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 $ jbrenner 10 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry, WinterWind. I liked the discussion. If I want to find out how clueless people are, I'll watch Jesse Watters ask whatever question he asks on O'Reilly. It is worth a Galtish chuckle while I catch up on what's happening in the Gulch.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 10 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry, I did haave to leave and haven' had time to clarify. Here's what I meant to say [and I know it didn't come out that way]:
    Since I am already going somewhere, asking these questions are an added activity, not the primary one. Making a trip somewhere ONLY to ask the questions? No way. Spending time, energy, and money to find out, again, how clueless people are? I wouldn't do that.
    clearer?
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 10 months ago
    So there's a cool little board game called "Constitution Quest" that I'll just make a plug for. I purchased it to play with my kids so they could learn the basics of the Constitution (not necessarily the 4th of July), but it was a really good set of straightforward, basic questions about what is in the Constitution.
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  • Posted by BambiB 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Lexington Green. The dialog that reportedly took place was… inspiring.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Correct. Mercenaries. But not to cast dispersions just on the British for using mercenaries, the colonists employed their own "guns for hire." The most prominent of which was Tadeusz Kosciuzko - Polish engineer and military instructor extraordinaire. Washington said that the colonial army would not have survived had it not been for K. He was responsible for many fortifications, including those at West Point.
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  • Posted by BambiB 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Some Germans. But not Germany. Those were mercenaries as I recall.
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  • Posted by BambiB 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well lookee here! I get the right answer and some buffoons thumb it down. Guess that makes them look pretty dumb, eh?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No, the Madison Room was an attractive bedroom. If you go to Monticello, one of my old neighbors is someone who can arrange you a behind the scenes tour.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That "Madison Room" didn't happen to have a hole in a seat and was rather smelly, did it? There was a time that they weren't the best of friends.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In fact, Madison visited Jefferson often enough that Monticello has a "Madison room". Madison lived about 15 miles north of Jefferson, and Monroe lived about 2 miles east.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ding, ding, ding. You win, BambiB. And here are your winnings ... 290,000 extra mouths to feed!
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In a way we were fighting Germany. If we hadn't been fighting the Hessians on Christmas at the Battle of Trenton, America probably would not have gained its independence back then.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am just old enough to have used the 17" printers and punch cards during my freshman year at Delaware. By sophomore year, they had gone the way of the dodo.
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  • Posted by MikeRael101 10 years, 10 months ago
    Why did we fight this war?
    They bombed us at Pearl Harbor?
    The tea was too expensive?
    Some other reason?
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago
    OK. This is as basic as it gets.

    1) What document is most identified with the 4th of July?
    2) From what nation were the colonies declaring their independence?
    3) Who was the most famous signatory of the Declaration of Independence, and why?
    4) Did George Washington sign the Declaration of Independence? If not, why not?
    5) Who is considered the principle drafter of the Declaration of Independence?
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  • Posted by Snaphook 10 years, 10 months ago
    This one is a bit beyond basic, but it is certainly clearly evident in the 2nd paragraph:
    Question: What is the "mission statement" of American government?
    Answer: " - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

    Simple, eh? Our government's written mission is to secure my God-given Rights. Somehow, I'm not feeling it.....
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