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Nailed it. 100%.
But then, I'm fifty and from an era when public education still meant "education".
However, I still see in myself some of the "over-thinking-it" stuff that kind of hurt me in school. There are actually other valid answers to #5 and #9.
Really depressing that only 25% got the question about Washington correct. I don't think they put dead white guys on the curriculum anymore.
Ken, one can argue that the answer of Jefferson for #5 is incomplete. If I remember, Adams and Franklin were assign with Jefferson to write the document.
#9 - are you thinking of Hancock when he presided over the Continental Congress during the war?
#9, and whoever filled the position or its equivalent under the Aricles of Confetti.
Unfortunately, that specific info has slipped from my memory over the years.
Ah - here as in many other places, Schoolhouse Rock comes to the rescue. Thomas Jefferson was primarily responsible for the Declaration but there were actually five people assigned to it: John Adams and Ben Franklin, as the Spider noted, and the two under-remembered chaps: Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston.
For the more cultured among us, one could also consult the musical 1776, where all the gentlemen argue over whose job it is to actually get a quill on paper.
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