Post Quiz: Grandparent Adventures - Answers
Created | Updated Aug 18, 2019
Post Quiz: Grandparent Adventures – Answers
Amazing what our grandparents did for/to us. Have you sent your grandparent stories to the Post yet?
- Wild frontiersman (and Congressman) David Crockett's grandfather died by…
- being scalped by the Chickamauga.
- During the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, Winston Churchill's grandfather…
- defended the New York Times office building with a Gatling gun.
- Journalist Anderson Cooper's maternal grandmother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, had a twin sister. His great-aunt was famous for being…
- the mistress of the Prince of Wales.
- Asking Abraham Lincoln about his maternal grandmother was a touchy business because…
- she was rumoured to have had his mother out of wedlock.
- Austrian actor Christoph Waltz's maternal grandfather wrote a book called Sex, Perfection, and Marital Happiness. His name was…
- Rudolf von Urbantschitsch.
- 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.
- US President Benjamin Harrison's grandfather was….
- President of the United States.
- Boris Johnson's paternal great-grandfather was …
- a cabinet minister in the Ottoman Empire who was assassinated1.
- Beyoncé's grandmother Agnèz was a locally famous…
- clothing designer.
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1The Editor refused to believe this at first, and suspected internet vandalism.
