- Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #1-24 in 2017-18.
- President #45 will be added for Junior/Senior.
- The theme for 2017-2018 in all divisions is First Ladies.
- In Junior/Senior, a second theme is Election Opponents. Also, Junior/Senior clues for #1-24 may involve U.S. Leaders Group 1: Clara Barton, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Lucretia Mott, Sitting Bull, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Tecumseh, and Sojourner Truth.
This month’s quiz theme: Presidential Elections
| 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 While serving as Secretary of State, I decide to seek the presidency. My candidacy was challenged by Treasury Secretary William Crawford, who had the support of numerous Southern and Western Congressmen. But Crawford decided to withdraw from the race and tell his supporters to vote for me. The Federalists nominated Rufus King as their candidate, but he received little support. I won every state except Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Delaware.
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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 Barack Obama was not the first president to have his eligibility for the office challenged. Because my father lived in Ireland and Canada before I was born and my parents moved around within the U.S. quite a bit after I was born, my opponents tried to convince the public that I could not legally be president. Despite rumors that I lived in Ireland until I was 14 or that I was born in Canada, I was actually born in the U.S.
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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 My wife and I attended the same college. She was a natural athlete, avid outdoorswoman, and an academic star who was fluent in several languages. I, on the other hand, was a farm boy who was orphaned at age nine.
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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 45. Donald Trump |
#35-45 A televised debate was so devastating for my presidential opponent that my mother Rose felt so sorry for his mother that she wondered if she should call her to offer condolences. My opponent resisted the help of the incumbent president until the last week of the campaign. But he couldn’t quite overcome my big lead.
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See this and all of the other AGLOA Presidents Quizzes here. |
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