Presidential Trivia

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Correct this sentence for historical accuracy:

Theodore Roosevelt rode up San Juan Hill, leading the charge.

Theodore Roosevelt rode up Kettle Hill, leading the charge.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Correct this sentence for historical accuracy:

Theodore Roosevelt rode up San Juan Hill, leading the charge.

Theodore Roosevelt rode up Kettle Hill, leading the charge.

Wrong, you have to fully correct it. 

I did.  Theodore Roosevelt was mounted, though the Rough Riders he led up Kettle Hill were dismounted.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'll guess Pat Brown.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Which president reportedly spent 7% of his salary on alcohol?

Harding?

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How many Presidents have presided over a body of Congress?

Polk and LBJ were the regular presiding officers (if President pro tem is considered such).

Actually, LBJ was Majority Leader, not President pro tempore.  However, one President of the United States has served as President pro tempore of the Senate, John Tyler.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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

Besides all of then running for President in 1860, they were all at various times members of the House of Representatives, but none of them served at the same time in the House.  Bell was elected from 1826 to 1838, Douglas was elected in 1842 and 1844, Lincoln in 1846, and Breckenridge in 1850 and 1852.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

All were lawyers.

Hardly a unique distinction for politicians of any stripe.

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

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What presidents have received or been offered knighthoods or commissions from the British Monarch?

Technically, none, tho several have received so called honorary knighthoods.  RWR and GHWB were made honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath after their Presidencies, while DDE received that honor along with other generals in the aftermath of WWII.

As a strongly small-r republican who wishes that the Titles of Nobility amendment had been passed, I find the acceptance of the knighthoods, honorary or otherwise, quite offensive.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What presidents have received or been offered knighthoods or commissions from the British Monarch?

Technically, none, tho several have received so called honorary knighthoods.  RWR and GHWB were made honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath after their Presidencies, while DDE received that honor along with other generals in the aftermath of WWII.

As a strongly small-r republican who wishes that the Titles of Nobility amendment had been passed, I find the acceptance of the knighthoods, honorary or otherwise, quite offensive.

We can include honoraries in that, but you still missed one.  Hint:  It was declined. 

I can't see it being offered until the 20th century given the state of Anglo-American relations until then.  I'll guess that it was offered to Hoover for his humanitarian work in the Great War.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I'll guess Grant, since he did meet with Queen Victoria during his post-presidency world tour.

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George Washington attended a number of churches, Quaker, Catholic, Presbyterian, Aglican and Episcopalian.  That wasn't the question.

I suspect you are being deliberately nitpicking and not accepting Anglican or Episcopal for Church of England. Since he served in his parish vestry before the Revolution, I can't see him obtaining that position without being a communicant at that time.

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George Washington attended a number of churches, Quaker, Catholic, Presbyterian, Aglican and Episcopalian.  That wasn't the question.

I suspect you are being deliberately nitpicking and not accepting Anglican or Episcopal for Church of England. Since he served in his parish vestry before the Revolution, I can't see him obtaining that position without being a communicant at that time.

Your assumption is incorrect.  Because the church was established, it was a quasi civil officer.  Also note that he was not president at the time?

Well, if you are restricting it to just the years he was President, then none.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Mary Harrison McKee, daughter of Benjamin Harrison.

So long as we're on the topic, who is the only First Lady to have performed as First Lady for more than one President?

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Cleveland, Jackson and FDR. Cleveland is a guess. I suspect Jefferson is another, if truth be known about 1796.

Actually Adams definitely won the PV in 1796, and may have done so in 1800.  Jefferson's support was concentrated in the South where there were far more "other Persons" who absolutely could not vote, but did contribute 3/5 of a person when it came to Representatives and Electors.

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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)?

Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States which is principally used by the House of Representatives these days.

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Who was the first President to travel outside the United States after his term of office was over?

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Grant?

No.  Earlier.

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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.

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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.

Filmore traveled to Europe before the Civil War, so even if one considers Tyler to have traveled outside the United States, Filmore did it before Tyler did, and the order in which they served is irrelevant to the question I asked, so the answer is certainly not Tyler.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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.

And in theory, it was never a foreign country.

Regardless of whether it was a foreign country or not, he didn't travel to it.

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No need to include Arnold if the list is middle names of losing Democratic Vice Presidential nominees.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Actually, I just wanted the last two names on the list, or:

Joseph Isadore Lieberman
John Reid Edwards

Note that Walter Frederick Mondale was elected Vice President.

Not in 1980.  He was a losing nominee that year.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

John Tyler was the only one to do so, altho some claim that David Rice Atchison was President for a day.

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Bringing Richard Henry Lee into this seems a bit unfair.

Which Presidents have also served as the senior officer of one of the Armed Forces?