Q 01/05

What was George Washington's role during the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

A) Presiding officer

B) Secretary

C) Chief delegate of Virginia

D) Legal counsel

Answer · why

A) Presiding officer

Presiding officer: Robert Morris moved his nomination on May 25, 1787 and the vote was unanimous, though Washington had needed persuading even to atte...

Q 02/05

By which nickname is George Washington most widely known?

A) Father of His Country

B) Father of the Constitution

C) The Great Emancipator

D) Old Hickory

Answer · why

A) Father of His Country

Father of His Country was in print as early as 1778, when a Pennsylvania German almanac hailed him as 'Des Landes Vater' while the war he was leading ...

Q 03/05

Which New Jersey town did Washington's army storm the morning after Christmas 1776, capturing most of its Hessian garrison?

A) Princeton

B) Morristown

C) Trenton

D) Newark

Answer · why

C) Trenton

Trenton: on December 26, 1776 Washington's men captured almost two-thirds of the Hessian garrison with minimal losses, a win that lifted the army's si...

Q 04/05

Washington's retirement after two terms set a custom that which president was the first to break?

A) Ulysses S. Grant

B) Theodore Roosevelt

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer · why

D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term in 1940 and a fourth in 1944; the 22nd Amendment of 1951 then turned Washington's two-term custom into law.

Q 05/05

In the famous legend, what does young George Washington confess to damaging with his hatchet?

A) An apple tree

B) A cherry tree

C) A peach tree

D) A walnut tree

Answer · why

B) A cherry tree

A cherry tree: the tale, with its line about not telling a lie, turned up only in the fifth edition of a posthumous biography in 1806 and is generally...