Dust off your powdered wigs and tea parties—prove your smarts are as sharp as a rapier in the 18th century!
Which treaty, signed in September 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary War?
Treaty of Paris
Which Parisian fortress, regarded as a symbol of royal tyranny, was stormed on July 14, 1789?
Bastille
Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe
Which Scottish philosopher authored the influential work The Wealth of Nations in 1776?
Adam Smith
Who was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress in 1775?
George Washington