American Tall Tales (Historical Figures or Fictional Characters)

Question 1

Molly Pitcher, a woman who fought in the Battle of Monmouth in the American Revolutionary War

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Fictional Character

Question 2

Pecos Bill, an American cowboy known for helping the westward expansion and said to have been raised by coyotes.

Accepted Answer

Fictional Character

Question 3

Mike Fink known as "King of the Keelboaters" a brave boatman of the Mississippi River.

Accepted Answer

Historical Figure

Question 4

Captain Stormalong, A sailor giant who was the master of the Atlantic Ocean.

Accepted Answer

Fictional Character

Question 5

John Chapman, or Johnny Appleseed, the man who introduced apple trees while sharing kindness everywhere he went.

Accepted Answer

Historical Figure

Question 6

Daniel Boone, an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman who became the first folk hero in the United States

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Historical Figure

Question 7

Paul Bunyan, a lumberjack whose famous for his great and unusual chopping skills and his companion Babe the Blue Ox

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Fictional Character

Question 8

Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman known for your toughness as well her kindness and compassion.

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Historical Figure

Question 9

Johnny Kaw, a Kansas settler whose ideas for Kansas landscape helped establish major wheat and sunflower crops.

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Fictional Character

Question 10

Unsinkable Molly Brown, known as the invinsible woman for the tragedies she had survived.

Accepted Answer

Historical Figure

Question 11

Jigger Johnson, a lumberjack and log driver known for his grand adventures of catching bobcats with his bare hands.

Accepted Answer

Historical Figure

Question 12

Davy Crockett, frontiersman, soldier and politician known as the "King of the Wild Frontier"

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Historical Figure

Question 13

Annie Oakley, known as one of the youngest and the greatest female American Sharpshooter

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Historical Figure

Question 14

John Henry, an African-American railroad worker who beat the "steel-driving man" machine with only his hands and hammer

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Historical Figure

Question 15

Buffalo Bill Cody, rider of the Pony Express, American soldier, bison hunter, and a great guns showman.

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Historical Figure

Question 16

Lone Ranger, hero of the west who fought raiders and robbers in Texas Area.

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Fictional Character

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