Q 01/05

Which Civil War general was given the middle name Tecumseh by a father who admired the Shawnee leader?

A) Ulysses Grant

B) George Meade

C) Philip Sheridan

D) William Sherman

Answer · why

D) William Sherman

William Sherman answered to Cump among friends and family all his life. His father chose the name a few years after the Shawnee leader fell in battle.

Q 02/05

Which frontiersman was captured by the Shawnee in 1778, adopted into a Shawnee family and renamed Big Turtle?

A) Davy Crockett

B) Kit Carson

C) Daniel Boone

D) Jim Bridger

Answer · why

C) Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone lived for months as Sheltowee before he escaped. One biographer calls his flight home one of the great legends of frontier history.

Q 03/05

Wapakoneta, Ohio, a Shawnee town until the tribe's removal in the 1830s, was later the hometown of which astronaut?

A) Neil Armstrong

B) John Glenn

C) Scott Carpenter

D) Buzz Aldrin

Answer · why

A) Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong grew up in Wapakoneta, where a museum now honors the first man on the Moon. The town's Shawnee name may mean the place of white bones.

Q 04/05

George Drouillard, the son of a Shawnee mother, was a hunter and interpreter on whose famous expedition?

A) Zebulon Pike's

B) Lewis and Clark's

C) John Frémont's

D) John Wesley Powell's

Answer · why

B) Lewis and Clark's

Lewis and Clark's party relied on Drouillard's sign language to talk with nations they met, and Lewis rated him the most skilled hunter of all the men...

Q 05/05

The name of Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader born into the Panther clan around 1768, is often translated as what?

A) Shooting Star

B) Standing Bear

C) Rolling Thunder

D) Rising Sun

Answer · why

A) Shooting Star

Shooting Star refers to a meteor linked with his clan. Later stories said one crossed the sky at his birth, though his father and most of his siblings...