Get Your Act Together
This act was a tax on paper goods like newspapers, official government documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
This event became well known due to the deaths of 5 colonists who were at the event that night due to a group of British soldiers firing into a crowd. No one is sure how the event unfolded, and it's still debated to this day.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was the violent practice of taking someone, and pouring a burning substance over someone suspected of being a British tax collector, and then throwing this lightweight item on afterwards.
What was tar and feathering?
This was the verdict given to the British soldiers of Boston Massacre.
What is INnnocent?
These types of baked goods were invented on accident after the baker only had chocolate to use with no cocoa. Today they are considered the most popular type of cookie.
What are chocolate chip cookies?
This became a rallying cry for anti-tax colonists "____ _____ ______ _____" because they had no say in the passing of these laws.
DAILY DOUBLE (worth double points)
What is "no taxation without representation?"
The Boston Tea Party was not a festive event, but instead a protest over the Tea Act. The tea dumped into the harbor that night has an approximate value in USD today at around _______.
Higher or lower by $50K
What is 1 million dollars?
What is a protest?
This is the I in the acronym AI.
What is intelligence?
This is the name of the MLB championship series to determine the league winner at the end of October going into November.
What is the World Series?
The Tea Act was not a tax on tea, but instead allowed the British East India Tea Company to be the only one to sell tea to the American colonies which gave the company a ________.
What is a monopoly?
The original occupation of patriot John Adams saw him act as the _______ for the British soldiers of the Boston Massacre accused of murder, even though his cousin ________ was unhappy about it.
Need both answers
What is activism and vandalism?
This is the term used to bother or get in the way of someone or something. It can result in an out, penalty minutes, or a 15 yard penalty,
What is INterference?
The collegiate ______ _______ _____ FBS school became only the second school to ever lose a college football game in the last 10 seconds by losing a fumble for an opposing touchdown. This STATE school's mascot is the Wolfpack and one of the thirteen original colonies (North).
DAILY DOUBLE (worth 1200 points)
What is North Carolina State?
This set of acts placed taxes on tea, glass, paper, and other items. It was named after the man who created the law.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Paul Revere, well known rider and patriot, was a ______ as his day job, but became known for his art piece on the ___________.
Need both answers
What is silversmith and Boston Massacre?
Define boycotts
What is the refusal to buy, use, or participate in a good/event/service that is produced by a specific person, group, or place due to some issue a person has with the actions of the good/event/service for social or political reasons.
This is the term used to describe money earned in a savings account or other money accounts paid to you by banks. Also used to describe your attention being focused on something in particular.
What is INterest?
Just within the last two months two new species of these two types of animals were discovered for the first time in 100 years for both types.
What are cats and penguins?
What is the name of the British lawmaking body, and also the name of the ruler of Britain.
What is Parliament, and who is King George III?
What is the long full name of the poet who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride"?
Who is John Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
This old policy was used by Britain for the first 150ish years of the colonies led to the passing of taxes after the French and Indian War.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This is a said to a criminal mastermind who kidnapped a princess and forced the rogue hero to choose which cup is poisoned. It also means to be unthinkable or unimaginable.
What is INconceivable?!
This 10 word means to be perfect, stunning, and having no flaws. Starting with the letter "I" and ending with the letter "E," it can be used to describe an inning when a pitcher throws exactly nine pitches, for nine strikes, and three outs.
What is "immaculate"?