Trivia: Name the 4 largest cities in NC

[mrboba1]

NC'ers are disqualified...

[GOPisEvil]

1. High Point, Kannapolis, Climax, and, uh, Charlotte or something.

:P

[mrboba1]

5. you forgot Lizard Lick

...
http://www.arthurcadieux.org/landscapes/Lizard_Lick_NC.html


...and you're not even close

[GOPisEvil]

7. See what I get for not being an NCer!

:spank:

[auburngrad82]

12. My significant other works in Lizard Lick.

We tried to get a post office box their but they don't have a post office. We REALLY wanted a Lizard Lick address!

[mrboba1]

17. I didn't know there was a business in Lizard Lick!

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. Ahh darn it I wanted to play lol .

[mrboba1]

6. you can play today since its your b'day

maybe it'll cheer you up!

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

10. ok Charlotte , Raleigh , Greensboro and Winston Salem ?

[mrboba1]

11. not quite

but close...

[felonious thunk]

3. Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, Winston-Salem?

Or Durham. Take one of them out and put Durham in, if I'm wrong.

[mrboba1]

15. you gotta pick one or the other

W-S or Durham?

[felonious thunk]

16. Ok, then in the interests of choosing the trip to flavor country

I'll pick Winston-Salem

[mrboba1]

20. sorry. wrong answer.

:shrug:

[felonious thunk]

29. Well then Durham, Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh

I'm pretty sure about the top 3.

[WI_DEM]

4. I'll guess

Raligh, Winston-Salem, Greenville, Durham?

[mrboba1]

9. 2 are right

but the spelling is wrong for 1 of them... (Raleigh)

[pagerbear]

8. Conetoe, Pumpkin Center, Fuquay-Varina, Lizard Lick

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

13. LMAO !

I like Fuguay-Varina because of the way it sounds when you say it .

[mrboba1]

14. ummmm - no

but I do know where 3 of those are...

Pumpkin Center???

[pagerbear]

19. Somewhere west of Charlotte.

I just know I drove through it once.

When I lived in Monroe (southeast of Charlotte), I used to see signs on the highway saying Unionville, 10 mi this way, and then after a while, Unionville, 10 mi that way, and I wondered if the town actually existed!

[mrboba1]

23. hmm. I don't see it anymore

on the official state map. They may have "de-incorporated" it
:shrug:

[pagerbear]

30. Then substitute Tarboro

Smithfield (home of the Ava Gardner Museum)
Misenheimer (home of my alma mater, Pfeiffer College)
Acme-Delco

Shall I go on?

[Algorem]

18. Raleigh,Mount Pilot,Mayberry,uh

[XNASA]

22. Damn, you snuck in while I was doing my research.

I hate when that happens. :D

[XNASA]

21. Mayberry, Mount Pilot, Raleigh and Petticoat Junction

:shrug:

[Algorem]

39. Mayberry RFD?

[mwdem]

24. Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Raleigh

Well?

[mrboba1]

28. HOORAY!!

Did you look at the census or something?
:P

Here they are:
largest cities (2003 est.): Charlotte, 584,658; Raleigh, 316,802; Greensboro, 229,110; Durham, 198,376;

Winston-Salem, with 190,299 was #5

[mwdem]

32. No, but I still have family there, was born & bred there,

been away for almost 25 years.

[pagerbear]

36. Me too. Well, 20.

Miss it.

[mwdem]

37. I get back once a year,

My family's in Charlotte & Greensboro. I'm having a few of them out here next month for a wedding, but I do miss going back home.

[mrboba1]

38. we need you back to turn the state

Democrat!!

:hi:

[mrboba1]

25. We've had 2 that are close

getting 3 right.

And the other has been mentioned in this thread...

felonious thunk - try again!

[phillybri]

26. Raleigh, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro...

:shrug:

[camero]

27. Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Wilmington

my guess.

[pagerbear]

31. You mean Wimminden

[mrboba1]

33. The answer:

largest cities (2003 est.): Charlotte, 584,658; Raleigh, 316,802; Greensboro, 229,110; Durham, 198,376;

Winston-Salem, with 190,299 dropped to #5, it used to be ahead of Durham and believe it or not, Raleigh and Greensboro in the 80s and 90s were back and forth as 2nd largest city...

[felonious thunk]

34. The Triad has been hit pretty hard with job losses

Yet it still continues to be way more conservative than the other urban centers.

[mrboba1]

35. they must be the "true believers"

that stick around even though everything is going to crap.