Outer Banks Literature Quiz

Graveyard of the Atlantic was the first of a number of books on the history of the Outer Banks. His work was so meticulously researched that it is still sited in scholarly papers as authentic. His collection of historic documents formed the nucleus of the Outer Banks History Center. David, with his father, was largely responsible for the creation of Southern Shores.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Suzanne Tate is well-known for her nature series books, but she had published two other series of books. What are they?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Oral histories and History series for children.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Recipes of the Outer Banks and History series.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Nature Hikes and Bike Paths and Recipes of the Outer Banks.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Unsolved Mysteries of the Outer Banks and History Series for Children.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Although books in both series are now difficult to find, they\u2019re worth seeking out. The oral histories, especially, offer a fascinating glimpse of the Outer Banks 75-125 years ago. Logs & moonshine: Tales of\u00a0Buffalo City, N.C\u00a0has been reissued.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who illustrates Suzanne Tates Nature Series books?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Pablo Picasso”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Glenn Eure”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”James Melvin “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Thomas Jarvis “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

James Melvin is an extraordinarily talented Outer Banks artist and the illustrator of Suzanne Tate\u2019s Nature Series and History Series books for children. James Melvin works are featured in a number of Outer Banks galleries and his paintings are worth seeking out.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who wrote Taffy of Torpedo Junction?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Nell Wechter “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Anne Siddons “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Unaka Jennette “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Joseph Terrell “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Wechter was a teacher, journalist and author. She is most widely known for her book Taffy of Torpedo Junction that tells the story of Hatteras Island during WWII. She wrote other books for children including Betsy Dowdy’s Ride and\u00a0The Mighty Midgetts of Chicamcomico.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who wrote Nights in Rodanthe?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Jenny Hale “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”John White “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Nicholas Sparks “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Addie Tate “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Nicholas Sparks is perhaps the best known author of romance novels currently writing. His book, Nights in Rodanthe was turned into a movie that was filmed in Rodanthe.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Pulitzer Prize winning author David McCullough wrote a book about the Outer Banks. What was the title of the book and its subject?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1719; the life and times of Blackbeard the Pirate”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Freedom\u2019s Spirit; Roanoke Island and the Freedman\u2019s Colony”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Lighting the Paths of the Seas; the history of the lighthouses of the Outer Banks.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”The Wright Brothers; Their time on the Outer Banks and beyond.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:””},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Author Kevin Duffus has written a number of books about coastal North Carolina. Three of his books are specifically about the Outer Banks and Outer Banks events. What are their titles?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”War Zone: World War II Off the North Carolina Coast; The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate; The Story of Cape Fear and Bald Head Island”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Into the Burning Sea; The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate; The Lost Light”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks; The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate; Not Our Kind of Killing”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate; The Lost Light; Outer Banks Mysteries”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Kevin Duffus does some remarkably deep dives into the history of his subjects. That was certainly the case with his book on Black Beard where he called into question information that has been accepted as fact, but probably is not. He does the same for the Mirlo rescue in Into the Burning Sea, which is an apt description of the conditions encountered by the Life Saving crew from the Chicamacomico station. The Lost Light looks at a little known but intriguing mystery\u2014what happened to the first order Fresnel Lens in the original Cape Hatteras Lighthouse after the Civil War.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who is Harrison Weaver?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”The Author of Legends of the Outer Banks.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”The main protagonist in Joseph Terrell\u2019s mystery novels set on the Outer Banks.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Adrienne Willis love interest in Nights in Rodanthe. “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”The nom de plume of Outer Banks author Joseph Terrell. “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Harrison Weaver is a crime writer who is living\u00a0 on the Outer Banks in semi-retirement. Somehow he keeps getting entangled in local\u00a0 crime\u2014invariably murder. Joseph has a wonderful eye for detail that brings local places to life. The dialogue is snappy and believable. Very readable books and highly recommended.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who wrote Sketches of Lower North Carolina?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Charles H. Whedbee”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”James D. Charlet “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Edmund Ruffin “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Dixie Browning “,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Ruffin is a difficult figure to categorize historically. An ardent advocate for slavery and the southern plantation system, he reportedly fired the first shot at Fort Sumpter when he was in his late 60s. Soon after Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865, he committed suicide. However, he was a passionate and eloquent advocate of crop rotation and the use of fertilizer for farmers. His Sketches of Lower North Carolina is extraordinary in its detail of life in coastal North Carolina in the 1850s.\n”}],”appreciations”:[{“content”:”Clearly you have never cracked a book about the Outer Banks. Here are three recommendations to get you going Graveyard of the Atlantic, David Sick; Nights in Rodanthe, Nicholas Sparks; any of the Harrison Weaver mystery novels by Joseph Terrell.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”1″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Since we just gave away three answers in the 0-1 right, there\u2019s no excuse for not getting at least three correct answers.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”3″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Since we just gave away three answers in the 0-1 right, there\u2019s no excuse for not getting at least three correct answers.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”5″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Considering how difficult some of this is, we\u2019re very impressed. Your personal library probably numbers close to 100 books about the Outer Banks.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”7″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”The American Academy of Dermatology\u00a0recommends\u00a0wearing\u00a0SPF\u00a030 or higher when sitting on the beach. Since the evidence points to spending a minimum of four hours a day sitting on the beach and reading, we thought we would pass that information along.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”8″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Even the arcane and obscure does not stump you. Amazing!”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”9″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”}]},”nounce”:”bc4e5c310c”,”page”:1,”quiz_url”:”https:\/\/blog.carolinadesigns.com\/quizes\/outer-banks-literature-quiz\/”,”next_page_url”:”\/quizes\/outer-banks-literature-quiz\/?page=2″,”fbshare_page_url”:”https:\/\/blog.carolinadesigns.com\/quizes\/outer-banks-literature-quiz\/?wpvqgrogtags=1″,”results_only”:”false”,”results_url”:””}};