Connecticut Fun Facts

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1. What Connecticut native and Revolutionary patriot was famous for his saying, 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country'? Nathan Hale Benedict Arnold Patrick Henry Samuel Adams

2. In 1954, the world's first atomic powered submarine was built at Groton. What was its name? Merrimac Hartford Nautilus Constitution

3. In New London, you can visit Monte Cristo Cottage, the boyhood home of what famous dramatist? Eugene O'Neill Tennessee Williams Mark Twain Arthur Miller

4. What famous American lexicographer and author of 'The Blue-Backed Speller' and 'The American Dictionary' was born in Hartford in 1758? Answer: (Two Words)

5. This American composer was born in Danbury in 1874. He is best known for his music which serenades New England, such as 'Concord Sonata' and 'Three Places in New England'. What was his name? Percy Grainger Samuel Barber Charles Ives Ned Rorem

6. In Canterbury, you can visit the Prudence Crandall Museum. What was noteworthy about the academy that Prudence founded in 1833? It was the first academy in Connecticut run by a woman It was the first academy for black women in New England It was the first law school for women It was the first school for the handicapped founded by a woman

7. What toy was developed by Yale students in 1920? Slinky Silly Putty Yo-yo Frisbee

8. What was discovered by Thomas Osborne in New Haven in 1913? Penicillin Uranium Vitamin A X-rays

9. Which President did NOT graduate from Yale? Bill Clinton George H. W. Bush William Taft Woodrow Wilson

10. One of the many attractions of Mystic Seaport in Mystic is a re-created 19th-century New England fishing village. One of the shops you can visit is the cooperage. What was sold in a cooperage? Shoes Barrels Groceries Candles