Who Won a BU Swag Bag by Correctly Answering Our Revolutionary War Quiz?
The 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War was celebrated on April 19
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Who Won a BU Swag Bag by Correctly Answering Our Revolutionary War Quiz?
The 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War was celebrated on April 19
Earlier today, BU Today challenged the University community to put their Revolutionary War knowledge to the test with a 12-question quiz, in honor of its 250th anniversary, celebrated this year on April 19. Everyone who answered all of the questions correctly by noon today was entered into a drawing for a BU swag bag filled with goodies from the BU campus store, and the results are in.
The winner is Kevin O’Donnell, a public safety officer on the Medical Campus.
Check out the questions and correct answers below.
- On the night of April 18, 1775, Boston patriot Joseph Warren learned of a British military operation planned for the next day. To warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were in Lexington, Warren sent out two riders on horseback. What were their names?
Answer: Paul Revere and William Dawes
- Who is widely regarded as the first American casualty of the Revolution, because he was the first person killed at the Boston Massacre in March 1770?
Answer: Crispus Attucks
- Which future US president served as a defense attorney (surprisingly) for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre in March 1770?
Answer: John Adams
- What is the name of the artist who painted the iconic Washington Crossing the Delaware painting, and what American museum displays it?
Answer: Emanuel Leutze; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
- True or false: There were actually two Boston Tea Parties—the well-known one in December 1773, and another in March 1774.
Answer: True
- During the American Revolutionary War, what crucial public health decision did George Washington make that significantly improved the Continental Army’s chances of success?
Answer: He chose to protect his troops against smallpox, which was raging through the American Colonies, by requiring mass inoculation for all Continental soldiers.
- Name the 13 original colonies.
Answer: Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
- What is considered the birthdate of the US Navy and why?
Answer: October 13, 1775, the day the Continental Congress in Philadelphia passed the resolution that created the Continental Navy
- Which three foreign countries fought alongside the American Patriots?
Answer: France, Spain, and the Netherlands
- What substance did General Washington and crew pair with water to create the invisible ink used in their secret letters, and how did they make it visible?
Answer: Ferrous sulfate. To read the letters, the “ink” mixture needed to be exposed to heat.
- True or false: More Patriot (aka American) soldiers died from smallpox during the Revolutionary War than from fighting the British Army.
Answer: True
- Which two US presidents died on the 50th anniversary of the nation’s independence, July 4, 1826?
Answer: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
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