Presidents Day quiz
From JEOPARDY!:
PRESIDENTIAL MOMS
Rose Fitzgerald
Janet “Jessie” Woodrow
Dorothy Walker
Jane Knox
Hannah Simpson
PRESIDENTS’ MIDDLE NAMES
Hussein; Gamaliel; Abram; Earl; Alan
PRESIDENTS BY WON-LOST RECORD
The only one who went 4-0
2-0: He was twice too much for Adlai
2-1: 1-0 vs. James G. Blaine & a split with Benjamin Harrison
1-0, in a split decision over Samuel Tilden
One of the 2 who went 0-1
The most recent left-handed president.
The first president to be born in a hospital; it was in October 1924.
The first to hold an Internet chat with the public.
The first born outside the original colonies, in 1809.
ABC News ‘This Week’ Powerhouse Puzzler
Which four sitting Vice Presidents have been elected President?
ANSWERS BELOW
It’s a Scandal, It’s a Outrage
President Harding’s mistress wasn’t kidding, DNA tests show; see also this and this.
The Nan Britton affair was the sensation of its age, a product of the jazz-playing, gin-soaked Roaring Twenties and a pivotal moment in the evolution of the modern White House. It was not the first time a president was accused of an extracurricular love life, but never before had a self-proclaimed presidential mistress gone public with a popular tell-all book. The ensuing furor played out in newspapers, courtrooms and living rooms across the country.
At Princeton, Woodrow Wilson, a Heralded Alum, Is Recast as an Intolerant One. And Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time.
More fun
Original acrostics on all the states and presidents of the United States, and various other subjects (1868). Click on text to turn pages.
Behind the Lens: 2015 Year in Photographs By Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer.
Quinnipiac poll: Jimmy Carter Surpasses Reagan on Post-White House Work. In December, Carter Said Cancer in Brain Is Gone. The 2016 Presidential $1 Coin Release Schedule excludes the 39th President because he’s still alive.
I went through my draft posts and found this, which I may never have used:
For the premiere episode of Season 7 of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Jerry Seinfeld takes President Barack Obama for a spin in a 1963 Corvette Stingray Split Window Coupe but finds it hard to spirit the leader of the free world off the White House grounds.
The Atlantic magazine had a list of The 100 Most Influential Figures in American History, from 2006. One could argue about the content. Naturally, it’s filled with Presidents:
99: Richard Nixon
55: John Quincy Adams
50: James K. Polk
44: Lyndon B. Johnson
28: Dwight D. Eisenhower
21: Harry S. Truman
18: Andrew Jackson
17: Ronald Reagan
15: Theodore Roosevelt
13: James Madison
12: Ulysses S. Grant
10: Woodrow Wilson
04: Franklin D. Roosevelt
03: Thomas Jefferson
02: George Washington
01: Abraham Lincoln
Another “found” graphic:
Political playing cards, including 2012 Re-Elect Barack Obama Playing Cards.
Now I Know: The President’s Pants (LBJ) and grave robbing (Lincoln) and Triskaideka-Dinner Party.
Friends of the Jensen family of Washington, D.C., know they shouldn’t expect Christmas cards. “Instead, each year Marisa Jensen, her husband, Jeff, and their daughters, Matilda, 15, and Franny, 12, take part in a much more unusual tradition: Presidents Day cards.”
What IS the purpose of Presidential libraries?
Mister, we could use a man like Calvin Coolidge again.
Quora: Who was the first U.S. President?
Obituary: Aaron Shikler, 93; painted portraits of presidents.
Answers
PRESIDENTIAL MOMS
John Kennedy; Woodrow Wilson; George H.W. Bush; James Polk; Ulysses Grant
PRESIDENTS’ MIDDLE NAMES
Barack Obama; Warren Harding; James Garfield; Jimmy Carter; Chester Arthur
PRESIDENTS BY WON-LOST RECORD
Franklin D. Roosevelt; Dwight Eisenhower; Grover Cleveland; Rutherford B. Hayes; Millard Filmore or Gerald Ford
PRESIDENTS 101
Obama; Carter; Clinton; Lincoln
PUZZLER:
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, George H.W. Bush
I wonder if they’ve ever tried to track down the descendants of Grover Cleveland’s (alleged) love child (if any) and do genetic testing. (I remember learning about the whole “Ma, Ma, Where’s my Pa?” thing in high school History and finding it surprising – though I guess I should have not – that men “back then” (and potential Presidents) were prey to the same foibles as other men)
Though Cleveland was a bachelor at the time the alleged liaison happened, which may be slightly different from a “mistress” situation.
I love Presidential trivia! Great post. As always, my favorite trivia item remains the fact that John Tyler, born in 1790, has LIVING GRANDCHILDREN. That blows my mind a little more every year.
Playing cards? I can only think of one deck: That loser deck created by GWB’s administration, with terrorists on each card. Awful!
Barack Obama is my favorite southpaw, by the way.
You are the king of Jeopardy. Forget about Ken Jennings! Amy
The American presidency isn’t my strong suit, but there was an interesting question on one of our quiz shows this week: How many presidents have there been with the first name George?
Like the contestants, I could think of three straight away, and assumed there must be more, so guessed at four or five. They got it wrong too.
No, I know of only the 3, the Bushes, and that early one. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-common-first-names-of-U-S-Presidents