Trivia: Sam Patch was America’s first what?
Competitive bull rider
Sharpshooter
Daredevil
Spy
The correct answer is Daredevil
So why is this answer correct? : Decades before Evel Knievel and Harry Houdini mystified crowds with their death-defying stunts, there was Sam Patch, America’s first true daredevil. Many tales of his exploits have become legend — he apparently jumped Niagara Falls twice — but his story ended in disaster with a leap over the Genesee Falls of Rochester, New York, on November 13, 1829. The stuntman didn’t survive the 125-foot drop, but when a body wasn’t immediately recovered, rumors of his fate took shape, leaving many to wonder if Patch really did die that day.