Presidents Quiz – April 2014

  • The theme for 2013-4 in all divisions is scandals.
  • In Junior/Senior, a second theme is vice-presidents. Also, Jr/Sr clues for #1-24 may involve U. S. Leaders Group 1: Tecumseh, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clara Barton, and Sitting Bull
  • Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #1-24 in 2013-14.

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With Nationals later this week, we touch as many bases possible in this quiz.

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
Match each item with one of the presidents in this range. Each president is matched once.

  1. Founded the Smithsonian Institute.
  2. The White House was burned.
  3. Declared war on Tripoli and the Barbary Pirates.
  4. “XYZ Affair” almost led to war.
  5. Missouri Compromise kept the free and slave states equal.
  6. Signed the Jay Treaty.
  7. Removed all Federal funds from the U.S. Bank.
  8. Governor of Northwest Territory
  9. Settled the Aroostook War.
  10. U.S. commander in the Mexican War
  11. Fathered 15 children.
  12. “Young Hickory”
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
Match each item with one of the presidents in this range. Each president is matched once.

  1. Professor of ancient languages
  2. Custer was killed at Little Big Horn.
  3. His wife was “Lemonade Lucy.”
  4. Tried to regain the presidency on the “Know Nothing Party” ticket.
  5. This machine politician turned reformer in the White House.
  6. John Brown raided Harper’s Ferry
  7. Discontent with the McKinley Tariff cost him reelection.
  8. Pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  9. Fired McClellan and Hooker.
  10. Sent troops to end the Pullman strike.
  11. Military governor of Tennessee before presidency
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
Match each item with one of the presidents in this range. Each president is matched once.

  1. Tried to “pack” the Supreme Court.
  2. Was President of Princeton University.
  3. Conducted a “front porch” campaign to be near his ailing wife.
  4. The Geneva Conference cut Vietnam in half.
  5. Sent the “white fleet” around the world.
  6. NATO began.
  7. Hitler became German Chancellor.
  8. Engaged in “dollar diplomacy.”
  9. First president to visit Alaska
  10. Lindbergh flew solo to Paris.
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
Match each item with one of the presidents in this range. Each president is matched once.

  1. Started “detente” with the Soviet Union.
  2. Created the Departments of Energy and Education.
  3. The Berlin Wall was built.
  4. Was christened W. J. Blythe IV.
  5. Served on the Warren Commission.
  6. Sent troops to Grenada and Lebanon.
  7. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated.
  8. Berlin Wall torn down.
  9. Third president to move directly from the Senate to the White House [Can you name the other two?]
  10. Part owner of a major league baseball team

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