- The theme for 2016-17 in all divisions is Presidential Firsts.
- In Junior/Senior, a second theme is Foreign Affairs. Also, Jr/Sr clues for #25-44 may involve U.S. Leaders Group 2: Susan B. Anthony, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. Du Bois, Huey Long, Gloria Steinem
- Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #25-44 in 2016-17.
| 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 was wounded at the Battle of Trenton. During my time in the army, I became acquainted with Thomas Jefferson and began studying law with him. Over a decade later, I bought a farm named Highland that was located next to Monticello.
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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 I was born in a log cabin. My father worked as a bank janitor and hotel porter at a tavern. He died when I was four years old. With my family thrown into poverty, my brother and I were apprenticed to a local tailor. But we both ran away to a neighboring state where I grew up and eventually entered politics.
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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 While I was president, The Lusitania set a new speed record, crossing the Atlanta from Liverpool to New York at an average speed of 25.85 knots. Also, Norwegian Roald Amundsen led an expedition that became the first to reach the South Pole.
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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 I played college football for a team nicknamed “The Poets.” I didn’t write poetry during my life, but I did author over ten books including Six Crises, Real Peace, No More Vietnams, and my memoirs.
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