NC Lighthouse Quiz

Objective: answer 7 questions correctly. (The correct answers are shown at the bottom.)

1. What was the fate of the Diamond Shoals Light Ship in 1918?

Sunk by Hurricane Kristine.
Sunk by German U-Boat.
Scrapped by Government of North Carolina.
Blown up as aircraft bombing target.

2. Which North Carolina lighthouse is the tallest in America?

Bald Head Island
Cape Hatteras
Cape Lookout
Ocracoke

3. In which of the following years was the original Bald Head Light Station built?

1716
1767
1795
1817

4. Which of the following lighthouses was the last brick lighthouse built on the Outer Banks?

Currituck
Bodie Island
Cape Hatteras
Ocracoke

5. Which of the following lighthouses was the last North Carolina lighthouse to be built?

Currituck
Bodie Island
Cape Lookout
Oak Island

6. How many lighthouses are located on the Outer Banks

2
4
5
7

7. How many lighthouses light the way to Wilmington, NC?

1
2
3
4

8. Due to the shifting sands of Bodie Island, how many Bodie Island lighthouses have been built?

1
3
4
5

9. Which of the following lighthouses is the oldest NC lighthouse still in continuous service?

Bodie Island
Cape Hatteras
Cape Lookout
Ocracoke

10. Which of the following lighthouses served as a military stronghold in the Civil War?

Cape Lookout
Diamond Shoals
Ocracoke
Price Creek


Correct Answers: (1) b, (2) b, (3) c, (4) a, (5) d, (6) c, (7) d, (8) b, (9) d, (10) a

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