Survival Skills:

1. What items were needed to start a fire?

2. They played a decisive role in Kentucky becoming a state, opening up the territory for settlement, and protecting Painted Stone Station.

3. Name a tool all surveyors relied upon.

4. This instrument provided protection and was used for hunting game.

5. What essential worker from a fort would have made such iron tools as tomahawk blades or cooking utensils?

6. A popular gun of the time period. (Hint: it is not short).

7. This was made from deer skins and turned into clothing, shoes, saddles and pouches.

8. An iron pot and mold produces this necessary item for finding dinner.

9. This artillery piece was typically made of bronze or iron and used by both Americans and the British.

Home & Hearth:

10. This included preserving food, mending clothes, and doctoring your family.

11. What was the name for a period tool used for producing strips or bands of hand woven warp-faced cloth?

12. What was used to make butter?

13. This was a common chore on the frontier that fell to women and children.

14. How did settlers acquire clothing in the 18th century?

15. Girls might learn to do this at a young age – the result would keep them warm in the winter.

16. Native Americans used this as their primary form of temporary shelter.

17. This was your best friend around the campfire or hearth.

Entertainment:

18. In the colonial period, this person was known as a street entertainer-he could probably pull a rabbit out of his hat. 

19. Martha and George Washington probably played this game when they were children.

20. Name one musical instrument many Scots-Irish settlers brought to the frontier with them. 

21. This was a rich oral tradition within the Native culture.

22. Name a creative way to tell a story.

Native Ways:

23. An ancient weapon made of stone and wood-you’ll see both Natives and settlers carrying them. (Hint: hold onto your scalp!)

24. Name a tribe of Native Americans that were found in Kentucky at this time-together, they were known as Eastern Woodland Indians.

25. Native Americans preserved meat in the form of ____ ?

26. What country did the Native Americans side with during the Revolutionary War?

BONUS QUESTIONS:

American Revolutionary War:

27. Who founded Painted Stone Station?

28. What year were the inhabitants of Painted Stone Station attacked?

29. What were the years of the American Revolutionary War?

30. What two countries fought against each other during the Revolutionary War?

Thank You for Participating!

Answers  will appear here after the event - on Monday September 14, 2026