I didn't know it, but I'm glad it's there. I don't need to just read for the 10,000th time that Jefferson wrote the Declaration and Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense. No harm in including some that are difficult. I prefer it, in fact.
Quizmaster is a prophet. Mason is the least-guessed person by a wide margin. But I agree with buck1017. I don't mind having questions that are difficult. Learning something significant, IMO, is far more important than blowing through common stuff everybody knows to get your 5 points.
Okay.... I am a US History teacher so I had a bit of an advantage. The New Hampshirite clue threw me. Seemed a bit of a stretch for the category, but the WW name came back to me. Good thing I showed my class a clip from the show on filibustering this year!
Agree with anubis101 - John Adams is a must in any list of founding fathers. And for that matter, Abigail would be a must on a list of founding mothers.
And to aliberti68 - love the reference - nicely done, sir!
It's always interesting when someone here on JetPunk makes a cultural reference and someone else gets all righteously indignant in the process of completely missing it.
Interesting note about the founder and spelling: John Adams was a strong proponent of standardizing American spelling so that it would be phonetic: he wanted it to be "lite" instead of "light," "fone" instead of "phone," and so on. He thought, and not without reason, that everyone would benefit if the language read the way it sounds. He lost, obviously, but I think a lot of people would prefer if he hadn't...
You know that, sir.
And to aliberti68 - love the reference - nicely done, sir!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_shot_J.R.%3F
something along the lines of '' speech sound'' then (still does now in certain contexts)
If he said anything like this, he would've said "the regulars are coming"