Bill O'Reilly: American Patriot Quiz - Quiz Yourself on Founding Father Samuel Adams

1. Samuel Adams was born in September of 1722 in what colonial city?

Philadelphia

New York City

Boston

Trenton

2. Adams founded what organization whose motto became "No taxation without representation?"

The Sons of Boston

The Sons of Liberty

The Rising Sons

The Sons of America

3. Samuel Adams is often associated with what famous act of colonial rebellion in 1773?

Bacon's Rebellion

Boston Tax Riot

Boston Tea Party

Townshend Act

4. After the Boston Massacre of 1770, in which British soldiers fired shots into a mob of colonists, Adams convinced whom to defend the British soldiers in a trial?

Paul Revere

Alexander Hamilton

John Hancock

John Adams

5. Adams graduated from what college located in Cambridge, Massachusetts?

Harvard College

Cambridge University

The College of William & Mary

Dartmouth College

6. Adams helped draft what pre-cursor to the Constitution?

Articles of Confederation

Bill of Rights

Articles of the Colonies

Treaty of Boston

7. Adams signed what document as a delegate of Massachusetts?

Declaration of Independence

Bill of Rights

Common Sense

U.S. Constitution

8. Sam Adams held what job for nine years?

Cobbler

Blacksmith

Tax collector

Innkeeper

9. Which founding father and writer of the Declaration of Independence referred to Adams as "truly the Man of the Revolution?"

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Paine

Alexander Hamilton

10. Though Samuel Adams Beer is named after Adams, the Samuel Adams Beer logo is thought to be a depiction of what other famous patriot?

Benjamin Franklin

John Adams

Paul Revere

John Hancock