Q 01/05

Wilmington sits on which North Carolina river?

A) Cape Fear

B) Neuse

C) Pamlico

D) Roanoke

Answer · why

A) Cape Fear

Cape Fear: Wilmington stands about 30 miles up the river from the open sea, yet it grew into North Carolina's chief seaport.

Q 02/05

Wilmington is the county seat of which county?

A) Brunswick

B) New Hanover

C) Pender

D) Columbus

Answer · why

B) New Hanover

New Hanover: the county dates from 1729 and honours the House of Hanover, the German dynasty that had inherited the British throne fifteen years earli...

Q 03/05

Wilmington is named for Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who went on to hold which British office in 1742?

A) Lord Chancellor

B) Prime minister

C) Archbishop of Canterbury

D) Lord Mayor of London

Answer · why

B) Prime minister

Prime minister: Compton, a patron of the colony's governor Gabriel Johnston, followed Robert Walpole and is counted as Britain's second holder of the ...

Q 04/05

The woman in which famous American painting was born in Wilmington in 1804?

A) American Gothic

B) Christina's World

C) Whistler's Mother

D) Madame X

Answer · why

C) Whistler's Mother

Whistler's Mother: Anna McNeill Whistler was born at Fourth and Orange Streets, and the portrait her son painted in London was later bought by the Fre...

Q 05/05

The railroad from Wilmington to Weldon, completed in 1840, held what world record?

A) Longest single rail line

B) First steel rails

C) First passenger service in the South

D) Fastest steam locomotive

Answer · why

A) Longest single rail line

Longest single rail line: about 161 miles of track, it was meant to run to Raleigh until the capital's citizens declined to buy enough shares.