Presidents 1-12

Question 1

Rumor First Lady smoked pipe

Answer 1

Taylor

Question 2

Defeated Henry Clay for party nomination, his fifth defeat

Answer 2

Taylor

Question 3

Home Department created, later became Department of Interior

Answer 3

Taylor

Question 4

Never lost a battle

Answer 4

Taylor

Question 5

First of 9 children

Answer 5

Madison

Question 6

First President to never make change in cabinet

Answer 6

William Henry Harrison

Question 7

54 40 or Fight

Answer 7

Polk

Question 8

Slaveholder and opposed policies of John Quincy Adams

Answer 8

Polk

Question 9

Joined military at age 13 and captured by British

Answer 9

Jackson

Question 10

Received 84 of 261 electoral votes but elected by House of Representatives

Answer 10

John Quincy Adams

Question 11

First governor of Florida territory

Answer 11

Jackson

Question 12

Last words were Independence Forever

Answer 12

Adams

Question 13

My wife’s granddaughter married Robert E. Lee

Answer 13

Washington

Question 14

Erie canal opened

Answer 14

John Quincy Adams

Question 15

Called election as president, an event he long dreaded

Answer 15

Washington

Question 16

I called freedom of the press the most important of all freedoms

Answer 16

Jefferson

Question 17

Vice president, John C Calhoun resigned

Answer 17

Jackson

Question 18

Benjamin Bache of a Philadelphia Newspaper called me old, crippled and toothless

Answer 18

Adams

Question 19

My son John became an anti-slavery democrat who denounced the annexation of Texas

Answer 19

Van Buren

Question 20

US Naval Academy established

Answer 20

Tyler

Question 21

Invented the “Wheel Cipher” method of coding and decoding

Answer 21

Jefferson

Question 22

Father of American Cryptography

Answer 22

Jefferson

Question 23

Yale Harvard, and Princeton bestowed honorary degrees on me

Answer 23

Jefferson

Question 24

I liked to be called colonel

Answer 24

Polk

Question 25

Second Seminole War Began

Answer 25

Jackson

Question 26

Graduated college at 17 and began studying law

Answer 26

Tyler

Question 27

Rhode Island and Vermont joined the Union

Answer 27

Washington

Question 28

Benjamin Franklin Died

Answer 28

Washington

Question 29

West Point was established

Answer 29

Jefferson

Question 30

Known as a Renaissance Man

Answer 30

Jefferson

Question 31

First candidate to campaign on a train

Answer 31

William Henry Harrison

Question 32

Keep the ball rolling”

Answer 32

William Henry Harrison

Question 33

I was sometimes referred to as “The First People’s President”

Answer 33

Jackson

Question 34

Kentucky entered the Union

Answer 34

Washington

Question 35

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 35

Washington

Question 36

Congress voted to construct first U.S. mint

Answer 36

Washington

Question 37

Went with brother Laurence to Barbados as he sought relief from Tuberculosis

Answer 37

Washington

Question 38

Some Whigs called me “Sweet Sandy Whiskers”

Answer 38

Van Buren

Question 39

Negotiated Treaty with Columbia guaranteeing Americas Right of transit

Answer 39

Polk

Question 40

Called my wife Patty

Answer 40

Jefferson

Question 41

American Republican party formed

Answer 41

Tyler

Question 42

Signed the first U.S. copyright act

Answer 42

Washington

Question 43

James Madison wrote my first inaugural address

Answer 43

Washington

Question 44

The nations of Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Guatemala were formed

Answer 44

Monroe

Question 45

First 5 Phi Beta Kappa President

Answer 45

John Quincy Adams

Question 46

Only Published poet president

Answer 46

John Quincy Adams

Question 47

Kept the 110 “Rules of Civility” with me until my death

Answer 47

Washington

Question 48

My wife’s popularity helped me get reelected

Answer 48

Madison

Question 49

Founder of Mormon Religion, John Smith, murdered by mob

Answer 49

Tyler

Question 50

Entire cabinet resigned except for secretary of state, Daniel Webster

Answer 50

Tyler

Question 51

Congress repealed excise tax which caused the Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 51

Jefferson