Post Quiz: Grandparent Adventures
Created | Updated Aug 18, 2019
Post Quiz: Grandparent Adventures
The Editor's grandfather was the only person he knew to have gone east by covered wagon. True story. What adventures did these grandparents bequeath their descendants? Multiple guess.
- Wild frontiersman (and Congressman) David Crockett's grandfather died by…
- being hanged by the British.
- being scalped by the Chickamauga.
- being blown up in a home distillery explosion.
- being eaten by a bear.
- During the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, Winston Churchill's grandfather…
- sailed away on his yacht.
- fortified his home and armed his domestic staff.
- defended the New York Times office building with a Gatling gun.
- helped PT Barnum evacuate elephants.
- Journalist Anderson Cooper's maternal grandmother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, had a twin sister. His great-aunt was famous for being…
- the first woman to reach the South Pole.
- a famous fashion designer.
- a novelist.
- the mistress of the Prince of Wales.
- Asking Abraham Lincoln about his maternal grandmother was a touchy business because…
- she was a famous British spy in the Revolution.
- she was Native American.
- she was rumoured to have had his mother out of wedlock.
- she left his grandfather to become an actress.
- Austrian actor Christoph Waltz's maternal grandfather wrote a book called Sex, Perfection, and Marital Happiness. His name was…
- Rudolf von Urbantschitsch.
- Reinhold Hackendörfer.
- Götz von Berlichingen.
- Sigmund Freud.
- Stonewall Jackson, the famously eccentric Confederate general in the US Civil War, had a great-grandmother who was…
- a landowner.
- six feet tall.
- a Revolutionary War fighter.
- all of the above.
- Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, had a grandmother named…
- Olga Constantinovna.
- Alice Blue.
- Gertrude Maisie.
- Victoria Regina.
- US President Benjamin Harrison's grandfather was….
- a preacher.
- a patent-medicine salesman.
- a polar explorer.
- President of the United States.
- Boris Johnson's paternal great-grandfather was …
- a fishmonger from the Isle of Wight.
- a Moldavian prince.
- a cabinet minister in the Ottoman Empire who was assassinated.
- a music-hall singer from Bournemouth.
- Beyoncé's grandmother Agnèz was a locally famous…
- political activist.
- chef.
- singer.
- clothing designer.
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