Q 01/05

Thomas Jefferson was which number US president?

A) Second

B) Fourth

C) Fifth

D) Third

Answer · why

D) Third

Jefferson was the third president, serving from 1801 to 1809 after John Adams, whom he had beaten in 1800 and served under as vice president.

Q 02/05

In which city did Jefferson write most of the Declaration of Independence in June 1776?

A) New York

B) Williamsburg

C) Boston

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

D) Philadelphia

He wrote it in Philadelphia, in rented second-floor rooms of bricklayer Jacob Graff's house at 700 Market Street, largely alone, between June 11 and 2...

Q 03/05

Jefferson's home Monticello takes its name from Italian words meaning what?

A) Green mountain

B) High mountain

C) Mountain view

D) Little mountain

Answer · why

D) Little mountain

Monticello means 'little mountain' in Italian; Jefferson began levelling the hilltop in 1768 on land inherited from his father and kept altering the h...

Q 04/05

At which family plantation was Jefferson born in 1743?

A) Tuckahoe

B) Poplar Forest

C) Berkeley

D) Shadwell

Answer · why

D) Shadwell

He was the third of ten children of a planter and surveyor; the Shadwell house later burned with his first library.

Q 05/05

Jefferson's face appears on which US coin?

A) The nickel

B) The dime

C) The quarter

D) The penny

Answer · why

A) The nickel

Jefferson has appeared on the nickel, the five-cent coin, since 1938, with his home Monticello on the reverse for nearly all of that time.