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Quiz about You Got Owned
Quiz about You Got Owned

You Got Owned Trivia Quiz


This is a quiz about people, real and fictional, who were actually owned by other people, and answers a challenge. Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by john_sunseri. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
john_sunseri
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
318,436
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
1835
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Question 1 of 10
1. This Maryland slave escaped to Philadelphia in 1849, and spent the next years helping other slaves make their way to freedom. The network of houses and abolitionist sympathizers she used was called "The Underground Railroad". After the Civil War, she began agitating for women's suffrage. Who was this woman? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. As a teenager, this man was sold into slavery in Ireland. He escaped and fled to France, but later returned to the Emerald Isle where he had a fairly big effect, converting many of Ireland's inhabitants to Christianity. Who is the patron saint of Ireland? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. This man was the slave of Iadmon of Samos. Later released, he mingled with the rich and famous of ancient Greece (even living in the court of Croesus). Today he is known for his stories of animals, each of which gives a moral meant to teach men. Who was this creator of fables? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. This former Roman slave escaped from a school for gladiators, then started a revolt with 90,000 soldiers under his command. He had an effective run, but eventually Crassus and Pompey wiped his forces out and killed him. He's better known because he was the subject of a 1960 film by Stanley Kubrick. Who was this leader of the revolt? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. This former slave, freed by the American Civil War, became an educator. He was the first leader of the Tuskegee Institute, and stayed in that position until he died in 1915. Who was this author of "Up From Slavery"? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. This man was captured by Algerian pirates in 1575 and spent five years as the property of the viceroy of Algiers. Later ransomed, he went home to Spain and began working on his writing, eventually giving the world one of its novel-length masterpieces, "Don Quixote". Who was this author and former slave? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. This man was the lead defendant in the case of United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad in 1841. In the 1997 Stephen Spielberg movie "Amistad", he was played by Beninese actor Djimon Hounsou. Who was this African illegally sold into slavery? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This slave, who belonged to William Clark's family, accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition on its trek across the country in 1804-1806. He carried a gun, killed buffalo, and had an equal vote with the white men in the party when they were deciding where to spend the winter on the Pacific coast. What was this man's name? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. This woman was owned by Thomas Jefferson, and bore him six children, four of whom survived to adulthood (though there is some controversy about the DNA evidence). What was her name? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. This slave began a famous rebellion in Virginia in 1831, during which he and his followers slaughtered 55 people. He was captured and hanged in Jerusalem, VA, and his body flayed, beheaded and quartered. Who was this slave? Hint





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1. This Maryland slave escaped to Philadelphia in 1849, and spent the next years helping other slaves make their way to freedom. The network of houses and abolitionist sympathizers she used was called "The Underground Railroad". After the Civil War, she began agitating for women's suffrage. Who was this woman?

Answer: Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead a military offensive in the Civil War, when (in 1863) she guided Union ships around Confederate mines in the Combahee River and led them in a raid against the plantations there. In 1911 she was admitted into the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, which she had three years earlier donated the land for. She died in 1913.
2. As a teenager, this man was sold into slavery in Ireland. He escaped and fled to France, but later returned to the Emerald Isle where he had a fairly big effect, converting many of Ireland's inhabitants to Christianity. Who is the patron saint of Ireland?

Answer: Patrick

St. Patrick is now the patron saint of Ireland, and is credited apocryphally with driving all the snakes from the island. There's also one heck of a party every year on March 17 in his honor.
3. This man was the slave of Iadmon of Samos. Later released, he mingled with the rich and famous of ancient Greece (even living in the court of Croesus). Today he is known for his stories of animals, each of which gives a moral meant to teach men. Who was this creator of fables?

Answer: Aesop

Aesop died at Delphi, thrown from a cliff. Soon thereafter, a plague hit the town and the people there decided it was because they had killed Aesop, so they made monetary restitution to Iadmon, the grandson of Aesop's former owner. There's a moral here, somewhere, but I can't figure out what it is.
4. This former Roman slave escaped from a school for gladiators, then started a revolt with 90,000 soldiers under his command. He had an effective run, but eventually Crassus and Pompey wiped his forces out and killed him. He's better known because he was the subject of a 1960 film by Stanley Kubrick. Who was this leader of the revolt?

Answer: Spartacus

Kirk Douglas played the runaway slave in the movie, and Laurence Olivier played Crassus. In real life, Spartacus was killed in battle, but in the movie he is crucified. Either way is a rough way to go. Spartacus and his troops set up their camps and their base on Mt. Vesuvius.
5. This former slave, freed by the American Civil War, became an educator. He was the first leader of the Tuskegee Institute, and stayed in that position until he died in 1915. Who was this author of "Up From Slavery"?

Answer: Booker T. Washington

In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt hosted Washington as a dinner guest, making the latter the first African-American to be a guest of any President at the White House. A plaque at the Tuskegee Institute in Washington's honor reads "He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry."
6. This man was captured by Algerian pirates in 1575 and spent five years as the property of the viceroy of Algiers. Later ransomed, he went home to Spain and began working on his writing, eventually giving the world one of its novel-length masterpieces, "Don Quixote". Who was this author and former slave?

Answer: Miguel de Cervantes

Cervantes also spent time in jail for messing up his figures when he was working as a tax collector. He died on April 23 of 1616, the same day Shakespeare died in England. Two giants, leaving the world simultaneously.
7. This man was the lead defendant in the case of United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad in 1841. In the 1997 Stephen Spielberg movie "Amistad", he was played by Beninese actor Djimon Hounsou. Who was this African illegally sold into slavery?

Answer: Cinqué

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the rebellious slaves and allowed them to return to Africa if they so chose. Cinqué (real name Sengbe Pieh) returned to Sierra Leone in 1842, where he renounced Christianity and disappeared from history, though there are several rumors regarding his fate, including one that suggests that he began working in the slave trade.
8. This slave, who belonged to William Clark's family, accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition on its trek across the country in 1804-1806. He carried a gun, killed buffalo, and had an equal vote with the white men in the party when they were deciding where to spend the winter on the Pacific coast. What was this man's name?

Answer: York

There is an opera called "York", based on the man's life. It was written by Trinkley and Charnesky, and premiered at the Penn State Opera Theater. As for York himself, accounts vary about what happened to him after the Expedition ended, but one story suggests that he escaped from Clark and joined the Crow Indians in Wyoming to live out his life a free man.
9. This woman was owned by Thomas Jefferson, and bore him six children, four of whom survived to adulthood (though there is some controversy about the DNA evidence). What was her name?

Answer: Sally Hemings

Sally Hemings was threequarters white. In the parlance of the day, that made her a 'quadroon', but still a candidate for slavery. She spent 26 months in Paris with Jefferson while he was envoy to France. In 2000, CBS aired a miniseries about her called "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal".
10. This slave began a famous rebellion in Virginia in 1831, during which he and his followers slaughtered 55 people. He was captured and hanged in Jerusalem, VA, and his body flayed, beheaded and quartered. Who was this slave?

Answer: Nat Turner

A description of Turner, from his wanted poster, read "5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, weighs between 150 and 160 pounds, rather bright complexion, but not a mulatto, broad shoulders, larger flat nose, large eyes, broad flat feet, rather knockneed, walks brisk and active, hair on the top of the head very thin, no beard, except on the upper lip and the top of the chin, a scar on one of his temples, also one on the back of his neck, a large knot on one of the bones of his right arm, near the wrist, produced by a blow". "The Confessions of Nat Turner", a novel by William Styron, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968.
Source: Author john_sunseri

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