Trivia

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1. America’s first golf club was founded in Charleston. In what year was that?

a) 1675
b) 1903
c) 1843
d) 1786

2. The South Carolina Golf Club, founded in Charleston just after the Revolutionary War, was America’s first golf club. Club members played in a public area known as what?

a) Harleston Green
b) Charleston Green
c) The Brown Grounds
d) Grounded Greens

3. The Spanish colony of Santa Elena (1566-1587) was first the site of a French fortification known as Charlesfort (1562-3) and now is a national landmark archaeological site adjacent to the golf course on what South Carolina military base?

a) Fort Jackson in Columbia
b) Charleston Air Force Base
c) Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter
d) Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island near Beaufort

4. What is now the 12th, 13th and 14th holes at The Links at Stono Ferry near Charleston were the site of a legendary battle during what war?

a) The Korean War
b) The Peloponnesian War
c) The War Between The States
d) The Revolutionary War

5. The brother of a man would become the nation’s seventh president died of heat exhaustion after the Battle of Stono Ferry on June 20, 1779. That president, South Carolina’s only native president, is:

a) Richard Nixon
b) Theodore Roosevelt
c) Andrew Jackson
d) George Washington