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Question date: 05/31/11
The first opera performance in America took place in SC in the first building in the country designed exclusively for theatrical performances. Name the opera and the building.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Georgetown, SC is often referred to as the "Ghost Capital of the South".
Question date: 05/24/11
Name the South Carolina town that has been referred to as the "Ghost Capital of the South".
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This week's winner will receive four tickets to a Charleston Battery professional soccer match at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Allendale county was formed in 1919 from parts of Barnwell and Hampton counties.
Question date: 05/17/11
What and when was South Carolina's last county created and which two counties contributed to it's creation?
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This week's winner will receive a collection of SC history books from The History Press in Charleston, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The only two towns that are not located in the counties with the same names are: the town of Kershaw is in Lancaster County and the town of Richland is in Oconee County.
Question date: 05/10/11
SC has only two towns that are not in the counties with the same names as the towns. Name the towns and the counties.
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This week's winner will receive a delicious prize package from www.carasmaticcreations.com in Sumter, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Deer skins were the most profitable commodity exported from SC prior to rice in the 18th century.
Question date: 05/03/11
Until the development of rice production in the 18th century, what was the most profitable commodity exported from SC?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The first US military cemetery in SC was established by President Lincoln in Beaufort in 1863.
Question date: 04/26/11
When and where was the first US military cemetery in SC established?
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
In 1811, Andrew Ellicott made a survey for the State of Georgia to resolve the boundary dispute between Georgia and North Carolina. He marked a large rock in the Chattooga River with "NC-GA", standing for North Carolina - Georgia.
Two years later commissioners representing South Carolina and North Carolina marked a large rock along the Chattooga River bank with the inscription "Lat 35 AD 1813 NC + S.C." as the juncture where the South Carolina and North Carolina state lines joined.
The rock marked by the S.C. and N.C. commissioners in 1813, rather than the rock marked by Ellicott in 1811, is usually called Ellicott's Rock. It is also known as Ellicott Rock. This is commonly accepted as the point where the boundary lines of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia join.
Question date: 04/19/11
When and where was the official point marked where the NC, SC, and GA state lines meet?
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This week's winner will receive a delicious prize package from the Greenville, SC location of the Great Harvest Bread Company at www.carolinabreadheads.com.
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC's Isle of Palms was originally known as Long Island.
Question date: 04/12/11
Long Island was the original name of what elegant resort and residential SC island community?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Beaufort County (home of Hilton Head) has more residents not from SC than any other county in the state.
Question date: 04/05/11
Name the SC county with the largest portion of its population not born in the state.
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This week's winner will receive four tickets to a Charleston Battery professional soccer match at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The first woman to serve on a jury trial in South Carolina was Hazel Switzer in Feb. 1958 in Greenville in Federal District court.
The first women to serve on a State court jury did so in Walhalla in Oconee County in April 1967, this was a 6 member Magistrates court jury.
The First women to serve on a 12 member state jury was in Anderson County in May 1967.
Question date: 03/29/11
We did not have a winner last week so we are running the same question again with additional prizes...good luck!
When and where did women first serve on a South Carolina jury?
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This week's winner will receive a delicious prize package from www.carasmaticcreations.com in Sumter, SC and a collection of SC history books from the History Press in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
We did not have a winner last week so we are running the same question again with additional prizes...good luck!
Question date: 03/22/11
When and where did women first serve on a South Carolina jury?
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This week's winner will receive a delicious prize package from www.carasmaticcreations.com in Sumter, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Calvin Gilmore is SC's official country music ambassador. He still performs at the Carolina Opry in Myrtle Beach.
Question date: 03/15/11
Name South Carolina's official country music ambassador.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
South Carolina's first tax-supported library was in Marion in 1905.
Question date: 03/08/11
When and where was the first tax-supported library in SC?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Erskine Caldwell, author of the novel "Tobacco Road", was expelled from Erskine College in Due West, SC.
Question date: 03/01/11
A famous American author who wrote novels about poverty, racism, and social problems in the South was actually expelled from a small SC college which has the same name as the first name of this author. Name the author and the college.
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This week's winner will receive a delicious prize package from the Greenville, SC location of the Great Harvest Bread Company at www.carolinabreadheads.com.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Samuel Hopkins Adams was the writer whose exposes of patented medicines helped bring about the first Pure Food and Drug Act of 1916. He died at his winter home in Beaufort, SC in 1958.
Question date: 02/22/11
Name the writer who died at his winter home in Beaufort in 1958, many years after his expose of false claims of patent medicines helped bring about the first Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The little book of inspirational messages that Henry Ford once gave to all 25,000 of his employees was "Life's Extras" written by SC author: Archibald Rutledge.
Question date: 02/15/11
Name the little book of meditations (and its South Carolina author) that Henry Ford once gave to all 25,000 of his employees for inspiration.
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This week's winner will receive four tickets to a Charleston Battery professional soccer match at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Henry Timrod is the 19th century Charleston, SC author known as the Poet Laureate of the Confederacy.
Question date: 02/08/11
Name the SC author know as the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy".
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This week's winner will receive a collection of SC history books from The History Press in Charleston, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
McCormick, SC was named after Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the reaper, who purchased a gold mine there.
Question date: 02/01/11
Name the SC town named after a famous inventor who purchased a gold mine in that same town.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The novel, Peter Ashley, by Dubose Heyward concerns the adventures of a Charleston aristocrat who returned from Oxford University on the eve of secession.
Question date: 01/25/11
What novel by a SC author concerned the adventures of a Charleston aristocrat who returned from Oxford University on the eve of secession. Hint: The same author inspired a Gershwin masterpiece.
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Paul Hamilton Hayne is the SC author and former Confederate soldier who was known for his nature poetry and for being called the Last Literary Cavalier.
Question date: 01/18/11
Name the Civil War confederate soldier noted for his nature poetry, who was also known as the "last literary cavalier".
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This week's winner will receive a delicious prize package from the Greenville, SC location of the Great Harvest Bread Company at www.carolinabreadheads.com.
Answer to the previous week's question:
William Gilmore Simms was the SC author whose entire library of 10,000 volumes was destroyed by General Sherman's troops during the civil war.
Question date: 01/11/11
Name the South Carolina author whose entire library of 10,000 books was destroyed by General Sherman's troops during the civil war.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 12/21/10
No Question Until Next Year.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Santa Clause used to ride an elephant in the annual Christmas parade in York, SC.
Question date: 12/14/10
Name the SC town that used to feature Santa Clause riding an elephant in their annual Christmas parade.
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This week's winner will receive a collection of SC history books from The History Press in Charleston, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
ABC aired regionally the first USC-Clemson football game in 1977.
Question date: 12/07/10
In what year did the first Carolina-Clemson football game appear on TV and on what network?
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston including the holiday favorite "Polar Express" in their new 4-D theater.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Doc Blanchard from Bishopville, SC won the Heisman Trophy in 1945 while playing for Army.
Question date: 11/30/10
Name the only Heisman Trophy winner who was actually born in SC, where was he from, and what year did he win?
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This week's winner will receive a collection of SC history books from The History Press in Charleston, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 11/23/10
No question this week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
In 1999, the SC legislature voted to end video poker in SC as of July 1, 2000.
Question date: 11/16/10
When did video poker end in SC?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Rivers Bridge Sate Park in Ehrhardt, SC commemorates the only serious resistance to General Sherman's civil war march through our state.
Question date: 11/09/10
Name the state park that commemorates the only serious resistance to General Sherman's march through SC during the civil war.
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston including the holiday favorite "Polar Express" in their new 4-D theater.
Answer to the previous week's question:
You can see and use 100-year-old telephones at the Comporium Telephone Museum in Rock Hill, SC.
Question date: 11/02/10
Where in SC can you still see and use phones from 100 years ago?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Alex English is an award-winning SC native basketball player that owns a Wendy's hamburger franchise in Blythewood and Columbia, SC.
Question date: 10/26/10
Name the SC native and former award-winning basketball player that now owns a Wendy's franchise and where in SC is that hamburger shop located?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Pete Chilcutt, is the Sumter, SC native that was a first round draft pick and member of the 1995 Houston Rockets championship team.
Question date: 10/19/10
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This week's winner will receive a copy of the book: "101 Winning Marketing Actions for Small Businesses" by Janet Christy
Answer to the previous week's question:
Only California has a larger peach harvest than SC.
Question date: 10/12/10
Name the only state with a larger peach harvest than SC.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The official SC state snack is "boiled peanuts".
Question date: 10/05/10
Name the state snack of South Carolina.
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The eastern tiger swallowtail is SC's state butterfly.
Question date: 09/28/10
Name the SC state butterfly.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Running for over 200 miles, SC's Edisto River is the longest blackwater river in the world.
Question date: 09/21/10
Although part of South Carolina’s tourism business is our state’s river system, did you know that SC is home to the longest black water river in the world, running for over 200 miles? Name that river.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 09/14/10
No question this week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 09/07/10
No question this week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Although Myrtle Beach State Park was the first to open in 1936, Cheraw State Park was our first state park, established in 1934.
Question date: 08/31/10
Which SC state park was our first state park?
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This week's winner will receive a copy of the book: "Tales from the SC Upstate" from The History Press in Charleston, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The Great Flood of 1916 wreaked havoc in NC and SC, mostly along the Catawba River.
Question date: 08/24/10
In what year did a "Great Flood" wreak havoc in North and South Carolina?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
SC is second in the nation in concentration of industrial engineering jobs.
Question date: 08/17/10
Which engineering jobs category does SC rank highest in and what is that national ranking?
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Apparently New York is now laying claim to the oldest continuously operating council chambers in the country but the second oldest is City Hall in Charleston, SC.
Question date: 08/10/10
According to the 2007 Census, SC is 39th in the nation with 23.5% of adults 25 and older having a college degree.
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This week's winner will receive four tickets to a Charleston Battery professional soccer match at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Where in SC is the oldest operating council chamber in the country?
Question date: 08/03/10
What percent of South Carolinians over 25 years-old have a college degree and what is our state's national ranking?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Late last year, Conde Nast Traveler magazine ranked only San Francisco ahead of Charleston, SC as a top 10 travel destination in the US.
Question date: 07/27/10
Name the only city a popular travel magazine ranked ahead of Charleston late last year as a top ten travel destination.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The 19th century physician, J. Marion Sims of Hanging Rock, SC, was known as the father of American gynecology.
Question date: 07/20/10
Name the Hanging Rock, SC native known as the father of American Gynecology.
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This week's winner will receive a copy of the book: The Hidden History of Charleston from The History Press in Charleston, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Barnwell, SC is home to a rare vertical sundial that has been keeping time for more than 150 years.
Question date: 07/13/10
Name the SC town that has a rare vertical sundial that has been telling time for more than 150 years?
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
In 1985, Sumter, SC-born Joseph Goldstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on cholesterol.
Question date: 07/06/10
Name the Sumter-born scientist who won a Nobel prize for his work on cholesterol.
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This week's winner will receive four tickets to a Charleston Battery professional soccer match at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 05/11/10
No new question until July 8.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Maria Martin (Bachman) (1796–1863) of Charleston, South Carolina, USA, was a watercolor painter who worked with John James Audubon on Birds of America (1831-39) and Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845-48). Of the three assistants that Audubon had while working on Birds of
America, Martin was the only woman.
Question date: 05/04/10
Name the Charleston, SC woman who assisted John James Audubon in his work and is considered America's first female naturalist.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Camden, SC owns the hottest temperature in our state, hitting 111 degrees Fahrenheit on June 28, 1954.
Question date: 04/27/10
Where, When and What was SC's highest recorded temperature?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
King's Mountain State Park near Blacksburg, SC features a living history farm typical of a nineteenth century working farm in SC.
Question date: 04/20/10
Name the SC State Park that features a living history farm typical of a nineteenth century working farm in SC.
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This week's winner will receive a copy of the book: Plantation Between The Waters: A Brief History of Hobcaw Barony from The History Press in Charleston, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Montana and Louisiana are ahead of SC in a recent study of the deadliest highways in America as published by Readers Digest.
Question date: 04/13/10
According to a recent report in a major magazine, who were the only two states ranked ahead of SC as having the deadliest highways in the country?
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to Forbes magazine, Augusta/Aiken is the SC metro area recovering fastest from the recession. Columbia is number 2.
Question date: 04/06/10
According to Forbes magazine, which SC metro area is recovering fastest from the recession?
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This week's winner will receive four tickets to a Charleston Battery professional soccer match at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to a recent FBI-commissioned study, the coastal areas of SC are the riskiest in the nation for ID theft.
Question date: 03/30/10
According to a recent FBI study, SC was named the riskiest state in the union for identity theft. Which area of SC is the worst in our state for identity theft?
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This week's winner will receive a delicious prize package from www.charlestoncookie.com and a "historical images" book about a place in SC from Charleston's Arcadia Publishing.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Last week's answer was not actually published anywhere for anyone to find so the question has been re-phrased on the same topic for this week.
Question date: 03/23/10
According to the FBI, after South Carolina, which state is the 2nd riskiest for ID theft?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
After Charleston, Myrtle Beach Intl. Airport, at 744,000, had the most airplane passenger boardings in SC...followed by Greenville/Spartanburg and Columbia.
Question date: 03/16/10
Which SC airport had the second highest number of airplane passenger boardings in 2009? Charleston was #1.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Replaying last week's question with a clarification and additional prize.
Question date: 03/09/10
Which SC airport had the second highest number of airplane passengers in 2009? Charleston was #1.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Dept. of Insurance, 19.4% of South Carolinians do not have health care insurance.
Question date: 03/02/10
According to the SC Dept. of Insurance, what percentage of South Carolinians do not have health care insurance?
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Between 1913 and 1921, former State newspaper editor William E. Gonzales served as ambassador to Cuba and Peru.
Question date: 02/23/10
Name the SC journalist and business person who later served as US ambassador to Cuba and Peru.
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This week's winner will receive four tickets to a Charleston Battery professional soccer match at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Founded in 1803, the Charleston Post and Courier is the oldest daily newspaper in the south.
Question date: 02/16/10
Name the SC paper that is the oldest daily newspaper in the south.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
A recent survey found that SC's 6th Congressional District is the least happiest in SC. That district is comprised of Bamburg, Clarendon, Colleton, Marion, and Williamsburg counties and parts of several others.
Question date: 02/09/10
According to a recent survey, which of SC's congressional districts was found to be the least happy?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
There are five breweries on SC:
Palmetto
New South
COAST
RJ Rockers
Thomas Creek
Question date: 02/02/10
Re-Run same question from last week since no correct answer was received:
How many breweries are in South Carolina? Not including brew-pubs, just breweries.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No correct answer last week.
Question date: 01/26/10
How many breweries are in South Carolina?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Only California exports more to Germany than SC does.
Question date: 01/19/10
Name the only state in the nation that exports more to Germany than South Carolina.
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
There were 34 intellectual property lawsuits filed in SC Federal District Court in 2009.
Question date: 01/12/10
How many intellectual property lawsuits were filed in SC federal district court in 2009?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
46 Centers of Economic Excellence were approved by the SC Legislature and 22 endowed chairs have been appointed so far.
Question date: 01/05/10
How many Centers of Economic Excellence were approved by the SC Legislature and how many endowed chairs have been appointed so far?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 12/22/09
No Question until 1/5/10.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 12/15/09
No question until Jan. 5th.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The SC legislature is in session from the 2nd Tuesday of January through 5:00 PM on the 1st Thursday of June UNLESS an extension is voted on by 2/3 vote of both houses.
Question date: 12/08/09
When is the SC Legislature in session?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The largest single-step dam and lock in North America is located at Pinopolis, near Moncks Corner, SC.
Question date: 12/01/09
Where in SC is North America's largest single-step dam and lock?
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 11/24/09
No question this week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Joe Hooper from Piedmont, SC is the most decorated American soldier from any international war with 37 medals, including a medal of honor, two silver stars, 6 bronze stars and 8 purple hearts, all earned during the Vietnam War.
Question date: 11/17/09
Name the South Carolinian who was America's most decorated soldier from any international war.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
At 3,560 ft., Sassafras Mountain in northern Pickens County is the highest peak in SC.
Question date: 11/10/09
Where is the highest point in SC?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The K Reactor at the Savannah River Site in Aiken closed in 1988 due to safety issues. It had a few temporary restarts and closed for good in 1993.
Question date: 11/03/09
Where in SC and when did the last the last tritium nuclear plant in the nation shut down and what was it's name?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Congaree National Park near Columbia, SC is home to 15 of the largest tree specimens in the country.
Question date: 10/27/09
Where in SC can you find 15 of the tallest known specimens of trees?
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This week's winner will receive a family four-pack of tickets to the SC Aquarium in Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Calhoun and Marlboro counties produce the most cotton in SC.
Question date: 10/20/09
Name the two counties in our state that produce the most cotton.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
In 1911, an unnamed catastrophic hurricane ruined the rice industry in our state with finality, closing the Waverly Rice Mill, the last one in operation in Georgetown County.
Question date: 10/13/09
When was the hurricane that ended SC's commercial rice industry?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
A strain of Influenza A, known as Spanish Flu, killed approx. 7400 people in SC and millions worldwide in 1918.
Question date: 10/06/09
Name the strain of flu that killed more than 7400 South Carolinians in 1918.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
no question last week
Question date: 09/22/09
No new question until 10-6-09.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The Anderson automobile was manufactured in Rock Hill, SC in the 1920's.
Question date: 09/15/09
Name the automobile that was produced in Rock Hill, SC in the 1920's.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Edwin Seibels invented the vertical file cabinet that is now on display in the Smithsonian Institute. His company is now known as the Seibels Bruce Group in Columbia, SC.
Question date: 09/08/09
Name the SC inventor of the vertical file cabinet that is on display at the Smithsonian Institute and name this person's SC company.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
SC's current poet laureate is Marjorie Wentworth and the first was Archibald Rutledge in 1934.
Question date: 09/01/09
Can you name SC's current Poet Laureate and when and who was our first poet laureate?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Bob Jones University in Greenville is SC's largest private college with approximately 4,000 annual enrollees.
Question date: 08/25/09
Name the private college in SC with the largest annual student enrollment.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Greenville Tech has the largest annual enrollment (over 14,000) of any technical college in SC.
Question date: 08/18/09
Name the technical college in SC that has the highest student enrollment each year.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The South Carolina government was fragmented into many small departments and agencies sharing more power than the governor as a result of the 1895 constitution. These agencies were created to ensure the governor would not enjoy full executive power in the event that a non-white man was elected to office.
Question date: 08/11/09
Why does SC's governor have so little actual power, in fact less power than any other state's governor?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to US Small Business Administration data, there were 491 SBA-guaranteed loans made in SC in calendar year 2008.
Question date: 08/04/09
How many SBA guaranteed loans were made in SC in 2008?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Farmers, fishermen, and other agricultural businesses can qualify for a Chapter 12 bankruptcy, of which there was only one in SC in the 12-month period ending 3-31-09.
Question date: 07/28/09
How many Chapter 12 business bankruptcies occurred in SC in the 12-month period ending March 31, 2009 and what is a Chapter 12 bankruptcy?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The Kaufmann Foundation's 2008 State New Economy Index moved SC up to #34 nationwide and into the top 10 in foreign investment, globalization, and alternative energy use.
Question date: 07/21/09
What is SC's latest national ranking in a recent State New Economy Index?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
SC will receive $463 million from the stimulus bill for road construction projects.
Question date: 07/14/09
What is the dollar amount of the federal stimulus money that has been allotted for SC's highway projects?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 07/07/09
No question this week. Contest returns next week.
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No question last week.
Question date: 06/30/09
No question this week.
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No question last week.
Question date: 06/22/09
The trivia question contest will return July 7.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 06/15/09
No question this week.
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Question date: 06/09/09
No question this week.
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Question date: 06/02/09
No question this week.
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No question last week.
Question date: 05/26/09
No Question This Week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No Question Last Week.
Question date: 05/19/09
No question this week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The Northeastern Railroad and the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad were both forerunners of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and all three were accepted as correct answers for the railroad that established shops in Florence, SC in 1871.
Question date: 05/12/09
What railroad established shops in Florence, SC in 1871?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the latest data available, SC rank's 27th among the 50 states and Washington DC with a volunteering rate of 28.6%
Question date: 05/05/09
According to the latest data available, how does SC rank among the 50 states and Washington DC in terms of volunteering rates and what is our rate?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Dupont opened the first plant in the world for the commercial production of Orlon in Camden/Lugoff in 1950.
Question date: 04/28/09
Where in SC and in what year did Dupont open the world's first plant for the commercial production of Orlon.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 04/21/09
No Question this Week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Tiger Woods has played the following courses in SC:
Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head
Palmetto Dunes in Hilton Head - Arthur Hills Course
The University Club in Blythewood
Question date: 04/14/09
We are repeating last week's question because we have not yet received the correct answer.
Name the golf courses in South Carolina that Tiger Woods has played?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
We are repeating last week's question because we have not yet received the correct answer.
Question date: 04/07/09
Name the golf courses in South Carolina that Tiger Woods has played?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
A probate judge is the only judge in SC that is elected.
Question date: 03/31/09
Name the only judiciary position in South Carolina that is filled by public election.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According the the latest study commissioned by the SC Assn. of Non-Profits, over 7% of SC's workforce is employed by non-profit organizations.
Question date: 03/24/09
No winner last week so the question is repeated:
According to the latest available data, what percentage of SC's workforce is employed by non-profit organizations?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No correct answer so question is being repeated.
Question date: 03/17/09
According to the latest available data, what percentage of SC's workforce is employed by non-profit organizations?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Municipal Assn., Symrna, with a population of 59, is the smallest city in SC.
Question date: 03/10/09
According to the SC Municipal Assn., Columbia is the largest city in our state. Name the smallest city in SC.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Latta is the South Carolina city that claims to have the only full city block in the country owned by a local Rotary Club.
Question date: 03/03/09
Which city in SC claims to be the only city in the country that has a full city block owned by a local Rotary club?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Greenwood, SC is said to have the widest Main St. in the country.
Question date: 02/24/09
Which city in SC is said to have the widest Main St. in the country?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The first African-American to practice medicine in SC was Matilda Arabelle Evans who received her medical degree from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1897. She then returned to Columbia, South Carolina where she established a practice in obstetrics, gynecology, and surgery. Since no medical facilities would allow an African American physician to admit and treat patients, Dr. Evans cared for her patients in her home until she established Taylor Lane Hospital, the first black hospital in Columbia, South Carolina where she treated patients, performed surgery, and trained nurses and other African Americans interested in medical careers.
Question date: 02/17/09
Who was the first African-American doctor to practice in SC and where in our state did he or she practice?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
2009's list has not been released yet, but Aiken, SC was mentioned as one of the 12 Distinctive Destinations for 2008 by the National Trust for Historical Preservation.
Question date: 02/10/09
Which SC city was recently named one of the 12 most distinctive destinations in the country for 2009 by a historical preservation organization?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
In 1851 Dr. John Gorrie, who lived in Charleston, SC, obtained a patent entitled, "An Apparatus for the Artificial Production of Ice in Tropical Climates". He became known as the father of refrigeration.
Question date: 02/03/09
Name the inventor of mechanical refrigeration and where in our state he or she was born.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
-19F was the all-time low temperature recorded in SC at Caesar's Head on Jan. 21, 1985.
Question date: 01/27/09
When, where, and what was the coldest temperature ever recorded in South Carolina?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Because of the world-famous Sexton Dental Clinic, Florence, SC has become known as the denture capital of the world.
Question date: 01/20/09
Name the South Carolina city that has at one time or another been known as "The Denture Capital of the World".
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Answer to the previous week's question:
James Rhyne Killian, born in Blacksburg, SC, was a former president of MIT who was instrumental in the formation of NASA, and was also instrumental in the development of the "Public Television Act of 1967"; he then served as director of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, thus acquiring the moniker: Father of Public Television.
Question date: 01/13/09
Name the South Carolina-born inventor-entrepreneur-entertainer who is considered the father of public television.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No contest last week.
Question date: 12/16/08
No question until January 2009. Happy Holidays!
Answer to the previous week's question:
Winthrop, in Rock Hill, is the current South Carolina institution of higher learning that was once known as the South Carolina State College for Women.
Question date: 12/09/08
Name the current South Carolina institution of higher learning that was once known as the South Carolina State College for Women.
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This week's winner will receive a book from Arcadia Publishing's Campus History series about one of SC's formerly all-female colleges.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Starting in 2009, all South Carolina employers will have to use the federal electronic database (often referred to as E-Verify) to confirm a new worker's name and social security number or require a South Carolina driver's license from the newly hired worker.
Question date: 12/02/08
Beginning in 2009, what will South Carolina employers be required to do to verify the legality of newly hired employees?
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This week's winner will receive a certificate for four tickets to see the SC Stingrays professional hockey team in North Charleston.
Answer to the previous week's question:
1980 was the last year South Carolina had an all-male Senate.
Question date: 11/25/08
The three female candidates running for the SC Senate were defeated in the recent election, leaving that chamber all male for the first time since when?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
If you purchase five blocks of green power through Palmetto Clean Energy, the reduction of CO2 emissions would be similar to planting 960 trees.
Question date: 11/18/08
If you purchase five blocks of green power through Palmetto Clean Energy, the reduction of CO2 emissions would be similar to how many trees planted?
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This week's winner will receive a T-shirt and a kilowatt electricity usage meter from Palmetto Clean Energy.
Answer to the previous week's question:
100 kilowatt hours is approximately 10 percent of the average home's monthly 1000-kilowatt electricity usage.
Question date: 11/11/08
100 kilowatt hours is approximately what percentage of the average home's monthly electricity usage?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
A $4 tax-deductible contribution to Palmetto Clean Energy puts 100 kilowatt hours of renewable energy into SC's power grid.
Question date: 11/04/08
With each $4 contribution to Palmetto Clean Energy, how many kilowatt hours of renewable energy are placed into SC's power grid?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to Palmetto Clean Energy, eSource gives the following rankings of renewable energy use in the US:
1. Wind
2. Biomass
3. Small Hydro
4. Geothermal
5. Solar
Question date: 10/28/08
Name the second leading source of renewable energy in the US.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Solar, hydro, geothermal, wind, and biomass are all renewable energy sources.
Question date: 10/21/08
Name the four kinds of renewable energy.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Former NY Yankee and Republican from Sumter, SC, Bobby Richardson, lost to incumbent Democrat, Ken Holland, in the SC 5th congressional district election in 1976.
Question date: 10/14/08
Name the former major league baseball player who lost a congressional race in SC.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The first SC State Fair was held in 1869.
Question date: 10/07/08
What was the first year of the SC State Fair?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
On Feb. 17, 1930, WSPA-AM in Spartanburg became the first radio station to go on the air in SC.
Question date: 09/30/08
Name the first radio station in South Carolina and when did it go on the air?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Blenheim, SC became famous for it's ginger ale made with uniquely strong local mineral water. Blenheim (pronounced "blennum") Ginger Ale is now bottled in another tiny SC town: Hamer.
Question date: 09/23/08
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Name the tiny little South Carolina town known for its ginger ale.
Answer to the previous week's question:
McCormick, SC has streets built over gold mine tunnels.
Question date: 09/16/08
Some streets are built over gold mine tunnels in which SC town?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Sullivan's Island was the first community in SC to ban smoking in restaurants. (2006)
Question date: 09/09/08
Which SC community was the first in the state to ban smoking in restaurants?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Since 1952, Marlboro County has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate more than any other county in our state.
Question date: 09/02/08
Since 1952, which SC county has voted Democratic in the presidential election more than any other county in our state?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
In 1912, Sumter became the first city in the US to use the commission/council - city manager form of government.
Question date: 08/26/08
In 1912, which SC city became the first in the nation to use the Commission/Council City Manager form of Government?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 08/19/08
No trivia question until 8-26-08.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 08/12/08
There is no question for the next two weeks.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Sam Moore was the Lebanese immigrant and USC student who became a millionaire publisher with Thomas Nelson, the largest publisher of bibles in the country.
Question date: 08/05/08
Name the Lebanese immigrant and USC student who sold Bibles door to door and eventually became a millionaire publisher.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
SC ranks first in the Southeast in 2007 export growth.
Question date: 07/29/08
How did SC rank in 2007 export growth among the states of the Southeast?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
In 1985, Sumter-born Joseph Goldstein won the Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine, specifically for his work on cholesterol metabolism.
Question date: 07/22/08
Who, when, and for what did a Sumter-born scientist win the Nobel prize?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Car Talk, which is heard every Saturday morning on the ETV Radio network in South Carolina.
Question date: 07/15/08
Name the only show on the ETV Radio network that is higher rated than the SC Business Review.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
In 1964, Barry Goldwater was the first Republican presidential candidate to carry SC in the 20th century.
Question date: 07/08/08
Who was the first Republican presidential candidate to carry SC in the 20th century?
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 06/10/08
No new question until 7-8-08.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Germany is now the number one export market for South Carolina.
Question date: 06/03/08
Name the country that is South Carolina's #1 export market for 2007.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Depending on how you interpreted the data from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, SC is either 2nd or 16th nationally in percentage of DUI-related traffic deaths.
Question date: 05/27/08
Where does SC rank nationwide in the percentage of traffic deaths resulting from DUI?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the American Electronics Assn., only New Mexico had a higher growth rate in high-tech industry jobs than SC in 2006.
Question date: 05/20/08
Which state saw their high tech industry jobs grow faster that SC's 8.3% rate in 2006?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
There are nine welcome centers in SC.
Question date: 05/13/08
How many SC Welcome Centers are there?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
In 1973 the Family Circle Tennis tournament in Charleston was the first women's tournament to offer a purse of $100,000. (The tournament was in Hilton Head at that time).
Question date: 05/06/08
The Family Circle Cup tennis tournament recently celebrated its 35th year in SC. Part of it's history is that they were the first women's tennis tournament with prize money in six figures. In what year was that and what was the amount?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
no question last week
Question date: 04/29/08
No new question until May 6.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No new question until May 6.
Question date: 04/22/08
No new question until May 6.
Answer to the previous week's question:
10 is the minimum number of businesses required to form a group for health insurance purposes in SC.
Question date: 04/15/08
What is the minimum number of businesses required to form a group for health insurance purposes in SC?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Clemson is the SC town of over 2500 people with the highest percentage of college-educated adults in our state.
Question date: 04/08/08
We are repeating last week's question and sweetening the prize package since we had no winner last week.
Which SC town of 2500 or more has the highest percentage of college-educated adults?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No correct answer last week.
Question date: 04/01/08
Which SC town of 2500 or more has the highest percentage of college-educated adults?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Beaufort County in SC has the highest percentage of college-educated adults.
Question date: 03/25/08
Which SC county has the highest percentage of college-educated adults?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The state sales tax was eliminated last year for unprepared food.
Question date: 03/18/08
The SC state sales tax was completely eliminated for one category last year. Name that category.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The State newspaper reported last December that Jasper, Marlboro and Orangeburg had the highest per person lottery sales in Fiscal 2007. However, the lottery commission has been telling inquirers that the counties are Marion, Jasper and Orangeburg, so both answers were counted as correct.
Question date: 03/11/08
Still no winner last week so we are repeating the question:
As of fiscal year 2007, name the top three SC counties in SC Education Lottery sales per person. (Hint: The answer was given in a State newspaper article in December)
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No winner last week.
Question date: 03/06/08
No winner last week so we are repeating the question:
As of fiscal year 2007, name the top three SC counties in SC Education Lottery sales per person.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No winner last week so we are repeating the question.
Question date: 02/26/08
As of fiscal year 2007, name the top three SC counties in SC Education Lottery sales per person.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the Alliance for Women, SC ranks 18th nationally in terms of women business owners who employ others.
Question date: 02/19/08
According to a national women's organization, how does SC rank nationally in terms of percentage of women-owned businesses that employ others?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the latest census figures, SC ranks 10th nationally in population growth.
Question date: 02/12/08
Where does SC rank nationally in population growth?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
After Sumter County merges their two school districts, 84 school districts will remain in SC's 46 counties.
Question date: 02/05/08
After the recent Sumter county school district merger announcement, how many school districts will remain in SC?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to a recent issue of Forbes magazine, the University of SC football program's financial value was ranked 12th nationally out of 20 colleges listed. Clemson was not ranked.
Question date: 01/29/08
Where did the University of SC and Clemson rank in a recent national business magazine's college football financial survey?
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The SC Education Lottery took in over $1 billion in fiscal year 2006.
Question date: 01/22/08
In which fiscal year did the SC Education Lottery raise over $1 billion?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, SC ranks 8th nationally for small business survival.
Question date: 01/15/08
According to a national small business and entrepreneurship organization how does SC rank nationally for small business survival?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to Expansion Management Magazine, Columbia is #1 and Greenville is #3 nationally for relocating and expanding a business.
Question date: 01/08/08
Name the two SC cities recently identified by a magazine as the 1st and 3rd top real estate markets in the country for expanding and relocating businesses.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 12/18/07
There will be no trivia question until January 9, 2008.
Answer to the previous week's question:
South Carolina's beer tax at 77 cents per gallon ranks third highest nationally behind only Alaska and Hawaii.
Question date: 12/11/07
How does SC's beer tax rank nationally?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Because the State newspaper in SC reported that the universities of Texas and Delaware have the highest paid public university presidents, yet the NY Times reported that the two highest are from the universities of Virginia and Washington, we accepted both answers as correct.
Question date: 12/04/07
Name the two public university presidents whose salary is higher than the University of South Carolina's Andrew Sorenson?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Colorado, New Mexico and West Virginia are the other states besides SC that allow an unlimited deduction on the state income tax return for 529 college savings plan contributions.
Question date: 11/27/07
Name the states other than SC that allow an unlimited state tax deduction for contributions to a 529 college savings plan.
Answer to the previous week's question:
no question last week.
Question date: 11/20/07
No question this week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Kimberly Clark will purchase methane gas from the landfill in Jackson, SC in Aiken county.
Question date: 11/13/07
Name the town in SC and the company involved in the latest landfill gas-to-energy partnership announcement.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Connecticut and New Jersey are the only two states besides SC that will be allowed to use the Barnwell nuclear waste facility beginning in 2008.
Question date: 11/06/07
Name the other two states besides SC that will be allowed to continue to use the nuclear waste facility in Barnwell, SC beginning next year.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
There are no minority or women CEO's on The State newspaper's Palmetto 25 list of SC's largest publicly-traded companies.
Question date: 10/30/07
According to The State newspaper's Palmetto 25 (a list released this past summer of SC's 25 largest publicly held companies) how many minority and women CEO's are on this list?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Besides SC, the only other two states whose governors do not run their departments of transportation are Georgia and Mississippi.
Question date: 10/23/07
Name the other two states (besides SC) whose Departments of Transportation are not run by their governor.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Santee Cooper is conducting wind energy research in Georgetown, Horry, and Charleston counties.
Question date: 10/16/07
Name the three counties in SC where wind energy research is being conducted by Santee Cooper.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 10/02/07
No new question until 10/16/07.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the US Census, SC's poverty rate for 2006 was 12th worst in the nation at 15.7% NC and GA were both slightly better at 14.7%.
Question date: 09/25/07
According to the US Census Bureau, SC's poverty rate was 12th worst in the nation last year. How did we compare to our neighbors, NC and GA?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Transportation accidents were the leading cause of job-related deaths last year.
Question date: 09/18/07
According to the state labor dept., what was the leading cause of job-related deaths in SC last year?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Coca Cola and United Resource Recovery Corp. are building the world's largest plastic bottle recycling plant in Spartanburg, SC.
Question date: 09/11/07
Name the SC city and the two companies that are bringing the largest plastic bottle recycling plant in the world to SC.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
USC, Clemson, and SC State are the three SC universities that were recently awarded grants for nuclear energy research.
Question date: 09/04/07
Name the three SC universities that recently received grant money to study nuclear energy.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Under Armour is the athletic apparel company that was awarded a big contract this year to supply the USC football team with athletic gear.
Question date: 08/28/07
Name the company with a new six-year, $10.8 million contract to supply USC football with athletic apparel.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Fort Mill, SC-based Springs Global is the SC company whose stock recently began trading on the Brazil Stock Exchange.
Question date: 08/21/07
Name the SC company whose stock recently began trading on the Brazil Stock Exchange.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Santee Cooper is the first utility in SC to offer power generated through "green" sources: solar panels and methane gas from landfills.
Question date: 08/07/07
Name SC's first utility to offer renewable energy and how is that energy produced?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
SCANA and 3D Systems are the only two publicly-traded companies from The State newspaper's Palmetto 25 list to report negative revenues for 2006 vs. 2005.
Question date: 07/31/07
Name the only two SC publicly traded companies in the Palmetto 25 (The State newspaper's ranking of the top 25 publicly-traded companies in SC) whose revenues declined in 2006 vs. 2005.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Hilton Head Middle School was the first Green Power Solar School in SC.
Question date: 07/24/07
Name the first "Green Power Solar School" in SC.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Nevada, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Colorado have seen their carbon dioxide emissions increase more than South Carolina in recent years.
Question date: 07/17/07
According to a recent study from the Associated Press, name the four states whose carbon dioxide emissions have increased more than SC's during the last several years.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The eight SC state senators who objected to the consideration of raising SC's state cigarette tax during the latest legislative session are:
Kevin Bryant, Chip Campsen, Larry Grooms, John Hawkins, Jake Knotts, Greg Ryberg, Lewis Vaughn and Danny Verdin.
Question date: 07/03/07
no question for the holiday break
Answer to the previous week's question:
answer to last week's question will be given out in two weeks.
Question date: 06/26/07
Eight SC state senators objected to the consideration of raising SC's state cigarette tax during the latest legislative session and because some threatened a filibuster, the issue was moved to the next session which begins in January 2008. Thus, SC's state cigarette tax remains the lowest in the nation at only seven cents per pack. Name those eight SC state senators.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to Education Week magazine, Utah had the nation's best high school freshman graduation rate at 84% for the 2003-04 school year.
Question date: 06/19/07
According to the recent report from a national education publication, which state had the highest high school freshman graduation rate in the country as of the 2003-04 school year? Hint: SC is last with a rate of 54%.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
SC is one of only nine states that do not allow net metering.
http://www.dsireusa.org/documents/SummaryMaps/NetMetering_Map.ppt#523,1,Net Metering
Question date: 06/12/07
SC is one of how many states that do not have "net metering"?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the American Petroleum Institute: New Jersey, Wyoming, and Alaska are the only other states that have a lower state gasoline tax than SC.
Question date: 06/05/07
SC's state gasoline tax is only 16 cents per gallon, half of NC's and fourth lowest in the country. Name the states with a lower state gasoline tax than SC.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
At $2.575 per pack, New Jersey has the highest cigarette tax of any state in the country.
Question date: 05/29/07
While SC continues to have the lowest cigarette tax at 7 cents per pack, which state has the highest cigarette tax?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the entomology department at Clemson University, there are 8 to 10 commercial beekeepers in SC.
Question date: 05/22/07
Repeat last week due to technical difficulties.
How many commercial beekeepers are there in SC?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Repeat from last week to due technical difficulties.
Question date: 05/13/07
How many commercial beekeepers are there in SC?
Answer to the previous week's question:
450 new jobs have been created by the USC Technology Incubator so far and the average salary has been $47,000.
Question date: 05/08/07
How many new jobs have been created by the USC Technology Incubator so far and what has been the average salary?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The Charleston Museum was founded in 1773 and is the first museum in America.
Question date: 05/01/07
SC is home to the first museum in America. Name the museum and when it was founded.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to a recent study commissioned by Fortune magazine, USC's Moore School of Business in Columbia ranked #35 out of 111 US business schools for the best MBA schools to get hired from.
Question date: 04/24/07
The Moore School of Business at USC in Columbia was recently recognized as being among the "50 Best MBA Schools for Getting Hired". Of the top 111 US business schools, what was the Moore School's ranking?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
QVC home shopping network is building $75 million, 400-employee distribution facility in Florence, SC this year.
Question date: 04/17/07
Which major TV shopping network is building a new facility this year in SC and where in SC is it going to be?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, the product sector that led South Carolina’s export growth in 2006 was aluminum.
Question date: 04/10/07
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, which SC product sector saw the most growth in exports in 2006?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to an August 2006 report by the Trust for America's Health, South Carolina's obesity rate is tied for #8 in the nation (with Indiana) with a rate of 26.2%.
Question date: 04/03/07
According to a recent study, Mississippi has the highest obesity rate in the nation at almost 30% of its population. What is SC's rate and how do we rank nationally?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According the SC Lawyer's Weekly, Nelson Mullins is the largest law firm on the state ranked by number of lawyers and the Ogletree firm is number 2.
Question date: 03/27/07
According the SC Lawyer's Weekly, Nelson Mullins is the largest law firm on the state ranked by number of lawyers. Who is number 2?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Ranked by deposit share, NC-based BB&T is the third largest bank in SC.
Question date: 03/20/07
In terms of deposits, Wachovia is the largest bank in SC, followed by Bank of America. Who is number three?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The North Charleston holding company, The Intertech Group is the 2nd largest private company in SC. (www.theintertechgroup.com)
Question date: 03/13/07
Name the 2nd largest private company in SC.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 03/06/07
No new question this week. New question next week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 02/27/07
No new question this week.
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC recycles more used tires than any other state in the nation.
Question date: 02/20/07
Because of a programming error, we are re-running last week's question...
SC was recently named the best state in the nation for recycling which waste product (according to statistics through 2005)?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Repeat of last week...
Question date: 02/13/07
SC was recently named the best state in the nation for recycling which waste product (according to statistics through 2005)?
Beacuse of a programming error, answers can be submitted by 8am Thu. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The SC Dept. of Education announced last year that school buses will run on bio-diesel.
Question date: 02/06/07
Last year a SC agency started fueling certain of its vehicles with bio-diesel. Name the agency and its vehicles.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Approx. 28% of the total dollars brought in by the SC Education Lottery actually goes to all forms of education.
Question date: 01/30/07
Approximately what percent of the SC Educational Lottery's annual collections goes to all forms of education?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to:
(www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0097.pdf), the average state excise tax on cigarettes is $1.00/pack. SC is the lowest at 7 cents per pack.
Question date: 01/23/07
SC's cigarette tax is one of the lowest in the nation at 7 cents per pack. What is the national average?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to http://taxpolicycenter.org/TaxFacts/TFDB/TFTemplate.cfm?Docid=345 we are tied with Hawaii for the 6th sixth lowest state gasoline tax in the country.
Question date: 01/16/07
SC's gasoline tax is 16 cents per gallon. How do we rank nationally?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Among 4 year public colleges in 50 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico, South Carolina ranks 7th highest in annual tuition and fees for 2006-2007. Our neighbors Georgia and North Carolina are much cheaper and rank 45th and 43rd respectively.
Question date: 01/09/07
Where does SC rank nationally in average cost of public college annual tuition and how do we compare to our neighbors NC and GA?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 12/19/06
No question until next year...
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to a recent study by Morgan Quitno based on FBI statistics, North Charleston is the most dangerous city in SC, ranked #20 nationally and Florence, SC is the most dangerous metropolitan area, coming in at #5 nationally.
Question date: 12/12/06
According to a recent study based on FBI crime figures, name the most dangerous city in SC and its national ranking.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The four properties in SC rated as 5-diamonds by AAA are:
1) Woodlands Resort and Inn - Summerville,SC
2) The Dining Room at the Woodlands Resort
3)The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island Golf Resort
4)Wentworth Mansion in Charleston
Question date: 12/05/06
According to AAA, there are only four 5-diamond-rated properties in SC...name them.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
There are 18,000 seats, 41 suites, 4 entertainment suites and the Frank McGuire Club which has 300 hospitality seats in the Colonial Center in Columbia, SC.
Question date: 11/28/06
Repeat same question from last week...How many seats and suites are in the Colonial Center in Columbia, SC, the 10th largest on-campus basketball facility in the US?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 11/21/06
How many seats and suites are in the Colonial Center in Columbia, SC, the 10th largest on-campus basketball facility in the US?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Bamberg county has the lowest average annual pay in SC at just under $24,000 and at just over $40,000, Aiken county has the highest average pay in SC for 2005 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Question date: 11/14/06
Which SC counties have the lowest and highest average pay for 2005 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Besides election day, all liquor stores must be closed, by state law on Sundays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Question date: 11/07/06
Since today is election day, all liquor stores must be closed, by state law. According to the SC Dept. of Revenue, what are the other days that liquor stores must be closed?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Assn. of Realtors, 5720 homes were sold in SC in September, down 12.52% from last year.
Question date: 10/31/06
According to the SC Assn. of Realtors, how many homes were sold in SC in September and what was the percentage decline from last year?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the US Dept. of Labor, a courier is the most dangerous occupation in SC as measured by on-the-job nonfatal injuries in 2005.
Question date: 10/24/06
According to the US Dept. of Labor, what is the most dangerous occupation in SC as measured by on-the-job nonfatal injuries in 2005?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the US Census Bureau, SC ranked 3rd nationally in the growth rate of our state's Hispanic population in 2005.
Question date: 10/17/06
According to the US Census Bureau, how did SC rank nationally in the growth rate of our state's Hispanic population as of 2005?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The College of Charleston is the oldest municipal college in America.
Question date: 10/10/06
SC is home to the oldest municipal college in America. Name that college and its location.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Robert Sywolski from Blackbaud, Inc., in Charleston, SC was the highest paid CEO of a SC publicly-traded company last year, earning over $18 million, including almost $14 million from the sale of Blackbaud stock.
Question date: 10/03/06
***********Repeat last week's question because we did not have a winner*************
Name the highest paid CEO for 2005 of a SC publicly-traded company.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 09/26/06
Name the highest paid CEO for 2005 of a SC publicly-traded company.
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive John Warner's book "Swamp Fox Insights" and the award-winning cd from the Columbia-SC rock and roll band, Tokyo Joe.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Bob Dylan filmed an IPod commercial recently at Brian Dressler Photography Studio in Columbia, SC.
Question date: 09/19/06
What is the name of the studio and the location in SC where Bob Dylan recently filmed an Ipod commercial?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
As of 2004, SC ranked 12th nationally in the dollar volume of merchandise that moved through foreign trade zones.
Question date: 09/12/06
As of 2004, where does SC rank nationally in the dollar volume of merchandise moving through Foreign Trade Zones?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Spartanburg High School had the overall winning team in the last Stock Market Game from the SC Council on Economic Education.
Question date: 09/05/06
Which SC high school gave us the winning team in the latest Stock Market Game from the SC Council on Economic Education?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
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Answer to the previous week's question:
SC is the largest producer in the nation of vermiculite, a mineral that is often contaminated with asbestos. It is mined in upstate SC.
Question date: 08/29/06
SC is the largest producer in the nation of a mineral that is often contaminated with asbestos. Name that mineral?
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This week's winner will receive a jar of BBQ Slather from Black Mustard in Columbia, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Caty Green, widow of Nathaniel Green (for whom Greenville is named) financially assisted Eli Whitney with his invention of the cotton gin.
Question date: 08/22/06
Name the South Carolinian who financially assisted Eli Whitney with the development of the cotton gin?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The lettered olive is the SC state seashell.
Question date: 08/15/06
What is the South Carolina state seashell?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The Burroughs family, of what was once known as Withers, SC, branded the town a new name, Myrtle Beach, after the wax myrtle tree, commonly found in the area.
Question date: 08/08/06
Name the family that branded the Myrtle Beach name?
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Answer to the previous week's question:
Ryan's Family Steakhouses has 33 locations in SC and it's suitor, Buffets, Inc. has zero.
Question date: 08/01/06
Minnesota-based Buffets, Inc. has recently entered into an agreement to purchase Ryan's Family Steakhouses of Greer, SC. How many locations do each of these companies have in SC?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive an Album Framer from www.thealbumframer.com.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, SC has the worst polluting school busses in the country. Delaware has the cleanest.
Question date: 07/25/06
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, SC has the worst polluting school busses in the country. Which state do they say has the least?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive a delicious gift package from www.stickyfingers.com, the online ordering site for the Charleston, SC-based chain of barbeque restaurants.
Answer to the previous week's question:
There was no question last week.
Question date: 06/20/06
There is no question this week as we are working on re-stocking our prize closet. If you have any trivia contest prizes you'd like to donate, please send Mike Switzer an email via the link on this page.
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 06/13/06
There is no question this week as we are working on re-stocking our prize closet. If you have any trivia contest prizes you'd like to donate, please send Mike Switzer an email via the link on this page.
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC State University in Orangeburg, SC graduates more military officers than Westpoint.
Question date: 06/06/06
Name the SC university that graduates more minority military officers than Westpoint.
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive a copy of the New York Times bestselling book: "Freakonomics".
Answer to the previous week's question:
Automated Trading Desk in Mt. Pleasant, SC handles about 8% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume.
Question date: 05/30/06
Name the SC company and its location that handles 8% of NASDAQ's daily trading volume.
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive a $25 goft card to Moe's Grapvine, a southern Italian restaurant in Columbia, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC ranks 13th in the nation in the number of people living in poverty according to the SC Indicators Project.
Question date: 05/23/06
According to the SC Indicators Project, where does SC rank nationally in the number of people living in poverty?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive a Gullah cultural package including a book and CD.
Answer to the previous week's question:
NC and GA were 4th and 6th respectfully, in the latest corporate real estate study of the most pro-business states.
Question date: 05/16/06
According to a recent corporate real estate study, SC is the #1 pro-business state, but where do NC and GA rank?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive two tickets to the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The state of SC charges sales tax on 34 service catgories including satellite TV, tanning salons, and funeral services.
Question date: 05/09/06
According to the Federation of Tax Administrators, how many of the 168 categories of services does South Carolina tax?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive two tickets to "Jazz at the Venue" coming May 13th to the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County in Camden, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Body Art Ink Tatoos in Myrtle Beach, SC is the first tatoo parlor to be licensed under the new tatoo law.
Question date: 05/02/06
The first legal tatoos were inked in SC about a month ago. What is the name of the first licensed tattoo parlor in SC and where is it located?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive a delicious gift package from www.stickyfingers.com, the online ordering site for the Charleston, SC-based chain of barbeque restaurants.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Dreher High School in Columbia, SC was attended by 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Dr. Kary Mullis.
Question date: 04/25/06
Name the SC high school attended by 1993 Nobel prize winner Dr. Kary Mullis.
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive a gift card from Moe's Grapevine, a southern Italian restaurant in Columbia, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Last year, Des Moines, Iowa-based Meredith Corporation purchased Family Circle Magazine and the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in Daniel Island, SC.
Question date: 04/18/06
The Family Circle Cup tennis tournament which just finished Sunday on Daniel Island, SC was, along with its namesake - the Family Circle Magazine - just purchased last year by which company and where are they based?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive the award-winning cd from Tokyo Joe, one of the SC bands appearing this coming weekend at the 3 Rivers Music Festival in Columbia, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
In the category of per capita income, according to the SC Indicators project, SC ranks nationally at #43, NC at #37, and GA at #35.
Question date: 04/11/06
According to the SC Indicators Project, where does SC rank nationally in per capita income and where are our neighbors, NC and Georgia?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive two tickets to "Jazz at the Center" coming May 12th to the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County in Camden, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Norfolk Southern counts the 1830 "Best Friend of Charleston" passenger train as one of its ancestors.
Question date: 04/04/06
Which large American railroad company counts the 1803 "Best Friend of Charleston" passenger train as one of its ancestors?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive a book about somewhere in SC from Charleston, SC-based Arcadia Publishing and a music cd from our ETV Radio cd library.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Dept. of Agriculture, there were 35,000 people involved in the equine industry in SC as of 2004.
Question date: 03/28/06
According to the SC Dept. of Agriculture, how many SC residents were involved in the equine industry as of 2004?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive complimentary tickets to the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The Cross Island Parkway at in Hilton Head and the Southern Connector in Greenville are the only two toll roads in SC.
Question date: 03/21/06
One way to help pay for economic expansion is through the use of toll roads. How many and where are the only toll roads in SC?
Deadline for entry is 8am Wednesday morning.
This week's prize package consists of 4 complimentary tickets to the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The county of Allendale and the town of Woodford have the highest homeowner property tax rates in SC, while the county of Chesterfield and the town of Six Mile are the lowest.
Question date: 03/14/06
According to the National Assn. of Homebuilders, using 2000 US Census data, where in SC are the highest and lowest homeowner property tax rates?
This week's winner receives a delicious prize package from www.stickyfingers.com, the web home for the Charleston, SC-based chain of BBQ restaurants.
Entry deadline is 8am Wednesday. Please include mailing address with your entry.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke grew up in Dillon, SC.
Question date: 03/06/06
In which small SC town did the new Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke grow up in?
Entry deadline is 8am Wednesday morning.
This week's prize is a copy of "Sweetgrass Baskets and the Gullah Tradition" from Arcadia Publishing in Charleston, SC, personally autographed by the author, Joyce V. Coakley.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The 2000 US census shows the city of Spartanburg, SC with a population of 39,673...only 30 more than Sumter, SC.
Question date: 02/28/06
According to the 2000 US population census, Sumter, SC's population is 39,643, only 30 fewer people than which major SC city?
This week's prize package consists of a $25 gift card to Moe's Grapevine, a southern Italian restaurant in Columbia, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
In 2004, SC exported $4.6 billion in goods from Foreign Trade Zones, second only to Texas' $4.7 billion.
Question date: 02/21/06
As of 2004, SC was second in the nation in exports from Forign Trade Zones. Which state was first?
The prize package this week consists of tickets to the Distinctively Charleston Food and Wine Festival. (www.charlestonfoodandwine.com)
Answer to the previous week's question:
Approx 30% of all private companies are run by women.
Question date: 02/14/06
As of 2002, according to a recent report from the US Census Bureau, approximately what percent of all private companies were owned by women?
The prize package this week contains a book about a place in SC from Arcadia Publishing in Charleston and the award-winning cd from Columbia, SC rock band: Tokyo Joe.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Until recently, Ford Motor Credit had three locations in SC: Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston. The Charleston office has since closed.
Question date: 02/07/06
no winners last week so repeat question...
Answer to the previous week's question:
no winners last week so repeat question...
Question date: 01/31/06
Where are the three locations of Ford Motor Credit Corp. in SC?
Our prize package this week consist of 2 tickets to the Charleston Symphony.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Depending on the study, college seniors have an average of anywhere from four to six credit cards.
Question date: 01/24/06
According to a recent study, on average how many credit cards does a college senior have?
Rules: Please include your mailing address with your answer, only one answer per household, answer only via email at scbr@etvradio.org. This week's prize: A prize package from the Montessori School of Camden which includes, coffee mugs, ball caps, and a certificate for a 60-minute horse drawn carriage ride for two from the Camden Carriage Company
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to 2003 statistics, NC ranks 8th nationally at 6.3% and Georgia 12th at 5.5% in the percentage of their workforce employed by foreign-based companies.
Question date: 01/17/06
At 8.4% SC has a higher percentage of its workforce population employed by foreign-owned companies than any other state. How do our neighbors, NC and Georgia rank in this category?
Answer to the previous week's question:
repeat question since there was no winner last week.
Question date: 01/10/06
At 8.4% SC has a higher percentage of its workforce population employed by foreign-owned companies than any other state. How do our neighbors, NC and Georgia rank in this category?
Answer to the previous week's question:
There was no question last week.
Question date: 12/20/05
No question until 1/10/06.
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC's exports to China in 2004 were approximately $481 million and China ranked #6 among countries SC exports to.
Question date: 12/12/05
What is the approx. dollar value of SC's exports to China and how does China rank out of all the countries SC exports to?
Answer to the previous week's question:
ETV Radio first went on the air in 1972 as WEPR in Greenville, the beginning of the SC Educational Radio Network.
Question date: 12/06/05
What year did ETV Radio first go on the air and what was our name then?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to 2003 US Census data, SC ranks 44th nationally in computer usage and 46th in Internet usage.
Question date: 11/29/05
According to 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, where does SC rank nationally in computer usage and internet usage?
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 11/22/05
no question this week
Answer to the previous week's question:
The construction industry is the largest single category of one-person companies in SC.
Question date: 11/15/05
repeat same question since no one got it right...
Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 11/08/05
What type of business makes up the largest single category of one-person companies in SC?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Video Gaming Technologies in Roebuck, SC was recently named #1 on the INC. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in America by INC. magazine.
Question date: 11/01/05
Name the SC company and its location that is number one on this year's INC. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America from INC. magazine.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Florence, SC is the SC city with the highest Entrepreneurial Index rating from a study done recently for the US Small Business Administration.
Question date: 10/25/05
According to a recent study done for the US Small Business Administration, which SC city has the highest Regional Entrepreneurship Index?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Allendale, McCormick, Williamsburg, Clarendon, and Lee are the five SC counties whose adult illiteracy rates are higher than 40%.
Question date: 10/18/05
SC has the third-highest adult illiteracy rate in the U.S. Name the five SC counties where that illiteracy rate is higher than 40%.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Georgia, followed by Nevada, and NC are the three states with faster growing Latino populations than SC.
Question date: 10/11/05
According to the 2002 US Census, SC has emerged has the state with the 4th fastest growing Latino population in the US. Name the 3 states whose Latino growth rates are ahead of SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
North Charleston industrialist Jerry Zucker is the only SC resident on this year's Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans. Upstate textile tycoon, Roger Milliken dropped off this year's list.
Question date: 10/04/05
Name the only SC resident to appear on the latest Forbes 400 list.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Alternative Dispute resolution is mandatory for circuit and family courts in unmodified form in Florence, Horry, Lexington and Richland counties and in modified form in Greenville and Anderson counties. Also, Pickens County has approved modified ADR rules for Family Court.
Question date: 09/27/05
Name the SC counties where alternative dispute resolution is mandatory for their circuit and family courts.
Answer to the previous week's question:
With a rate of 377 per 100,000 people, Sumter had the lowest vehicle theft rate of any city in SC as of 2004.
Question date: 09/20/05
For the 6th year in a row, Myrtle Beach has the highest auto theft rate in SC and the 20th highest in the nation. Which city has the lowest auto theft rate, as of 2004, in SC?
Answer to the previous week's question:
With one fourth of it's population classified as obese, SC ranks #10 in the nation.
Question date: 09/13/05
According to the Trust for America's Health, where does SC rank nationally according to our percentage of obese adults?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Claflin University, in Orangeburg, SC, has the highest graduation rate (72%) of any college in the South, according to US News and World Report.
Question date: 09/06/05
According to US News and World Report, which SC college leads the south in its graduation rate?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to our resident SC historian, Dr. Walter Edgar, SC was most recently known as the Wonderful Iodine State before we became the Palmetto State. In fact, that's where WIS radio and TV in Columbia got its call letters.
Question date: 08/30/05
What was SC known as before we became the Palmetto State?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Our state's manufacturing base dwindled from 18% in 2000 to 15% of jobs in 2004, which compares to the US average of 11%.
Question date: 08/23/05
According to Federal data released last month, what percent of SC's jobs are in manufacturing as of 2004 and how does that compare nationally?
Answer to the previous week's question:
RBMG, Inc, formerly known as Resource Bancshares Mortgage Group, was a publicly-traded Columbia, SC-based company when it was acquired by NetBank in 2002.
Question date: 08/16/05
Name the former SC publicly-traded company that beacame a part of NetBank.
Answer to the previous week's question:
In Central, SC, BASF makes the insulation that goes in Igloo, Rubbermaid, and Coleman coolers.
Question date: 08/09/05
We are repeating last week's question because no one got it right...Name the company and its SC location that makes the insulation used inside Igloo, Rubbermaid, and Coleman coolers.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 08/02/05
Name the company and its SC location that makes the insulation used inside Igloo, Rubbermaid, and Coleman coolers.
Answer to the previous week's question:
$305 is the maximum weekly unemployment benefit amount.
Question date: 07/26/05
What is the weekly unemployment benefit amount from the SC Employment Security Commission?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The $10 bill will be re-issued next year (2006) with a new design.
Question date: 07/19/05
What and when will the next redesigned US Treasury note be issued?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The $50 bill was reissued and redesigned last year.
Question date: 07/12/05
Which currency did the U.S. Treasury re-issue in 2004 with a new design?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The SC economy grew 3.5% in 2004 which was 36th in the country.
Question date: 07/05/05
What was SC's percentage of economic growth for 2004?
Answer to the previous week's question:
No question last week.
Question date: 06/28/05
There is no question this week while we re-stock our prize closet. If you would like to donate a prize or prizes, please send them to:
Mike Switzer, The SC Business Review
ETV Radio
1101 George Rogers Blvd.
Columbia, SC 29201
Answer to the previous week's question:
There is no question this week while we re-stock our prize closet. If you would like to donate a prize or prizes, please send them to:
Mike Switzer, The SC Business Review
ETV Radio
1101 George Rogers Blvd.
Columbia, SC 29201
Question date: 06/21/05
There is no question this week while we re-stock our prize closet. If you would like to donate a prize or prizes, please send them to:
Mike Switzer, The SC Business Review
ETV Radio
1101 George Rogers Blvd.
Columbia, SC 29201
Answer to the previous week's question:
There is no question this week while we re-stock our prize closet. If you would like to donate a prize or prizes, please send them to:
Mike Switzer, The SC Business Review
ETV Radio
1101 George Rogers Blvd.
Columbia, SC 29201
Question date: 06/14/05
No question this week...we are asking for trivia prize donations. If you can help, please email me:
Mike Switzer
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC is in the 5th Federal Reserve district based in Richmond.
Question date: 06/07/05
What federal reserve district is SC in?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Tyco is the company whose Rock Hill plant location in SC makes electronic connectors for the Sony Playstation, Dell Computers, the longbow missile on the BlackHawk helicopter, and for the satellite radio companies.
Question date: 05/31/05
Name the company and its plant location in SC that makes electronic connectors for the Sony Playstation, Dell Computers, the longbow missile on the BlackHawk helicopter, and for the satellite radio companies.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Both NBSC (parent company Georgia-based Synovus), and Bank of Holly Hill (now know as First National Bank of SC), are celebrating their 100th anniversaries this year.
Question date: 05/24/05
A SC bank is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Name the bank and its parent company.
Answer to the previous week's question:
We accepted any of the following answers:
38 states require economic education standards to be implemented.
15 states make completion of an economics course a graduation requirement.
7 states make personal finance a requirement for high school graduation.
Question date: 05/17/05
SC's governor, Mark Sanford recently sign a law requiring financial literacy to be taught in SC's public schools. How many states now have a similar law?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Greenville, SC-based Fluor Corp. is the company whose SC operations are involved in rebuilding the power generation, water, and waste treaments plants in Iraq.
Question date: 05/10/05
Name the company whose SC operations are involved in rebuilding the power generation, water, and waste treaments plants in Iraq.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Lancaster, SC is where all the AA Duracell batteries that are sold in the US are made.
Question date: 05/03/05
All of the AA Duracell batteries made for the US market are manufactured in a SC city. Name that city.
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC's unemployment rate of approximately 7% is third worst in the nation.
Question date: 04/26/05
How does SC's recent unemployment rate of 7% rank nationwide?
Answer to the previous week's question:
In order for a foreign citizen to be counted as a dependent for income tax purposes, they can only live in th US, Canada, or Mexico.
Question date: 04/19/05
In order for a foreign citizen to be claimed as a dependent for income tax purposes, what countries can they live in?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Milk is the official formal drink of SC.
Question date: 04/12/05
What is the official formal beverage of SC?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Tea is the official hospitality beverage of SC.
Question date: 03/29/05
According to a recent USC study, how many dollars do we get back in economic impact from every dollar the state spends on SC's public libraries?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The SC Revitalization Act provides the developer of an abandoned textile facility either a local property tax or state income tax credit equal to 25 percent of the rehabilitation expenses. The real property tax credit is limited to an eight year period. The owner may receive no more than 75 percent of the property tax credit per year.
Question date: 03/22/05
How much is the tax credit allowed by the SC Revitalization Act?
Answer to the previous week's question:
SCANA is the SC-based publicly-traded company with the highest annual dividend yield. Their stock trades on the NYSE under the symbol SCG and their annual dividend yield is approx. 4.1%.
Question date: 03/15/05
Name the publicly-traded SC-based company with the highest dividend yield.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Insurance is the most serious problem SC small business owners face according to a recent survey from the National Federation of Independent Business.
Question date: 03/08/05
Name the most serious problem SC small business owners face according to a recent survey from the National Federation of Independent Business?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Spartanburg-based Centerplate, formerly Volume Services, whose stock trades on the Amex under the symbol CVP, derives about 10% of its sales from managing concessions at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
Question date: 03/01/05
Name the publicly-traded SC company that derives about 10% of its sales from selling hot dogs and beer at Yankee stadium in New York.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the Dept. of Commerce, the number one cash crop in SC is chicken broilers. If timber were counted however, at over $800 million it would dwarf broilers (apporx. $350 million). So we counted both timber and broilers as the right answer for our drawing.
Question date: 02/22/05
According to the Dept. of Commerce, what is the number one cash crop in SC?
Answer to the previous week's question:
In 2004, 59,413 homes were sold across the state, a 17 percent increase from the previous year.
Question date: 02/15/05
2004 was a record year for home sales in SC. How many homes were sold last year and what was the percentage increase?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Wise Potato Chips recently announced that they will be closing their plant in Spartanburg this year.
Question date: 02/08/05
The city of Bristol, VA recently agreed to buy a local potato chip plant and lease it back to the company in order to keep local jobs. This has, in turn, caused a Spartanburg-based plant to announce it will have to close this year. Name the potato chip company.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, new investment into SC last year totaled over $2.7 billion creating over 13,000 new jobs.
Question date: 02/01/05
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, what was the dollar amount of new capital investment in SC last year and how many new jobs were created as a result?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Duncan-SC based One Price Clothing was the worst performing SC stock last year. Their stock went from 53 cents per share to zero, due to bankruptcy and liquidation.
Question date: 01/25/05
Which SC-based publicly-traded company had the worst performing stock for 2004?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Spartanburg-based Denny's, whose stock trades on the NASDAQ, was the SC company with the best performing stock for 2004. Denny's stock was up almost 1000%.
Question date: 01/18/05
Which SC-based publicly-traded company had the best performing stock in 2004?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Beano is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline in Aiken, SC.
Question date: 01/11/05
All of the Beano sold in the world is made in SC. Name the company and where in SC it is made.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, SC ranks #2 in the nation in terms of the percentage of our private sector workers employed by foreign investment. (approx. 8%)
Question date: 01/04/05
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, what is SC's rank in the nation in terms of the percentage of our private sector workers employed by foriegn investment?
Answer to the previous week's question:
142,000 jobs are directly and indirectly supported by the military in SC.
Question date: 12/21/04
no new question until 1-4-05...Happy Holidays!
Answer to the previous week's question:
142,000 jobs are directly and indirectly supported by the military in SC.
Question date: 12/14/04
According to USC's Division of Research, approximately how many jobs in SC are both directly and indirectly supported by the presence of the military in our state?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Myrtle Beach continues to have the highest rate of vehicle thefts in SC.
Question date: 12/07/04
What SC city continues to have the highest vehicle theft rate in our state?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The Stock Market Simulation is offered to grades 4 through 12 by the SC Council on Economic Education.
Question date: 11/22/04
No new question until Dec. 7.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The South Carolina Stock Market Simulation is administered by the SC Council on Economic Education to students in grades 4 through 12.
Question date: 11/16/04
The South Carolina Stock Market Simulation is administered by the SC Council on Economic Education to which grade levels?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Thomas Jefferson was the US President who said "Landholders are the most precious part of the state."
Question date: 11/09/04
Which US President said "Landholders are the most precious part of a state"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
In post-election Decembers since 1948, the S&P 500 has averaged a gain of 1.1%, with 10 up years and only three down.
Question date: 10/19/04
According to a just-released national study, where does SC rank in costs for individual automobile insurance?
Answer to the previous week's question:
There are approximately 867 U.S. Census tracts in South Carolina.
Question date: 10/12/04
How many US Census tracts are in South Carolina?
Answer to the previous week's question:
There are approximately 541 zip codes in SC.
Question date: 10/05/04
How many zip codes are in SC?
Answer to the previous week's question:
If we add all the 2003 revenues of the
25 South Carolina largest publicly-traded companies,
the result is $17.894 billion. According to
Fortune 500, a company with this revenue would be ranked #109.
Question date: 09/28/04
Based on The State newspaper's Palmetto 25, SC's 25 largest publicly-traded companies, if you were to combine them into one single company using 2003 data, where would this "Super SC" company rank in the Fortune 500?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The banana split was invented in 1904 (100 years ago) by pharmacist David Strickler in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Question date: 09/21/04
2004 marks an important milestone for a popular American dessert. When and where was the banana split invented?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Charleston-based Blackbaud is SC's newest publicly-traded company whose stock trades now on the NASDAQ under the symbol "BLKB".
Question date: 09/14/04
Name SC's newest publicly-traded company, the exchange it trades on, and its symbol.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Luxemburg is the Euro-using country that does the least amount of trade with SC, only $653,000 last year.
Question date: 09/07/04
Which Euro-using country does the least amount of trade with SC?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Germany is the Euro-using country that does the most trade with SC.
Question date: 08/31/04
Of the 12 countries that use the Euro, which country does the most trading business with SC?
Answer to the previous week's question:
A film production company needs to spend $250,000 in our state in order to be exempt from SC sales tax.
Question date: 08/24/04
How much money does a film production company have to spend in our state in order to be exempt from SC sales tax?
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC's 7 cents per pack cigarette tax is approximately 9% of the national average.
Question date: 08/17/04
SC's cigarette tax is what percent of the national average?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The first Cooper River Bridge, completed in 1929, cost approximately $6 million to build.
Question date: 08/10/04
What was the cost of the first Cooper River Bridge in Charleston, SC?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to legislation passed this year, professional hair braiders must be licensed by SC DHEC and pass a 60-hour course.
Question date: 08/03/04
This year the SC Legislature passed new legislation requiring a certain profession to be licensed by DHEC and pass a 60-hour course before they can practice in our state. Name this profession.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the US Census Bureau, the five occupations where a woman earns as much or more than a man, are:
1) Hazardous waste removal workers, 2) Telecommunications line installer & repairs, 3) Meeting & Convention planners, 4) Cafeteria Workers, and 5) Constructions trade helpers.
Question date: 07/27/04
According to the US Census Bureau, there are only five job categories where women earn as much or more than men...name any one of the five.
Answer to the previous week's question:
2004 is the fifth year of the sales tax-free weekend in SC.
Question date: 07/20/04
Including this year, how many years has SC had a sales tax-free weekend?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the Clemson forestry department, approximately 75% of SC's forests are owned by private individuals.
Question date: 07/13/04
Approximately what percent of SC's forests are owned by private citizens?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SBA, 8% of South Carolinians operate a business out of their home.
Question date: 07/06/04
According to the Small Business Administration, what percent of residents in SC operate a business out of their home?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Anderson County has 1,644 farms, more than any other SC county.
Question date: 06/29/04
According to the 2002 agriculture census, which SC county has the most farms?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 06/22/04
According to the 2002 agriculture census, which SC county has the most farms?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the US Census Bureau, women nationally and in SC make 74 cents for every dollar a man earns.
Question date: 06/15/04
According to the US Census Bureau, women nationally and in SC make how many cents for every dollar a man earns?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 05/18/04
No new question until we re-stock our prize closet.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce's business recruitment web page (www.teamsc.com), SC ranks third in the country in worker productivity.
Question date: 05/11/04
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, where does SC rank nationally in the category of worker productivity?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The South Financial Group, parent company of Carolina First bank, recently became the largest financial institution to ever be based in SC.
Question date: 05/04/04
What publicly-traded company recently became the largest financial institution to ever be based in South Carolina?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Ted Turner owns more real estate in the United States than any other single person.
Question date: 04/27/04
Name the southern gentleman who owns more real estate in the United States than any other single person.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the Charleston Southern University economist Al Parish, In 2003, the region sold a record 11,496 homes, surpassing the 10,000 mark for the first time.
Question date: 04/20/04
How many new homes were built in the tri-county Charleston region during their record-breaking year of 2003?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Chicken feed is small change, a paltry amount of money. In pioneer days in North America, chickens were fed the poorest of grains, not good enough to be fed to humans or other farm animals. Broken bits of grain were good to
feed to chickens because they were small enough for the chickens to swallow.
Question date: 04/13/04
Why is a small amount of money referred to as "chicken feed"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to SC law, lenders can charge a pre-payment penalty on all loans of $150,000 or more.
Question date: 04/06/04
SC Law allows prepayment penalties to be charged on loans over what dollar amount?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The maximum annual interest rate that may be charged on car title loans in SC is 300%.
Question date: 03/23/04
SC recently enacted a predatory lending law, but it left unchanged the maximum annual interest rate that can be charged on car title loans. What is that rate?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The phrase "rule of thumb" came from the fact that most measurements came from body parts. The first joint of the thumb is approximately one inch long. A foot was once the length of a foot, and so on...We still use a "finger" to measure drinks.
Question date: 03/16/04
Where did the phrase "rule of thumb" come from?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Dept. of Insurance, only 44% of the employers in SC's agriculture industry offer their employees health insurance.
Question date: 03/09/04
According to the SC Dept. of Insurance, which industry in South Carolina is least likeliest to offer health insurance to its employees?
Answer to the previous week's question:
During the past fiscal year, the US Dept. of Labor has pursued wage law violations most against the restaurant industry.
Question date: 03/02/04
Which low-wage industry accounted for the largest number of wag-law violations according to the US Dept. of Commerce?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Valentines day is typically the highest sales holiday of the year for Baskin Robbins ice cream stores, mainly due to ice cream cake sales.
Question date: 02/24/04
Which holiday is typically the number one sales day of the year for Baskin Robbins ice cream stores?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The first time "In God We Trust" appeared was on the 2 cent coin in 1864.
Question date: 02/17/04
When did the phrase "In God We Trust" first appear on U.S. coins and what coin was the first?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Only 10% of all employer firms in SC are owned by women.
Question date: 02/03/04
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, what percent of SC's employer firms are owned by women?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, 95% of SC's employer firms are small businesses with less than 50 employees.
Question date: 01/27/04
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce, what percent of SC's employer workforce is considered "small business"...that is, firms with less than 50 employees?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Canada is the #1 export market for South Carolina.
Question date: 01/20/04
Which country represents the number one export market for South Carolina?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Greenville-based World Acceptance Corp. had the best performing SC-based stock in 2003, up 161%.
Question date: 01/13/04
What the best performing SC-based, publicly-traded stock for 2003?
Answer to the previous week's question:
We call high society the "upper crust" because the "crust" was long considered the best part of the bread and the "upper" or top crust the best part of all. If "high society" is the best of all, then it's "upper crust".
Question date: 01/06/04
Why do we refer to "high society" as the "upper crust"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
There has been no trivia question the past two weeks.
Question date: 12/23/03
No trivia question until 1/06/04.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The last time the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed over 10,000 (prior to recently) was May 24, 2002.
Question date: 12/16/03
When was the last time the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed over 10,000...prior to lately?
Answer to the previous week's question:
"Purchase" comes from the French "pourchasser" which means "to hunt." Once upon a time, stores had no show windows and would-be purchasers had to "hunt" for what they wanted - though they were helped somewhat by apprentices who stood outside the stores and asked what they wanted to buy as they passed by.
Question date: 12/09/03
(In the spirit of the season,)
where did the word "purchase" get its "present" meaning?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Since 1900, the stock market as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, has gone up 72% of the time in December with an average gain of 1.5% making it the best month of the year.
Question date: 11/25/03
Which month on average is the best month of the year for the stock market?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The oldest mutual fund still in existence today is the Massachussetts Investor's Trust, established in 1924 and now part of the MFS Family of funds.
Question date: 11/18/03
Which mutual fund is the oldest one still in existence today?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Of the big three credit cards, American Express is the oldest, VISA (BankAmericard) is
second and Mastercard (Mastercharge) was third. In 1958, the American Express Company entered the scene with their
version of the universal credit card. In 1959, the
Bank of America in California introduced the BankAmericard, now Visa. On August 16,
1966, a group of banks collaborated together to form what is now
MasterCard International.
Question date: 11/11/03
Which of the big three credit card companies (Visa, Mastercard, American Express) is the oldest?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the American Association of Candy Technologists web page: www.candyusa.org, Halloween is the holiday with the highest candy sales,
followed by Easter, the Winter Holidays, and Valentine's Day.
Question date: 11/04/03
For which holiday does the US candy industry sell the most candy?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Question date: 10/21/03
No question for two weeks during fundraising drive.
Answer to the previous week's question:
It was once customary in country stores to keep available an open barrel of salt pork. Certain persons of the community would, at times, dip into the pork barrel and help themselves. And so we came to use the term "pork barrel" to indicate a common fund of money into which our legislators dip for their own and their constituents' more personal projects. "Pork barrel" is also a post-Civil War era term coming from the plantation practice of distributing rations of salt pork to slaves from wooden barrels.
Question date: 10/14/03
Where did the political term "pork barrel" come from?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Mint Chocolate Chip was the 31st flavor created by Baskin Robbins in 1948.
Question date: 10/07/03
What was the 31st flavor of ice cream created by the "31" flavor company: Baskin Robbins?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Denny's Corporation is the SC based publicly traded company employing the largest number of persons. According to its most recently filed Form
10-K, Denny's employeed approximately 28,000 persons as of 12/25/02.
Question date: 09/30/03
Name the publicly-traded SC-based company that has the largest number of total employees?
Answer to the previous week's question:
An employer is required to give a job back to someone who has been called for military leave for a period of up to 5 years.
Question date: 09/23/03
How long can someone in the guard or reserve be gone on military leave and still have their employer be required to give them their job back?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Ranked by total assets, the South Financial Group, the holding company for Carolina First, is the largest publicly-traded SC-based bank holding company.
Question date: 09/16/03
Ranked by total assets, name the largest SC-based, publicly-traded bank holding company.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The 4 new counties added to the Columbia MSA are:
Calhoun, Fairfield, Kershaw, and Saluda
The 2 original counties are:
Lexington and Richland.
Question date: 09/09/03
The federal government recently added four counties to Columbia, SC's metropolitan statistical area (MSA). Name them along with the original two.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The term "check-kiting" alludes to kiteflying-for if you fly a kite, you can never tell
definitely when it is coming down to earth. If you kite a check it is not certain when it will be presented for collection.
Question date: 09/02/03
Why do we refer to a check presented on insufficient funds as "check kiting"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the Palmetto Institute, South Carolina's ranking is last (5th) in
per capita personal income when compared to our neighboring states
Virginia (1st), Georgia (2nd), North Carolina (3rd), Florida (4th) and
South Carolina (5th).
Question date: 08/26/03
According to the Palmetto Institute, what is SC's ranking in per capita personal income when compared to our neighboring states of North Carolina, Goergia, Virginia and Florida?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The word "economy" derives from the Greek word oikonomia (household management). Much of the industry in the ancient world was based in large, self-sufficient households (analagous to ranches?), so to manage a household required important financial skills.
Question date: 08/19/03
Where does the word "economy" come from?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The two conditions that must first be met for an individual to qualify for up to 12 weeks of unpaid authorized leave under the Family Medical and Leave Act are:
1) The employee must be employed by the employer at least 12 months, of
which at least 1,250 hours of consecutive employment must be prior to the
commencement of the leave request.
2)The employer must have at least 50 employees working within 75 miles of
the worksite.
Question date: 08/12/03
What two conditions must be met for a person to qualify for up to 12 weeks of authorized unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Denny's, formerly known as Flagstar and Advantica restaurant group is the publicly-trade, SC-based comapny that earned it's first profit in 2002 after filing for bankruptcy back in the 1990's.
Question date: 08/05/03
What SC-based publicly-traded company earned its first profit last year since filing for bankruptcy back in the 1990's? Hint: This company does not have the same name it had when it declared bankruptcy.
Answer to the previous week's question:
same question as last week...
Question date: 07/29/03
What SC-based publicly-traded company earned its first profit last year since filing for bankruptcy back in the 1990's?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the Palmetto Institute, South Carolina's per capita personal income is 81 percent of the national
average.
Question date: 07/22/03
According to the Palmetto Institute, South Carolina's per capita personal income is what percent of the national average?
Answer to the previous week's question:
There is an arrow pointing to the right in the negative space between the E and X in the FedEx logo.
Question date: 07/15/03
What is the hidden symbol in the FedEx logo?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The origin of Six Sigma comes from the fact that the objective is to
reduce the variation of a process so that plus or minus six standard
deviations lie between the mean and the nearest specified limit.
Statistically, this means that there will be no more than 3.4 defective
pieces per one million pieces produced.
Question date: 07/08/03
Where did the manufacturing industry get the term "six sigma", which is the term they use to refer to their quality assurance programs.
Answer to the previous week's question:
The term "bigwig" or "big wig" comes from the early 1700's. It is related to the use of wigs by men with richer men being able to afford bigger
nicer wigs. Here is what two different internet sources said about the term. This term for an important person dates to c. 1731. It's a reference to the powdered wigs that men wore in the 18th century. Rich and important men would have larger, more expensive wigs. Hence the term. Contrary to
the bit of Internet folklore that is floating about, men did not shave their heads under the wigs (or at least most didn't) and the wigs were not
placed in a loaf of bread and baked in order to clean them. That is simply absurd. (www.wordorigins.org)
And now onward to the wonderful world of wigs. Once upon a time (the 1700's, to be precise), there was no hairspray and no blow-driers. Every day was a bad hair day, as it had been for most of human history. Consequently, almost everybody above the poverty line -- men, women, and
sometimes even children -- wore wigs. But not all wigs were equal. While Joe Schmoe trudged through life wearing his ratty little two-shilling
bargain number from Wigges 'n Stuffe, Lord Gotrocks sported a luxurious,expensive, and, of course, very large wig. Regular folks found these rich
people and their fancy wigs so annoying that by the early 1800's "bigwig"
had become a mocking slang term for the wealthy and powerful. And though the wigs are mostly gone (or at least a lot smaller), "bigwig" is still used as slang for someone who probably isn't as important as he thinks he is. (www.word-detective.com)
Question date: 07/01/03
Where did the word "bigwig" come from?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Hartsville-based Sonoco Products was the most profitable SC-based publicly-traded company in 2002, earning over $130 million.
Question date: 06/24/03
Which SC-based publicly-traded company made the most money in profits in 2002?
Answer to the previous week's question:
SCANA is the only SC-based publicly-traded company in the Fortune 500 and their 2002 ranking is #499.
Question date: 06/17/03
Name the only SC-based publicly-traded company that is listed in the Fortune 500 and what is its ranking?
Answer to the previous week's question:
York and Greenville are the only two counties in SC that still do not recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a paid holiday.
Question date: 06/10/03
Which counties in SC still do not recognize Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday?
Answer to the previous week's question:
For over a century, Americans have been enjoying ice cream on a cone. Whether it's a waffle cone, a sugar cone or a wafer cone, what better way to enjoy a double scoop of your favorite flavor?
The first ice cream cone was produced in 1896 by Italo Marchiony.
Marchiony, who migrated from Italy in the late 1800s, invented his ice
cream cone in New York City. He was granted a patent in December 1903 U.S. Patent No. 746971.
Although Marchiony is credited with the invention of the cone, a similar creation was independently introduced at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
For folks who lived anywhere near St. Louis, Missouri, the biggest event in the summer of 1904 was the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which took
place in that city. No one knew beforehand, but that exposition was the occasion where ice cream cones were first made and sold. The person who did it was named Charles Menches and he was a seller of ice cream. But he
didn't plan to invent the ice cream cone. This is how it happened.
Charles Menches sold his ice cream in dishes the way every other ice cream man did. That August when the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was at its
height, was a real scorcher, however, and one day disaster struck Mr. Menches. There were so many hot and thirsty fairgoers wanting ice cream
that he ran out of dishes. And it wasn't even noon. He had more than half a day of business ahead of him and not a single dish to serve his ice
cream on. What did Menches do? He looked around him and thought fast. Nearby was a stand where his friend, Ernest Hamwi, who was from Syria, was
selling a Middle Eastern treat called Zalabia. Zalabia consists of a crisp, wafer-like pastry sold with syrup. "Give me Zalabia!" cried
Menches. He rolled up the Zalabia, scooped his ice cream on top, and presto! Ice cream cones were born.
Question date: 06/03/03
When was the ice cream cone invented and where did it make it's public debut?
Answer to the previous week's question:
In South Carolina, you have 300 days after the alleged discriminatory act, to file charges of discrimination.
Question date: 05/27/03
How many days do you have to file an administrative charge of discrimination against your employer after you've learned of an adverse personnel decision?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Although 60% of the nations's population is eligible to donate blood, only 5% do so.
Question date: 05/20/03
According to the American Red Cross, 60% of Americans are eligible to donate blood. What percent actually donates?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The original meaning of "skinflint," according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was "One who would skin a flint to save or gain something ...a miser." A "flint," a fragment of flint stone used since antiquity to
spark fires when struck with steel, has, of course, no "skin" to remove. But as a metaphor for someone who goes to great trouble to save tiny
amounts of money, "skinflint" has been with us since around 1700.
Question date: 05/13/03
Why is somebody who hates to spend money often referred to as a "skinflint"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC's ranking for residential electricity costs as measured in cents per kilowatt hour is 24th @ 7.58c/KWh as ranked by the U.S. Dept. of Energy's 2000 census.
Question date: 05/06/03
Where does SC rank nationally in residential electricity costs as measured in cents per kilowatt hour by the US Dept. of Energy?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The three highest rated programs on SCERN, in order, are:
1. Morning Edition,
2. All Things Considered,
3. Car Talk
Question date: 04/29/03
Name the three highest rated programs on Soth Carolina Educational Radio.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Key West got it's name from the original Spanish Name "Caya Hueso", which translates to "Bone Island". Early Spanish settlers there found the island littered with the bones of warring Indians.
Question date: 04/22/03
What well-known U.S. tourist destination was originally known as "Bone Island"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
South Carolina's cigarette tax is (currently) 7 cents per pack. This ranks us as the fourth lowest in the nation (Virginia (2.5 cents), Kentucky (3 cents), and North Carolina (5 cents) are lower).
Question date: 04/15/03
How many cents per pack is SC's cigarette tax and where does our state rank in relation to the size of our cigarrete tax?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Widespread fear is referred to as "panic" because it relates to the Greek God, Pan. There are 2 explanations: one is that he would frighten unwary travelers by making noise, and the other is that he fought with the Olympians against the Titans and his loud noises caused them to flee.
Question date: 04/08/03
Why do we call sudden, widespread fear "panic"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
In sixteenth-century France, the start of the new year was observed on April first. It was celebrated in much the same way as it is today with parties and dancing into the late hours of the night. Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar for the Christian world, and the new year fell on January first. There were some people, however, who hadn't heard or didn't believe the change in the date, so they continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April first. Others played tricks on them and called them "April fools." They sent them on a "fool's errand" or tried to make them believe that something false was true. In France today, April first is called "Poisson d'Avril." French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends' backs. When the "young fool" discovers this trick, the prankster yells "Poisson d’Avril!" (April Fish!)
Question date: 04/08/03
Why do we call sudden widespread fear "panic"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
In sixteenth-century France, the start of the new year was observed on April first. It was celebrated in much the same way as it is today with parties and dancing into the late hours of the night. Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar for the Christian world, and the new year fell on January first. There were some people, however, who hadn't heard or didn't believe the change in the date, so they continued to celebrate New Year's Day on April first. Others played tricks on them and called them "April fools." They sent them on a "fool's errand" or tried to make them believe that something false was true. In France today, April first is called "Poisson d'Avril." French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends' backs. When the "young fool" discovers this trick, the prankster yells "Poisson d’Avril!" (April Fish!)
Question date: 04/01/03
How did April Fool's Day get started?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The name for the game of poker may have come from one of two places: perhaps from the first element of the German "Pochspiel," name of a card game similar to poker, from
"pochen"--- "to brag as a bluff." Another version traces the word to French "poque," also said to have been a card game resembling poker. Because the French game was played in Louisiana, the Southern drawl changed "poque" to "pokuh" and when northerners heard the pronunciation as the game moved north, they assumed it was the Southern pronunciation of "poker", and thus began spelling it that way.
Question date: 03/25/03
How did the game of poker get that name?
Answer to the previous week's question:
IRS code section 72(t) allows for penalty free withdrawals from IRAs and other qualified plans prior to age 59 1/2 through distributions which are
part of a series of Substantially Equal Periodic Payments.
Question date: 03/18/03
What is the section number of the IRS Code that allows systematic penalty-free early withdrawals from retirement plans? (Hint: These types of regular withdrawals are often referred to as this section number)
Answer to the previous week's question:
Baskin Robbins "31" flavors was a marketing plan concept to offer customers a different
flavor for each day of the month. The objective was to entice customers back into the store - many loyal customers actually visited their
neighborhood store each day of the month to try a new flavor. An interesting footnote: This concept was quite successful. However,the
company realized that to maintain this concept's success, they would have to constantly offer new flavors to their loyal customers. At last count, Baskin-Robbins had over 1000 flavors worldwide.
Question date: 03/11/03
Why did Baskin Robbins pick the number 31 for it's logo? We all know it represents the number of flavors, but why 31? Why not 15? ...or 40?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Justinsane Design was the first company inducted into the USC Technology Incubator in Columbia.
Question date: 03/04/03
Name the first company inducted into the USC Technology Incubator in Columbia.
Answer to the previous week's question:
You can work as many unauthorized overtime hours as possible and your employer will still have to pay you for them...however, he or she also has the right to discipline you for doing so.
Question date: 02/25/03
How many hours of unauthorized overtime work can you put in at your job and still have your employer be required to pay you for those overtime hours?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The maximum IRA contribution for 2002 is $3,000 with an extra $500 for taxpayers 50 and older, making a
total of $3,500.
Question date: 02/18/03
The maximum 2002 IRA contribution for individuals who turned 50 or older last year is how much?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Since 2001, Education IRA's have been called Coverdell Education Savings Accounts.
Question date: 02/11/03
What is the new name(as of 2001) for the Educational IRA?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Residential Construction is the component of SC's leading economic indicators that performed the best in 2002.
Question date: 02/04/03
Which component of South Carolina's Leading Economic Indicators performed the best in 2002?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Retailers receive a commission of 7% on each South Carolina Education Lottery ticket they sell.
Question date: 01/28/03
What percent commission do retailers receive for selling SC Education Lottery tickets?
Answer to the previous week's question:
1946 to 1964 are the years that are considered to be the years during which the "baby boomers" were born?
Question date: 01/21/03
Which years are considered to be the years during which the "baby boomers" were born?
Answer to the previous week's question:
It's not illegal to ask someone their age during a job interview, however,it is illegal to discriminate against a job applicant on the basis of age.
Question date: 12/03/02
How many paid 15-minute breaks are employers required to provide for their employees each work day?
Answer to the previous week's question:
'The most likely source of "phoney," in the opinion of many authorities,
is an English slang word "fawney," from the Irish word "fainne," meaning
"ring." English "fawney men" (con artists) perfected a scam (called the
"fawney rig") which involved the trickster "finding" a gold ring "of great
value" (actually brass) and then agreeing to sell it to his victim.'
Other possible origins include a variation on funny or that it is somehow
related to the telephone or that it is from the name Forney, a manfacturer
of cheap jewelry. Given that it refers to rings and jewelry, this last is
probably a misunderstanding of fawney.
Question date: 11/26/02
No question this week. Happy Thanksgiving!
Answer to the previous week's question:
'The most likely source of "phoney," in the opinion of many authorities,
is an English slang word "fawney," from the Irish word "fainne," meaning
"ring." English "fawney men" (con artists) perfected a scam (called the
"fawney rig") which involved the trickster "finding" a gold ring "of great
value" (actually brass) and then agreeing to sell it to his victim.'
Other possible origins include a variation on funny or that it is somehow
related to the telephone or that it is from the name Forney, a manfacturer
of cheap jewelry. Given that it refers to rings and jewelry, this last is
probably a misunderstanding of fawney.
Question date: 11/19/02
Where did we get the word "phoney"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The longest period of time you can leave your job for military duty and still have your employer be required to give you your job back when you return is five years.
Question date: 11/12/02
What is the longest period you can be gone from your job for military duty and still receive your job back from your employer?
Answer to the previous week's question:
In Old English, gossip - or god-sibb - originally meant a person related
to one in God, specifically referring to a woman's close female friends at
the birth of a child (those she would choose to be godparents to her
child, her 'god-sisters', if you like). The word later came to mean more
generally a close (female) friend or companion, and then the kind of talk
characteristic of intimate friends, i.e. chatty talk about the details of
personal matters and relationships, the sharing of secrets - more or less
what we currently mean by gossip.
Question date: 11/05/02
Where did the word "gossip" come from?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The term "grapevine" is shortened from the phrase "grapevine telegraph."
In 1859, a telegraph line was crudely strung in trees between Placerville,
CA and Virginia City, NV. In time, the wireno longer tauttook on the
appearance of a wild, trailing grapevine. By the time of the Civil War, any conflicting news or orders received by military units was attributed to such sagging lines. A report by "grapevine telegraph" came then to
represent a rumor.
Question date: 10/29/02
Where did the phrase: "heard it through the grapevine" originate?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The term well-heeled originally referred to cock fighting. A
fighting gamecock was considered well-heeled if it had large, dangerous spurs that
would inflict the most damage. The term was taken over into American
usage in the frontier days to mean that one was likewise carrying a
weapon. Mark Twain even referred to it in a story in 1866. Later, well-heeled
was transferred to being armed with a more powerful weapon still: money.
Question date: 10/15/02
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Answer to the previous week's question:
The term well-heeled originally referred to cock fighting. A
fighting gamecock was considered well-heeled if it had large, dangerous spurs that
would inflict the most damage. The term was taken over into American
usage in the frontier days to mean that one was likewise carrying a
weapon. Mark Twain even referred to it in a story in 1866. Later, well-heeled
was transferred to being armed with a more powerful weapon still: money.
Question date: 10/08/02
Where did the term "well-heeled" come from?
Answer to the previous week's question:
SC's corporate income tax rate is 5%, the lowest in the Southeast and one of the lowest in the country.
Question date: 10/01/02
What is SC's corporate income tax rate?
Answer to the previous week's question:
1932 is the only presidential election year that the Dow Jones Industrial Average did not exceed the low it hit two years earlier.
Question date: 09/24/02
During which presidential election year did the Dow Jones Industrial Average not exceed the low it hit two years earlier?
Answer to the previous week's question:
"The most likely explanation is that the Jeep got its name from 'Eugene the Jeep,' a strange creature that appeared in E.C. Segar's comic strip Thimble Theater, best known for its character Popeye, the Sailor. Eugene the Jeep first appeared in March 1936 and was named for the only sound he made
'Jeep,' which was apparently a play on 'cheep' used by cartoonists to represent a bird's call." (taken from http://www.wordorigins.org)Another explanation is that the pronunciation of "jeep" is apparently an adaptation of the letters GP which was an early designation for the vehicle. Although it is commonly thought that those letters stood for "General Purpose," there is quite a bit of evidence to the contrary. "The page reproduced here from Ford's book "SERVICE SCHOOL for US Army Instructors on Ford US Army Vehicles
(1941)", shows very clearly that in all Ford prefixes G always means GOVERNMENT and P means 80 inch wheelbase Reconnaissance Car (jeeps)." (taken from http://phaedra.apana.org.au/etymolgy.html)
Question date: 09/17/02
Where did the Jeep get its name?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the SC Dept. of Commerce at www.teamsc.com, only 1.8% of SC's work force belongs to unions.
Question date: 09/10/02
What percent of SC's work force belongs to unions?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The largest employer in SC, in terms of number of employees, is the SC State government, employing 291,400 people in state and local government positions.
Question date: 09/03/02
Who is the largest employer in SC in terms of number of employees?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The phrase, "slush fund" originated from the nautical world. On board ship when the
salted meat storage barrels were boiled or scraped a slushy slurry of fat was obtained.
This "slush" was sold ashore by the ship's cook and the profits used for his benefit and that of the crew.
Question date: 08/27/02
Where did the term "slush fund" come from?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Many people believe the saying "Rob Peter to pay Paul" is from the reign of English King Edward VI when land was appropriated from St. Peter's Church in London to pay for
the repairs of St. Paul's Cathedral in London during the 1500's. The saying actually goes back to 1382, to John Wycliffe who said 'How should
God approve that you rob Peter, and give this robbery to Paul in the name of Christ?' The root of this reference is believed to be the Bible from a
letter of Paul to the church at Corinth in 2Corinthians 11:8 - 'I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.' Many consider Peter to be the head of the church, so Paul was, in essence, robbing Peter.
Question date: 08/20/02
Where did we get the expression "Rob Peter to pay Paul"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Bacon is made from pork bellies.
Question date: 08/13/02
What product is made from pork bellies?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The top performing publicly traded stock based in SC as of Aug. 6th is Denny's from Spartanburg, up 46%.
Question date: 08/07/02
What is the best performing stock this year from SC's publicly traded companies?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The number 13 is represented on the back of a one dollar bill 8 times. There are 13 steps on the pyramid; 13 letters in the latin phrase above; 13 stars above the eagle; 13 letters in "E Pluribus Unum"; 13 bars on the eagle's shield, 13 leaves on the olive branch; 13 fruits, and 13 arrows.
Question date: 07/30/02
How many times is the number 13 represented on the back of a one dollar bill?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Salary comes from a Latin word "salarium," money given to Roman soldiers
to buy salt.
Question date: 07/23/02
Why do we call the amount of money you are paid for your job, your salary?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The ice cream Sundae got it's name in Evanston, Illinois. A hundred years
ago, the town leaders didn't care for the influence soda fountains had over its population, keeping the faithful out of church on Sundays. The
city passed a law banning the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. An industrious soda jerk invented the Sunday Soda, containing ice cream and syrup, but no soda, thereby complying with the letter of the law.
Religious leaders then complained that the Sabbath day should not be used for mundane advertising. The spelling was then changed to Ice Cream
Sundae.
Question date: 07/16/02
Where did the ice cream sundae get it's name?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Golf Trust of America in Charleston is the publicly traded SC company that is in the process of liquidating it's assets and returning the money to the shareholders? This is not a bankrupt company!
Question date: 06/25/02
Which publicly traded SC company is in the process of liquidating it's assets and returning the money to the shareholders? Hint: This is not a bankrupt company!
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the State newspaper's "Palmetto 50" report, SCANA is SC's largest publicly traded company as ranked by annual revenue.
Question date: 06/18/02
According to the State newspaper's "Palmetto 50" report, which SC publicly traded company is the largest as ranked by annual revenue?
Answer to the previous week's question:
A "red herring" is the term given to a public company's preliminary prospectus. A red herring, because it was a smelly fish, was used to throw dogs off the trail during a fox hunt. Therefore, a "red herring" prospectus is a warning to investors that it is incomplete and may throw you off track, so wait until the final prospectus is issued before committing any money.
Question date: 06/11/02
What, in the investment world, is referred to as a "red herring" and why?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Why is the association for lawyers called "the bar"? In an English Court there is a railing, or "bar," which encloses the part of
the room where the judges and lawyers sit. Therefore to have "passed the
bar" was to be able to sit at the appropriate place in the courtroom.
Question date: 06/04/02
Why is the association for lawyers called "the bar"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
We call governement delay "red tape" because that's what the English used to bind their official documents with for centuries. Now that tape is pink.
Question date: 05/28/02
Why do we call governement delay "red tape"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The "red" in the phrase "not one red cent" comes from the fact that red is the color associated with copper.
Question date: 05/08/02
Why is the word "red" in the phrase "not one red cent"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The SC money management company responsible for compiling the SC 20 stock index reported each morning on this program is CCM Investment Advisors in Columbia.
Question date: 05/07/02
Why is the word "red" in the phrase "not one red cent"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The SC money management company responsible for compiling the SC 20 stock index reported each morning on this program is CCM Investment Advisors in Columbia.
Question date: 04/16/02
What SC money management company is responsible for compiling the SC 20 stock index reported each morning on this program?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Ford automobiles were called "Lizzie" by personification-the name probably having been chosen because of it's similarity to a lizard. If a person with a fast car had a "whizzer", then a person with a slow car, had a "lizard" or "lizzie". "Tin" was used to indicate the cheapness of the car - the sheet steel used in making tin cans being the thinnest commonly known at the time.
Question date: 04/02/02
Why were the early Ford automobiles called "tin lizzies"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Gratuities came to be called "TIPS" because it is an acronym of To Insure Prompt Service. Small containers were,
in old England, at each booth in the pub. Money placed in the container
insured would be customers that they would receive good service.
Question date: 03/26/02
Why do we call a gratuity a "tip"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
In some card games, a marker called a "buck" is put in front of the dealer to remind players who is the dealer. When it's someone else's turn, the
card is put in front of them and the "buck is passed."
Pass the buck means to shift responsibility onto someone else.
Harry Truman made the phrase "the buck stops here" famous and he was an avid poker player.
Question date: 03/19/02
What is the origin of the phrase "Pass the buck"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Farmers use to leave an egg in the hen's nest to encourage more egg laying, thus laying something by for the future.
Question date: 03/19/02
What is the origin of the phrase "Pass the buck"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Farmers used to leave an egg in the hen's nest to encourage more egg laying, thus "nest egg" came to mean laying something by for the future.
Question date: 03/12/02
How did an amount of money set aside for the future get the name "nest egg"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The Charleston -to-Hamburg rail line, the first in the state, once had a spur line that was world famous. Why?
The spur from Ward to Saluda had no turnaround, and therefore the train
had to return backwards - quite a feat in those days!!
Question date: 03/05/02
He Charleston -to-Hamburg rail line, the first in the state, once had a spur line that was world famous. Why?
Answer to the previous week's question:
US athletes were awarded $25,000 for each
gold medal, $15,000 for each silver, and $10,000 for each bronze.
Question date: 02/26/02
What were the amounts of money awarded to the US athletes
for each gold, silver, and bronze medal they won at this year's winter
olympics?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The minutes of a meeting are so called
because they are written in small, "minute" form, such as - in shorthand.
Question date: 02/19/02
Why are the notes of a meeting called "minutes"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
What was the last year, before the Clinton administration, that we had a U.S. Government budget surplus?--1969
Question date: 02/12/02
What was the last year, before the Clinton administration, that we had a U.S. Government budget surplus?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The making of a fine Venetian glass bottle is a difficult process - for it must be perfect. If, in blowing, the slightest flaw is detected, the glassblower turns the bottle into a common flask - called in Italian, fiasco.
Question date: 02/05/02
How did a complete failure come to be called a "fiasco"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
On November 1, 1999, Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), Home Depot, Inc. (HD), and SBC Communications, Inc. (SBC) were added to the Dow Industrials, while the following were removed: Chevron Corp. (CHV), Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (GT), Sears, Roebuck & Co. (S), and Union Carbide Corp. (UK)
Question date: 01/29/02
When was the last time the DJIA changed it's components and which stocks were added and which were dropped?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The word "tycoon" comes from the Japanese "tai" and "kuin" meaning "great" and "prince". It was brought over to the western world by Commodore Perry in 1854.
Question date: 01/22/02
Where did the word "tycoon" come from?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Public School children in England used to visit the bakery right after school like our children visited the ice cream parlor. Their nickname for the baked goods was "dough" and over time the money they spent became referred to as "dough".
Question date: 01/15/02
How did money come to be called "dough"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Best year: 12/31/1915, 99.15, +81.66% Worst year: 12/31/1931 77.90 -52.67%
Question date: 01/01/02
Happy New Year!
Answer to the previous week's question:
no question last week
Question date: 12/25/01
Happy holidays!
Answer to the previous week's question:
The word is derived from decem, the Latin word for "ten" - and the Romans used ten hides as a basic unit in trading with the barbarians.
Question date: 12/19/01
Where did the term "dicker" get the meaning "to bargain"?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Visa Card's peak transaction rate of 3784 transactions per second occurred last year on Dec. 23rd., the last "full" shopping day before Christmas!
Question date: 12/11/01
Which date during last year's holiday shopping season, saw Visa Card's peak transaction rate of 3784 transactions per second occur?
Answer to the previous week's question:
Mr. Potato Head, debuting in 1952.
Question date: 12/04/01
What was the first toy ever advertised on TV?
Answer to the previous week's question:
The slowest trading day of the year for the NYSE is the day after Thanksgiving.
Question date: 11/29/01
What day is always the slowest trading day of the year for the NYSE?
Answer to the previous week's question:
no question last week
Question date: 11/22/01
Happy Thanksgiving!
Answer to the previous week's question:
Back in the old days, stocks that couldn't get listed on the NYSE were traded outside on the curb. The "Curb" Exchange eventually became the American Stock Exchange.
Question date: 11/15/01
Which US stock exchange used to be known as "The Curb" and why?
Answer to the previous week's question:
no program last week
Question date: 11/08/01
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Answer to the previous week's question:
no program last week
Question date: 11/01/01
No program this week
Answer to the previous week's question:
no program last week
Question date:
Since 1948, the S&P 500 has risen by an average of what percent during the Decembers after an election?
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to the National Crime Insurance Bureau, as of 2002 the Honda Accord is the car most often stolen in SC.
www.scinsnews.com/media2004no3.html
Question date:
Name our state's official Hospitality Beverage.
Answer to the previous week's question:
According to a USC study, for every dollar our state spends on public libraries, SC receives $4.48 in economic impact.
Question date:
According to the SC Indicators Project, where does SC rank nationally in per capita income and where are our neighbors, NC and Georgia?
Answers must be submitted by 8am Wed. morning. You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive two tickets to "Jazz at the Center" coming May 12th to the Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County in Camden, SC.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Norfolk Southern counts the 1830 "Best Friend of Charleston" passenger train as one of its ancestors?
Question date:
Due to a programming error we are re-running last week's question...
SC was recently named the best state in the nation for recycling which waste product (according to statistics through 2005)?
You must include your mailing address in your entry. Only one entry per household.
This week's winner will receive a delicious prize package from www.youngpecanplantations.com
Answer to the previous week's question:
repeat last week's question...
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Name the little book of meditations (and its South Carolina author) that Henry Ford once gave to all 25,000 of his employees for inspiration.
Please include your name and mailing address with your entry.
This week's winner will receive four tickets to a Charleston Battery professional soccer match at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island.
Answer to the previous week's question:
Henry Timrod is the 19th century Charleston, SC author known as the Poet Laureate of the Confederacy.
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