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#1. Who donated the bulk of his estate to the state of South Carolina, for the establishment of an agricultural school?

#2. Name the American statesman who owned Hobcaw Barony, near Georgetown, where he entertained such figures as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill?

#3. As the first U.S. Minister to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett introduced what Mexican plant to the United States?

#4. In 1957, Senator Strom Thurmond delivered the longest speek ever heard in the United States Senate. How long was it (to the nearest hour)?

#5. Who served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1968 to 1972?

#6. What famed educator, who served as President of the Atlanta Board of Education, was called “my spiritual mentor and intellectual father” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

#7. A famous architect who studied under Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Robert Mills designed what towering structure?

#8. Inductees John Rutledge, Pierce Butler, Charles Pinckney and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney all signed what document?

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