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Gwinnett History Quiz
1. BG was
born in: (a) Australia; (b) California; (c) England; (d) Massachusetts
2. BG married: (a) Anne Brontë; (b) Ann Bourne; (c) Anne Boleyn;
(d) Ann Landers
3. BG was a: (a) religious leader; (b) planter; (c) baseball player; (d)
gambler
4. BG owned: (a) St. Catherine Island; (b) Catalina Island; (c) Hatteras
Island; (d) Manhattan Island
5. BG played an important role in: (a) legalizing draft beer; (b) eliminating
drafts in public buildings; (c) prosecuting draft dodgers; (d) drafting
the Georgia Constitution
6. BG was a good friend of: (a) Lyman Hall; (b) Memorial Hall (c) Tammany
Hall; (d) Grayson Hall
7. BG was a signer of the (a) Bill of Rights; (b) Constitution; (c) Declaration
of Independence; (d) Magna Carta
8. BG was wounded in a: (a) bar brawl; (b) duel; (c) public riot; (d)
riding accident
9. BG died three days after an encounter with: (a) Polly Adler; (b) Lachlan
McIntosh; (c) Betsy Ross; (d) John Quincy Adams
10. BG died at the age of: (a) ten; (b) twenty-five; (c) forty-two; (d)
ninety-nine
11. BG's signature is the: (a) least valuable of the Signers; (b) most
valuable of the Signers; (c) hardest to read of the Signers; (d) most
ornate of the Signers
12. BG left, at his death: (a) many children; (b) many debts; (c) many
paramours; (d) many personal documents
13. BG was buried: (a) in Grant's Tomb; (b) in the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier; (c) somewhere in Savannah--maybe; (d) at sea
14. BG's portrait: (a) does not exist; (b) currently hangs in the lobby
of Atlanta's Fulton Federal Savings & Loan building; (c) was briefly
on loan to the National Art Museum; (d) is thought to be in the hands
of an anonymous private collector
15. The UNC Press BG Society is the: (a) oldest in the country; (b) largest
in the country; (c) possessor of the largest collection of BG memorabilia;
(d) all of the above
For answers
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