Benjamin Franklin

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3. Career: 200 • Question: • These were Benjamin Franklin’s Careers. • Answer • What is a politician, writer, musician, scientist, and an inventor? Back

4. Career: 400 • Question: • This was the age of Benjamin Franklin when he first started working a printer. • Answer • What is 12 Years old? • He worked with his brother and than couldn’t agree with each other so Franklin went to Philadelphia. Back

5. Career: 600 • Question: • This is the first type of company that was ever to be created by Ben Franklin. • Answer: • What is an Insurance Company? Back

6. Career: 800 • Question: • They are the four departments in which Franklin created to help people in everyday life? • Answer • What is a fire station, a library, a hospital, and a police station? Back

7. Career: 1000 • Question: • The boy in the famous picture of Benjamin Franklin flying a kite. • Answer: • Who is the William Franklin? Back

8. Politics : 200 • Question: • This is the Founding Father who Franklin helped in writing the Declaration of Independence. • Answer: • Who is Thomas Jefferson? Back

9. Politics : 400 • Question: • These were the two documents that he helped write. • Answer • What is the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence? Back

10. Politics : 600 • Question: • This was Franklin’s position in the Pennsylvania state assembly. • Answer • What is a clerk? Back

11. Politics : 800 • Question: • This was the position was he elected to be shortly after the shots were fired at the battle of Lexington and Concord. • Answer: • What is delegate to the Second Continental Congress? Back

12. Politics : 1000 • Question: • This was the unsuccessful plan franklin created for the intercolonial government to coordinate colonial efforts during the French and Indian War. • Answer: • What is the Albany Plan? Back

13. Timeline: 200 • Question: • This was when and where Franklin was born. • Answer: • What is January 17, 1706 and Boston, Massachusetts? Back

14. Timeline: 400 • Question: • Franklin became this in 1786. • Answer: • What is Governor of Pennsylvania? Back

15. Timeline: 600 • Question: • This was the year he get married and had his first child? • Answer: • What is 1730? Back

16. Timeline: 800 • Question: • This was when Franklin died and the age he was when he when he died. • Answer: • What is April 17, 1990 and 84 years old? Back

17. Timeline: 1000 • Question: • This was when he preformed his kite experiment. • Answer: • What is a stormy June afternoon in 1752? Back

18. Beliefs : 200 • Question: • This was the religion he was raised by and Characterized by in the Library of Congress? • Answer: • What is Episcopalian? Back

19. Beliefs : 400 • Question: • This was what Franklin believed Independence was. • Answer: • What is inevitable? Back

20. Beliefs : 600 • Question: • This was what he believed God was. • Answer: • What is only one God and creator of all things that should be worshiped with adoration, prayed to, and to give thanks to? Back

21. Beliefs : 800 • Question: • This was the political party he was a member of. • Answer: • What is the Federalist Party? Back

22. Beliefs : 1000 • Question: • This was the group Franklin established of like-minded people who would strive towards improving themselves and their society. • Answer: • What is Junto? Back

23. Inventions: 200 • Question: • These were the type of glasses that were created by Franklin. • Answer: • What are bifocals? • Bifocals allowed someone to see both near and far. Back

24. Inventions: 400 • Question: • Franklin invented this to help people to swim faster in water? • Answer: • What are Swim Paddles? Back

25. Inventions: 600 • Question: • The invention he created to protect a building from damage due to a lightning strike. • Answer: • What is a Lightning Rod? Back

26. Inventions: 800 • Question: • This is the area Franklin Mapped. • Answer: • What is the Map for Gulf Stream? Back

27. Inventions: 1000 • Question: • These are four inventions invented by Franklin. • Answer: • What is the Franklin Stove, lightning rod, bifocals, and an odometer. • (answers will vary) Back

28. Bonus Question: 5000 pts. • Question: • These were Franklin’s “Thirteen Virtues” that he developed for his life. • Answer: • What is temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, humility, Tranquility, and chastity? Back

29. Sources • Brands, H. W. The First American: the Life and times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Doubleday, 2000. Print. • Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: an American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Print. • "Benjamin Franklin | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Web. 22 Nov. 2011. <http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/>. • "Quick Biography of Benjamin Franklin." Ushistory.org. Web. 22 Nov. 2011. <http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/index.htm>. • "The World of Benjamin Franklin." Web. 22 Nov. 2011. <http://www.fi.edu/franklin/>. • "Benjamin Franklin Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com." Famous Biographies & TV Shows - Biography.com. Web. 22 Nov. 2011. <http://www.biography.com/people/benjamin-franklin-9301234>.