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Welcome to

Who Wants to be a Millionaire

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A: Debates

C: Sermons

B: Family reunion

D: Trials

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For $100 dollars what was held in the

general store?

• Debates were held in the General Store because there was more than ample space for it to be held.

• Trials were held in town square where everyone could see what was going on.

• Sermons were held in the church. The holy house of worship.

• Family reunions were held inside of your house not a

public place.

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A: Meat

C: Slaves

B: Eggs

D: Vegetables

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For $200 dollars what was not sold at

the general store?

• Obviously the answer is not slaves. This is because they were sold at auctions not the general store.

• Meat was sold in stores.

• Vegetables were sold in stores.

• Eggs were sold in stores.

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A: A slave

C: Women

B: Men

D: Children

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For $300 who would work at the general

store?

• Women were not allowed to work they had to stay at home.

• Young children were not allowed to work but teen boys were allowed to though.

• Men ran the general store.

• Slaves were not allowed to work because they were not taught simple math.

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A: Far away

C: Next door

B: Next town over

D: A block over

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For $500 where would the storekeep

live?

• The store keep would not live far away because in case of a supply emergency he could get there fast.

• He would not live in the town over because it would take him half a day just to get in to work.

• He would live next door to cut down on transportation time and emergency time.

• A few blocks away would've also been acceptable.

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A: $100.00

C: $5.00

B: $0.95

D: $20.00

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For $1,000 what is the most expensive item in the general

store?

• The most expensive item was $100.00.

• Even though guns were $0.95 that was considered a pretty penny back then.

• $5.00 was considered even more expensive but it was still not the most expensive.

• Even though $20.00 isn't expensive today it was only seen in extremely wealthy colonists.

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A: In town

C: Not in town

B: Outskirts of town

D: Next town over

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For $2,000 where was the general store located?

• If there was an emergency and the general store was in the next town it would cause havoc through

daily life.

• If the general store was on the outskirts of town it would be in farmland not near the cluster where

people lived.

• By not in town I mean in the middle of nowhere.

• The right answer is in town. This is so it has easy access to everybody.

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A: Coffee

C: Guns

B: Eggs

D: Tea

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For $4,000 fill in this blank : When the British ___ party happened, ___

prices rose.

• The answer obviously the answer is not guns. They did not dump guns into Boston harbor.

• They did not dump coffee into Boston harbor.

• They did not dump eggs into Boston harbor. Eggs as an answer does not make sense because they did not

come from England, they came from local farmers.

• The answer is tea, this fill in the blank was the Boston tea party which was when the colonists dumped tea into

the harbor to protest the prices.

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A: A week

C: 3 months

B: A month

D: 2 months

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For $8,000 how long did it take for

imports from Europe to get to the colonies?

• A week is way to fast for any ship from that era to get from Europe to the colonies.

• The correct answer is 1 month.• At the beginning it took colonists up to 12 weeks

which was the longest time it took out of anybody to get to the new colony.

• 3 Months is way to long for any ship unless your Henry Hudson.

• 2 Months is too long but not as long as 3 months.

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A: Guns

C: Tin goods

B: Playing cards

D: Coffee

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For $16,000 what was the most

popular item in a general store?

• The answer is tin goods. This is because there were many types of tin goods and I was not specific about the

answer.

• The answer was not guns because when you bought a gun it lasted a long time.

• Playing cards were not that popular of an item even though you would think it is.

• Coffee was sort of popular but not that much.

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A: Lard

C: Fat

B: In ice water

D: In a cold stone block

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For $32,000 what did they use to preserve

dairy products?

•Back then they did not have freezers to make ice so that is out of the question.

•They did not think of the cold stone block, the Chinese did.

•The lard did not keep anything insulated it just counted as a lubricant.

•The correct answer is fat. This is because it keeps the heat or cold inside of something.

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A: Outhouse

C: Row Boat

B: Laptop

D: An axe

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For $64,000 what item could you buy at a general store?

• Whoever thinks that laptops is the right answer should go back to nursery school. I mean really come

on.

• There was no axes in the colonies. Axes were used by Vikings.

• The correct answer is a row boat. You would order a row boat and the woodcraftsman would make it and

give it to you.

• The answer is not a outhouse. You would have to make your own outhouse.

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A: Licorice

C: Gum

B: Jawbreaker

D: Assorted hard candy

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For $125,000 what type of candy was in the candy machine

• Licorice would not dispense if put in a machine.

• Jawbreakers were not invented until the 1800s.

• Gum would never have stayed soft in the machine for that long.

• Assorted hard candy would have stayed fine for the long amount of time that it would’ve been in there for.

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A: General store

C: Near the water source

B: The gunsmiths shop

D: The tavern

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For $250,000 which one of these spots

was not a good black market

location?

• Near the water source is the wrong answer.

• The general store was the correct answer. Who would do business in the general store where somebody

is trying to make a living selling things.

• The gunsmith’s shop is wrong.

• The tavern is the wrong answer.

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A: Coffee

C: Alcohol

B: A gun

D: Candy

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For $500,000 what was the most

destructive item in a general store?

• Coffee is not destructive at all. Except to stunting growth

• Alcohol was drunken by everybody including the children because the drinking water was not safe.

• Guns were very destructive.

• Candy was olny destructive to teeth which did not count.

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A: You the contestant

C: Your host

B: The camera guy

D: The producers

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For $1,000,000 who do you think will win

$1,000,000 today?

CORRECT!!!

YOU’VE WON $1,000,000!!!

WOOT WOOT!!!

YOU WIN $1 MILLION DOLLARS!

Bibliography

Books

} The thirteen coloniesBrendan January

} Colonial lifeBrendan January

} ...if you lived in colonial timesAnn mcgovern

Websites

} http://www.mrnussbaum.com/13colonies/13trades.htm