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Trivia Quiz - Episode 11

Test your investigative skills and knowledge of history below. Just answer true or false and then click through for the answers. The questions are based on the three cases of Episode 11.

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1. The music style known as the Blues was popular with white Americans in its early days.
2. Blues music, while popular, did not contribute much to the American musical scene.
3. Chicago was the birthplace of the Blues.
4. Comic books first started in Japan.
5. In the beginning, the idea for the Superman comic strip was turned down by publishers.
6. The creators of the Superman comic strip became very wealthy, thanks to the superhero's popularity.
7. The Whiskey Rebellion was a revolt by Irish immigrants to the United States who believed their brew was better than that of Scottish immigrants.
8. The spellings "whiskey" and "whisky" are interchangeable.
9. More troops were used to quash the Whiskey Rebellion than were used by the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
10. After the Stamp Act imposed by the British government led to the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers vowed never to use force to collect money from people.