Q 01/05

Which veteran CBS News anchorman voiced Benjamin Franklin and read the news recaps in Liberty's Kids?

A) Dan Rather

B) Edward R. Murrow

C) Walter Cronkite

D) Mike Wallace

Answer · why

C) 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-...

Q 02/05

In the Liberty's Kids episode The Turtle, what kind of craft does David Bushnell send against a British warship?

A) A submarine

B) A fire ship

C) A floating battery

D) A rowing galley

Answer · why

A) 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 re...

Q 03/05

Which action star voiced Baron von Steuben, the Prussian officer who drills Washington's troops, in Liberty's Kids?

A) Bruce Willis

B) Jean-Claude Van Damme

C) Dolph Lundgren

D) Arnold Schwarzenegger

Answer · why

D) 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...

Q 04/05

In the first Liberty's Kids episode, Sam Adams leads men disguised as which Native people aboard a tea ship in Boston?

A) Cherokee

B) Mohawk

C) Shawnee

D) Wampanoag

Answer · why

B) 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 05/05

Which Benjamin Franklin invention does James Hiller of Liberty's Kids admire, having lost his parents in a fire?

A) Lightning rod

B) Bifocal glasses

C) Franklin stove

D) Glass armonica

Answer · why

A) 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.