North Carolina Trivia

North Carolina Trivia is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characters:

- The famous Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, lived in and are buried near Mount Airy--the town after which Andy Griffith modeled his Mayberry TV town

- George Herman Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in a scrimmage match in Fayetteville

- It's illegal to sing off-key in the town of Nags Head

- The world's largest privately owned home, measuring 175,000 square feet, is the Biltmore Estate in Asheville--built by the famous Vanderbilt family

- The first English colony in America was located on Roanoke Island, but the inhabitants mysteriously vanished

- The state was the nation's biggest producer of gold, long before the California Gold Rush

- People from across the country meet up in Spivey's Corner and holler for all they're worth in the National Hollerin' Contest.

And so much more...