Some Presidential trivia:
From Summer Bowl 9 (Chuck Miller)
Donald Trump has 24, Ronald Reagan has 10, and John Tyler has the most at 30. The most what?
Who was the last U.S. President who did not nominate a judge for the U.S. Supreme Court?
JEOPARDY! game #7807 aired 2018-07-17
CITING THE PRESIDENT $400: In the 1970s: “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
CITING THE PRESIDENT $800: In the 1970s: “Our long national nightmare is over”
CITING THE PRESIDENT $1200: “I do not expect the Union to be dissolved–I do not expect the house to fall–but I do expect it will cease to be divided”
CITING THE PRESIDENT $2000: In an early 20th c. message to Congress: “We have stood apart, studiously neutral”
CITING THE PRESIDENT $2,000 (Daily Double): In the early 20th c.: “I took the canal zone, & let Congress debate, & while the debate goes on the canal does also”
JEOPARDY! game #7806 aired 2018-07-16
4, 4 (two words, each with four letters) $1000: In 1848 Martin Van Buren was the presidential candidate of this party that opposed slavery in western territories
JEOPARDY! game #7868 aired 2018-11-21
PRESIDENTIAL IRONY, Final Jeopardy! 1 of the 2 Presidents who offered Daniel Webster the VP slot; he declined both, thinking the job went nowhere.
Answers below.
Why Thomas Jefferson Owned a Qur’an
Why James Madison would say our real problem is not misinformation
“The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.” Rutherford B. Hayes
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s State of the Union Message to Congress, January 11, 1944, including the Second Bill of Rights:
“We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence… People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
“In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all — regardless of station, race, or creed.”
“I don’t give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it’s Hell.” – Harry S Truman, 1948
“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956
When the President and His Chef Feuded Over Cold Beans
Thursday, August 8, 1974: the night that Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency (three hours)
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter pass up riches to live modest, giving and truthful lives
When New York Tried to Take Away a W
What Obama secretly did at Sandy Hook Elementary School
Pastor: When White Folks Say Obama Was an ‘Embarrassment’, Here’s What You Say
One Last Time (44 Remix) – Christopher Jackson, Barack Obama, Bebe Winans #Hamildrop
Answers to quizzes:
Summer Bowl 9:
The number of the age difference between the President and his First Lady
Jimmy Carter
JEOPARDY!
Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Abe Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt
Free Soil
William Henry Harrison or Zachary Taylor
Photos from the Library of Congress. No known copyright restrictions.
I did really well on the JEOPARDY! questions—apart from the last two. I’m getting a bit rusty, I guess.