VFK Constitution Day Mini-Quest 2012

September 17, 2012
 September 18, 2012	
==Description==
Today is Constitution Day! On this day, September 17th, 1787, the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed one of the most important documents ever written, the Constitution of the United States. Our federal holiday honors this occasion which altered the course of history, and also celebrates American citizenship. On today's quest, we will take a mini-look at the history of Constitution Day!<BR>
 
Your reward for completing this quest will be 1,000 credits, and a Constitution Day 2012 Pin!<BR><BR><BR>
===Prizes===
===Questions===
1. All the original states, with the exception of Rhode Island, together appointed 70 delegates to the Constitutional Convention. A number of them either did not accept or could not attend. Of the seventy, fifty-five delegates actually attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Of these attendees, how many signed the United States Constitution on September 17th, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
* 49
* 55
* 39
* 32<BR><BR>
2. Prior to a Federal law being passed in 2004, establishing Constitution Day, the holiday was known as "Citizenship Day." The holiday was later renamed "Constitution Day and Citizenship Day." Go to Outside Mister Ned's Stable in Western Age, and say: "The Constitution changed the world!"<BR><BR>
3. The beginning of the Constitution reads: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What is this first part of the Constitution called?
* Article I
* Epilogue
* Bill of Rights
* Preamble<BR><BR>
4. Article VII - "Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth. In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names." Go to the Castle Gate in Medieval Age, and say: "Happy Constitution Day!"<BR><BR>
===Answers===
1. 39
2. Go to the Livery Stable in Western Age, and say: "The Constitution changed the world!"
3. Preamble
4. Go to the Castle Gate in Medieval Age, and say: "Happy Constitution Day!"
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