Statistics for American Founding Fathers

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Description	Answer	% Correct
First President	George Washington	100%
Declaration of Independence author	Thomas Jefferson	95%
Inventor, ambassador, publisher, quote magnet, Lothario	Ben Franklin	86%
Tea Party leader and beer namesake	Samuel Adams	86%
First Secretary of the Treasury	Alexander Hamilton	81%
Bill of Rights author	James Madison	75%
First signer of the Declaration of Independence	John Hancock	72%
The British are coming!	Paul Revere	71%
Vice President who killed ^ in a duel	Aaron Burr	69%
"Era of Good Feelings" President	James Monroe	60%
"Common Sense" pamphleteer	Thomas Paine	57%
Give him liberty, or give him death!	Patrick Henry	42%
"Federalist Papers" author and first Chief Justice	John Jay	40%
Sea captain who has not yet begun to fight!	John Paul Jones	31%
Creator of American spelling	Noah Webster	30%
Chief Justice, 1801-35	John Marshall	27%
He regrets he had but one life to give for his country	Nathan Hale	25%
Green Mountain Boys leader	Ethan Allen	23%
New Hampshirite and namesake of the President on "West Wing"	Josiah Bartlett	17%
His "Virginia Declaration of Rights" inspired the U.S. Bill of Rights	George Mason	11%