Power Quiz

How well do you know American politics for collectors?

The world will watch the United States elect a new President (and numerous Senators, members of congress, and state governors) this week. It affects us all after all.

It's the 60th US presidential election and its mechanisms - including an electoral college initially based on valuing black slaves at 3/5ths of a person each - date back into the early history of the USA.

How well do you know the politics and politicians of the USA as they are encountered by collectors?

1 / 10

Which two future American presidents signed the Declaration of Independence?

George Washington and Samuel Adams

Thomas Jefferson and George Washington

Samuel Adams and John Adams

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

2 / 10

A copy of the US Constitution was sold last month for £9 million. It was one of how many known surviving copies of the document sent out to the 13 founding states for ratification?

3

8

11

5

3 / 10

The autographs of the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence are among the most valuable for American politics collectors. How many of them are there?

61

56

53

48

4 / 10

And why is Button Gwinnett's signature the most valuable of the Founding Fathers' autographs?

He was killed in a duel shortly after signing

He was executed by the British shortly after signing

He was a poor writer who rarely signed his name

His family papers were destroyed in a 19th-century fire

5 / 10

The Emancipation Declaration ended slavery in the US. A copy of it was auctioned for $3.7 million in 2010. Which other American political figure had previously owned it?

John F Kennedy

Bobby Kennedy

Martin Luther King

Franklin D. Roosevelt

6 / 10

Which President had the shortest time in office, making their autograph on official papers exceptionally valuable?

Zachary Taylor

James A. Garfield

William Henry Harrison

Warren G. Harding

7 / 10

What did truck driver Dale Carpenter Sr capture on film in a clip that sold for $137,000 this summer?

JFK's car speeding to hospital after he was shot

President Nixon's meeting with Elvis

JFK with Marilyn Monroe

a man with a gun on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas

8 / 10

In 2021 a first printing of the United States Constitution set a record when it was sold for $43.2 million. It had previously sold in 1988, when it fetched how much?

$16.5 million

$1.65 million

$165,000

$16,500

9 / 10

What did Executive Order 6102, signed in 1933 by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, do that instantly created one of the world's rarest coins?

Ended the production of $2 coins

Changed the motto on US coins

Removed silver from coin production

Removed gold from coin production

10 / 10

Which American political figure is shown on the country's (probable) rarest and most valuable stamp, the 1868, 2c "z-grill" stamp?

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Paul Revere

Benjamin Franklin

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