Normally even a relatively low score for me means I beat over 90% of quiz takers, but not here. My 27/33 only beat 67%. American Jetpunkers know their revolutionary history!
Well, ChaosLord, we obviously don't know the same group of Americans, but if that's how you feel about us - that's certainly your privilege, but I do resent people who lump other groups of people together based on one inaccurate, self-drawn conclusion. As far as the "insane proportions" comment, I don't think Americans react to their history any differently than any other nation - especially those with the rich and much longer history of the European nations.
I thought of Osage, Omaha, Ojibway, Oglala ... all of which were still presumably far from caring about people so far east! Tried Onendaga, but no dice. They were part of the Iroquois Confederacy and sided with the British. I'd thought all the Iroquois sided with the British, but it turns out the six-nation league split on the issue, with Oneida and Tuscarora siding with the colonists (for all the good it would do them in the end.) It'd be interesting for someone to create a quiz of Native American tribes ... and for even more fun, a fill-in-the-map one!
All those tribes are much further west. One starting with 'o' that is closer geographically is the Onondaga people, but it is not an alternate answer as they sided with British, as did most of the Iroquois League.
Agree. Another "e" word needs to be found, unless Wales and Scotland somehow stayed out of the war. That's like saying Great Britain fought the Revolutionary War against New York. In a way it did, but there is a better answer.
The instructions say all answers are a single word. So, unless they ask for a first name, that implies last names only. Plus once you figure out the quote it becomes clear which name they want.
1) It's INalienable rights (spelling customs of the day notwithstanding).
2) How quickly we forget the enormous contribution of the French to our struggle, when we coined our term "freedom fries" and further denigrate them. Were it not for French support of our revolution,which virtually emptied their coffers and led to the starvation of their own people, there might not have been a French Revolution!
I agree that inalienable is the spelling that should have been used in the document, but it wasn't. As for the Freedom Fries issue, that whole episode was a regrettable parade of stupidity. However, I really don't think that you can consider a flash of disrespect 225 years after the American Revolution an example of the U.S. "quickly forgetting" the French contribution to its result.
The final draft of the Declaration says "unalienable", but there are earlier drafts in handwriting of both Jefferson and Adams which say inalienable, and the quote on the Jefferson Memorial says inalienable. According to the dictionaries I checked, both are acceptable and mean the same thing. In regards to the French, we might have occasional spats with each other, but they remain an important ally with high favorability ratings among Americans.
Yeah I'm pretty sure we've more than repaid them, what with both world wars and the Vietnam War and such. Plus they buy all our stuff now. And overall, yes, we do have a lot of respect for one another (except for the occasional half-joke about French snottiness or American laziness).
"Freedom fries" never caught on for a reason. Americans, by and large, like the French. If anything we joke about them because we're jealous of their national anthem and that one Simpsons reference makes it so easy to do.
it took so long for my brain to dig up the answer to the New York battle site. I kept typing Syracuse in every conceivable spelling hoping that was the answer
2) How quickly we forget the enormous contribution of the French to our struggle, when we coined our term "freedom fries" and further denigrate them. Were it not for French support of our revolution,which virtually emptied their coffers and led to the starvation of their own people, there might not have been a French Revolution!