How well do you know Flat Rock? Are you conversant in the history and lore of the place referred to as The Little Charleston of the Mountains?

Well here is a quiz designed to separate the Flat Rock insiders from the carpetbaggers just down for the day from Asheville.

Take the quiz and see where you rate. Answers below.

Flat Rock 101 Quiz

1. Which actor honed their craft at Flat Rock Playhouse during the early years of the theater?

a) Natalie Wood

b) Tony Curtis

c) Lee Marvin

d) Mark Warwick

2. Flat Rock observed its “Bicentennial” in 2007 to celebrate what seminal event in 1807?

a) The earliest Flat Rock estate, Mountain Lodge, was constructed.

b) Abraham Kuykendall received the first land grant in the Flat Rock area

c) Flat Rock was first mentioned by geographers in public records

d) Flat Rock was incorporated as a village

3. Which famous character on the Howdy Doody Show retired in Kenmure in the 1990s?

a) Clarabell the Clown

b) Buffalo Bob

c) Cheif Thunderthud

d) Detective Butterball

4. Greenville Highway (Rt 225) closely follows the route of what original colonial road?

a) The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road

b) Mountain Bridge Wilderness Trail

c) The Ancient Cherokee Highway

d) Old Buncombe Turnpike

5. What major geological feature can be found in Flat Rock?

a) The Carolinas Traverse Seismic Fault

b) The headwaters of the Ohio River

c) The Eastern Continental Divide

d) The geographic center of the USA from 1821 until the admission of California in 1854

6. The first movie ever shown at the Flat Rock Cinema was?

a) The Sound of Music

b) Pirates of the Carribean

c) Requiem for a Dream

d) Lost in Translation

7. Flat Rock Square (Formerly Singleton Center) was originally the site of?

a) Flat Rock High School

b) Corporate Offices for Ingles Groceries

c) Site of the stables for Hendersonville Police horses in the late 1800s

d) The Original Flat Rock Millhouse

8. Christopher Memminger, the first Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederacy, buried millions of dollars of confederate gold (in legend) where?

a) Saluda Cottages

b) Below the Great Flat Rock

c) Connemara

d) Bonclarken

9. The clubhouse at Kenmure was originally known as what?

a) Argyle

b) Glenroy

c) Elliott House

d) Tall Trees

10. The iconic Wrinkled Egg store received its name from where?

a) The elderly aunt of the owner who referred to herself as “An Old Wrinkled Egg”

b) The shape of a boiled egg eaten during a conversation on what to name the new store

c) The German word “wringëlt” meaning charmed or indicative of good luck

d) The unique eggs produced by a beloved hen owned by the founder’s grandfather

Answers:

1) c. Lee Marvin

2) c. Flat Rock was first mentioned by geographers in public records

3) b. Buffalo Bob

4) d. Old Buncombe Turnpike

5) c. The Eastern Continental Divide

6) b. Pirates of the Carribean

7) a. Flat Rock High School

8) c. Connemara

9) b. Glenroy

10) d. The unique eggs produced by a beloved hen owned by the founder’s grandfather

How did you do?

Number Correct:

9-10: You probably remember when Greenville Highway was a dirt road.

6-8: Almost good enough to qualify as a native. Almost.

3-5: You need to get out and about in Flat Rock more often.

1-2: Well bless your heart.