Button 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

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