- 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.
This quiz’s theme: Scandals
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| 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: General James Wilkinson conspired with Spain to get Kentucky to secede from the Union. Another person involved in the plan was my first vice president, Aaron Burr. |
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#13-24: Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts unconscious with his cane on the Senate floor. Brooks was defending the honor of his cousin, aged Senator Andrew Butler, whom Sumner, an ardent abolitionist had denounced for voting for the Kansas-Nebraska Act two years earlier. |
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. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison 24. Grover Cleveland |
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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: The opposite party’s nominee for vice president delivered his “Checkers Speech” on TV. He denied charges that he received questionable campaign contributions and said the only gift he received was his dog Checkers. The speech worked – he stayed on the ticket and became vice president and, later, president. |
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#35-44: Members of my administration came up with a plan to sell missiles to Iran for the return of hostages, then use some of the money to fund Contra rebels in Nicaragua. The scandal became known as the “Iran-Contra Affair.” |
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 |
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See this and all of the other AGLOA Presidents Quizzes here. |
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Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #1-24 in 2013-14.