Presidential Trivia

[DWPerry]

Who is the only President since Taft to not throw a "ceremonial first pitch" to open at least one baseball season?

Woodrow Wilson?

nope

According to Wiki, Jimmy Carter, though he did at the World Series.

According to National Geographic: "Since Taft's first pitch, every President but one has opened at least one baseball season during their tenure. The exception: Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)"

[DWPerry]

ok, who has the next question?

[DWPerry]

What do Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge, and John Bell have in common?

All of them were at one time either a Whig or a Democrat
All of them were either a Congressmen or Secretary of War
All have a county named after them

[DWPerry]

Were all of them born in Kentucky?

no, one was born in VT

[DWPerry]

Ronald Reagan

No, he accepted.

Teddy Roosevelt?

[DWPerry]

No Tilden was like Spitzer, he a likey the whores.  Buchanen.

Tilden died a virgin (yet another reason to be a Republican).  Buchanan had a male lover.

That's a rumor that evolved because he shared an apartment with William Rufus King.

[DWPerry]

What church was President Washington a communicant of?

Episcopal



Who was the last President with a full beard?

[DWPerry]

What church was President Washington a communicant of?

Episcopal



Who was the last President with a full beard?

No.

There are reports of Washington attending an Episcopal church. Please provide the answer.

[DWPerry]

Who was the most racist president of the 20th century?

This is matter of opinion, plus there is already another question.

Who was the last President with a full beard?

[DWPerry]

Woodrw Wilson.

Correct. Harrison was the last guy with a beard.

Which one?
j/k
I'm not that nit-picky. Ben Harrison was the last with a beard.

[DWPerry]

Cleveland, FDR & Andrew Jackson

[DWPerry]

Three teams in this years NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament can boast President's with undergraduate degrees, name the schools & Presidents.

[DWPerry]

Three teams in this years NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament can boast President's with undergraduate degrees, name the schools & Presidents.

Polk - Tarheel
Hoover - Indian
Clinton - Hoya

I wanted the school names, not the nickname; but, not to nit-pick I will accept Polk & Clinton. As for, Hoover, if you are going to use nicknames, please use the current nickname.

[DWPerry]

For Hoover, the Cardinals.

Still wrong, it's Stanford Cardinal (the color, not the bird)

newt question:
Name the 11 Presidents that were related to FDR by either blood or marriage.

[DWPerry]

All I could find (in addition to TR)

George Washington
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Calvin Coolidge

I couldn't even find that, but GWB is related to Franklin Pierce, so you could add that one.

I'd suspect the Harrisons.

I actually found two different lists, both include 11 other Presidents. Presidents in BOLD are on both lists.
from Apples4TheTeacher.com
Franklin D. Roosevelt was related by either blood or marriage to:
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Ulysses S. Grant
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
James Madison
Theodore Roosevelt
William Taft
Zachary Taylor
Martin Van Buren and
George Washington

According to Wikipedia:
fourth cousin three times removed of John Quincy Adams
third cousin four times removed of Martin Van Buren
half fourth cousin three times removed of Zachary Taylor
seventh cousin once removed of Millard Fillmore
sixth cousin twice removed of Franklin Pierce
fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses Grant
sixth cousin once removed of Rutherford Hayes
half eighth cousin of Grover Cleveland
fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt (his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was a niece of Theodore)
sixth cousin twice removed of William Taft
seventh cousin once removed of Calvin Coolidge

[DWPerry]

Thomas Jefferson wrote this while Vice President; it is still used today though it doubtful Jefferson ever used it after he was President.  What is it, what was its intended use when written, and where is it used today (principally)?

1)"The wall of separation between church and state"
2) intended to mean that the government should not get involved in church issues
3) now, misinterpreted to mean that anything any government official/employee does that acknowledges a god (generally only applied to Christians) violates this "wall"; most people believe this to be part of the first amendment

[DWPerry]

Jefferson

[DWPerry]

Filmore?

As far as I can tell, yes.  Considering the inconvenience of travel until the development of steamships, that's no great surprise.  So unless Van Buren made a brief trip into Upper Canada from New York, I believe that Filmore is the answer.

Tyler was President before Filmore, and Tyler lived and died in the Confederate States, so, again, unless Van Buren went to Canada, Tyler would be the first President to travel outside of the US after serving as President.

[DWPerry]

Add the last two names to this list:

Sargent
Frederick
Anne
Millard

What is this a list of?

[DWPerry]

Give the next 3 names to this list:

Abigail
Jane
Harriet

[DWPerry]

What year and who were the candidates in the only occasion where both halves of a major party ticket passed away during the term for which they sought election?

[DWPerry]

marbles

[DWPerry]

13

John Adams, Harvard
John Quincy Adams, Harvard
Rutherford B. Hayes, Harvard Law School
Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard
William Howard Taft, Yale
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvard
John F. Kennedy, Harvard
Gerald R. Ford, Yale Law School
George HW Bush, Yale
Bill Clinton, Yale Law School
George W Bush, Yale
James Madison, Princeton
Woodrow Wilson, Princeton

14 if you count FDR, Columbia (completed requirements but did not officially graduate)

[DWPerry]

How many Presidential candidates that have served as a State Governor & "First Spouse" of a State.

[DWPerry]

How many Presidential candidates that have served as a State Governor & "First Spouse" of a State.

The only one I can think of is George Wallace, considering his wife Lurleen was Governor from 1967 to 1968 (me thinks).

Correct, she died barely 1 year into her term