Liberty's Kids
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50 free Liberty's Kids trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Liberty's Kids first aired in 2002 and has been a classroom favourite ever since. The animated series follows two teenage reporters, a young French orphan and a free Black printer from Benjamin Franklin's print shop through the American Revolution, with a real event at the heart of every episode and a cast list full of Hollywood names. This quiz covers the whole run: the main characters and their backstories, episode plots from the first protests in Boston to the last battles and the debates that followed, the historical figures the reporters meet, and the stars who voiced them. Many questions name their episode, so they pair easily with The First Fourth of July, The Second Continental Congress, An American in Paris, The New Frontier, Not Yet Begun to Fight or We the People. It is pitched for students who have just watched an episode, families revisiting the show around the Fourth of July, and anyone who still remembers the theme song. Every answer comes with a short explanation of what really happened.
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Q 01Which veteran CBS News anchorman voiced Benjamin Franklin and read the news recaps in Liberty's Kids?
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite earned two Daytime Emmy nominations for the part and closed each episode's Liberty News Network recap with his familiar newsroom sign-off.
Q 02In the Liberty's Kids episode The Turtle, what kind of craft does David Bushnell send against a British warship?
A submarine
A submarine made of oak and cranked by hand, the Turtle failed to fix its bomb to HMS Eagle in 1776 but was the first of its kind with a documented record of use in combat.
Q 03Which action star voiced Baron von Steuben, the Prussian officer who drills Washington's troops, in Liberty's Kids?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger took the role a year before he was elected governor of California; the real von Steuben wrote the drill manual the army used for decades.
Q 04In the first Liberty's Kids episode, Sam Adams leads men disguised as which Native people aboard a tea ship in Boston?
Mohawk
Mohawk dress hid the raiders' faces and was a deliberate symbol; Sarah had just reached Boston aboard the very ship they boarded, the Dartmouth.
Q 05Which Benjamin Franklin invention does James Hiller of Liberty's Kids admire, having lost his parents in a fire?
Lightning rod
The lightning rod matters to James because the fire that killed his parents when he was an infant was started by a lightning strike.
Q 06Which billionaire investor voiced James Madison in the final episode of Liberty's Kids?
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett was among the show's unlikeliest guest voices, alongside General Norman Schwarzkopf, who played frontier commander George Rogers Clark.
Q 07In Liberty's Kids, Benjamin Franklin's print shop, where James and Moses work, stands in which colonial city?
Philadelphia
Philadelphia had passed Boston by the 1750s to become the largest city and busiest port in British America, and it hosted the Continental Congress the young reporters cover.
Q 08In the Liberty's Kids episode The First Fourth of July, Sarah goes through which delegate's trash?
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, voiced by Ben Stiller, was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and, at 33, one of the youngest delegates in Congress.
Q 09Which American broadcaster first aired the cartoon Liberty's Kids from September 2002 to April 2003?
PBS
PBS ran all 40 episodes on its children's service, and the series later resurfaced on a CBS children's block and as Independence Day marathons on cable.
Q 10Which captain, voiced by Liam Neeson, rescues Sarah at sea in the Liberty's Kids episode Not Yet Begun to Fight?
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones commands the Bonhomme Richard, a frigate named for Benjamin Franklin, and in the middle of its battle he helps Sarah see that her loyalty lies with America.
Q 11In Liberty's Kids, Sarah Phillips sails to America to find her father, last heard exploring which frontier region?
Ohio
Ohio was where Major Phillips was last heard of, and Sarah does not find him there until the twenty-seventh of the forty episodes.
Q 12In Liberty's Kids, how did Moses, who works in Benjamin Franklin's print shop, win his freedom from slavery?
Buying it himself
Buying it himself took ingenuity: Moses learned to read and to forge metal, and he must still carry papers proving he is a free man.
Q 13Which Boston poet shelters Sarah, James and Henri overnight after the tea raid in the first Liberty's Kids episode?
Phillis Wheatley
Q 21Which comedian and nine-time Oscars host voiced John Adams in the cartoon Liberty's Kids?
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal's Adams clashes with James in an early episode over his decision to defend the British soldiers tried for the Boston Massacre.
Q 22Which Oscar-winning star of Ghost voiced Deborah Samson, who enlisted disguised as a man, in Liberty's Kids?
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg's character spent 17 months in uniform as Robert Shurtleff before a fever, and the doctor who treated it, gave her secret away.
Q 23Which star of Rain Man and Tootsie voiced the turncoat general Benedict Arnold in Liberty's Kids?
Dustin Hoffman
Phillis Wheatley, brought from West Africa and enslaved as a child, had just become the first African-American author of a published book of poetry, printed in London in 1773.
Q 14The second Liberty's Kids episode is named for which British laws that punished Massachusetts after the tea protest?
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were five punitive laws of 1774; in the episode British troops move into Boston homes while James and Henri plaster the town with protest posters.
Q 15In the Liberty's Kids episode United We Stand, a mob punishes a British sailor in front of James with what?
Tar and feathers
Tar and feathers were a favourite mob punishment for customs men, and seeing them used backs up John Adams's warning to James about patriots and mob rule.
Q 16Which Virginia orator, voiced by Michael Douglas in Liberty's Kids, gives a famous speech in a Richmond church?
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry was urging Virginia to raise a militia independent of royal authority, and a year later he became the state's first governor after independence.
Q 17In the Liberty's Kids episode Midnight Ride, which tanner rides out by land with the same warning as Paul Revere?
William Dawes
William Dawes slipped out over Boston Neck just before the British sealed the town, yet a famous poem about that night gave all the credit to Revere.
Q 18In Liberty's Kids, James stands with Captain John Parker's militia as it faces the redcoats in which town?
Lexington
Lexington saw the war's first shots at sunrise on April 19, 1775, when about 80 militiamen stood on the common and eight of them were killed.
Q 19Which leader of the Green Mountain Boys kidnaps the reporters in Liberty's Kids before seizing Fort Ticonderoga?
Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen took the fort in May 1775 alongside Benedict Arnold, who was then still fighting for the Patriots, and he is remembered as one of the founders of Vermont.
Q 20Which Hollywood action star voiced silversmith Paul Revere in the Liberty's Kids episode Midnight Ride?
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone played a rider who, in real life, was intercepted by a British patrol that night, questioned and then set free.
Dustin Hoffman's Arnold spends most of the series as a battlefield hero and a friend of Sarah, which is why his unmasking in a late episode hits her so hard.
Q 24Which teen pop singer performed the Liberty's Kids theme song and voiced soldier Joseph Plumb Martin?
Aaron Carter
Aaron Carter sang the theme, Through My Own Eyes, as a duet with Kayla Hinkle, and the real Martin's memoir of life as a private is prized by historians.
Q 25Which French nobleman, almost a father to young Henri, takes him home to France at the end of Liberty's Kids?
Lafayette
Lafayette was made an American major general at 19 and was wounded at Brandywine soon afterwards; the series implies that he adopts the orphaned Henri.
Q 26Which Thomas Paine pamphlet does Sarah refuse to read when Franklin's shop prints it in Liberty's Kids?
Common Sense
Common Sense came out anonymously in January 1776 and sold so widely that, within months, open talk of independence had spread through the colonies.
Q 27In the tenth episode of Liberty's Kids, the Second Continental Congress appoints Benjamin Franklin to which office?
Postmaster General
Postmaster General made Franklin the first head of the new United States Post Office; in the episode the gang has just caught the Royal Mail seizing colonists' letters.
Q 28In Liberty's Kids, Sarah searches the British camp for Lieutenant Hampton after which costly battle near Boston?
Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill was a British victory that cost them more than 1,000 casualties, and most of the fighting really took place on neighbouring Breed's Hill.
Q 29Which young teacher turned American spy do the reporters see hanged by the British in Liberty's Kids?
Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale was 21 and had crossed to Long Island posing as a Dutch schoolmaster looking for work; statues of him are guesswork, since no portrait from his lifetime has been found.
Q 30In Liberty's Kids, James crosses an icy river with Washington to surprise Hessian troops in which New Jersey town?
Trenton
Trenton fell on the morning after Christmas 1776 with almost two-thirds of its Hessian garrison captured, a win that inspired weary soldiers to re-enlist.