USA (General)

Question 1

The 2 U.S. presidents who died at the youngest ages, 82 years apart

Answer 1

James A. Garfield, John F. Kennedy

Question 2

Who’s the only president depicted on U.S. currency specifically because of his personal association with that denomination?

Answer 2

Franklin Roosevelt FDR replaced “Winged Liberty” on the dime in 1946, because he had founded the March of Dimes during his presidency to fight polio.

Question 3

He was the first governor of New Jersey to go on to be president.

Answer 3

Woodrow Wilson

Question 4

This president is the only one to be interred in Washington, DC. His sarcophagus is located at the National Cathedral.

Answer 4

Woodrow Wilson

Question 5

The United States’s scientific research station located at the South Pole is named formally after what two men, a Norwegian and a Briton respectively?

Answer 5

Roald Amundsen, Robert F. Scott

Question 6

Four Presidents of the United States have been assassinated. Three of the assassins were dead within forty-five days of their victims’ deaths. Name the remaining assassin, who died over nine months after his victim (and thus nearly a year after the shooting itself).

Answer 6

Charles Guiteau (James A. Garfield)

Question 7

What name is missing from this otherwise complete list? Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour.

Answer 7

Atlantis

Question 8

The US once issued bank notes of $500, $1000, $5000, $10000 and $100000. Whose faces graced each of these bills, respectively.

Answer 8

1. William McKinley 2. Grover Cleveland 3. James Madison 4. Salmon Chase 5. Woodrow Wilson

Question 9

First proposed in August 1776 by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, what motto on the seal of the United States was not officially adopted until 1782, and first appeared in an official capacity on a New Jersey coin in 1786? The phrase was a de facto motto of the U.S. until a 1956 act of Congress made “In God We Trust” the country’s official motto.

Answer 9

E Pluribus Unum

Question 10

LBJ follows Lyndon Johnson’s journey from Democratic Senate Majority Leader to Vice President, to, on November 22, 1963, the 36th President of the United States. From 1789 through 1963 (Washington to Johnson), how many former Vice Presidents had gone on to become President - either through succession or election?

Answer 10

11 Adams (Washington) Jefferson (Adams) Van Buren (Jackson) Tyler (Harrison) Fillmore (Taylor) Johnson (Lincoln) Arthur (Garfield) Roosevelt (McKinley) Coolidge (Harding) Truman (Roosevelt) Johnson (Kennedy)

Question 11

He took the oath of office twice 14 months apart.

Answer 11

Lyndon Johnson

Question 12

Of the Presidents who served more than four years, but less than two full terms, he served the longest: 7 yrs, 9 months, 8 days.

Answer 12

Harry Truman

Question 13

As a result of his first major act in office, who became the only sitting U.S. president to testify before a congressional hearing?

Answer 13

Gerald Ford (for pardoning Richard Nixon)

Question 14

In her memoirs Queen Liliuokalani tells us that before Hawaii had its own national anthem, it used this one.

Answer 14

God Save The Queen

Question 15

Prior to 2016 it was the last election year in which the winning candidate had never held public elected office.

Answer 15

1952 (Eisenhower)

Question 16

What war was referred to contemporaneously by New Englanders, disparagingly, as “Mr. Madison’s War”?

Answer 16

War of 1812

Question 17

This Ohioan found the Senate “far more to my liking than” being President could be; scandal and death in office followed.

Answer 17

Warren G. Harding

Question 18

Name both U.S. Presidents whose tombs (along with their wives’ tombs) can be seen in this photo taken in a Massachusetts church.

Answer 18

John Adams, John Quincy Adams

Question 19

Name either of the two U.S. Presidents who are buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. One man was nearly killed at the Battle of Trenton, while the other died at a time when his planned final resting place at his Sherwood Forest Plantation was being occupied by a Union Army during the American Civil War.

Answer 19

James Monroe, John Tyler

Question 20

This is a redacted photo of the final resting place of what U.S. President who is not entombed next to a wife?

Answer 20

James Buchanan

Question 21

In what Long Island municipality can you find Theodore Roosevelt’s grave? After your visit, you might eat seafood at a local restaurant.

Answer 21

Oyster Bay

Question 22

Name either of the two U.S. Presidents who were buried on land that was formerly the estate of Mary Custis Lee, the wife of Robert E. Lee.

Answer 22

William Howard Taft, John F. Kennedy

(Arlington National Cemetery)

Question 23

You can find a plaque listing these accomplishments near the tomb of what U.S. President?

Answer 23

Warren G. Harding

Question 24

In what U.S. state can you visit the grave of Herbert Hoover and his wife? After a gravesite visit on a Saturday in the fall, you may then decide to drive 12 miles west to attend a Big Ten football game.

Answer 24

Iowa

Question 25

Name either the California city or county where you can visit Nixon’s final resting place?

Answer 25

Yorba Linda, Orange County

Question 26

What U.S. President’s final resting place is shown in this redacted photo?

Answer 26

Ronald Reagan

Question 27

It’s the only state to have had 4 female governors, 3 of whom served consecutively between 1997 & 2015.

(Card created July 22nd, 2019)

Answer 27

Arizona

Question 28

Which U.S. President had the Secret Service code name “Rawhide”?

Answer 28

Ronald Reagan

Question 29

What two U.S. presidents were born in New York City?

Answer 29

Donald Trump was born at a hospital in Queens. Theodore Roosevelt was born at home in the Flatiron District. I’ll leave it to actual New Yorkers to determine which of those birthplaces is “more New York.”

Question 30

While the State of the Union is now a prime time television event, the State of the Union is not required to be a speech. While Washington and Adams gave speeches, Thomas Jefferson delivered a written address, as did every president annually until which President broke this tradition and delivered a speech in the House chamber?

Answer 30

Woodrow Wilson

Question 31

Seventeen Presidents served as Representatives prior to their election as President. Who is the only President to serve as a President prior to his election to the House of Representatives?

Answer 31

John Quincy Adams

Question 32

The Contemporary Pueblo people of the Southwestern United States trace their lineage to this Native American tribe, whom the Navajo called “the Ancient Ones”. Identify this ancient tribe, also known as Ancestral Puebloans, that originated the idea of cliff dwellings, a practice that was passed onto the Pueblo people.

Answer 32

Anasazi

Question 33

Charlie Baker (as of July 2020) is the current holder of what specific position, which was first held by John Hancock in 1780, and has been held by such men as Samuel Adams, Calvin Coolidge, and Michael Dukakis?

Answer 33

Governor of Massachusetts

Question 34

Greg Abbott of Texas is the third U.S. governor to permanently use a wheelchair, following what two 20th-century governors?

Answer 34

The other two will probably always be more famous than Abbott, but for wildly different reasons: Franklin D. Roosevelt and George Wallace.

Question 35

Banking, stock market, and/or economic crises of 1857, 1873, 1893, and 1907 all have common names which include their years and what anxious economic term?

Answer 35

Panic

Question 36

The first US president to travel outside of the United States on official business during his term in office did so for the purpose of inspecting a major construction project. Identify the president and the project.

Answer 36

Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal

Question 37

Which U.S. state went almost 230 years between statehood and the inauguration of someone from that state as president?

Answer 37

Delaware was the first state, and the last to have a resident (though not a native) elected President of the United States.

Question 38

He won an election in which both he and his Democratic opponent were from Ohio, and both were wealthy newspaper publishers.

Answer 38

Warren G. Harding

Question 39

The indigenous peoples of North America known as the Tlingit developed as a society and culture primarily in territory that is now a part of what US state?

Answer 39

Alaska

Question 40

While Haudenosaunee is the name by which the nations of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca referred to their 17th- and 18th-century confederation (which later included the Tuscarora), the French and English used what other word when naming this league?

Answer 40

Iroquois