Statistics for South Carolina Trivia

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Capital city	Columbia	96%
Person for who the state is named for	King Charles	96%
Oldest city	Charleston	92%
Second biggest university	Clemson University	91%
Biggest university	University of South Carolina	89%
The first shots of the Civil War were fired upon...	Fort Sumter	86%
State nickname	The Palmetto State	80%
...by cadets of this college	The Citadel	79%
President born near the border	Andrew Jackson	64%
Oldest serving senator in U.S. history	Strom Thurmond	58%
River that forms most of the border with Georgia	Savannah	57%
Oldest university	College of Charleston	50%
African American country singer	Darius Rucker	50%
National park	Congaree	30%
TV host and political satirist	Stephen Colbert	30%
Baseball player banned from MLB	"Shoeless" Joe Jackson	29%
State Animal	White-tailed Deer	28%
Casual dining chain headquartered in Spartanburg	Denny's	25%
Vice President of the above	John C. Calhoun	22%
Civil rights activist and Baptist minister	Jesse Jackson	16%