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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president was the first to put solar panels on the White House

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Jimmy Carter

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Of the 20 presidents elected to a second term, 2 of the 3 who failed to complete that term

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(2 of) Lincoln, Nixon & McKinley

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart

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John F. Kennedy

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| During his tenure, he never threw out an opening day first pitch, but before he was president, he did it for the Braves

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Jimmy Carter

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year

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McKinley

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Excluding honorary degrees, he’s the only president to have degrees from both Harvard & Yale

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George W. Bush

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In his inaugural address, he mentioned that “44 Americans have now taken the Presidential Oath”

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Obama

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Upon the USA’s entry into World War I, he told Congress, “We desire no conquest, no dominion”

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(Woodrow) Wilson

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Only 5’6”, this 8th President was a mini-van

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Martin Van Buren

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This early 20th century president’s foreign policy style was known as “big stick diplomacy”

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Theodore Roosevelt

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On Dec. 6, 1973 he took the oath of office as Vice President; 8 months later he succeeded to the presidency

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(Gerald) Ford

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In an exciting event of his administration, he signed the Federal Reserve Act into law in 1913

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Wilson

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The 1999 New Jersey state quarter includes a depiction of this president on the reverse

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Washington

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His first term saw the turn of the 20th century & the annexation of Guam & Puerto Rico

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McKinley

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$5000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Former First Lady Barbara Bush is a distant cousin of this 1850s President

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Franklin Pierce

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| “A Country of Vast Designs” is a book subtitled him, “the Mexican War & the Conquest of the American Continent”

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James K. Polk

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only president sworn in on a Catholic missal; it wasn’t his

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Lyndon Baines Johnson

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only president since 1900 whose last name contains more vowels than consonants

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Barack Obama

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| You have to go back over a century to find him, the last president who never had a vice president

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Chester Arthur

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His presidential library’s website credits him with saving 77 lives as a lifeguard in Dixon, Illinois

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Ronald Reagan

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This inventive president invented a “mouldboard of least resistance” for a plow

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Jefferson

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.</a>) One of Ford’s biggest foreign crises was the capture of the U.S. ship <a>Mayaguez</a> by this Asian country in 1975

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Cambodia

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| JFK played golf with Bing Crosby during his 1961 Easter vacation at the Kennedy family’s home in this Florida town

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Palm Beach

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$3000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Warren Harding chose this future president as his Secretary of Commerce

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Hoover

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The first man to receive a million votes for president in one election, he didn’t get to enjoy the victory for long

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William Henry Harrison

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Only 50 years old when he left office, he was our nation’s youngest ex-president

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Teddy Roosevelt

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| When this president & his wife didn’t want to be understood by others, they spoke to each other in Chinese

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Herbert Hoover

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only U.S. president who never lived in the District of Columbia

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George Washington

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In his first term, this president held the first press conference that would be shown on TV–later that day

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Dwight Eisenhower

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus

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Ulysses S. Grant

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His second inaugural address began, “At this last presidential inauguration of the twentieth century…”

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Bill Clinton

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Subpoenaed for documents in Burr’s treason trial, he cited executive privilege; didn’t work

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Thomas Jefferson

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$3000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His will gave a total of $110,000 to grandchildren Alexander & Melanie Eisenhower & Christopher Cox

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(Richard) Nixon

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In November 1910 he was elected governor of New Jersey

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Wilson

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On June 28, 1919 he married Elizabeth Wallace

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Harry Truman

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only president to have held 2 different cabinet posts: Secretary of State & Secretary of War

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James Monroe

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

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(Woodrow) Wilson

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Somewhat prophetically, he became the first sitting president to visit Hawaii

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FDR

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

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(Herbert) Hoover

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

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Nashville

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

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Benjamin Harrison

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only U.S. president to serve in the Senate after leaving the White House

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Andrew Johnson

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 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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(Abraham) Lincoln

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| A George W. was the first U.S. President & George W. Bush is counted as this number

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was named for his maternal grandfather James Knox, a Revolutionary War captain

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(James K.) Polk

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$4600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His running mates were Thomas Hendricks in 1884, A.G. Thurman in 1888 & Adlai Stevenson in 1892

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(Grover) Cleveland

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| After serving one term, this first Quaker president was defeated for re-election in 1932 by FDR

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(Herbert) Hoover

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 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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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| With a book about the south, he became the first president–past or present–to publish a novel

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Jimmy Carter

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first U.S. president not of British descent

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Martin Van Buren

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first president to use a middle name

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John Quincy Adams

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Warren Harding was this political party’s victorious presidential candidate in 1920

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Republican

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This man was president when the Warsaw Pact was signed

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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$1500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| One of the 2 who were born in the 1920s

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Jimmy Carter or George H.W. Bush

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Upon his death in 1849, his last words were, “I love you Sarah, for all eternity, I love you”

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James K. Polk

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The stepfather of Patsy & Jacky, he was also known as the “Stepfather of His Country”

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George Washington

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 1 of the 3 U.S. Presidents to run on a third-party ticket after having already served as president

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(one of) Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren & Millard Fillmore

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| A Civil War general, he was the last man to go directly from the House of Representatives to the presidency

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James A. Garfield

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Among his nicknames were “King Andrew the First” & “The Hero of New Orleans”

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Andrew Jackson

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His first inaugural address, in 1801, was also the first delivered in Washington, D.C.

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Thomas Jefferson

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$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This man who served from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977, had the second shortest term of the 20th Century

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Gerald Ford

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Although his 1916 campaign slogan was “He kept us out of war”, the U.S. entered World War I the following year

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Woodrow Wilson

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In the 1950s the U.S. Golf Association installed a putting green for him near the Rose Garden

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Eisenhower

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1976 he was the first incumbent president to take part in a campaign debate with a rival candidate

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Gerald Ford

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1921 Harding appointed this man Secretary of Commerce; 8 years later he was the president

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Hoover

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$1500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| (<a>Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Waldorf Astoria.</a>) A circle of five stars marks the doorway of the suite that this U.S. president once lived in

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Eisenhower

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$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| At his second inauguration, Coolidge took the oath of office from this former president, a first

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William Howard Taft

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Before becoming president, <a>he</a> was a professor at Harvard

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John Quincy Adams

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only man elected vice president twice & elected president twice

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Richard Nixon

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Washington was the one who added these 4 words to the presidential oath; they’re not in the Constitution

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"So Help Me God"

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the only U.S. president to die in the 18th century

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George Washington

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$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This former general was the first Republican to serve 2 full terms as president

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Ulysses S. Grant

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This Mexican War hero & winning 1848 candidate had never voted for president before

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Zachary Taylor

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1950 he threatened a music critic who had unkind words for daughter Margaret’s singing

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Harry S. Truman

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His 1791 marriage to Rachel Robards was invalid, so they had to do it all over again on January 17, 1794

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Andrew Jackson

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 2 of 3 presidents who took their oaths of office in New York state

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Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt and/or George Washington

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In the 1830s he was postmaster of New Salem, Illinois & supplemented his income by railsplitting & surveying

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Abraham Lincoln

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1961 this president appointed his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver as director of the Peace Corps

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John F. Kennedy

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president is seen here in his 1947 class portrait at the U.S. Naval Academy

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Jimmy Carter

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Almost defeating President Ford in the 1976 GOP primary, he won the nomination & the presidency 4 years later

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Ronald Reagan

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In January 1918 he set forth his “Fourteen Points” on which he thought lasting peace could be made

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Woodrow Wilson

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Some politicians made fun of this president’s fussiness by referring to him as “Granny Hayes”

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was born on a farm near the Pedernales River on August 27, 1908

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1905 he celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by marrying one of his distant cousins

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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$900 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| [Former president Jimmy Carter from the Carter Center in Atlanta] This man was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

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Thomas Jefferson

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| A member of the Warren Commission, he co-wrote “Portrait of the Assassin”, a book about Lee Harvey Oswald

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Gerald Ford

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was criticized for not invading Baghdad & removing Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War

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George H.W. Bush

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Communist forces invaded South Korea during his second term

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Harry S. Truman

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 7 months into his term in 1929, the stock market crashed

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Herbert Hoover

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The White House was burned by the British while he was president

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James Madison

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$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He sent U.S. soldiers into Little Rock, Ark. to enforce a court order mandating school desegregation

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The 2 U.S. presidents who served as governors of states west of the Mississippi River

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Ronald Reagan (California) & Bill Clinton (Arkansas)

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Bill Clinton’s middle name, it’s also the last name of another president

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Jefferson

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1927 this future president created the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation to help polio victims

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Talk about a checkered past! In 1952 he gave his famous “Checkers” speech

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Richard Nixon

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Stephen was the real first name of this president who served 2 non-consecutive terms

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Grover Cleveland

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He lived to see his son become president as well, but died during his son’s term in office

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John Adams

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$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| For his work in founding the League of Nations, he received the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize

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Woodrow Wilson

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$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the hero seen here with his famous regiment before taking charge of the White House

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Teddy Roosevelt

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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president’s grandfather, James Knox, was a captain in the American Revolution

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James Knox Polk

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$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His tenure as president from 1817 to 1825 is often referred to as the “Era of Good Feeling”

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James Monroe

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$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The 2 U.S. presidents who died at the youngest ages, 82 years apart

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James A. Garfield & John F. Kennedy

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$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1997 a Houston airport was renamed in honor of this recent president

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George H.W. Bush

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$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Nearly 91 when he died the same day as Thomas Jefferson, he was the longest-lived president

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John Adams

105
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$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| It was the last name of the 17th & 36th presidents

A

Johnson (Andrew & Lyndon)

106
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| For helping to end the Russo-Japanese War, he was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize

A

Theodore Roosevelt

107
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In the campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”, he’s Tippecanoe

A

William Henry Harrison

108
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1985 he said that freedom was “The universal right of all God’s children”

A

Ronald Reagan

109
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His grandfather Kindred was the first of his family to settle in Georgia

A

Jimmy Carter

110
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1965 he became the first sitting president to meet a pope in the U.S. when he met Paul VI

A

Lyndon Johnson

111
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On July 9, 1850 this president died in office; Millard Fillmore was sworn in the following day

A

Zachary Taylor

112
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Teddy Roosevelt quipped that this successor “meant well but meant well feebly”

A

William Howard Taft

113
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In a letter to Horace Greeley he wrote, “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union”

A

Abraham Lincoln

114
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1890, at age 6, he and his family moved to Independence, MO., his home for most of the rest of his life

A

Harry S. Truman

115
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| From 1890 to 1902, he served as professor of jurisprudence & political economy at Princeton

A

Woodrow Wilson

116
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| At 8,445 words, his inaugural address was the longest – that’s a little more than 263 words per day in office

A

William Henry Harrison

117
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1861 he was appointed a colonel in the 21st Illinois Volunteers

A

Ulysses S. Grant

118
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the last man elected president who had served as a U.S. Senator

A

Richard M. Nixon

119
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His eldest son, also named Theodore, was governor of Puerto Rico from 1929 to 1932

A

Theodore Roosevelt

120
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The Louisiana Purchase, made during his term, doubled the size of the U.S.

A

Thomas Jefferson

121
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first California native to become vice president & the first to become president

A

Richard Nixon

122
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Taking office in 1869, he was the first West Point graduate to become president

A

Ulysses S. Grant

123
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| After leaving office in 1837, he retired to the Hermitage, his Tennessee plantation

A

Andrew Jackson

124
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second

A

Ulysses S. Grant

125
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 2 of the 5 presidents buried west of the Mississippi River

A

Eisenhower, Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Truman

126
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Although he graduated 64th out of 112 in his 1935 high school class, he was voted “Most Likely To Succeed”

A

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

127
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s on the front of the penny & his memorial is on the back

A

Abraham Lincoln

128
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was married to an Academy Award winner

A

Ronald Reagan

129
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Among his nicknames were “Gloomy Gus” & “Tricky Dick”

A

Richard Nixon

130
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He won the popular vote in 1960 by just 113,057 votes

A

John F. Kennedy

131
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On Jan. 20, 1993 he became a former president

A

George H.W. Bush

132
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| Monticello, in Virginia

A

Thomas Jefferson

133
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| A rose garden in Hyde Park, New York

A

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

134
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| Riverside Park, New York City

A

Ulysses S. Grant

135
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, New York

A

Martin Van Buren

136
Q

$3000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| The corner of Delaware Avenue & Vernon Heights Blvd. in Marion, Ohio

A

Warren G. Harding

137
Q

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

A

Theodore Roosevelt

138
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Referring to his initials, classmates at West Point began calling him Uncle Sam

A

Ulysses S. Grant

139
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first president to serve 2 terms in office

A

George Washington

140
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1832 this president vetoed the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States

A

Andrew Jackson

141
Q

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

A

Franklin Pierce

142
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On his mother’s side, he was a descendant of Scottish Protestant reformer John Knox

A

James Knox Polk

143
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1749 he was appointed surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia

A

George Washington

144
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On June 16, 1858 he said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”

A

Abraham Lincoln

145
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| While he was vacationing at his father’s Vermont home, word reached him that Harding had died

A

Calvin Coolidge

146
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| While governor of New Jersey, he enacted the state’s first workmen’s compensation law

A

Woodrow Wilson

147
Q

$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The last Whig elected president, he was James Madison’s distant cousin

A

Zachary Taylor

148
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The Roosevelt dime made its debut the year this president was born

A

Bill Clinton (born in 1946)

149
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1774 this Virginian wrote the pamphlet “A Summary View of the Rights of British America”

A

Thomas Jefferson

150
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1943 this PT-109 skipper helped save the lives of his crew & won a Purple Heart

A

John F. Kennedy

151
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This future president graduated from Abilene High School in 1909

A

Dwight D. Eisenhower

152
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| While at Princeton, he was a member of the American Whig Society debating club

A

Woodrow Wilson

153
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1820 this president ran unopposed for reelection

A

James Monroe

154
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was a U.S. senator when he married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953

A

John F. Kennedy

155
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On June 15, 1775 he was unanimously elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army

A

George Washington

156
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| A revolving book stand he adapted may be seen at his home, Monticello

A

Thomas Jefferson

157
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1859, before he was president, he wrote, “He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave”

A

Abraham Lincoln

158
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The teddy bear was named in his honor

A

Teddy Roosevelt

159
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| As head of the Union Army, this future president accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox

A

Ulysses S. Grant

160
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Living to the age of 90, this president was able to see his son become president as well

A

John Adams

161
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was president during WWI

A

Woodrow Wilson

162
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His library in Independence, Missouri opened to the public in 1957

A

Harry S. Truman

163
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His half-brother Lawrence served in the British navy under Admiral Edward Vernon

A

George Washington

164
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 2 of the 5 presidents in the 20th century who were former U.S. senators

A

(2 of) Warren Harding, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson & Richard Nixon

165
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The first & last to preside over exactly 48 states

A

William Howard Taft & Dwight Eisenhower

166
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| As a senator, he shared lodgings with future vice president William Rufus Devane King

A

James Buchanan

167
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The last names of 8 different presidents end with this 3-letter combination

A

Son (Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, W.H. Harrison, A. Johnson, B. Harrison, Wilson & L. Johnson)

168
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 2 of the 5 U.S. presidents who played football for their college teams

A

Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford & Reagan

169
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The 2 men whose presidencies each began & ended during one calendar year

A

William Henry Harrison (1841) & James Garfield (1881)

170
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He reduced U.S. troop strength in Vietnam from about 540,000 in 1969 to 25,000 in 1972

A

Nixon

171
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On March 4, 1801 he slipped out of town early to avoid Jefferson’s inaugural

A

(John) Adams

172
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| During this bachelor’s administration, his niece Harriet Lane served as White House hostess

A

(James) Buchanan

173
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In the Federalist No. 51, he put forth a case for the separation of powers & a system of checks & balances

A

James Madison

174
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| From 1895 to 1897 he served as president of the New York City police board

A

Teddy Roosevelt

175
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president’s middle initial, “S”, honored both of his grandfathers

A

Harry S. Truman

176
Q

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

A

Martin Van Buren

177
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was nicknamed “The Sage of Montpelier”

A

James Madison

178
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Not only the first president to marry in the White House, he was also the first to have a child born there

A

Grover Cleveland

179
Q

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

A

Franklin Pierce

180
Q

$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He passed away at Monticello July 4, 1826

A

Jefferson

181
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| After leaving office, this generally “silent” president wrote a syndicated news column

A

Coolidge

182
Q

$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He beat Charles Evans Hughes by only 23 electoral votes to win reelection in 1916

A

Wilson

183
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first president to preside over all 50 states

A

Eisenhower

184
Q

$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On graduating from West Point in 1843, he hoped to become a math teacher

A

Grant

185
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The two presidents whose fathers signed the Declaration of Independence

A

William Henry Harrison & John Quincy Adams

186
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 1 of 3 U.S. presidents in the 20th c. who never had a house of Congress controlled by his party

A

(1 of) Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford & George Bush

187
Q

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

A

George Washington

188
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president was named for the Reverend Stephen Grover of Caldwell, New Jersey

A

Grover Cleveland

189
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| During his administration, the slave trade was abolished & the Louisiana Territory was purchased

A

Thomas Jefferson

190
Q

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

A

Lyndon Johnson

191
Q

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

A

Woodrow Wilson

192
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In his will, he left a plot of land in Grandview, Missouri to his Masonic lodge

A

Harry S. Truman

193
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1902 he became the first layman chosen as president of Princeton

A

Woodrow Wilson

194
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Among the scandals of his administration were the Credit Mobilier & the Whiskey Ring

A

Ulysses S. Grant

195
Q

$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president’s nephew & the editor of the Washington Globe were part of his “Kitchen Cabinet”

A

Andrew Jackson

196
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1897 he was hired as a mining engineer at Coolgardie, Australia

A

Herbert Hoover

197
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The first two presidents not born in Virginia were born in what is now this state

A

Massachusetts

198
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The first two consecutive presidents who were from the same state

A

Thomas Jefferson & James Madison (both from Virginia)

199
Q

$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On August 4, 1753 Lodge No. 4 in Fredericksburg, Virginia initiated him into the Masons

A

George Washington

200
Q

$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1888 this future president wrote the book “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail”

A

Teddy Roosevelt

201
Q

$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| While attending college, this president served as an editor of the “Princetonian”

A

Woodrow Wilson

202
Q

$1100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Both the U.N. Charter & the NATO Pact were signed by this president

A

Harry S. Truman

203
Q

$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 1,200 quarts of ice cream & a cake 4 feet high were served at his March 4, 1857 inaugural

A

James Buchanan

204
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president was the last surviving signer of the U.S. Constitution

A

James Madison

205
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Of the 1st 7 presidents, only these 2 were not re-elected

A

John Adams & John Quincy Adams

206
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The number of U.S. Presidents in the 20th century to serve out at least 2 full terms

A

3

207
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| President elected to 2nd term with 523 electoral votes, the greatest number in any election

A

Franklin D. Roosevelt

208
Q

$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Adventurous 26th president, he was 1st to ride in an automobile & an airplane

A

Theodore Roosevelt

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