RALEIGH - “Who was North Carolina’s longest serving governor?” “Name the two women pirates who served on the crew of Captain “Calico Jack” Rackham.” “The bloodiest slave revolt in American history occurred along the Virginia-North Carolina border in 1831. Who led this slave uprising?” (Answers: Gabriel Johnston, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and Nat Turner.) For months now, teams of state middle school students have been feverishly studying questions and answers like these to prepare for the annual N.C. History Bowl State Championship. Finalist teams from the seven schools that have already bested all rivals in their region will square off for the coveted championship prize Wednesday, May 14, from 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the N.C. Museum of History auditorium in downtown Raleigh.
Sponsored by N.C. State Historic Sites, the program will feature competing teams from Camden County Middle School in Camden, Kannapolis Middle School in Kannapolis, Magellan Charter School in Raleigh, McDougle Middle School in Chapel Hill, Grover C. Fields Middle School in New Bern, Reid Ross Classical School in Fayetteville and West Craven Middle School in New Bern.
The names of all team members, coaches and sponsoring state historic sites, follow under the respective competing schools:
Camden County Middle School (Camden County-Camden)
Historic Edenton State Historic Site
Sarah Boolba
Austin Bray
Zack Best
Daniel Kight
Adam Lannon
Cody Hogge, assistant
John Hill, coach
Kannapolis Middle School (Kannapolis City Schools/Cabarrus County-Kannapolis)
James K. Polk/Reed Gold Mine State Historic Sites
Fernando Guerrero
Chris Abba
Beth Eudy
Arturo Fuente
Houa Yang
Doug Byrnes and Porsche Sims, coaches
Magellan Charter School (Wake County-Raleigh)
Duke Homestead/Bennett Place State Historic Sites
Carson Rouse
Randy Cain
Cameron Tilley
Dylan Goodman
Jacob Frey
Patrick Winters, coach
McDougle Middle School (Chapel Hill Carrboro/Orange County-Chapel Hill)
Charlotte Hawkins Brown/Alamance Battleground State Historic Site
William Knapp
Chris Chiesa
Chris Rupert
Hugo Sowder
Cissy O’Neal and Louise Peters, coaches
Grover C. Fields Middle School (Craven County-New Bern)
Tryon Palace Historic Sites and Gardens
Emily Price
Caity Bodo
Katie Domke
Da Htoo
Cameron Kirby
Marisa Forrest, coach
Reid Ross Classical School (Cumberland Count-Fayetteville)
Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site
Brenna Muldrow
Samantha Swanson
Vinston Mendez
Xavier McLallen
Jeffrey Holmes
Ronald Bryant, coach
West Craven Middle School (Craven County-New Bern)
Aycock/Neuse State Historic Sites
Xavier Collins
Aspyn Fulcher
Sara Neilson
Sarah Richardson
David Rackley, coach
Tuesday, May 13, the teams will arrive in Raleigh to tour the capitol area. Afterwards, they will attend a reception hosted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. This competition is sponsored by N.C. Historic Sites, the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, the N.C. Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the State Capitol Foundation and the N.C. Museum of History.
N.C. Historic Sites is a division of the Office of Archives and History, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, a state agency dedicated to the promotion and protection of North Carolina’s arts, history, and culture. A program of 27 state historic sites from the mountains to the coast, N.C. Historic Sites can be visited on-line at http://www.nchistoricsites.org. For more information on the N.C. History Bowl, please contact N.C. History Bowl coordinator Andrew Duppstadt at 252-526-9600.
Administered by the Division of State Historic Sites, the N.C. History Bowl is a program of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, a state agency dedicated to the promotion and protection of North Carolina’s arts, history, and culture. Join the Cultural Resources 2008 theme observance of “Telling Our Stories.” For more information, visit www.ncculture.com.