Q 01/05

Where does Greenville rank among South Carolina's cities by population, according to the 2020 census?

A) Third

B) Fourth

C) Sixth

D) Eighth

Answer · why

C) Sixth

The city itself has just over 70,000 people, but its metro area, at nearly a million, is the largest in the state.

Q 02/05

Which waterway runs through the middle of downtown Greenville?

A) Saluda River

B) Reedy River

C) Tyger River

D) Enoree River

Answer · why

B) Reedy River

It is a tributary of the Saluda, and its falls in the West End are considered the birthplace of the city.

Q 03/05

Before colonists arrived, the land that became Greenville was the hunting ground of which Native nation?

A) Yamasee

B) Catawba

C) Cherokee

D) Creek

Answer · why

C) Cherokee

The Treaty of Dewitt's Corner in 1777 ceded almost all of their land, including present-day Greenville, to South Carolina.

Q 04/05

Which local peak still carries a version of Loyalist settler Richard Pearis's name?

A) Caesars Head

B) Table Rock

C) Glassy Mountain

D) Paris Mountain

Answer · why

D) Paris Mountain

Pearis backed the Loyalists, so the Patriots burned his plantation and jailed him in Charleston; the mountain kept his name in a different spelling.

Q 05/05

What was the village established in 1797 by Lemuel J. Alston called before it took the name Greenville?

A) Alstonville

B) Reedy Falls

C) Pleasantburg

D) Prospect Hill

Answer · why

C) Pleasantburg

Alston built a stately mansion there; Vardry McBee later bought the land in 1816 and made the mansion his home.