Outer Banks History Quiz

On November 22, 1719 in the waters of Ocracoke Island, Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the British Navy, trapped Blackbeard, boarded his ship, and in a horrific battle killed him. Operating on the orders of Governor Spotswood of Virginia to kill or capture the pirate, Maynard proceeded to behead Blackbeard, mounted his head on the bowsprit of his ship, and sailed for Norfolk. It is still a matter of debate of Spotswood\u2019s order for the capture or death of Blackbeard was legal.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”In what year did Oregon Inlet open?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1846″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1929″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1862″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1719″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

September 8, 1846 to be exact. Storms were not named in 1846, but in September a tropical system spun for a while off Hatteras Island, pushing water to the west side of the sounds. When the storm finally began to move north, the wind shifted pushing a wall of water to the Outer Banks creating Oregon and Hatteras Inlets.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who was Richard Etheridge?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”An African-American educator who founded the College of the Albemarle.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Local political leader whose advocacy for Hatteras Island improvements forced the government to provide electricity and clean water to the island.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Manteo resident and first Black American to hold the ranks of Lifesaving Station Keeper.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Postmaster of the Kitty Hawk Post Office who wrote to the Wright Brothers extolling the virtues of the Outer Banks for their experiments in flight.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Etheridge was born in 1842 on Roanoke Island, the property of John Etheridge. Etheridge was a remarkable person, joining Union forces during the Civil War and rising to the equivalent of a Master Sergeant. Returning to Roanoke Island he joined the Lifesaving Service. At the time that he was promoted to Station Keeper of the Pea Island Life Saving Station in 1880, no Black Americans were in a supervisory position in the Life Saving Service. The crew was made up of all African Americans to prevent a White from having to take orders from Etheridge. The station rescued the crew of the three-masted schooner Newman in October, 1896. 100 years later the decedents of the crew were awarded the Coast Guard Gold Medal for outstanding valor in a rescue.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”In what year was Dare County created?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1876″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1919″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1783″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1870″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Dare County was created from bits and pieces of Currituck, Tyrell and Hyde counties. The original area included Hatteras Island, what is now Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills, Roanoke Island and East Lake and Manns Harbor. In 1920 the state legislature moved Kitty Hawk and Duck out of Currituck County and into Dare County.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”When was the Bonner Bridge opened?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”2019″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1889″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1966″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1963″,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Herbert Covington Bonner was the US House Representative for northeastern North Carolina from 1940-1965 when he died.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”In what year did Franklin D. Roosevelt visit the Outer Banks and why did he visit?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1945, to celebrate the end of WWII”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1937, to attend a performance of The Lost Colony”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1911, during his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in his Progressive Party”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1954, to reassure residents that Ocracoke was not going to be used as a site for tests of nuclear weapons.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

On August 18, 1937 FDR visited the Outer Banks on the 350th Anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare, the first English baby born in North America. He also attended a performance of The Lost Colony, which had its theatrical premier on July 4th of that year.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Where is Military Camp Hill and how did it get its name?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Kill Devil Hills, highest point in Kill Devil Hills and used as a lookout site.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”There never has been a Military Camp Hill on the Outer Banks.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Kitty Hawk, so named because there was a radar station on the hill in WWII.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”T.\tManteo, highest point on Roanoke Island. Capt. Ralph Lane of Lost Colony used it to observe Indian tribes.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Today it\u2019s where the Holy Redeemer Church is located, but in WWII a radar was installed to search for German Uboats. Checkpoints were established to pass from the beach to Kitty Hawk Village. The installation was dismantled in 1946.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”What is the significance of the name Mirlo?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”The original name of Rodanthe.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”WWI tanker that was torpedoed and sank. Rescue carried out by the Chicamacomico Life Saving Station.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”WWII tanker that was torpedoed and sank. Rescue carried out by the Chicamacomico Life Saving Station.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Its origins are unclear but the word seems to be an Anglicized version of the Algonquin words, \u201cmur lo qua\u201d meaning place of sand.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Struck by a torpedo from German submarine U-117 off Rodanthe, the British tanker Mirlo exploded spewing burning oil onto the sea surface. The rescue operation, led by Station Keeper John Midgett, is considered one of the most heroic in US Coast Guard history.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who was Sir John Colleton and why was he important to the Outer Banks?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”One of the Lords Proprietors that were granted the right to own and colonize much of the Colonial South in the 17th century.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”One of the principal financial backers of Sir Walter Raleigh\u2019s doomed Lost Colony expedition. A misspelling of his name was attached to a small island north or Roanoke Island\u2014Colington.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”A minor English nobleman who carried on a lively correspondence with the Wright Brothers. In 1902 he visited their camp. His description the swarms of mosquitos legendary, although he said almost nothing about their experiments.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”The governor of Virginia who ordered the death or capture of Blackbeard the Pirate.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

The Lords Proprietors were a group of eight English nobles who had supported Charles I in the English Civil War. When Charles II, the son of Charles I, regained the crown in 1660, he awarded the eight nobles with massive land grants in the New World. Colington Island, part of the holdings of Sir John Colleton, was an unsuccessful attempt at colonization and a reminder of those times.\n”}],”appreciations”:[{“content”:”Hard to imagine, but some things actually occurred before you were born. Nothing important, of course, but you may wish to spend a little bit of time thinking about history..”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”1″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Yes, these are tough questions, but we never said you couldn\u2019t look up the answers. Besides, statistically, random guesses will give you this score.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”3″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”You’re making progress. Don\u2019t give up. Chances are you figured out this is an open book (or the equivalent) test.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”5″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Clearly someone who appreciates history and its significance.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”7″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”OK\u2026we\u2019re impressed. History and some its more arcane facts clearly fascinate you. For the select few who find the minutiae of history fascinating, you are their best friend; others, when meeting you at a cocktail party, start searching desperately for anyone who they can greet as a friend and graciously excuse themselves.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”8″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”We had to do a fair amount of research for this one. How many of the books we used for reference did you write?”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”9″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”}]},”nounce”:”bc4e5c310c”,”page”:1,”quiz_url”:”https:\/\/blog.carolinadesigns.com\/quizes\/outer-banks-history-quiz\/”,”next_page_url”:”\/quizes\/outer-banks-history-quiz\/?page=2″,”fbshare_page_url”:”https:\/\/blog.carolinadesigns.com\/quizes\/outer-banks-history-quiz\/?wpvqgrogtags=1″,”results_only”:”false”,”results_url”:””}};