Willi's History Quiz!



Try Willi's history quiz. The answers are in the book! Look there first, then check out the answers below. No peeking!

[Questions]

(01) What places make up Virginia's Historic Triangle, and what scenic road connects them?
(02) What does on at Jamestown Settlement?
(03) What is the famous archaeologist, Dr. Bill Kelson, working on at Historic Jamestown?
(04) Who is the famous Indian princess associated with Jamestown and the first permanent English settlement, and what do you know about her?
(05) What are the names of the three ships that brought English colonists to Virginia in 1607, and which is the largest of them?
(06) What famous college is located in Williamsburg, where Thomas Jefferson was also a student?
(07) What famous person did Willi meet and befriend in the Wren Courtyard and what do you know about him?
(08) Name the four U.S. Presidents who once benefitted from educational programs offered by the College of William & Mary?
(09) What is 'DOG STREET' and where does that name come from?
(10) What do you know about Colonial Williamsburg's Fifes and Drum Corps?
(11) What are the public stocks for that are located next to the Colonial Courthouse in Williamsburg?
(12) The Magazine, which is hidden by pointed pieces of wood in criss-cross fashion, held what important things for Williamsburg's first citizens?
(13) America's first mental hospital is located in Williamsburg. What is it's name and what happened inside of its walls?
(14) Who was big Willoughby?
(15) What is the name of the building in Colonial Williamsburg where the concept of self-government came into being?
(16) The Governor's Palace is one of three great buildings in Williamsburg, after the Wren Building and the Capitol. Who was it home to in the capital of England's largest American colony?
(17) Where can you find Yorktown Onions? Can you describe them?
(18) What is important about the Yorktown Victory Monument?
(19) What is a Redoubt and what do you know about Redoubt No. 10?
(20) The surrender at Yorktown ended the last major battle of what famous war that had started eight years earlier at Lexington and at North Bridge in Concord?





[Answers]

(01) Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia are connected by the Colonial Parkway
(02) A recreated Powhatan Indin village is located at Jamestown Settlement, where costumed interpreters show how the Indians gew and prepared food and made tools and pottery, and even processed animal hides.
(03) Dr. Kelso and his team of arachaeologistis are escavating the remains of James Fort, which is the site of the first permanent English settlement in America
(04) Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, the leader of 32 groups of Algonguian-speaking trives in Tidewater Virginia. Pocahontas is credited with saving the life of Captain John Smith who was taken captive by her father.
(05) The Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery are the three ships, teh Susan Constant being the largest of them.
(06) The College of William & Mary
(07) Lord Botetourt, once a popular royal governor of Virginia, is buried in the crypt under the Wren Chapel. His statue is in the Wrern Courtyard which is part of the College of William & Mary.
(08) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and John Tyler
(09) 'Dog Street' is short for Duke of Gloucester Street (pronounced GLOSS-ter) which stretches for one mile between the Wren Building on the William & Mary campus to the Colonial Capitol.
(10) Fifers and dummers were an important part of the 18th century army. They used to be all boys aged 10 to 18. Today they include girls and carry forward the tradition of military music.
(11) Criminals were put in the stocks to embarrass and punish them. Their hands and heads were locked between wooden planks so that they couldn't escape public embarrassment for their crimes. People often threw things at them and called them names.
(12) Shot, powder, flints, tents, tools, swords, and large numbers of guns
(13) 'Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' – people there were held in cells with heavy doors and barred windows and were restrained with drugs and wrist or foot chains.
(14) Big Willoughby was an endangered Leicester Longwool lamb that was brutally killed in 1988 by unknown assailants. Fewer than 200 Longwools exist today in North America.
(15) The colonial Capitol, which is located at one end of Duke of Gloucester Street. The legislative battles inside the Capitol eventually ended in revolution.
(16) Virginia's chief executive lived there, and originally the Palace was called 'the Governor's House.'
(17) Yorktown Onions are pentiful in one spot along the Colonial Parkway near Yorktown, Virginia. They are very tall with purple blossoms and are protected, so don't pick them!
(18) The monument stands at the edge of the battlefield where, in 1781, George Washington's troops and French allies won the last decisive fight for American independence.
(19) A redoubt is a small, enclosed fort with artillery and connecting trenches. Pointed wooden spears protected the troops who were inside them. Redoubt No. 10 is probably the most famous, because that is where 400 American troops stormed the British and caused Cornwallis to eventually surrender to General George Washington.
(20) The American Revolutionary War


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