- 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 “My country has … contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever … [man’s] imagination conceived.” I said that about the vice-presidency. I served on the Committee of Five with Benjamin Franklin.
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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 After attending Miami University, where I served as president of the Union Literary Society, I become a lawyer and served as city attorney in Indianapolis. My political career was interrupted by service in the Civil War.
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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 This statement of mine caught the nation’s attention. “I fired MacArthur because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president.” Although that action made me unpopular with the public, historians rate me high on the list of presidents.
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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 President Ford asked me to become the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). I didn’t want the job but felt it was my duty to accept. After leaving this position, I became chairperson of a bank in Houston and taught part-time at Rice University’s business school.
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See this and all of the other AGLOA Presidents Quizzes here. |