Presidents Quiz – March 2016

  • 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

Like my father, I had a sober personality. My good education and talent for learning languages contributed to my great success as a diplomat. You can see a microscope that belonged to me if you visit the Smithsonian Institution.

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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

In my first campaign for president, my supporters emphasized my humble origins. They presented me as a good man who had worked his way to the top through honest labor. I was nicknamed “Prince of Rails” in reference to one of my early jobs as a rail-splitter.

 

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 had a passion for the great outdoors. I loved to go on hunting trips and safaris. My home on Long Island was full of hunting trophies. As president, I created four federal game reserves.

 

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

My dream was to make America a “Great Society,” free of racial hatred and poverty. I was described by my opponents as ruthless and abrasive. Yet I succeeded in getting my program of social legislation through Congress, including the Civil Rights Act.

 

 

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