1. In what year did the Connecticut legislature enact a law authorizing local school boards to require a polio vaccination for public school students?
a. 1955
b. 1961
c. 1959
2. Oliver Ellsworth whose Windsor, Conn. home is a museum, and Roger Sherman crafted the “Connecticut Compromise”. What was it?
a. The federal government took over the state debts incurred by the Revolutionary War and Washington D.C. became the national capitol.
b. It strengthened the Fugitive Slave laws but banned slavery in Washington D.C.
c. The number of Representatives for each state for the U.S. Congress was determined by a state’s population figure but each state could only have two Senators.
3. Who was the “Robber Baron” who was born in Hartford and who is also buried in that city?
a. Jay Gould
b. James Fisk
c. J.P. Morgan
4. In 1979, the Connecticut state legislature repealed a law which was commonly known as “Perambulating the Bounds”. What did the law state?
a. That landowners were not liable for people who walked on trails that adjoined their land.
b. Town officials were required to inspect their town’s boundaries so that taxes could be assessed in the correct municipality.
c. Towns were required to care for indigent people who wandered into their town.
5. The public can view aerial photos of Connecticut, much of them on-line, including one in 1934, the first government-sponsored statewide aerial survey in the United States which was proposed by Governor Wilbur Cross. Where can you access these photos?
a. Connecticut State Archives
b. UCONN
c. Connecticut Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
6. Captain John Sheldon is buried in Suffield’s Old Center Cemetery. His house is purportedly the oldest house in Suffield but he is known for another reason as well. What is it?
a. He built and lived in the “Old Indian House” in Deerfield during the Deerfield Massacre in 1704. The door of the house was scarred by an Indian tomahawk.
b. During the siege of Boston, he fortified Bunker Hill against the British soldiers, the first major battle of the American Revolution.
c. He was formerly a pirate.
7. The inconstant flow of water of Stony Brook was one of the causes of failure of the Franklin Mill, one of Suffield’s paper mills. In referencing Stony Brook’s flow, it was known as…
a. Little drip
b. Flow no more
c. Thunder-storm stream
8. Between 1907 and 1909 there were several court cases involving the Suffield/Thompsonville Bridge. What were they about?
a. For years the toll bridge operator was handing out free foot passes to his friends
b. When the bridge became a public highway and would no longer operate as a toll bridge, the court determined the size of the compensation to the toll bridge company.
c. The treasurer of the toll bridge company absconded with $5,000 of toll bridge fees.
9. Suffield’s early economy was based on what?
a. Tobacco and cider
b. Fisheries and shipbuilding
c. Wrought iron and farming
10. For a limited time in a specific area, what animal can be hunted in Suffield?
a. Coyotes
b. Bobcats
c. Pheasants
Answers:
1. a. 1955
2. c. The number of Representatives for each state was determined by a state’s population but each state could only have two Senators.
3. c. J.P. Morgan, a banking tycoon, provided financial support to the Wadsworth Atheneum and donated the land on which Hartford’s City Hall is built.
4. b. Town officials were required to inspect their town’s boundaries. At the end of each walk, officials etched their initials and the year in stones, which were piled in ravines or around the bases of trees to mark the boundaries.
5. a. Conn. State Archives – https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/aerialphotos
b. UCONN – http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/mash_up/aerial_index.html
6. a. He built and lived in the “Old Indian House”. His wife and youngest child died in the massacre and his daughter-in-law was taken as a captive to Canada.
7. c. Thunder-storm stream
8. b. When the bridge became a public highway, the court determined the size of the compensation to the toll bridge company.
9. b. Fisheries and shipbuilding
10. c. Pheasants