Presidential Jeopardy 1 Flashcards
PRESIDENTS–0–2 of the 3 men who went from being either a U.S. senator or congressman directly to the presidency
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (2 of) Kennedy, Garfield, and Harding
PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–200–Abigail, John Q., Charles
John Adams
THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE–400–Bush-Cheney called Edwards Kerry’s second choice, meaning this Republican was his first
John McCain
PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–400–John, Calvin
Calvin Coolidge
THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE–800–George W. Bush won 91% of the vote in Massachusetts (unfortunately for him it was in this contest)
the Republican primary
PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–600–Lynda, Luci
LBJ
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
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Ralph) Nader
PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–800–Fanny, Manning, Birchard
Rutherford B. Hayes
THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE–1700–In a July 23 speech to this league, the President asked if the Democrats take black voters for granted
the National Urban League
PRESIDENTS BY KIDS–1000–Abraham, Martin, John
Martin Van Buren
THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE–2000–This Florida senator was the first Democratic candidate to drop out of the race
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Bob) Graham
VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–400–Mondale’s tables of worship
Walter’s altars
VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–800–Al’s portals
Gore’s doors
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–200–A button warned: this man “in 64 hot-water in 65”
Barry Goldwater
VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–1200–Aaron’s mongrel dogs
Burr’s curs
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–400–Champions of this governor running for president in 1928 included the New York Yankees
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Al) Smith
VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–1600–Dan’s humpbacks
Quayle’s whales
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–600–In 1921 Harding commuted the sentence of this candidate whose campaign used a bust of him in prison garb
Eugene Debs
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–800–He was called the poor man’s candidate in 1896; a campaign button quoted his “Cross of Gold” speech
William Jennings Bryan
VICE PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME–2000–Colfax’ accounting clerks
Schyuler’s filers
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS–1000–State where the concession speech seen here was made in 2004
Iowa
PRESIDENTS’ CHILDREN–200–Dad Bill was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford Univ.; she earned a master’s in international relations at Oxford in 2003
Chelsea Clinton
PRESIDENTS’ CHILDREN–300–They’re the only 2 sons of U.S. presidents to be elected president
George W. Bush and John Quincy Adams
PRESIDENTS’ CHILDREN–600–He had no kids of his own, but he loved his stepdaughter Patsy Custis as if she were his own daughter
George Washington
20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS–0–Aptly, his middle name contained the word “rich”
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–200–“That Damned Cowboy” was some “Rough Rider”
Theodore Roosevelt
VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–400–Get over “The Hump” & name this “Happy Warrior”
Hubert Humphrey
VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–600–This “White Night” was also “Nixon’s Nixon”
Spiro Agnew
VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–800–This “Spendthrift of Albany” had some “Rocky” times
Nelson Rockefeller
VICE PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–1000–In the early 1800s he was “The Napoleon of the West” & “The Great American Rascal”
Aaron Burr
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–200–Howard
Taft
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–400–Ulysses (originally)
Ulysses S. Grant
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–600–Gamaliel
Warren Harding
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–800–Knox
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (James K.) Polk
PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–2400–Rudolph
Gerald Ford
PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES–200–Next in line:J.B., A.L.,…
A.J.
PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES–400–After George Washington left office in 1797, we didn’t get another George in office until this year
1989
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
PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES–800–He’s the last person who had more than one person as vice president
Nixon
PRESIDENTIAL PUZZLES–1600–He was the first sitting president who could have sung “The Star Spangled Banner”
Madison
PRESIDENTS–200–General whose Presidential campaign song was written by Irving Berlin
Dwight Eisenhower
PRESIDENTS–400–All elected Presidents who are members of this party died in office
Whig
PRESIDENTS–600–This Iowan was the first President born west of the Mississippi
Herbert Hoover
PRESIDENTS–1200–The last President to sport a moustache or beard while in office
William Howard Taft
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
U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–2 of the 5 presidents buried west of the Mississippi River
Eisenhower, Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Truman
PRESIDENTS–0–This consonant begins the last names of five presidents, more than any other letter
H
PRESIDENTIAL STATES OF BIRTH–400–California
Nixon
PRESIDENTIAL STATES OF BIRTH–800–1 of the 2 born in Vermont
Coolidge (or Chester Arthur)
VICE PRESIDENTS–0–He was the first vice president to cast zero tiebreaking votes in his capacity as president of the Senate
John Tyler
PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–100–February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
Abraham Lincoln
PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–200–April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826
Thomas Jefferson
PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–300–October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826
John Adams
PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–400–May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972
Harry Truman
PRESIDENTIAL LIFESPANS–500–August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964
Herbert Hoover
U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–They’re the 2 men who served the U.S. as President representing the Union Party
Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson
U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–Of the 1st 7 presidents, only these 2 were not re-elected
John Adams & John Quincy Adams
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
U.S. PRESIDENTS–800–A George W. was the first U.S. President & George W. Bush is counted as this number
43
U.S. PRESIDENTS–1200–He was named for his maternal grandfather James Knox, a Revolutionary War captain
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (James K.) Polk
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
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
PRESIDENTS’ HOMES–0–The exterior of the governor’s mansion in Florida is modeled after the home of this president
Andrew Jackson
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS–100–Geronimo rode in this president’s 1905 inaugural parade, & so did the Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS–200–In Bush’s parade these California fruit characters rode on the Presidential Council on Fitness float
the California Raisins
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS–900–His parade featured many types of missiles & a PT boat
John F. Kennedy
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS–400–In 1913, this future president, then a West Point cadet, marched in Wilson’s parade
Dwight D. Eisenhower
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS–500–He was the only president inaugurated in two different cities
George Washington
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS–100–Peyton Randolph, the first president, brought the meetings to order in this city
Philadelphia
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
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
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS PRESIDENTS–1300–He was president from May 24, 1775 to October 29, 1777
John Hancock
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
19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS–0–With 5, this president had more attorneys general in his administration than any other president
Ulysses S. Grant
PRESIDENTS–0–Under an act passed in 1958, they became the first two former presidents eligible for a pension
Harry S. Truman & Herbert Hoover
PRESIDENTS–100–The only president who died in the eighteenth century
George Washington
PRESIDENTS–200–One of the two presidents’ widows who remarried
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis or Frances Folsom Cleveland Presto
PRESIDENTS–300–The first time this group played for an inauguration was at James Monroe’s in 1821
Marine Band
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
PRESIDENTS–500–While we all remember Amy, this is the name of one of Jimmy Carter’s other three kids
Jack, Chip, or Jeff
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS–0–He was the only incumbent vice president to defeat a president in a presidential election
Thomas Jefferson (1800)
U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–The two presidents whose fathers signed the Declaration of Independence
William Henry Harrison & John Quincy Adams
VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE–400–Taking kickbacks from Baltimore contractors helped oust him from office in the 1970s
INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Spiro) Agnew
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
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
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
VICE PRESIDENTIAL VICE–2000–Levi Morton was soiled by the Peruvian guano scandal before taking office in 1889 for this president
Benjamin Harrison
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–200–…Hawaii gained statehood
Eisenhower
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–400–…the Hindenburg Zeppelin crashed
F.D. Roosevelt
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–600–…the U.S. extended full diplomatic recognition to Vietnam
Clinton
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–800–…Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel
Nixon
THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHEN…–1000–…the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
Carter
PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS–200–His last words, spoken in Warm Springs, Georgia, were “I have a terrific headache”
FDR
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
PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS–600–“Thomas Jefferson survives”
John Adams
PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS–800–Though noted for his drinking, the last thing he said was “Water”
Ulysses S. Grant
PRESIDENTIAL LAST WORDS–1000–“I know that I’m going where Lucy is,” Lemonade Lucy that is
Rutherford B. Hayes
U.S. PRESIDENTS–200–During the Spanish-American War, his unit first saw action June 24, 1898 at Las Guasimas, Cuba
Theodore Roosevelt
U.S. PRESIDENTS–400–Referring to his initials, classmates at West Point began calling him Uncle Sam
Ulysses S. Grant
