Presidents Quiz – September 2015

  • The theme for 2015-16 in all divisions is Presidential Quotes.
  • In Junior/Senior, a second theme is Occupations and Posts. Also, Jr/Sr clues for #1-24 may involve U.S. Leaders Group 3: Henry Clay, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, John Marshall, Daniel Webster
  • Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #1-24 in 2015-16.
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James Polk
12. Zachary Taylor

#1-12

I am probably the most often-quoted president. Here are several quotes.

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
"Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day."
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

 

13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22./24. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison

#13-24

I was a small, sensitive, quiet boy. The simple local schools bored me, and other children mistook my quietness for stupidity. So they nicknamed me "Useless." But even from my youth I had an aptitude for horsemanship. My father gave me the responsibility of caring for the horses and other animals on our farm.

 

25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin Roosevelt
33. Harry Truman
34. Dwight Eisenhower

#25-34

I loved baseball and was a good second baseman and power hitter. I studied at Woodward High School, where I graduated second in my class with a four-year grade point average of 91.5 out of 100. At Yale University, I followed my father’s advice and stayed away from athletics so I could concentrate on my studies.

 

35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon B. Johnson
37. Richard Nixon
38. Gerald Ford
39. Jimmy Carter
40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H.W. Bush
42. Bill Clinton
43. George W. Bush
44. Barack Obama

#35-44

In an address to Congress, I said: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space."

 

 

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