Presidential Trivia

[J. J.]

Correct this sentence for historical accuracy:

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

[J. J.]

Correct this sentence for historical accuracy:

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

Theodore Roosevelt led the charge up San Juan Hill by the rough riders, who had dismounted and were on foot.

I'm pretty sure that an all-black battalion actually took the hill first.  Then the Rough Riders took it, so TR could look heroic.

Neither of the sentences is correct. 

[J. J.]

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. 

[J. J.]

At the battle of San Juan, Theodore Roosevelt led the charge up Kettle Hill by the Rough Riders, who had dismounted and were on foot.

Correct! 

[J. J.]

Who was the smallest President in terms of height & weight?

James Monroe?

[J. J.]

Who was the smallest President in terms of height & weight?

James Monroe?

1/2 right, his name was James

James Madison?

[J. J.]

"So sad?"

[J. J.]

gporter, your questions are fukcing ridiculous.  Who the hell cares what Pat Nixon said when she left the White House?  Try something a little less obscure and more interesting.

I concur with TD here. Why do you ask these sorts of questions?

I have to disagree.  Trivia is, well, trivial.

[J. J.]

All three are left-handed.

Same answer, as is Obama.

[J. J.]

I guess it's my turn then:

Besides Hubert Humphrey and Robert Kennedy, who was considered one of Johnson's top choices for VP at the Atlantic City Convention?  This man actively promoted his candidacy behind the scenes to the Johnson people.

I had to look it up:  Sargent Shriver?

[J. J.]

I guess it's my turn then:

Besides Hubert Humphrey and Robert Kennedy, who was considered one of Johnson's top choices for VP at the Atlantic City Convention?  This man actively promoted his candidacy behind the scenes to the Johnson people.

I had to look it up:  Sargent Shriver?

Not the one I'm thinking of.  This person is a sitting politician.

The only other ones I can think of are George Wallace and George McGovern.

[J. J.]

I'll give you a hint which should make this very easy:

Let's just say that this man is happy that he wasn't Johnson's VP four years later.

Gene McCarthy?

[J. J.]

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

Grant?

[J. J.]

Bump.

[J. J.]

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

George W. Bush?

[J. J.]

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.

[J. J.]

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)"

That's why I qualified it with "World Series."

[J. J.]

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).

[J. J.]

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.

All were lawyers.

[J. J.]

Hardly a unique distinction for politicians of any stripe.

Actually, with 4 candidates, it is.  I think the last time two lawyers ran against each other was 1944, before that, I think it was 1908.

[J. J.]

When was the last election in which both major candidates came from the same state?

In 1988, both candidates were born in the same state, IIRC.

[J. J.]

Somebody, ask a question.

[J. J.]

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

Grover Cleveland

[J. J.]

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

[J. J.]

FDR and JFK?

Wrong on both.