First semester: MOCK LIBERTY BOWL. STUDY!

1. Who wrote down the first ice cream recipe in America? Thomas Jefferson who ate it in Paris.
2. Who invented bifocals, swim fins, lightening rod and odometers?  Ben Franklin
3. Who set up the patent office in America?  George Washington
4. Who was the only President who held a patent?  Abraham Lincoln
5. Born out of wedlock in the British West Indies, abandoned by his father and orphaned by age 11, this patriot was educated at Kings College, aka Columbia.    Alexander Hamilton
6. Who in 1777 fought in Aide de Camp to Washington?  Hamilton
7. Constitution Convention from NY delegate?  Hamilton
8. In 1801 whose son was killed in a duel defending his father’s honor?  Alexander Hamilton
9. July 11, 1804 despite shooting his gun up into the air, who was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr?  Alexander Hamilton
10. Who was the youngest member of the Continental Congress?   James Madison
11. Who was known as the Father of the Constitution?  James Madison
12. Who was the instigator of the Virginia Plan --a house of representatives and a senate?  Madison
13. Who instituted the idea of checks and balances in the Constitution?  Madison
14. What is more often cited than any other primary source by modern day judges, attorneys, historians and political scientists as a major contemporary interpretation of the Constitution?  The Federalist Papers 
15. Name one of the three writers of the Federalist papers?  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Jay
16. Federalist Papers were made up of how many articles/essays?   85
17. How many articles of the Federalist Papers were written by Alexander Hamilton?  51
18. Who introduced the Bill of Rights for transparency in government?  James Madison
19. Who married the shopper extraordinaire and party giver who was 21 years younger than her husband and who organized the first inaugural ball?   Dolly Madison
20. Which soft spoken American president , at 5’4” who never weighed more than 100 lbs, was the smallest man ever to occupy the White House? James Madison
21. Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury and who designed the first Treasury Department and is on the ten dollar bill?  Alexander Hamilton 
22. Who created the first national banking institution in America and what was it called?   Alexander hamilton, The Bank of the United States
23. In the midst of the war of 1812, the British came into Washington and burned what important building?   The executive mansion and it was later rebuilt and called the White House
24. Who was the first Secretary of State under Washington? Thomas Jefferson 
25. What was the single most important piece of legislation passed by the earlier Continental Congress other than the Declaration of Independence?  It established precidents like slavery in the new territories.  Northwest Ordinance