Q 01/05

Thomas Jefferson was which number US president?

A) Second

B) Fourth

C) Fifth

D) Third

Answer · why

D) Third

He followed John Adams, the man 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 worked largely alone in rented rooms at 700 Market Street between June 11 and 28.

Q 03/05

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

A) Green hill

B) High house

C) Sunny view

D) Little mountain

Answer · why

D) Little mountain

He began building it in 1768 on land inherited from his father and tinkered with it for the rest of his life.

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 penny

B) The dime

C) The quarter

D) The nickel

Answer · why

D) The nickel

His home is on the other side of the same coin, and it has been there since 1938.