Q 01/05

Which of the four great US state papers Roger Sherman signed was drafted by a Committee of Five?

A) Olive Branch Petition

B) Declaration of Independence

C) Northwest Ordinance

D) Declaration of Rights and Grievances

Answer · why

B) Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence is the most famous of the four. Sherman sat on its drafting committee, though a Virginian colleague did the writing.

Q 02/05

A painting of Roger Sherman and four colleagues presenting their draft appears on which US banknote?

A) $2 bill

B) $10 bill

C) $50 bill

D) $100 bill

Answer · why

A) $2 bill

The $2 bill carries the scene on its back, with Sherman among the five men standing before the desk. The original canvas is 18 feet wide.

Q 03/05

Before law and politics, Roger Sherman worked in which humble trade learned from his father?

A) Blacksmith

B) Printer

C) Shoemaker

D) Barrel maker

Answer · why

C) Shoemaker

Shoemaker was Sherman's first trade, and tradition holds that he walked to Connecticut with his cobbler's tools on his back. He later passed the bar w...

Q 04/05

At the Constitutional Convention, only which 81-year-old delegate was older than Roger Sherman?

A) George Washington

B) George Mason

C) John Dickinson

D) Benjamin Franklin

Answer · why

D) Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin and Sherman were old colleagues: eleven years earlier both had sat on the five-man committee that drafted the break with Britain.

Q 05/05

Roger Sherman's wife Rebecca Prescott was a cousin of the doctor who joined which rider's 1775 alarm?

A) Paul Revere

B) Sybil Ludington

C) Jack Jouett

D) Israel Bissell

Answer · why

A) Paul Revere

Paul Revere was captured that night, but Samuel Prescott jumped his horse over a stone wall and carried the warning on to Concord.