Q 01/05

Which magazine did Time Inc. editors plan in 1954 at Pine Lakes Country Club, the oldest golf course in Myrtle Beach?

A) Golf Digest

B) National Geographic

C) Sports Illustrated

D) Field & Stream

Answer · why

C) Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated was hatched at Pine Lakes by Time Inc. founder Henry Luce, who was no fan of games himself. Local course owners credit the magazine...

Q 02/05

Which TV personality, raised in North Myrtle Beach, studied fashion in Atlanta before joining a game show in 1982?

A) Vanna White

B) Nancy O'Dell

C) Leeza Gibbons

D) Mary Hart

Answer · why

A) Vanna White

Vanna White became co-host of Wheel of Fortune in December 1982. She competed in the Miss Georgia USA pageant in 1978 while working as a model in Atla...

Q 03/05

Which country band played for tips six nights a week at The Bowery in Myrtle Beach before finding fame in 1980?

A) Restless Heart

B) Diamond Rio

C) Sawyer Brown

D) Alabama

Answer · why

D) Alabama

Alabama repaid the club in 2013 with a 40th-anniversary tour named Back to the Bowery. The band left its long-running gig there in July 1980 to promot...

Q 04/05

Which country music star owns Pirates Voyage, the Myrtle Beach dinner show that took over the Dixie Stampede theater?

A) Reba McEntire

B) Dolly Parton

C) Kenny Rogers

D) Garth Brooks

Answer · why

B) Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton closed her Dixie Stampede there after 18 years and rebuilt the arena around a 15-foot-deep pool. The replacement show stars Blackbeard, a...

Q 05/05

Which team, famous from a 1988 Kevin Costner film, moved and later became the Myrtle Beach Pelicans baseball club?

A) Durham Bulls

B) Toledo Mud Hens

C) Carolina Mudcats

D) Savannah Sand Gnats

Answer · why

A) Durham Bulls

The Durham Bulls franchise left North Carolina when a Triple-A club took over its name. It spent 1998 as the Danville 97s while a new ballpark went up...