Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Quiz: Legends & Lies Episode 2

1. Who did John Adams defend in court after the Boston Massacre?

Native Americans

British Soldiers

American Loyalists

Sam Adams

Sons of Liberty

2. Who did the Sons of Liberty disguise themselves as during the Boston Tea Party?

Redcoats

King George

Mohawk Indians

Women

Sailors

3. Adams was a delegate to what two important meetings in 1774 and 1775?

Declaration of Independence

Cabinet Meetings

Court Proceedings

Shooting Parties

Continental Congress

4. Who organized Revere and Dawes to warn the Minutemen of Lexington?

Joseph Warren

Sam Adams

John Hancock

Paul Revere

William Dawes

5. In addition to seizing American supplies, who did the British want to capture in their raid on Lexington?

Dawes and Revere

Hancock and Warren

Warren and Adams

Adams and Hancock

Adams and Adams

6. Why were colonial soldiers called Minutemen?

Ready to march at a minute's warning

Short in stature

Rations were in minute portions

Fire a round a minute

Sounded better than hour men

7. Who coined the term "shot heard round world" to commemorate the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

Longfellow

Emerson

Thoreau

Dickinson

Adams

8. John Hancock was the first to sign what document?

Constitution

Treaty of Paris

Declaration of Independence

Treaty of Ghent

Louisiana Purchase

9. Adams went to what two countries after nearly 4 years in Congress to secure help in the American war effort?

Great Britain and Russia

Ireland and Scotland

France and Netherlands

France and Mexico

France and Spain

10. Adams, along with John Jay, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Laurens, negotiated what treaty to end the Revolutionary War?

Treaty of Paris

Treaty of London

Treaty of Ghent

Treaty of Guadeloupe

Treaty of New York