List of Caswell County Questions Asked (a sampling)
2. Which Lord Proprietor of importance to Caswell County refused to sell his property to English King George II?
3. Who was Caswell County's first "Home Agent"?
4. Who is the youngest elected Caswell County Sheriff?
5. Who is the last living person to know the "truth" about the killing of John Walter (Chicken) Stephens?
6. What Yanceyville man appeared on Robert Ripley's radio program (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) and is listed as one of Ripley's Wonders?
7. In 1905 Yanceyville was again incorporated. But the reason was liquor. How was liquor relevant to this incorporation?
8. If the Bank of Yanceyville was chartered/incorporated in 1906 but the bank building was not completed until 1922/1923, from where did the bank do business for 16/17 years?
9. Who opened the first dry-cleaning business in Caswell County, NC?
10. In August 1937, Yanceyville's Dr. Stephen Arnold Malloy, M.D. (1872-1944) travelled to Carlsbad, NM, to attend Miss Mary Kerr Motz (1917-2005), who was ill. Question: Why would Dr. Malloy make such a trip?
11. If "Blanche" must be spelled "Blanch," then must "Semora" not be spelled "Senora"?
12. What is a "Boardmaster" and who invented it?
13. Did the Bartlett Yancey High School students go on strike in the early 1950s and burn wood in a barrel outside to keep warm?
14. Atop what Yanceyville building was the first Yanceyville Volunteer Fire Department siren?
15. Why at some point during the history of Caswell County was the following stated? "Thank God for Anson!"
16. Who donated to Yanceyville its first fire engine/truck?
17. Did President George Washington actually sleep in Caswell County?
18. What Jewish woman born in Yanceyville, North Carolina, during the Civil War became a national leader in child welfare?
19. What Caswell County church once operated from the site of the beer joint known as the "White Elephant"?
20. Was any Caswell County mother designated a "Five-Star Mother" during World War II?
21. Who is the first documented Caswell County female member of the North Carolina Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association?
22. Who installed the first radio telephone in Yanceyville and allowed his neighbors to use it?
23. What is the oldest standing commercial building in Caswell County?
24. Who was Yanceyville's first postmaster?
25. Was a World War II ship named for Caswell County?
26. Were there "stocks" in Yanceyville for punishment of criminal offenders?
27. What was the first franchised automobile dealership in Yancyeville?
28. What was the first incorporated town in Caswell County?
29. Who was the first NC senator from Caswell County?
30. Who from Caswell County played baseball in the major leagues?
31. Who was the first Miss Caswell County?
32. Who was the most famous person to escape from a Caswell County prison?
33. What was the original name of Cole Chevrolet in Yanceyville?
34. What was the first bank in Caswell County?
35. Who from Caswell County, NC, are buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia?
36. What place in Caswell County is called the "Museum Without Walls"?
37. What happened to the World War I machine gun that was on the Yanceyville Square for many years?
38. What is the oldest church in Caswell County?
39. Who was "Jesse Holmes, the Fool-Killer"?
40. What is the relationship between author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) and Caswell County, North Carolina?
41. Who from Caswell County, North Carolina, "invented" the modern electric/electronic guitar?
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