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Introduction:
"A quiz on the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army and 1st president of the United States, George Washington."


1. Through his paternal grandmother, Washington was related to what English monarch?
    William II
    James I
    Henry V
    Edward III


2. What day did Washington celebrate as his birthday?
    February 11th
    February 23rd
    February 22nd
    April 5th


3. Who was responsible for the legends of the cherry tree and Washington's inability to tell a lie?
    Frederick Philipse
    Edward Vernon
    Mason Weems
    George Eskridge


4. During the French and Indian War, what fort did Washington supervise the construction of?
    Necessity
    Allegheny
    Duquesne
    Dinwiddie


5. What county did Washington represent in the Virginia House of Burgesses?
    Westmoreland
    Culpepper
    Frederick
    New Kent


6. Whose speech to the Continental Congress in 1775 was in so much praise of Washington that he had to leave the room?
    Benjamin Franklin
    Edmund Randolph
    Caeser Rodney
    John Adams


7. In an effort called the Conway Cabal, members of the Continental Congress sought to have Washington replaced as commander of the Continental Army with who?
    Nathaniel Greene
    Henry Knox
    Benedict Arnold
    Horatio Gates


8. Who was the British officer who attempted to surrender to the Conte de Rochambeau at Yorktown rather than Washington?
    Charles O'Hara
    Lord Cornwallis
    Benjamin Lincoln
    Oliver Walcott


9. In what city did Washington give his famous farewell address to the troops in 1783?
    Philadelphia
    New York City
    Newburgh, NY
    Princeton, NJ


10. Only 10 of the 13 original colonies voted in the 1789 presidential election that made Washington the first US president. Which of the four states listed below was not one of those three states?
    New York
    North Carolina
    Rhode Island
    New Hampshire


11. President Washington signed a bill in 1792 establishing a US mint where?
    Charleston
    Boston
    Philadelphia
    New York City


12. Which of the following four states did not join the union during the Washington administration?
    Vermont
    Tennessee
    Kentucky
    Maine


13. Who did Washington name to replace John Jay as chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1796?
    John Marshall
    John Rutledge
    Samuel Chase
    Oliver Ellsworth


14. In what newspaper was Washington's farewell address to the nation in 1796 first published?
    Boston Herald
    Gazette of the United States
    American Daily Advertiser
    New York Gazette


15. To whom did Washington speak his last words in 1799?
    Martha Washington
    Thomas Davis
    James Clark
    Tobias Lear


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