Jeopardy Presidents 1 Flashcards
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PRESIDENTS–0–2 of the 3 men who went from being either a U.S. senator or congressman directly to the presidency
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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (2 of) Kennedy, Garfield, and Harding
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PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–200–Abigail, John Q., Charles
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John Adams
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THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE–400–Bush-Cheney called Edwards Kerry’s second choice, meaning this Republican was his first
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John McCain
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PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–400–John, Calvin
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Calvin Coolidge
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THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE–800–George W. Bush won 91% of the vote in Massachusetts (unfortunately for him it was in this contest)
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the Republican primary
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PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–600–Lynda, Luci
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LBJ
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THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE–1200–Most of the over 50,000 signatures he submitted to try to get on the Michigan ballot were collected by the GOP
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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Ralph) Nader
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PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–800–Fanny, Manning, Birchard
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE–1700–In a July 23 speech to this league, the President asked if the Democrats take black voters for granted
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the National Urban League
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PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–1000–Abraham, Martin, John
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Martin Van Buren
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THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE–2000–This Florida senator was the first Democratic candidate to drop out of the race
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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Bob) Graham
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–400–Mondale’s tables of worship
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Walter’s altars
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–800–Al’s portals
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Gore’s doors
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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–200–A button warned: this man “in 64 hot-water in 65”
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Barry Goldwater
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–1200–Aaron’s mongrel dogs
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Burr’s curs
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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–400–Champions of this governor running for president in 1928 included the New York Yankees
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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Al) Smith
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–1600–Dan’s humpbacks
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Quayle’s whales
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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–600–In 1921 Harding commuted the sentence of this candidate whose campaign used a bust of him in prison garb
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Eugene Debs
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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–800–He was called the poor man’s candidate in 1896; a campaign button quoted his “Cross of Gold” speech
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William Jennings Bryan
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–2000–Colfax’ accounting clerks
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Schyuler’s filers
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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–1000–State where the concession speech seen here was made in 2004
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Iowa
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PRESIDENTS’ CHILDREN–200–Dad Bill was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford Univ.; she earned a master’s in international relations at Oxford in 2003
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Chelsea Clinton
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PRESIDENTS’ CHILDREN–300–They’re the only 2 sons of U.S. presidents to be elected president
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George W. Bush and John Quincy Adams
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PRESIDENTS’ CHILDREN–600–He had no kids of his own, but he loved his stepdaughter Patsy Custis as if she were his own daughter
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George Washington
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20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS--0--Aptly, his middle name contained the word "rich"
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES--200--"That Damned Cowboy" was some "Rough Rider"
Theodore Roosevelt
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES--400--Get over "The Hump" & name this "Happy Warrior"
Hubert Humphrey
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES--600--This "White Night" was also "Nixon's Nixon"
Spiro Agnew
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES--800--This "Spendthrift of Albany" had some "Rocky" times
Nelson Rockefeller
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES--1000--In the early 1800s he was "The Napoleon of the West" & "The Great American Rascal"
Aaron Burr
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--200--Howard
Taft
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--400--Ulysses (originally)
Ulysses S. Grant
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--600--Gamaliel
Warren Harding
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--800--Knox
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (James K.) Polk
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--2400--Rudolph
Gerald Ford
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PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES--200--Next in line:J.B., A.L.,...
A.J.
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PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES--400--After George Washington left office in 1797, we didn't get another George in office until this year
1989
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PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES--600--1 of the 2 presidents who have a Jr. in their names; they served consecutively in the 20th century
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (1 of) Ford or Carter
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PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES--800--He's the last person who had more than one person as vice president
Nixon
40
PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES--1600--He was the first sitting president who could have sung "The Star Spangled Banner"
Madison
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PRESIDENTS--200--General whose Presidential campaign song was written by Irving Berlin
Dwight Eisenhower
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PRESIDENTS--400--All elected Presidents who are members of this party died in office
Whig
43
PRESIDENTS--600--This Iowan was the first President born west of the Mississippi
Herbert Hoover
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PRESIDENTS--1200--The last President to sport a moustache or beard while in office
William Howard Taft
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PRESIDENTS--1000--The "54º40' or Fight" fever over Oregon helped elect this president, the only one ever to be speaker of the U.S. House
James K. Polk
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U.S. PRESIDENTS--0--2 of the 5 presidents buried west of the Mississippi River
Eisenhower, Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Truman
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PRESIDENTS--0--This consonant begins the last names of five presidents, more than any other letter
H
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PRESIDENTIAL STATES OF BIRTH--400--California
Nixon
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PRESIDENTIAL STATES OF BIRTH--800--1 of the 2 born in Vermont
Coolidge (or Chester Arthur)
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VICE PRESIDENTS--0--He was the first vice president to cast zero tiebreaking votes in his capacity as president of the Senate
John Tyler
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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS--100--February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
Abraham Lincoln
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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS--200--April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
Thomas Jefferson
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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS--300--October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826
John Adams
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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS--400--May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972
Harry Truman
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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS--500--August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964
Herbert Hoover
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U.S. PRESIDENTS--0--They're the 2 men who served the U.S. as President representing the Union Party
Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson
57
U.S. PRESIDENTS--0--Of the 1st 7 presidents, only these 2 were not re-elected
John Adams & John Quincy Adams
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U.S. PRESIDENTS--400--In 1831 he settled in New Salem, Illinois, where he worked as a clerk in a general store for $15 a month
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Abraham) Lincoln
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U.S. PRESIDENTS--800--A George W. was the first U.S. President & George W. Bush is counted as this number
43
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U.S. PRESIDENTS--1200--He was named for his maternal grandfather James Knox, a Revolutionary War captain
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (James K.) Polk
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U.S. PRESIDENTS--4600--His running mates were Thomas Hendricks in 1884, A.G. Thurman in 1888 & Adlai Stevenson in 1892
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Grover) Cleveland
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U.S. PRESIDENTS--2000--After serving one term, this first Quaker president was defeated for re-election in 1932 by FDR
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Herbert) Hoover
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PRESIDENTS' HOMES--0--The exterior of the governor's mansion in Florida is modeled after the home of this president
Andrew Jackson
64
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS--100--Geronimo rode in this president's 1905 inaugural parade, & so did the Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
65
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS--200--In Bush's parade these California fruit characters rode on the Presidential Council on Fitness float
the California Raisins
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PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS--900--His parade featured many types of missiles & a PT boat
John F. Kennedy
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PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS--400--In 1913, this future president, then a West Point cadet, marched in Wilson's parade
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS--500--He was the only president inaugurated in two different cities
George Washington
69
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS--100--Peyton Randolph, the first president, brought the meetings to order in this city
Philadelphia
70
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS--200--While still a delegate, Richard Henry Lee offered the June 7, 1776 resolution that led to this document
Declaration of Independence
71
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS--300--Cyrus Griffin, the last president, went on to be one of the judges at this man's treason trial
Aaron Burr
72
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS--1300--He was president from May 24, 1775 to October 29, 1777
John Hancock
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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS--500--John Hanson is considered by some the first U.S. president, as he was the first to serve under these
Articles of Confederation
74
19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS--0--With 5, this president had more attorneys general in his administration than any other president
Ulysses S. Grant
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PRESIDENTS--0--Under an act passed in 1958, they became the first two former presidents eligible for a pension
Harry S. Truman & Herbert Hoover
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PRESIDENTS--100--The only president who died in the eighteenth century
George Washington
77
PRESIDENTS--200--One of the two presidents' widows who remarried
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis or Frances Folsom Cleveland Presto
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PRESIDENTS--300--The first time this group played for an inauguration was at James Monroe's in 1821
Marine Band
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PRESIDENTS--400--Acording to the Constitution, one of four things a king can't give a president without consent of Congress
Present, Emolument, Office, or Title
80
PRESIDENTS--500--While we all remember Amy, this is the name of one of Jimmy Carter's other three kids
Jack, Chip, or Jeff
81
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS--0--He was the only incumbent vice president to defeat a president in a presidential election
Thomas Jefferson (1800)
82
U.S. PRESIDENTS--0--The two presidents whose fathers signed the Declaration of Independence
William Henry Harrison & John Quincy Adams
83
VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE--400--Taking kickbacks from Baltimore contractors helped oust him from office in the 1970s
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Spiro) Agnew
84
VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE--800--After failing to create his own country in the West, he asked Napoleon to help him conquer Florida
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Aaron) Burr
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE--1200--Schuyler Colfax, this ex-general's vice president, pleaded that bribe money given to him was for the sale of a piano
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Ulysses S.) Grant
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VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE--1600--This V.P. diverted attention from his slush fund by explaining his wife had a cloth coat & not a mink
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Richard) Nixon
87
VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE--2000--Levi Morton was soiled by the Peruvian guano scandal before taking office in 1889 for this president
Benjamin Harrison
88
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN...--200--...Hawaii gained statehood
Eisenhower
89
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN...--400--...the Hindenburg Zeppelin crashed
F.D. Roosevelt
90
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN...--600--...the U.S. extended full diplomatic recognition to Vietnam
Clinton
91
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN...--800--...Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel
Nixon
92
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN...--1000--...the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
Carter
93
PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS--200--His last words, spoken in Warm Springs, Georgia, were "I have a terrific headache"
FDR
94
PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS--400--"I've always loved my wife, my children and grandchildren, and I've always loved my country," he said in 1969
Dwight D. Eisenhower
95
PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS--600--"Thomas Jefferson survives"
John Adams
96
PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS--800--Though noted for his drinking, the last thing he said was "Water"
Ulysses S. Grant
97
PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS--1000--"I know that I'm going where Lucy is," Lemonade Lucy that is
Rutherford B. Hayes
98
U.S. PRESIDENTS--200--During the Spanish-American War, his unit first saw action June 24, 1898 at Las Guasimas, Cuba
Theodore Roosevelt
99
U.S. PRESIDENTS--400--Referring to his initials, classmates at West Point began calling him Uncle Sam
Ulysses S. Grant
100
U.S. PRESIDENTS--600--He was the first president to serve 2 terms in office
George Washington
101
U.S. PRESIDENTS--1000--In 1832 this president vetoed the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States
Andrew Jackson
102
U.S. PRESIDENTS--1000--On March 4, 1853 this president gave his inauguration address from memory without notes
Franklin Pierce
103
PRESIDENTIAL HOMES--200--Rancho del Cielo
Ronald Reagan
104
PRESIDENTIAL HOMES--400--La Casa Pacifica
Richard Nixon
105
PRESIDENTIAL HOMES--600--The Hermitage
Andrew Jackson
106
U.S. PRESIDENTS--200--This president's middle initial, "S", honored both of his grandfathers
Harry S. Truman
107
U.S. PRESIDENTS--400--This president from Kinderhook was the first who wasn't born a British subject
Martin Van Buren
108
PRESIDENTIAL HOMES--800--The Elms
Lyndon B. Johnson
109
U.S. PRESIDENTS--600--He was nicknamed "The Sage of Montpelier"
James Madison
110
PRESIDENTIAL HOMES--1000--Hickory Hill, which he later sold to his brother
John F. Kennedy
111
U.S. PRESIDENTS--800--Not only the first president to marry in the White House, he was also the first to have a child born there
Grover Cleveland
112
U.S. PRESIDENTS--2500--When he took office in 1853 at age 48, this New Englander was the youngest president to that time
Franklin Pierce
113
PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES--200--This presidential relative, quite logically, had his own brand of beer in the 1970s
Billy Carter
114
PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES--400--When this president was a governor, his brother Roger was arrested
Clinton
115
PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES--600--His wife had many brothers in the Confederate Army, prompting some to question her loyalty to the Union
Lincoln
116
PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES--800--His stepson by Dolley once owed debts of over $40,000 that the president himself had to pay
Madison
117
PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES--2500--When he was veep, his brother Donald was involved in financial dealings with Howard Hughes
Nixon
118
PRESIDENTS' BIRTHDAYS--100--Jimmy Carter was born October 1, 1924 in this Georgia city
Plains
119
PRESIDENTS' BIRTHDAYS--200--On December 28, 1856, Woodrow Wilson became the eighth president born in this state
Virginia
120
PRESIDENTS' BIRTHDAYS--300--The fact that the 22nd & 24th presidents share a March 18, 1837 birthday isn't odd; they're both this man
Grover Cleveland
121
PRESIDENTS' BIRTHDAYS--400--He was born August 20, 1833 & named for his great-grand-father, not his grandfather who was president
Benjamin Harrison
122
PRESIDENTS' BIRTHDAYS--500--He was born to a blacksmith's wife August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa
Herbert Hoover
123
U.S. PRESIDENTS--0--Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second
Ulysses S. Grant
124
THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID...--200--"The ballot is stronger than the bullet"
Lincoln
125
THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID...--400--In his first address to Congress: "All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today"
Lyndon Johnson
126
THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID...--1400--"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate"
John F. Kennedy
127
THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID...--800--"There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe"
Gerald Ford
128
THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID...--1000--"It must be a peace without victory... Only a peace between equals can last"
Wilson
129
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--400--He claimed the smear & slander tactics of the 1828 election drove his wife Rachel to her grave
Andrew Jackson
130
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--600--Babe Ruth & Gene Tunney were among the champions for this New York governor who ran in 1928
Al Smith
131
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--800--This president asked America to observe Flag Day June 14, 1916, coinciding with the Democratic Convention
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Woodrow) Wilson
132
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--1000--The Whigs ran Harrison in 1840 on a campaign of hard cider & these, not Merlot & mansions
log cabins
133
U.S. PRESIDENTS--0--He's the only U.S. president to serve in the Senate after leaving the White House
Andrew Johnson
134
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--200--Chronologically, the 1st of the 8 presidents whose last name ends in "son"
Thomas Jefferson
135
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--400--In 1872 Grant signed a bill creating this 1st national park
Yellowstone
136
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--600--The only president who never married, he was also the only president born in Pennsylvania
James Buchanan
137
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--1000--The last president whose public inaugural was held on Monday, January 21
Ronald Reagan (1985)
138
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--1000--George Bush's father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, was a U.S. senator from this state
Connecticut
139
U.S. PRESIDENTS--400--The D.C. house he lived in after he left office in 1921 is called "Washington's only presidential museum"
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Woodrow) Wilson
140
U.S. PRESIDENTS--800--Somewhat prophetically, he became the first sitting president to visit Hawaii
FDR
141
U.S. PRESIDENTS--1200--He & his wife translated into English "De Re Metallica", a 16th century Latin work on mining
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Herbert) Hoover
142
U.S. PRESIDENTS--4400--In 1893 James K. Polk's tomb was moved from his estate to the state capitol grounds in this city
Nashville
143
U.S. PRESIDENTS--2000--He became pres. 100 years after George Washington, so he was called the "Centennial President"
Benjamin Harrison
144
PRESIDENTS & THE MOVIES--0--This president arranged the first film showing in the White House when he had "The Birth of a Nation" screened there
Woodrow Wilson
145
PLAYING PRESIDENT--200--The 2003 movie with James Brolin as him aired on Showtime after CBS dropped it
Reagan
146
PLAYING PRESIDENT--400--Charlton Heston is seen here as this prickly character before he became president"What did you say?""I said, 'I wonder whose bed Rachael'll be putting her moccasins under next.'"[Smack!]
Andrew Jackson
147
PLAYING PRESIDENT--600--E.G. Marshall, Robert Duvall & Tom Selleck have all played this U.S. president
Eisenhower
148
PLAYING PRESIDENT--1000--William Parry was James Garfield in the originial production of this Sondheim musical
Assassins
149
PLAYING PRESIDENT--1000--Kelsey Grammer played this general in A&E;'s 2003 "Benedict Arnold"
Washington
150
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS--200--"Not just peanuts"
Carter
151
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS--400--"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow"
Clinton
152
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS--600--"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
William Henry Harrison
153
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS--800--"It's morning again in America"
Ronald Reagan
154
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS--1000--"A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"
Hoover
155
PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES--500--When asked about his condition this president said, "I don't have ulcers, I give 'em"
Lyndon Baines Johnson
156
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--100--Baines
Lyndon Johnson
157
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--200--Earl
Jimmy Carter
158
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--300--His actual first name was Hiram while his middle name was Ulysses
Ulysses Grant
159
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--400--Howard
Taft
160
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES--500--Abram
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (James Abram) Garfield
161
U.S. PRESIDENTS--200--On July 4, 1798 he became the only former president named commander-in-chief of American forces
George Washington
162
U.S. PRESIDENTS--400--This president was named for the Reverend Stephen Grover of Caldwell, New Jersey
Grover Cleveland
163
U.S. PRESIDENTS--600--During his administration, the slave trade was abolished & the Louisiana Territory was purchased
Thomas Jefferson
164
U.S. PRESIDENTS--800--In 1971 he published "The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969"
Lyndon Johnson
165
U.S. PRESIDENTS--2000--With Republicans split between Taft & Teddy Roosevelt, this Democrat was elected president in 1912
Woodrow Wilson
166
PRESIDENTS--200--In April 1789 Washington left Mount Vernon, going to this city to head the new governent
New York
167
PRESIDENTS--400--Inaugurated in 1809, he's considered the last of the Founding Fathers to serve as president
Madison
168
PRESIDENTS--600--INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Hi, I'm John McCain.) In 1912 this president proclaimed Arizona a state after forcing it to remove recall of judges from its constitution
Taft
169
PRESIDENTS--1000--During his administration, Custer made his last stand
Grant
170
PRESIDENTS--1000--Before his election, he was part of a group of politically influential lawyers, the "Concord Clique"
Pierce
171
BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT...--400--He commanded all the Union armies
Grant
172
BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT...--800--He taught debate & public speaking at a Houston, Texas high school
Lyndon B. Johnson
173
BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT...--1200--He practiced law in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Gerald Ford
174
BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT...--2500--He was Tennessee's first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Andrew) Jackson
175
BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT...--2000--INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a desk at NYPD headquarters.) This future U.S. president sat at this desk when he was president of the board of police commissioners
Theodore Roosevelt
176
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004--400--He was born in New York, & his howling early success was helped by his state-of-the-art Internet campaign
Howard Dean
177
20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS--0--The only VP to become president not immediately after his vice presidential term
Richard Nixon
178
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004--800--He won the Silver & Bronze Stars while serving in Vietnam & let NATO forces against Yugoslavia
Clark
179
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004--1800--A congressman from 1977 to 2005, he was known for his firm opposition to NAFTA
Gephardt
180
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004--1600--The son of a truck driver, this vegan is also a former mayor of Cleveland
Dennis Kucinich
181
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004--2000--A former U.S. senator from Illinois, she also served as ambassador to New Zealand
Carol Moseley Braun
182
FRISKY PRESIDENTS--200--Some scholars believe he initially called off his marriage, as he'd fallen in love with a friend of the Todds
Lincoln
183
FRISKY PRESIDENTS--400--Ooh la la! He fooled around with the very married Maria Cosway while he was Minister to France
Jefferson
184
FRISKY PRESIDENTS--600--Kay Summersby drove him to work in the 1940s & may have driven him to infidelity as well
Eisenhower
185
FRISKY PRESIDENTS--800--In an effort to keep his affair with Mrs. Carrie Phillips a secret, the RNC sent her on a paid trip to Asia in 1920
Harding
186
FRISKY PRESIDENTS--1000--In the 1870s, while he was the sheriff of Buffalo, he fathered a child with a Mrs. Maria Halpin
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Grover) Cleveland
187
VICE PRESIDENTS--0--He served as vice president for the shortest length of time: one month
John Tyler
188
U.S. PRESIDENTS--0-- an airplane
Theodore Roosevelt
189
U.S. PRESIDENTS--0--Washington was the one who added these 4 words to the presidential oath; they're not in the Constitution
"So Help Me God"
190
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--100--Luci Nugent was only 19 when she gave birth to this president's 1st grandchild
LBJ
191
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--200--He was known as "Big Bill"
William Howard Taft
192
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS--0-- "Ready for Teddy Again" were used
1912
193
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--300--In 1970 George Bush ran against Lloyd Bentsen Jr. for this position
U.S. Senator from Texas
194
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--400--This wartime president had previously served in the Black Hawk War but saw no fighting
Abraham Lincoln
195
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--500--You can visit his home, Sagamore Hill, in Oyster Bay, Long Island
Theodore Roosevelt
196
U.S. PRESIDENTS--0--President elected to 2nd term with 523 electoral votes, the greatest number in any election
Franklin D. Roosevelt
197
PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS--100--Though Detective Pinkerton saved him once, he later became 1st assassinated president
Abraham Lincoln
198
PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS--200--Second U.S. president, he was the 1st defeated for re-election
John Adams
199
PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS--300--1st president to refuse a 3rd term
George Washington
200
VICE PRESIDENTS--0--This Republican was the first V.P. to succeed to the presidency and then win the office by election
Theodore Roosevelt
201
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--200--In campaign issues of 1856, this sanguinary adjective preceded "Kansas" & "Sumner"
'Bleeding'
202
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--400--One popular Democratic campaign slogan was "We Polked you in 1844, we shall" do this to "you in 1852"
Pierce
203
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--600--In 1900 a Republican campaign slogan promised a "full" one of these, sort of like today's lunch box
a full dinner pail
204
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--600--A 1924 poster for this candidate featured an electric fan
Calvin Coolidge
205
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS--1000--He was the "I" on a 1908 button reading "U-N-I-Ted", (you & I, Teddy Roosevelt)
William Howard Taft
206
PRESIDENTS--0--The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president
Richard Nixon
207
VICE PRESIDENTS--0--He was the first Republican vice president
Hannibal Hamlin
208
PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS--200--He shuffled off this mortal coil in Warm Springs, GA from a cerebral hemorrhage
FDR
209
PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS--400--His passing came in Buffalo, New York from gunshot wounds
McKinley
210
PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS--1600--He died in the White House, from pneumonia
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (William Henry) Harrison
211
PRESIDENTS--0--The last president who did not serve in the armed forces
Franklin D. Roosevelt
212
PRESIDENTS--100--He once said, "I have never given anybody hell. I just tell the truth...& they think it's hell"
Harry S. Truman
213
PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS--800--The end finally came for this Pres. in Elberon, New Jersey from blood posioning after being shot
Garfield
214
PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS--1000--The 2nd Prez to die in the White House, he was felled by acute indigestion (or was it poison?)
Zachary Taylor
215
PRESIDENTS--200--Showing he'd rather switch than fight, this future pres. changed from Democrat to Republican in 1962
Ronald Reagan
216
PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL--200--Saying it was in the national interest, he kept baseball going during World War II
F.D.R.
217
PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL--400--It's the only team that has a U.S. president on its roster of former owners
the Texas Rangers
218
PRESIDENTS--400--At the shooting, his assassin cried, "I am a stalwart & Arthur is president now!"
James Garfield
219
PRESIDENTS--400--Shortly after being elected, he submitted his resignation as president of Columbia University
Dwight D. Eisenhower
220
PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL--600--One of his first jobs was re-creating Cubs games over the radio in Iowa
Ronald Reagan
221
PRESIDENTS--500--Jefferson Davis was the son-in-law of this president who died in office
Zachary Taylor
222
PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL--800--Before his Army years, he played baseball under an assumed name in the Kansas minor leagues
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Dwight) Eisenhower
223
PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL--1000--On April 19, 1909 Taft attended a home game of this team & probably had a hot dog or 9
the Washington Senators
224
U.S. PRESIDENTS--0-- Secretary of War
James Monroe
225
THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES--200--This billionaire Texan ran in 1992 & again in 1996
Ross Perot
226
THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES--400--In 1968 this former Governor won 13.5% of the vote & carried 5 states
George Wallace
227
THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES--600--This man's third party candidacy in 1912 allowed Woodrow Wilson to win
Teddy Roosevelt
228
THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES--800--He followed Jackson into the Presidency in 1836 & 12 years later ran as a third party candidate
Van Buren
229
THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES--1000--In 1924 this Wisconsin senator ran on the Progressive Party ticket & on the Socialist Party ticket
'Fightin'' Bob La Follette
230
VICE PRESIDENTS--0--At 39 he was the youngest man to take the office of vice president
Richard Nixon (in 1953)
231
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT--200--He died on Independence Day in 1826 at his beloved Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
232
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT--400--He died on Independence Day in 1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts
John Adams
233
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT--600--Pneumonia claimed this president's life on April 4, 1841
William Henry Harrison
234
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT--800--His March 8, 1930 death occured a month after he resigned as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court due to heart trouble
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (William) Taft
235
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT--1000--He died in his sleep on February 3, 1924, 6 months after Warren Harding
INSERT INTO `clue` VALUES (Woodrow) Wilson
236
PRESIDENTS BY PARTY--200--Federalist Party1789-1797
George Washington
237
PRESIDENTS BY PARTY--400--Democratic1913-1921
Woodrow Wilson
238
PRESIDENTS BY PARTY--600--Whig1841-1841
William Henry Harrison
239
PRESIDENTS BY PARTY--800--Republican1901-1909
Teddy Roosevelt
240
PRESIDENTS BY PARTY--1000--Democratic-Republican1817-1825
James Monroe
241
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--200--Fewer than 120,000 popular votes separated Richard Nixon from this man in 1960
John F. Kennedy
242
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--400--Clinton is the most recent William to hold the office; this man was the first
William Henry Harrison
243
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--600--He served as president during the 73rd-79th Congresses
F.D. Roosevelt
244
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGAN YEARS--200--"I like Ike"
1952
245
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGAN YEARS--400--"All the way with LBJ"
1964
246
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGAN YEARS--600--"We're madly for Adlai"
1952 (or 1956)
247
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--800--In 1947 this future president testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Ronald Reagan
248
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGAN YEARS--800--"In Hoover we trusted, now we are busted"
1932
249
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA--1200--These 3 men served as president between the terms of the only father & son presidents
Jefferson, Madison
