For Presidents Day 2025, or whatever, a couple of articles and a lot of trivia.
Fresh Air– 14 interviews with Jimmy Carter
CBS News interviewed Nathan Raab, president of The Raab Collection and author of The Hunt for History, to get expert analysis on the rarity and value of presidential autographs. “You’re touching a piece of history, and it’s the only way we have to directly connect with someone who we may admire. It’s something that we know they touched because they signed it,” Nathan said.
Now I Know: When New York Tried to Take Away a W
Review of The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity from 2013
JEOPARDY! clues
These are from October 2024 and later. The answers are at the end. I got them all except the last one.
THE PRESIDENT’S SIBLING: Neil Bush; Prescott Bush; Sam Houston Johnson; Elliott Roosevelt
FOIA & FIND OUT: A photo of President Obama laughing at the meme “Sorry it took so long to get you a copy of” this document–“I was too busy killing Osama”
THE CONCH REPUBLIC: Key West’s Little White House was a winter residence of this president, whose middle name was simply the letter “S”
LINCOLN: THE BIO: At 6’4″, Lincoln still ranks as the tallest POTUS; this president, who took the oath in 1963, comes in second
NAME THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: A 1921 newspaper article says, this “Former president… realized his life’s ambition to head the Judicial Branch.”
PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY: First elected president in 1896, he was on the $500 bill from 1928 to 1945
JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD: In 1881, James had a dream that this VP of his drowned & James couldn’t save him; months later, it was James dead & this man, President
3-LETTER RESPONSES: Allen Dulles & President Eisenhower laid the cornerstone for its original headquarters building in 1959
QUOTH THE PRESIDENT $400: Grover Cleveland, at an 1886 dedication: “Light shall pierce the darkness… until” this “enlightens the world.”
QUOTH THE PRESIDENT $800: His 1920 telegram accepting a Nobel Prize said, “The cause of peace & the cause of truth are of one family.”
QUOTH THE PRESIDENT $1200: At his second inaugural on March 4th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln eloquently called for malice toward none & this for all
QUOTH THE PRESIDENT $1600: He wrote, “A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.”
QUOTH THE PRESIDENT $2000: Truman, on criticism from this general: “When an egotist is punctured, a lot of noise and whistling always accompanies the escaping air”
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT $400: Ulysses S. Grant
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT $800: George Washington
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT $1200: JFK
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT $1600: Harry Truman
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT $2000: Theodore Roosevelt
More quiz questions
The only First Lady on U.S. currency
Which President enjoyed skinny-dipping in the Potomac River?
Which former US president was an accomplished wrestler?
Which president received a black belt in judo?
Who was the first president to travel by plane?
This president’s whole family had the same initials.
Which President was born in Nebraska?
Which President had twin children?
Which president loved squirrel soup? 6 Foods Loved by U.S. Presidents
7 Terms Coined or Popularized by U.S. Presidents
JEOPARDY! answers
THE PRESIDENT’S SIBLING: George W. Bush ; George H.W. Bush; Lyndon Johnson; Teddy Roosevelt
FOIA & FIND OUT: His birth certificate
THE CONCH REPUBLIC: Harry Truman
LINCOLN: THE BIO: Lyndon Johnson
NAME THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: William Howard Taft
PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY: William McKinley
JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD: Chester A. Arthur
3-LETTER RESPONSES: CIA
QUOTH THE PRESIDENT: liberty; Wilson; charity; Teddy Roosevelt; Douglas MacArthur
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT:
Ulysses S. Grant – Victoria
George Washington – George III
JFK – Elizabeth II
Harry Truman – George VI
Theodore Roosevelt – Edward VII