: text: Virginia
question: Some of the free people of color migrated from what state during the 18th century?

answers: text: free their slaves
question: After the revolution Quakers and mennonited encouraged slaveholders to do what?

answers: text: rose
question: What happened to the number of free colored people for the first few decades after the war?

context: On October 25, 1836, construction began on the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad to connect the port city of Wilmington with the state capital of Raleigh. In 1849 the North Carolina Railroad was created by act of the legislature to extend that railroad west to Greensboro, High Point, and Charlotte. During the Civil War, the Wilmington-to-Raleigh stretch of the railroad would be vital to the Confederate war effort; supplies shipped into Wilmington would be moved by rail through Raleigh to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
qas: answers: text: Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad
question: What was the name of the railroad that began construction in 1836?

answers: text: Raleigh
question: The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad was going to connect Wilmington to what city?

answers: text: North Carolina Railroad
question: In 1849, what railroad was created?

answers: text: west
question: What direction did the North carolina railroad extend?

answers: text: Wilmington-to-Raleigh stretch
question: What stretch of the railroad was vital to the confederates in the civil war?

context: While slaveholding was slightly less concentrated than in some Southern states, according to the 1860 census, more than 330,000 people, or 33% of the population of 992,622, were enslaved African Americans. They lived and worked chiefly on plantations in the eastern Tidewater. In addition, 30,463 free people of color lived in the state. They were also concentrated in the eastern coastal plain, especially at port cities such as Wilmington and New Bern, where a variety of jobs were available. Free African Americans were allowed to vote until 1835, when the state revoked their suffrage in restrictions following the slave rebellion of 1831 led by Nat Turner. Southern slave codes criminalized willful killing of a slave in most cases.
qas: answers: text: 33
question: In 1860, what percent of the North Carolina population were slaves?

answers: text: eastern Tidewater
question: Where were most of the slaves in North Carolina located?

answers: text: plantations
question: What type of land did the slaves live on?

answers: text: 30,463
question: How many free people of color lived in NC in 1860?

answers: text: eastern coastal plain
question: Where were the free people of color located in north carolina in 1860?

context: In 1860, North Carolina was a slave state, in which one-third of the population was enslaved. This was a smaller proportion than in many Southern states. The state did not vote to join the Confederacy until President Abraham Lincoln called on it to invade its sister state, South Carolina, becoming the last or second-to-last state to officially join the Confederacy. The title of "last to join the Confederacy" has been disputed; although Tennessee's informal secession on May 7, 1861, preceded North Carolina's official secession on May 20, the Tennessee legislature did not formally vote to secede until June 8, 1861.
qas: answers: text: one-third
question: What fraction of the population of North Carolina was enslaved in 1860?

answers: text: South Carolina
question: North Carolina did not vote to join the confederacy until they were ordered to invade what state?

answers: text: May 20
question: When was North Carolinas official secession?

answers: text: May 7, 1861
question: When was Tennessees informal secession?

answers: text: June 8, 1861
question: When did Tennessee officially vote to secede?

context: After secession, some North Carolinians refused to support the Confederacy. Some of the yeoman farmers in the state's mountains and western Piedmont region remained neutral during the Civil War, while some covertly supported the Union cause during the conflict. Approximately 2,000 North Carolinians from western North Carolina enlisted in the Union Army and fought for the North in the war. Two additional Union Army regiments were raised in the coastal areas of the state, which were occupied by Union forces in 1862 and 1863. Numerous slaves escaped to Union lines, where they became essentially free.
qas: answers: text: the Confederacy
question: Some North Carolinians still refused to support what after secession?

answers: text: yeoman
question: Some of what farmers remained neutral during the civil war?

answers: text: in the state's mountains and western Piedmont region
question: Where were the yoeman farmers that remained neutral during the civil war located?

answers: text: 2,000
question: How many North Carolinians from the west fought for the union Army?

answers: text: 1862 and 1863
question: When did union forces occupy coastal areas of North carolina?

context: Confederate troops from all parts of North Carolina served in virtually all the major battles of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy's most famous army. The largest battle fought in North Carolina was at Bentonville, which was a futile attempt by Confederate General Joseph Johnston to slow Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's advance through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865. In April 1865, after losing the Battle of Morrisville, Johnston surrendered to Sherman at Bennett Place, in what is today Durham. North Carolina's port city of Wilmington was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union, in February 1865, after the Union won the nearby Second Battle of Fort Fisher, its major defense downriver.
qas: answers: text: Army of Northern Virginia
question: What was the name of the Confederacys most famous army?

answers: text: virtually all
question: How many battles of the army of Northern Virginia did confederate troops from north Carolina fight in?

answers: text: Bentonville
question: What was the name of the largest battle fought in North Carolina?

answers: text: General Joseph Johnston
question: What was the name of the confederate general that fought in Bentonville?

answers: text: General William Tecumseh Sherman
question: What was the name of the Union General that fought in Bentonville?

context: The first Confederate soldier to be killed in the Civil War was Private Henry Wyatt from North Carolina, in the Battle of Big Bethel in June 1861. At the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, the 26th North Carolina Regiment participated in Pickett/Pettigrew's Charge and advanced the farthest into the Northern lines of any Confederate regiment. During the Battle of Chickamauga, the 58th North Carolina Regiment advanced farther than any other regiment on Snodgrass Hill to push back the remaining Union forces from the battlefield. At Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865, the 75th North Carolina Regiment, a cavalry unit, fired the last shots of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the Civil War. For many years, North Carolinians proudly boasted that they had been "First at Bethel, Farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, and Last at Appomattox."
qas: answers: text: Private Henry Wyatt
question: Who was the first confederate soldier to be killed in the civil war?

answers: text: North Carolina
question: Where was henry Wyatt from?

answers: text: in the Battle of Big Bethel
question: What battle did Private Henry Wyatt die in?

answers: text: June 1861
question: When did Henry Wyatt die?

answers: text: July 1863
question: When was the battle of Gettysburg?

context: While the Baptists in total (counting both blacks and whites) have maintained the majority in this part of the country (known as the Bible Belt), the population in North Carolina practices a wide variety of faiths, including Judaism, Islam, Baha'i, Buddhism, and Hinduism. As of 2010 the Southern Baptist Church was the biggest denomination, with 4,241 churches and 1,513,000 members; the second largest was the United Methodist Church, with 660,000 members and 1,923 churches. The third was the Roman Catholic Church, with 428,000 members in 190 congregations. The fourth greatest was the Presbyterian Church (USA), with 186,000 members and 710 congregations; this denomination was brought by Scots-Irish immigrants who settled the backcountry in the colonial era.
qas: answers: text: Bible Belt
question: What is the religious name given to the part of the country that includes the Carolinas?

answers: text: Baptists
question: What religion holds the majority in the Bible Belt?

answers: text: Southern Baptist
question: What was the largest denomination in North Carolina in 2010?

answers: text: United Methodist Church
question: What was the second largest denomination in North carolina in 2010?

answers: text: Roman Catholic
question: What was the third largest denomination in North carolina in 2010?

context: Currently, the rapid influx of northerners and immigrants from Latin America is steadily increasing ethnic and religious diversity: the number of Roman Catholics and Jews in the state has increased, as well as general religious diversity. The second-largest Protestant denomination in North Carolina after Baptist traditions is Methodism, which is strong in the northern Piedmont, especially in populous Guilford County. There are also a substantial number of Quakers in Guilford County and northeastern North Carolina. Many universities and colleges in the state have been founded on religious traditions, and some currently maintain that affiliation, including:
qas: answers: text: ethnic and religious diversity
question: Immigrants from latin America coming to North Carolina is increasing what?

answers: text: increased
question: What has happened to the number of Roman Catholics and Jews in North Carolina?

answers: text: increased
question: Religious diversity in North Carolina has generally what?

answers: text: Methodism
question: What is the second largest Protestant denomination in North Carolina?

answers: text: Guilford
question: What county in Piedmont is methodism especially strong in?

context: According to a Forbes article written in 2013 Employment in the "Old North State" has gained many different industry sectors. See the following article summary: science, technology, energy and math, or STEM, industries in the area surrounding North Carolina's capital have grown 17.9 percent since 2001, placing Raleigh-Cary at No. 5 among the 51 largest metro areas in the country where technology is booming. In 2010 North Carolina's total gross state product was $424.9 billion, while the state debt in November 2012, according to one source, totalled US$2.4bn, while according to another, was in 2012 US$57.8bn. In 2011 the civilian labor force was at around 4.5 million with employment near 4.1 million. The working population is employed across the major employment sectors. The economy of North Carolina covers 15 metropolitan areas. In 2010, North Carolina was chosen as the third-best state for business by Forbes Magazine, and the second-best state by Chief Executive Officer Magazine.
qas: answers: text: Old North State
question: What is the Nickname given to North Carolina?

answers: text: 17.9
question: Science, Technology, energy, and math industries have risen what percent since 2001?

answers: text: 5
question: What is raleigh-Cary ranked among the 51 largest metro areas in the country?

answers: text: $424.9 billion
question: What was North Carolinas gross state product in 2010?

answers: text: $2.4bn
question: What was North Carolinas state debt in 2012?

context: North Carolina's party loyalties have undergone a series of important shifts in the last few years: While the 2010 midterms saw Tar Heel voters elect a bicameral Republican majority legislature for the first time in over a century, North Carolina has also become a Southern swing state in presidential races. Since Southern Democrat Jimmy Carter's comfortable victory in the state in 1976, the state had consistently leaned Republican in presidential elections until Democrat Barack Obama narrowly won the state in 2008. In the 1990s, Democrat Bill Clinton came within a point of winning the state in 1992 and also only narrowly lost the state in 1996. In the early 2000s, Republican George W. Bush easily won the state by over 12 points, but by 2008, demographic shifts, population growth, and increased liberalization in heavily populated areas such as the Research Triangle, Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville, and Asheville, propelled Barack Obama to victory in North Carolina, the first Democrat to win the state since 1976. In 2012, North Carolina was again considered a competitive swing state, with the Democrats even holding their 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. However, Republican Mitt Romney ultimately eked out a 2-point win in North Carolina, the only 2012 swing state that Obama lost, and one of only two states (along with Indiana) to flip from Obama in 2008 to the GOP in 2012.
qas: answers: text: 1976
question: North carolina voters have leaned republican since what year?

answers: text: 2008
question: What year did North Carolina voters once again vote for a Democrat?

answers: text: 1992
question: What year did Bill Clinton win North Carolina?

answers: text: 1996
question: What year did Bill Clinton lose North Carolina?

answers: text: Charlotte
question: Where was the 2012 democratic national Convention held?

context: In 2012, the state elected a Republican Governor (Pat McCrory) and Lieutenant Governor (Dan Forest) for the first time in more than two decades, while also giving the Republicans veto-proof majorities in both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate. Several U.S. House of Representatives seats also flipped control, with the Republicans holding nine seats to the Democrats' four. In the 2014 mid-term elections, Republican David Rouzer won the state's Seventh Congressional District seat, increasing the congressional delegation party split to 10-3 in favor of the GOP.
qas: answers: text: Pat McCrory
question: Who was elected Governor of North Carolina in 2012?

answers: text: Republican
question: What political party does Pat McCrory belong to?

answers: text: Dan Forest
question: Who ws elected Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 2012?

answers: text: Republican
question: What political party does Dan Forest belong to?

answers: text: David Rouzer
question: Who won North Carolinas 7th congressional district seat in 2014?

context: Elementary and secondary public schools are overseen by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction is the secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Education, but the board, rather than the superintendent, holds most of the legal authority for making public education policy. In 2009, the board's chairman also became the "chief executive officer" for the state's school system. North Carolina has 115 public school systems, each of which is overseen by a local school board. A county may have one or more systems within it. The largest school systems in North Carolina are the Wake County Public School System, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Guilford County Schools, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and Cumberland County Schools. In total there are 2,425 public schools in the state, including 99 charter schools. North Carolina Schools were segregated until the Brown v. Board of Education trial and the release of the Pearsall Plan.
qas: answers: text: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
question: What agency oversees public schools in North Carolina?

answers: text: the board
question: Who holds most legal authority for making education policy?

answers: text: 2009
question: What year did the boards chairman become the Chief Executive officer of public schools?

answers: text: 115
question: How many public school systems does North Carolina have?

answers: text: Wake County Public School System
question: What is the largest school system in North Carolina?

context: In 1795, North Carolina opened the first public university in the United States—the University of North Carolina (now named the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). More than 200 years later, the University of North Carolina system encompasses 17 public universities including North Carolina State University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina Central University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, East Carolina University, Western Carolina University, Winston-Salem State University, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, UNC Wilmington, Elizabeth City State University, Appalachian State University, Fayetteville State University, and UNC School of the Arts, and . Along with its public universities, North Carolina has 58 public community colleges in its community college system.The largest university in North Carolina is currently North Carolina State University, with more than 34,000 students. North Carolina is home to many excellent universities as well as dozens of community colleges and private universities.
qas: answers: text: North Carolina
question: What state opened the first public university in the United States?

answers: text: 1795
question: What year was the first public university opened in the United States?

answers: text: University of North Carolina
question: What was the name of the first public university to open in the US?

answers: text: North Carolina State University
question: What is the largest University in North Carolina?

answers: text: 34,000
question: How many students does North Carolina State University enroll?

context: North Carolina is also home to many well-known private colleges and universities, including Duke University, Wake Forest University, Pfeiffer University, Lees-McRae College, Davidson College, Barton College, North Carolina Wesleyan College, Elon University, Guilford College, Livingstone College, Salem College, Shaw University (the first historically black college or university in the South), Laurel University, Meredith College, Methodist University, Belmont Abbey College (the only Catholic college in the Carolinas), Campbell University, University of Mount Olive, Montreat College, High Point University, Lenoir-Rhyne University (the only Lutheran university in North Carolina) and Wingate University.
qas: answers: text: private
question: Duke University and Shaw University are examples of what type of colleges that are in North Carolina?

answers: text: Shaw University
question: What was the first black college in the south?

answers: text: Belmont Abbey College
question: What is the name of the only Catholic college in the Carolinas?

answers: text: Lenoir-Rhyne University
question: What is the name of the only Lutheran University in North Carolina?

context: North Carolina is home to three major league sports franchises: the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League and the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association are based in Charlotte, while the Raleigh-based Carolina Hurricanes play in the National Hockey League. The Panthers and Hurricanes are the only two major professional sports teams that have the same geographical designation while playing in different metropolitan areas. The Hurricanes are the only major professional team from North Carolina to have won a league championship, having captured the Stanley Cup in 2006. North Carolina is also home to Charlotte Hounds of the Major League Lacrosse.
qas: answers: text: three
question: How many major league sports franchises make North carolina home?

answers: text: The Hurricanes
question: What is the only professional team from North carolina to have won a league championship?

answers: text: National Hockey League
question: The Carolina Hurricanes belong to what league?

answers: text: National Basketball Association
question: The Charlotte Hornets belong to what league?

answers: text: National Football League
question: The Caroli8na panthers belong to what league?

context: In addition to professional team sports, North Carolina has a strong affiliation with NASCAR and stock-car racing, with Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord hosting two Sprint Cup Series races every year. Charlotte also hosts the NASCAR Hall of Fame, while Concord is the home of several top-flight racing teams, including Hendrick Motorsports, Roush Fenway Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, Stewart-Haas Racing, and Chip Ganassi Racing. Numerous other tracks around North Carolina host races from low-tier NASCAR circuits as well.
qas: answers: text: Charlotte Motor Speedway
question: What Speedway in North Carolina hosts two Sprint cupseries races each year?

answers: text: Concord
question: Where is Charlotte motor Speedway located?

answers: text: Charlotte
question: What North Carolina city hosts the NASCAR Hall of Fame?

answers: text: Concord
question: What North carolina city is home to several top racing teams?

context: College sports are also popular in North Carolina, with 18 schools competing at the Division I level. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is headquartered in Greensboro, and both the ACC Football Championship Game (Charlotte) and the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament (Greensboro) were most recently held in North Carolina. College basketball in particular is very popular, buoyed by the Tobacco Road rivalries between Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, and Wake Forest. The ACC Championship Game and The Belk Bowl are held annually in Charlotte's Bank of America Stadium, featuring teams from the ACC and the Southeastern Conference. Additionally, the state has hosted the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four on two occasions, in Greensboro in 1974 and in Charlotte in 1994.
qas: answers: text: 18
question: How many colleges compete at the Division 1 level in North Carolina?

answers: text: Greensboro
question: Where is the ACC headquarters?

answers: text: North Carolina
question: Where were the ACC football and basketball championships recently held?

answers: text: Charlotte's Bank of America Stadium
question: What stadium host the ACC championship game and the Belk Bowl each year?

answers: text: two
question: How many times has North Carolina hosted the NCAA final four?

context: Every year the Appalachian Mountains attract several million tourists to the Western part of the state, including the historic Biltmore Estate. The scenic Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park are the two most visited national park and unit in the United States with over 25 million visitors in 2013. The City of Asheville is consistently voted as one of the top places to visit and live in the United States, known for its rich art deco architecture, mountain scenery and outdoor activities, and liberal and happy residents.
qas: answers: text: several million
question: How many people go to see the Appalachian Mountains each year?

answers: text: Western
question: What part of the state are the Appalachian Mountains in?

answers: text: Appalachian
question: Great Smoky mountain and Blue Ridge Parkway are located in what mountain range?

answers: text: over 25 million
question: How many tourists visited the Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge parkway in 2013?

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

context: In Raleigh many tourists visit the Capital, African American Cultural Complex, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NCSU, Haywood Hall House & Gardens, Marbles Kids Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of History, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, Raleigh City Museum, J. C. Raulston Arboretum, Joel Lane House, Mordecai House, Montfort Hall, and the Pope House Museum. The Carolina Hurricanes NHL hockey team is also located in the city.
qas: answers: text: Carolina Hurricanes
question: What Hockey team is located in Raleigh?

answers: text: NHL
question: What league do the Carolina Hurricanes belong to?

answers: text: North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
question: What Hall of Fame is located in Raleigh?

answers: text: J. C. Raulston Arboretum
question: What arboretum is located in Raleigh?

context: The Piedmont Triad, or center of the state, is home to Krispy Kreme, Mayberry, Texas Pete, the Lexington Barbecue Festival, and Moravian cookies. The internationally acclaimed North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro attracts visitors to its animals, plants, and a 57-piece art collection along five miles of shaded pathways in the world's largest-land-area natural-habitat park. Seagrove, in the central portion of the state, attracts many tourists along Pottery Highway (NC Hwy 705). MerleFest in Wilkesboro attracts more than 80,000 people to its four-day music festival; and Wet 'n Wild Emerald Pointe water park in Greensboro is another attraction.
qas: answers: text: The Piedmont Triad
question: What is the center of North Carolina called?

answers: text: The Piedmont Triad
question: Where is the Krispy kreme headquarters located?

answers: text: Asheboro
question: What city is the North Carolina Zoo in?

answers: text: five
question: How many miles of shaded pathways does the Nort Carolina Zoo have?

answers: text: Wilkesboro
question: What North Carolina City hosts the Merlefest?

context: North Carolina provides a large range of recreational activities, from swimming at the beach to skiing in the mountains. North Carolina offers fall colors, freshwater and saltwater fishing, hunting, birdwatching, agritourism, ATV trails, ballooning, rock climbing, biking, hiking, skiing, boating and sailing, camping, canoeing, caving (spelunking), gardens, and arboretums. North Carolina has theme parks, aquariums, museums, historic sites, lighthouses, elegant theaters, concert halls, and fine dining.
qas: answers: text: recreational
question: Fishing, hunting, and birdwatching are what kind of activities that are provided in North Carolina?

answers: text: fall colors
question: In the Fall, people go to North Carolina to see what?

answers: text: spelunking
question: What is another name for caving?

context: North Carolinians enjoy outdoor recreation utilizing numerous local bike paths, 34 state parks, and 14 national parks. National Park Service units include the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Cape Lookout National Seashore, Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site at Flat Rock, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site at Manteo, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro, Moores Creek National Battlefield near Currie in Pender County, the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, Old Salem National Historic Site in Winston-Salem, the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, and Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills. National Forests include Uwharrie National Forest in central North Carolina, Croatan National Forest in Eastern North Carolina, Pisgah National Forest in the northern mountains, and Nantahala National Forest in the southwestern part of the state.
qas: answers: text: 34
question: Howmany state parks are in North Carolina?

answers: text: 14
question: How many national parks are in North Carolina?

answers: text: central North Carolina
question: Where is the Uwharrie national Forest located?

answers: text: Eastern North Carolina
question: Where is Croatan National Forest located?

answers: text: Greensboro
question: Where is the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park?

context: North Carolina has rich traditions in art, music, and cuisine. The nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $1.2 billion in direct economic activity in North Carolina, supporting more than 43,600 full-time equivalent jobs and generating $119 million in revenue for local governments and the state of North Carolina. North Carolina established the North Carolina Museum of Art as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding and continues to bring millions into the NC economy. Also see this list of museums in North Carolina.
qas: answers: text: nonprofit arts and culture
question: What industry generates 1.2 billion in economic activity each year for North carolina?

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

answers: text: $119 million
question: How much money does the nonprofit arts and culture industry raise for government?

answers: text: North Carolina Museum of Art
question: What was the first museum in the country to be formed by legislature?

answers: text: millions
question: How much money does the North Carolina Museum of art generate?

context: North Carolina has a variety of shopping choices. SouthPark Mall in Charlotte is currently the largest in the Carolinas, with almost 2.0 million square feet. Other major malls in Charlotte include Northlake Mall and Carolina Place Mall in nearby suburb Pineville. Other major malls throughout the state include Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem; Crabtree Valley Mall, North Hills Mall, and Triangle Town Center in Raleigh; Friendly Center and Four Seasons Town Centre in Greensboro; Oak Hollow Mall in High Point; Concord Mills in Concord; Valley Hills Mall in Hickory; and The Streets at Southpoint and Northgate Mall in Durham and Independence Mall in Wilmington, NC, and Tanger Outlets in Charlotte, Nags Head, Blowing Rock, and Mebane, NC.
qas: answers: text: Charlotte
question: Where is SouthPark Mall located?

answers: text: SouthPark Mall
question: What is the largest mall in the carolinas?

answers: text: 2.0 million square feet
question: How big is SouthPark Mall?

answers: text: Winston-Salem
question: Where is the hanes Mall located?

answers: text: Greensboro
question: Where is the Four Seasons Town Center located?

context: A culinary staple of North Carolina is pork barbecue. There are strong regional differences and rivalries over the sauces and methods used in making the barbecue. The common trend across Western North Carolina is the use of premium grade Boston butt. Western North Carolina pork barbecue uses a tomato-based sauce, and only the pork shoulder (dark meat) is used. Western North Carolina barbecue is commonly referred to as Lexington barbecue after the Piedmont Triad town of Lexington, home of the Lexington Barbecue Festival, which attracts over 100,000 visitors each October. Eastern North Carolina pork barbecue uses a vinegar-and-red-pepper-based sauce and the "whole hog" is cooked, thus integrating both white and dark meat.
qas: answers: text: pork barbecue
question: What is a culinary staple of North Carolina?

answers: text: Boston butt
question: What cut of pork do those in western North carolina prefer for BBQ?

answers: text: Lexington barbecue
question: What is another name for Western North Carolina Barbecue?

answers: text: pork shoulder
question: What cut of pork do those in Western North Carolina prefer for BBQ?

answers: text: over 100,000
question: How many people visit the lexington Barbecue festival each year?

context: Krispy Kreme, an international chain of doughnut stores, was started in North Carolina; the company's headquarters are in Winston-Salem. Pepsi-Cola was first produced in 1898 in New Bern. A regional soft drink, Cheerwine, was created and is still based in the city of Salisbury. Despite its name, the hot sauce Texas Pete was created in North Carolina; its headquarters are also in Winston-Salem. The Hardee's fast-food chain was started in Rocky Mount. Another fast-food chain, Bojangles', was started in Charlotte, and has its corporate headquarters there. A popular North Carolina restaurant chain is Golden Corral. Started in 1973, the chain was founded in Fayetteville, with headquarters located in Raleigh. Popular pickle brand Mount Olive Pickle Company was founded in Mount Olive in 1926. Fast casual burger chain Hwy 55 Burgers, Shakes & Fries also makes its home in Mount Olive. Cook Out, a popular fast-food chain featuring burgers, hot dogs, and milkshakes in a wide variety of flavors, was founded in Greensboro in 1989 and has begun expanding outside of North Carolina. In 2013, Southern Living named Durham - Chapel Hill the South's "Tastiest City."
qas: answers: text: doughnut
question: Krispy kreme is a chain of what kind of stores?

answers: text: Winston-Salem
question: Where is the Krispy kreme headquarters?

answers: text: 1898
question: When was pepsi-Cola first produced?

answers: text: New Bern
question: Where was pepsi first produced?

answers: text: Salisbury
question: What city was Cheerwine created and based in?

context: Over the last decade, North Carolina has become a cultural epicenter and haven for internationally prize-winning wine (Noni Bacca Winery), internationally prized cheeses (Ashe County), "L'institut International aux Arts Gastronomiques: Conquerront Les Yanks les Truffes, January 15, 2010" international hub for truffles (Garland Truffles), and beer making, as tobacco land has been converted to grape orchards while state laws regulating alcohol content in beer allowed a jump in ABV from 6% to 15%. The Yadkin Valley in particular has become a strengthening market for grape production, while Asheville recently won the recognition of being named 'Beer City USA.' Asheville boasts the largest breweries per capita of any city in the United States. Recognized and marketed brands of beer in North Carolina include Highland Brewing, Duck Rabbit Brewery, Mother Earth Brewery, Weeping Radish Brewery, Big Boss Brewing, Foothills Brewing, Carolina Brewing Company, Lonerider Brewing, and White Rabbit Brewing Company.
qas: answers: text: Noni Bacca Winery
question: What international prize winning winery is located in North Carolina?

answers: text: Ashe County
question: What prized cheeses are made in North Carolina?

answers: text: grape
question: Much tobacco land has been transformed into what kind of orchards?

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

answers: text: Asheville
question: What city was named Beer City USA?

context: Tobacco was one of the first major industries to develop after the Civil War. Many farmers grew some tobacco, and the invention of the cigarette made the product especially popular. Winston-Salem is the birthplace of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR), founded by R. J. Reynolds in 1874 as one of 16 tobacco companies in the town. By 1914 it was selling 425 million packs of Camels a year. Today it is the second-largest tobacco company in the U.S. (behind Altria Group). RJR is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc., which in turn is 42% owned by British American Tobacco.
qas: answers: text: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
question: Winston Salem is the headquarters of what tobacco Company?

answers: text: Tobacco
question: The invention of cigarettes made what popular?

answers: text: 1874
question: What year was RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company founded?

answers: text: 425 million
question: How many packs of camel cigarettes were sold per year in 1914?

answers: text: Tobacco
question: What was one of the first growing industries to develope after the civil war?

context: Located in Jacksonville, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, combined with nearby bases Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, MCAS New River, Camp Geiger, Camp Johnson, Stone Bay and Courthouse Bay, makes up the largest concentration of Marines and sailors in the world. MCAS Cherry Point is home of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. Located in Goldsboro, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is home of the 4th Fighter Wing and 916th Air Refueling Wing. One of the busiest air stations in the United States Coast Guard is located at the Coast Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City. Also stationed in North Carolina is the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point in Southport.
qas: answers: text: Jacksonville
question: Where is Camp Lejeune located?

answers: text: Marine Corps Base Camp
question: What is Camp Lejeune?

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

answers: text: Goldsboro
question: Where is Seymour johnson air force base located?

answers: text: Southport
question: Where is the military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point stationed?