Presidential Trivia

[minionofmidas]

Now for the next question...

On election night 1968, what state officially put Richard Nixon over the top and made him the 37th President of the United States of America?

I'll guess either Illinois or California, depending on how fast the results came in

Which one was it. Do not guess what the answer is, but know what the answer is.

What is my middle name? Do not guess what the answer is, but know what the answer is.

Asif.

[minionofmidas]

Now for the next question...

On election night 1968, what state officially put Richard Nixon over the top and made him the 37th President of the United States of America?

I'll guess either Illinois or California, depending on how fast the results came in

Which one was it. Do not guess what the answer is, but know what the answer is.

What is my middle name? Do not guess what the answer is, but know what the answer is.

Asif.

I told you to know it. Epic fail.

I did. You just changed it so that you could claim my answer was wrong.

[minionofmidas]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

[minionofmidas]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

Carter?

If he saw combat (I'd have to check, but he is of course of a generation where it's more likely than not) that would make three (Kennedy also saw combat). Certainly not the correct answer to the question, though. The answer to the question is actually Bush 41.

EDIT: Carter did not see combat.

[minionofmidas]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

Eisenhower was only brigadier general (one star) when the WWII (the American involvement) started and had been promoted to that rank less than three months before.

But he had it, right? (Okay, so yeah, you might have seen actual combat with that rank in some branches of the army in WWII. Eisenhower didn't, though.)

[minionofmidas]

How many Presidents have not had a formal education?

One. Andrew Johnson. If the question's intended to mean "never received any form of formal schooling", that is.

[minionofmidas]

Who is the only President to have served as an executioner?

Grover Cleveland

What about the Butcher of Baghdad? j/k

[minionofmidas]

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

Woodrow Wilson I guess. Not sure how you can measure that.

[minionofmidas]

Was it Clinton?  After all spouses are often at the sides of Senators- and Representatives-elect when they are sworn in.

Is the Senate "in session" while new Senators are sworn in?
If so, Ernest is right:

[minionofmidas]

Andy Johnson was a Senator. I think that (incl. Torie's) would be it.

[minionofmidas]

Letter of condolence to Pendergast's widow?

[minionofmidas]

That recently? Wow.

Actually, he was the exception (unless Eisenhower would be considered).  Ford's administrative experience was scant (and it showed), but he had been VP for about eight months. 

How many first couples were there where one party was divorced?

Reagan was the only president to be divorced...

Jackson's wife was divorced (perhaps improperly), though she died before he became President.


I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of any at the moment.

There is at least one other.

Betty Ford.

At what point in time were there the fewest living US presidents, past present & future? Not counting the last few decades (where obviously we don't know the answer) or the period before Independence.

[minionofmidas]

Technically, as you worded the question, the correct answer is:

July 4, 1776 - December 12, 1782 (between Independence and the birth of Van Buren)

Only 8 presidents (the first seven + Harrison) were alive at the time.

Yeah, sorry. My bad.

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That was the answer I wanted.

Follow up:

Name any of the times (I will accept any of the four correct answers) when there were the most Presidents (past, present, and future) alive?

I counted it recently, so I remember the number of presidents alive was 18. All those pre-civil war presidents, though I forget the exact dates and am too lazy to count right now.

[minionofmidas]

Lewis apparently has me on ignore!  Sob!

I don't need an ignore button to ignore people.

[minionofmidas]

If you don't insist they all have been received in the same year, Andrew Jackson.  If you do insist then both Harrison and Van Buren topped 1 million in 1840.

No. He asked for a presidential candidate who received one million votes, not for a presidential candidate to whom slates of electors that received one million votes were pledged. If we are talking purely of votes for the office of president that such candidates received, the answer is clearly nobody yet. Of course, he didn't explicitly state that, so what we're looking for is the first person to have received a million votes in an election who also ran for president at some time in his life.

[minionofmidas]

Ernst Hanfstaengl was a personal friend/retainer of both, but I'm not sure he was ever either man's employee in the legal sense.

[minionofmidas]

What was the first Presidential election where the winning candidate not only won the homestates of himself and his running mate, but also of his opponent and his running mate?

1972.  Nixon/Agnew over McGovern/Shriver.

No, go back earlier.

1804.

[minionofmidas]

Okay, I've looked it up on the Atlas which I suppose is cheating. Not an answer I'd have easily guessed.

1852

[minionofmidas]

Okay. Who was the first Black presidential candidate, of any party?

[minionofmidas]

Yep. Ran only in Alabama.

[minionofmidas]

Bill Blythe, Leslie King and Hirum Grant sounds like people who held office under an assumed name - not sure what Eisenhower's to do with that, though.

[minionofmidas]

Carter?

No - didn't win Virginia.

FDR.

Who was the last victor of a presidential election to not receive a single Electoral Vote from a Western state (Census Bureau definition - ND to TX doesn't count, anywhere west of that does)?

[minionofmidas]

Carter?

No - didn't win Virginia.

FDR.

Who was the last victor of a presidential election to not receive a single Electoral Vote from a Western state (Census Bureau definition - ND to TX doesn't count, anywhere west of that does)?

Carter

What family member of John Wilkes Booth wrote a threatning letter to Andrew Jackson?

It isn't Carter, it was Grover Cleveland in 1884.

Correct. (Carter won Hawaii.)

[minionofmidas]

But, still my question counts.

Who was the last candidate to win 100% of the vote in a county?

Both questions can count as far as I`m concerned as I've no idea on either.

[minionofmidas]

Who was the first President to wear contact lenses?

Reagan.



Who was the first president to meet the Queen of England?

Wrong.

As President, it was Johnson, but the first man to become President who wore contact lenses was Reagan, who started shortly after they went on the market.

Unlikely: "In 1887, the German ophthalmologist Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick constructed and fitted the first successful contact lens."

I think the reference was probably about a specific type of contact lens - most likely corneal lens which became commercially available in 1949 and were a major breakthrough in wearer comfort.