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”

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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller

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VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–200–“That Damned Cowboy” was some “Rough Rider”

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Theodore Roosevelt

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VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–400–Get over “The Hump” & name this “Happy Warrior”

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Hubert Humphrey

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VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–600–This “White Night” was also “Nixon’s Nixon”

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Spiro Agnew

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VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–800–This “Spendthrift of Albany” had some “Rocky” times

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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”

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Aaron Burr

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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–200–Howard

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Taft

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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–400–Ulysses (originally)

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Ulysses S. Grant

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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–600–Gamaliel

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Warren Harding

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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–800–Knox

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (James K.) Polk

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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–2400–Rudolph

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Gerald Ford

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PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES–200–Next in line:J.B., A.L.,…

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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

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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

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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

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Nixon

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PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES–1600–He was the first sitting president who could have sung “The Star Spangled Banner”

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Madison

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PRESIDENTS–200–General whose Presidential campaign song was written by Irving Berlin

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Dwight Eisenhower

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PRESIDENTS–400–All elected Presidents who are members of this party died in office

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Whig

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PRESIDENTS–600–This Iowan was the first President born west of the Mississippi

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Herbert Hoover

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PRESIDENTS–1200–The last President to sport a moustache or beard while in office

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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

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James K. Polk

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–2 of the 5 presidents buried west of the Mississippi River

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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

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H

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PRESIDENTIAL STATES OF BIRTH–400–California

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Nixon

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PRESIDENTIAL STATES OF BIRTH–800–1 of the 2 born in Vermont

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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

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John Tyler

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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–100–February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

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Abraham Lincoln

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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–200–April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

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Thomas Jefferson

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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–300–October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826

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John Adams

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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–400–May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972

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Harry Truman

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PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–500–August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964

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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

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Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–Of the 1st 7 presidents, only these 2 were not re-elected

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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

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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

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43

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–1200–He was named for his maternal grandfather James Knox, a Revolutionary War captain

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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

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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

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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

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Andrew Jackson

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PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS–100–Geronimo rode in this president’s 1905 inaugural parade, & so did the Rough Riders

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Theodore Roosevelt

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PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS–200–In Bush’s parade these California fruit characters rode on the Presidential Council on Fitness float

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the California Raisins

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PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS–900–His parade featured many types of missiles & a PT boat

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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

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS–500–He was the only president inaugurated in two different cities

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George Washington

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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS–100–Peyton Randolph, the first president, brought the meetings to order in this city

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Philadelphia

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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS–200–While still a delegate, Richard Henry Lee offered the June 7, 1776 resolution that led to this document

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Declaration of Independence

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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS–300–Cyrus Griffin, the last president, went on to be one of the judges at this man’s treason trial

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Aaron Burr

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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS–1300–He was president from May 24, 1775 to October 29, 1777

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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

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Articles of Confederation

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19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS–0–With 5, this president had more attorneys general in his administration than any other president

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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

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Harry S. Truman & Herbert Hoover

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PRESIDENTS–100–The only president who died in the eighteenth century

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George Washington

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PRESIDENTS–200–One of the two presidents’ widows who remarried

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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

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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

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Present, Emolument, Office, or Title

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PRESIDENTS–500–While we all remember Amy, this is the name of one of Jimmy Carter’s other three kids

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Jack, Chip, or Jeff

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS–0–He was the only incumbent vice president to defeat a president in a presidential election

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Thomas Jefferson (1800)

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–The two presidents whose fathers signed the Declaration of Independence

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William Henry Harrison & John Quincy Adams

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VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE–400–Taking kickbacks from Baltimore contractors helped oust him from office in the 1970s

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Spiro) Agnew

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VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE–800–After failing to create his own country in the West, he asked Napoleon to help him conquer Florida

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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

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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

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Richard) Nixon

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VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE–2000–Levi Morton was soiled by the Peruvian guano scandal before taking office in 1889 for this president

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Benjamin Harrison

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THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–200–…Hawaii gained statehood

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Eisenhower

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THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–400–…the Hindenburg Zeppelin crashed

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F.D. Roosevelt

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THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–600–…the U.S. extended full diplomatic recognition to Vietnam

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Clinton

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THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–800–…Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel

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Nixon

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THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–1000–…the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan

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Carter

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PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS–200–His last words, spoken in Warm Springs, Georgia, were “I have a terrific headache”

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FDR

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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

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS–600–“Thomas Jefferson survives”

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John Adams

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PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS–800–Though noted for his drinking, the last thing he said was “Water”

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Ulysses S. Grant

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PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS–1000–“I know that I’m going where Lucy is,” Lemonade Lucy that is

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–200–During the Spanish-American War, his unit first saw action June 24, 1898 at Las Guasimas, Cuba

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Theodore Roosevelt

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–400–Referring to his initials, classmates at West Point began calling him Uncle Sam

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Ulysses S. Grant

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–600–He was the first president to serve 2 terms in office

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George Washington

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–1000–In 1832 this president vetoed the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States

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Andrew Jackson

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–1000–On March 4, 1853 this president gave his inauguration address from memory without notes

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Franklin Pierce

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PRESIDENTIAL HOMES–200–Rancho del Cielo

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Ronald Reagan

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PRESIDENTIAL HOMES–400–La Casa Pacifica

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Richard Nixon

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PRESIDENTIAL HOMES–600–The Hermitage

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Andrew Jackson

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–200–This president’s middle initial, “S”, honored both of his grandfathers

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Harry S. Truman

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–400–This president from Kinderhook was the first who wasn’t born a British subject

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Martin Van Buren

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PRESIDENTIAL HOMES–800–The Elms

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–600–He was nicknamed “The Sage of Montpelier”

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James Madison

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PRESIDENTIAL HOMES–1000–Hickory Hill, which he later sold to his brother

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John F. Kennedy

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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

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Grover Cleveland

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–2500–When he took office in 1853 at age 48, this New Englander was the youngest president to that time

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Franklin Pierce

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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–200–This presidential relative, quite logically, had his own brand of beer in the 1970s

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Billy Carter

114
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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–400–When this president was a governor, his brother Roger was arrested

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Clinton

115
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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–600–His wife had many brothers in the Confederate Army, prompting some to question her loyalty to the Union

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Lincoln

116
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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–800–His stepson by Dolley once owed debts of over $40,000 that the president himself had to pay

A

Madison

117
Q

PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–2500–When he was veep, his brother Donald was involved in financial dealings with Howard Hughes

A

Nixon

118
Q

PRESIDENTS’ BIRTHDAYS–100–Jimmy Carter was born October 1, 1924 in this Georgia city

A

Plains

119
Q

PRESIDENTS’ BIRTHDAYS–200–On December 28, 1856, Woodrow Wilson became the eighth president born in this state

A

Virginia

120
Q

PRESIDENTS’ BIRTHDAYS–300–The fact that the 22nd & 24th presidents share a March 18, 1837 birthday isn’t odd; they’re both this man

A

Grover Cleveland

121
Q

PRESIDENTS’ BIRTHDAYS–400–He was born August 20, 1833 & named for his great-grand-father, not his grandfather who was president

A

Benjamin Harrison

122
Q

PRESIDENTS’ BIRTHDAYS–500–He was born to a blacksmith’s wife August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa

A

Herbert Hoover

123
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second

A

Ulysses S. Grant

124
Q

THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID…–200–“The ballot is stronger than the bullet”

A

Lincoln

125
Q

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”

A

Lyndon Johnson

126
Q

THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID…–1400–“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate”

A

John F. Kennedy

127
Q

THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID…–800–“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe”

A

Gerald Ford

128
Q

THE PRESIDENT WHO SAID…–1000–“It must be a peace without victory… Only a peace between equals can last”

A

Wilson

129
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–400–He claimed the smear & slander tactics of the 1828 election drove his wife Rachel to her grave

A

Andrew Jackson

130
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–600–Babe Ruth & Gene Tunney were among the champions for this New York governor who ran in 1928

A

Al Smith

131
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–800–This president asked America to observe Flag Day June 14, 1916, coinciding with the Democratic Convention

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Woodrow) Wilson

132
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–1000–The Whigs ran Harrison in 1840 on a campaign of hard cider & these, not Merlot & mansions

A

log cabins

133
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–He’s the only U.S. president to serve in the Senate after leaving the White House

A

Andrew Johnson

134
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–200–Chronologically, the 1st of the 8 presidents whose last name ends in “son”

A

Thomas Jefferson

135
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–400–In 1872 Grant signed a bill creating this 1st national park

A

Yellowstone

136
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–600–The only president who never married, he was also the only president born in Pennsylvania

A

James Buchanan

137
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–1000–The last president whose public inaugural was held on Monday, January 21

A

Ronald Reagan (1985)

138
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–1000–George Bush’s father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, was a U.S. senator from this state

A

Connecticut

139
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–400–The D.C. house he lived in after he left office in 1921 is called “Washington’s only presidential museum”

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Woodrow) Wilson

140
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–800–Somewhat prophetically, he became the first sitting president to visit Hawaii

A

FDR

141
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–1200–He & his wife translated into English “De Re Metallica”, a 16th century Latin work on mining

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Herbert) Hoover

142
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–4400–In 1893 James K. Polk’s tomb was moved from his estate to the state capitol grounds in this city

A

Nashville

143
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–2000–He became pres. 100 years after George Washington, so he was called the “Centennial President”

A

Benjamin Harrison

144
Q

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

A

Woodrow Wilson

145
Q

PLAYING PRESIDENT–200–The 2003 movie with James Brolin as him aired on Showtime after CBS dropped it

A

Reagan

146
Q

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!]

A

Andrew Jackson

147
Q

PLAYING PRESIDENT–600–E.G. Marshall, Robert Duvall & Tom Selleck have all played this U.S. president

A

Eisenhower

148
Q

PLAYING PRESIDENT–1000–William Parry was James Garfield in the originial production of this Sondheim musical

A

Assassins

149
Q

PLAYING PRESIDENT–1000–Kelsey Grammer played this general in A&E;’s 2003 “Benedict Arnold”

A

Washington

150
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS–200–“Not just peanuts”

A

Carter

151
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS–400–“Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow”

A

Clinton

152
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS–600–“Tippecanoe and Tyler too”

A

William Henry Harrison

153
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS–800–“It’s morning again in America”

A

Ronald Reagan

154
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS–1000–“A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”

A

Hoover

155
Q

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–500–When asked about his condition this president said, “I don’t have ulcers, I give ‘em”

A

Lyndon Baines Johnson

156
Q

PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–100–Baines

A

Lyndon Johnson

157
Q

PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–200–Earl

A

Jimmy Carter

158
Q

PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–300–His actual first name was Hiram while his middle name was Ulysses

A

Ulysses Grant

159
Q

PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–400–Howard

A

Taft

160
Q

PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–500–Abram

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (James Abram) Garfield

161
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–200–On July 4, 1798 he became the only former president named commander-in-chief of American forces

A

George Washington

162
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–400–This president was named for the Reverend Stephen Grover of Caldwell, New Jersey

A

Grover Cleveland

163
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–600–During his administration, the slave trade was abolished & the Louisiana Territory was purchased

A

Thomas Jefferson

164
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–800–In 1971 he published “The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969”

A

Lyndon Johnson

165
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–2000–With Republicans split between Taft & Teddy Roosevelt, this Democrat was elected president in 1912

A

Woodrow Wilson

166
Q

PRESIDENTS–200–In April 1789 Washington left Mount Vernon, going to this city to head the new governent

A

New York

167
Q

PRESIDENTS–400–Inaugurated in 1809, he’s considered the last of the Founding Fathers to serve as president

A

Madison

168
Q

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

A

Taft

169
Q

PRESIDENTS–1000–During his administration, Custer made his last stand

A

Grant

170
Q

PRESIDENTS–1000–Before his election, he was part of a group of politically influential lawyers, the “Concord Clique”

A

Pierce

171
Q

BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT…–400–He commanded all the Union armies

A

Grant

172
Q

BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT…–800–He taught debate & public speaking at a Houston, Texas high school

A

Lyndon B. Johnson

173
Q

BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT…–1200–He practiced law in Grand Rapids, Michigan

A

Gerald Ford

174
Q

BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT…–2500–He was Tennessee’s first delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Andrew) Jackson

175
Q

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

A

Theodore Roosevelt

176
Q

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

A

Howard Dean

177
Q

20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS–0–The only VP to become president not immediately after his vice presidential term

A

Richard Nixon

178
Q

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004–800–He won the Silver & Bronze Stars while serving in Vietnam & let NATO forces against Yugoslavia

A

Clark

179
Q

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004–1800–A congressman from 1977 to 2005, he was known for his firm opposition to NAFTA

A

Gephardt

180
Q

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004–1600–The son of a truck driver, this vegan is also a former mayor of Cleveland

A

Dennis Kucinich

181
Q

DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS 2004–2000–A former U.S. senator from Illinois, she also served as ambassador to New Zealand

A

Carol Moseley Braun

182
Q

FRISKY PRESIDENTS–200–Some scholars believe he initially called off his marriage, as he’d fallen in love with a friend of the Todds

A

Lincoln

183
Q

FRISKY PRESIDENTS–400–Ooh la la! He fooled around with the very married Maria Cosway while he was Minister to France

A

Jefferson

184
Q

FRISKY PRESIDENTS–600–Kay Summersby drove him to work in the 1940s & may have driven him to infidelity as well

A

Eisenhower

185
Q

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

A

Harding

186
Q

FRISKY PRESIDENTS–1000–In the 1870s, while he was the sheriff of Buffalo, he fathered a child with a Mrs. Maria Halpin

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Grover) Cleveland

187
Q

VICE PRESIDENTS–0–He served as vice president for the shortest length of time: one month

A

John Tyler

188
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–0– an airplane

A

Theodore Roosevelt

189
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–Washington was the one who added these 4 words to the presidential oath; they’re not in the Constitution

A

“So Help Me God”

190
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–100–Luci Nugent was only 19 when she gave birth to this president’s 1st grandchild

A

LBJ

191
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–200–He was known as “Big Bill”

A

William Howard Taft

192
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS–0– “Ready for Teddy Again” were used

A

1912

193
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–300–In 1970 George Bush ran against Lloyd Bentsen Jr. for this position

A

U.S. Senator from Texas

194
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–400–This wartime president had previously served in the Black Hawk War but saw no fighting

A

Abraham Lincoln

195
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–500–You can visit his home, Sagamore Hill, in Oyster Bay, Long Island

A

Theodore Roosevelt

196
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–President elected to 2nd term with 523 electoral votes, the greatest number in any election

A

Franklin D. Roosevelt

197
Q

PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS–100–Though Detective Pinkerton saved him once, he later became 1st assassinated president

A

Abraham Lincoln

198
Q

PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS–200–Second U.S. president, he was the 1st defeated for re-election

A

John Adams

199
Q

PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS–300–1st president to refuse a 3rd term

A

George Washington

200
Q

VICE PRESIDENTS–0–This Republican was the first V.P. to succeed to the presidency and then win the office by election

A

Theodore Roosevelt

201
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–200–In campaign issues of 1856, this sanguinary adjective preceded “Kansas” & “Sumner”

A

‘Bleeding’

202
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–400–One popular Democratic campaign slogan was “We Polked you in 1844, we shall” do this to “you in 1852”

A

Pierce

203
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–600–In 1900 a Republican campaign slogan promised a “full” one of these, sort of like today’s lunch box

A

a full dinner pail

204
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–600–A 1924 poster for this candidate featured an electric fan

A

Calvin Coolidge

205
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–1000–He was the “I” on a 1908 button reading “U-N-I-Ted”, (you & I, Teddy Roosevelt)

A

William Howard Taft

206
Q

PRESIDENTS–0–The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president

A

Richard Nixon

207
Q

VICE PRESIDENTS–0–He was the first Republican vice president

A

Hannibal Hamlin

208
Q

PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS–200–He shuffled off this mortal coil in Warm Springs, GA from a cerebral hemorrhage

A

FDR

209
Q

PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS–400–His passing came in Buffalo, New York from gunshot wounds

A

McKinley

210
Q

PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS–1600–He died in the White House, from pneumonia

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (William Henry) Harrison

211
Q

PRESIDENTS–0–The last president who did not serve in the armed forces

A

Franklin D. Roosevelt

212
Q

PRESIDENTS–100–He once said, “I have never given anybody hell. I just tell the truth…& they think it’s hell”

A

Harry S. Truman

213
Q

PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS–800–The end finally came for this Pres. in Elberon, New Jersey from blood posioning after being shot

A

Garfield

214
Q

PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS–1000–The 2nd Prez to die in the White House, he was felled by acute indigestion (or was it poison?)

A

Zachary Taylor

215
Q

PRESIDENTS–200–Showing he’d rather switch than fight, this future pres. changed from Democrat to Republican in 1962

A

Ronald Reagan

216
Q

PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL–200–Saying it was in the national interest, he kept baseball going during World War II

A

F.D.R.

217
Q

PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL–400–It’s the only team that has a U.S. president on its roster of former owners

A

the Texas Rangers

218
Q

PRESIDENTS–400–At the shooting, his assassin cried, “I am a stalwart & Arthur is president now!”

A

James Garfield

219
Q

PRESIDENTS–400–Shortly after being elected, he submitted his resignation as president of Columbia University

A

Dwight D. Eisenhower

220
Q

PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL–600–One of his first jobs was re-creating Cubs games over the radio in Iowa

A

Ronald Reagan

221
Q

PRESIDENTS–500–Jefferson Davis was the son-in-law of this president who died in office

A

Zachary Taylor

222
Q

PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL–800–Before his Army years, he played baseball under an assumed name in the Kansas minor leagues

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Dwight) Eisenhower

223
Q

PRESIDENTS & BASEBALL–1000–On April 19, 1909 Taft attended a home game of this team & probably had a hot dog or 9

A

the Washington Senators

224
Q

U.S. PRESIDENTS–0– Secretary of War

A

James Monroe

225
Q

THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES–200–This billionaire Texan ran in 1992 & again in 1996

A

Ross Perot

226
Q

THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES–400–In 1968 this former Governor won 13.5% of the vote & carried 5 states

A

George Wallace

227
Q

THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES–600–This man’s third party candidacy in 1912 allowed Woodrow Wilson to win

A

Teddy Roosevelt

228
Q

THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES–800–He followed Jackson into the Presidency in 1836 & 12 years later ran as a third party candidate

A

Van Buren

229
Q

THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES–1000–In 1924 this Wisconsin senator ran on the Progressive Party ticket & on the Socialist Party ticket

A

‘Fightin’’ Bob La Follette

230
Q

VICE PRESIDENTS–0–At 39 he was the youngest man to take the office of vice president

A

Richard Nixon (in 1953)

231
Q

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT–200–He died on Independence Day in 1826 at his beloved Monticello

A

Thomas Jefferson

232
Q

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT–400–He died on Independence Day in 1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts

A

John Adams

233
Q

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT–600–Pneumonia claimed this president’s life on April 4, 1841

A

William Henry Harrison

234
Q

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

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (William) Taft

235
Q

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT–1000–He died in his sleep on February 3, 1924, 6 months after Warren Harding

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Woodrow) Wilson

236
Q

PRESIDENTS BY PARTY–200–Federalist Party1789-1797

A

George Washington

237
Q

PRESIDENTS BY PARTY–400–Democratic1913-1921

A

Woodrow Wilson

238
Q

PRESIDENTS BY PARTY–600–Whig1841-1841

A

William Henry Harrison

239
Q

PRESIDENTS BY PARTY–800–Republican1901-1909

A

Teddy Roosevelt

240
Q

PRESIDENTS BY PARTY–1000–Democratic-Republican1817-1825

A

James Monroe

241
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–200–Fewer than 120,000 popular votes separated Richard Nixon from this man in 1960

A

John F. Kennedy

242
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–400–Clinton is the most recent William to hold the office; this man was the first

A

William Henry Harrison

243
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–600–He served as president during the 73rd-79th Congresses

A

F.D. Roosevelt

244
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGAN YEARS–200–“I like Ike”

A

1952

245
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGAN YEARS–400–“All the way with LBJ”

A

1964

246
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGAN YEARS–600–“We’re madly for Adlai”

A

1952 (or 1956)

247
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–800–In 1947 this future president testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee

A

Ronald Reagan

248
Q

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGAN YEARS–800–“In Hoover we trusted, now we are busted”

A

1932

249
Q

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–1200–These 3 men served as president between the terms of the only father & son presidents

A

Jefferson, Madison