Let's write a BASIC 4th of July history quiz!

Posted by $ winterwind 10 years, 10 months ago to Entertainment
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After watching the uneducated fools show that they didn't know why the 4th of July is celebrated, I'm temped to write the most basic of U.S. Revolutionary History quizzes and offer $5 if you're under the age of 25 and can answer all the questions correctly.

Sounds like a quick way to go broke, really, but it would sure be fun. A GREAT place to do this would be at the fireworks displays tonight [assuming it doesn't rain].

OK, I'll spend $30 just for the entertainment value if you folks help me write the questions.

Send them to me! - and the answers, too, as a double check on my memory - and see if we can come up with 5 - 7 good questions with solid factual answers.
"Why do we celebrate the 4th of July?" is out - it's already been proposed in the video.

I can't video it, but I will hold on to the quizzes so I can tell you the best answers - or the worst..

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  • Posted by johnpe1 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Jim, I used fortran in 1969 to get the ibm 360 to run
    analyses of my hypothesized tree farm and its
    harvests, over time. I loved the printer which could
    print an entire line of really wide paper (17"?)
    in one strike, and then hit the next line, and then
    the next. wow!!! -- j

    p.s. got my first degree with a pickett slide rule.

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  • Posted by BambiB 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The "what country did we fight" has been done. Germany and Russia were top answers, as I recall.
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  • Posted by BambiB 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't know for sure, but seem to recall the war started when the Brits demanded 3%.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    1) Declaration of Independence.
    2) Britain
    3) John Hancock
    4) No. He was leading troops in battle against the British.
    5) Thomas Jefferson
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah, but when was the Declaration of Independence actually approved?


    Actually, 2 July. It was then publicly communicated on the 4th of July and the version signed by the majority of the signatories (and displayed in the National Archives) actually was written in late July and signed on 2 August, 1776.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah, but for extra credit, who was the other president to die on the 4th of July?


    James Monroe, 5th President, 4 July, 1831. And the last of the Founding Fathers to serve as President.
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  • Posted by UncommonSense 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    All wars are bankers wars. They profit from financing all sides. Jacob Schiff of Kuhn Loeb & Co financed Vladimir Lenin (real last name is Ulyanov) and his Bolshevik Revolution. Oh, sorry for the incorrect info: It's William Guy Carr.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ah, but what was the original third right?



    OK, had enough time?
    It wasn't the pursuit of happiness, it was "Property."
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  • Posted by richrobinson 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    This is getting way to complex. Read about Benjamin Franklin and his time in France. Fortunately he understood the French way better than Adams did and they thought of him as a God.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    isn't that like saying Goldman Sachs funded the Iraq war? I thought you meant other nations. who is Mr. Carr?
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  • Posted by MikeRael101 10 years, 10 months ago
    Who did we fight against? The French? Germans? British?
    Who actually won the war? Them? Us?
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