Than to Know
SOUTH CAROLINA!!
Directions: Use the Internet resources provided to find the answers to these South
Carolina questions.
A. State Symbols
1. What is the name of the state flower?
Yellow Jess Jasmine
2. What is the name of the state tree? PNM free (sibles
3. What are the two emblems on the state flag? (resent moon/Palm Free
4. What Colonel chose the background color for the state flag? MUC
5. Why was the palmetto tree chosen to be on the state flag? Fort Sumter
6. What is the state bird? Carolina wren
7. What is the song sung by this bird that can be heard year-round?
8. What bird was also the state bird in 1939? Nord
9. What is the state shell?
10. What is the state reptile?
11. When was the state reptile adopted?
12. What is the state fruit?
13. How many different varieties of this fruit are grown in SC?
B. South Carolina First
14. When did South Carolina secede from the Union?
15. Where was the first American opera performed?
16. What college was the first South Carolina textile school?
17. What was this college AND when was it started?
18. When were the 1st bales of cotton exported from SC?
19. When was the first Civil War shot fired?
20. Where was the first Civil War shot fired?
21. When was the first railroad completed and where did it run from/to?