Presidential Precedents
Which 2 candidates participated in the first televised presidential debate in history?
Richard Nixon & John F Kennedy
Which 2 US states do NOT practice daylight savings?
Arizona & Hawaii
He launched the sweeping set of programs known as the New Deal.
Franklin D Roosevelt
This president calls Mar-a-Lago and a skyscraper in his own name home.
Donald Trump
In what Philadelphia building was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Independence Hall
This president is the only one to have been born on July 4th and was the first to appear in a motion picture.
Calvin Coolidge
What is the longest river in the United States?
Missouri
This president and conservative hero did the following:
- As governor of his home state, he signed expanded abortion access and the nation's first no-fault divorce legislation into law.
- As president, he nominated the Supreme Court justice who cast the deciding vote in favor of gay marriage.
- He granted amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants.
Ronald Reagan
The home and burial place of George Washington.
Mount Vernon
What is the name of the president's helicopter?
Marine One
Who was the first bachelor president and the only one to never marry?
James Buchanan
Which of these cities does NOT sit on the Mississippi River: St. Louis, Little Rock, Minneapolis, Memphis?
Little Rock
Abraham Lincoln is one of two presidents to have suspended habeas corpus. Who is the other?
Ulysses S Grant
The home and burial place of Thomas Jefferson.
Monticello
Which DC monument was intentionally oriented in such a way that there is an unobstructed view of it from the Oval Office?
The Jefferson Memorial
Which president helped to set a precedent of sharing intelligence with presidential candidates and also was the first to receive Secret Service protection?
Harry S Truman
List the top 5 largest metro areas in the US by population.
1. NYC
2. LA
3. Chicago
4. Dallas-Fort Worth
5. Houston
William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S Grant, Rutherford B Hayes, James A Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft & Warren G Harding
Walker's Point Estate, located in Kennebunkport, Maine, has been a home to multiple members of this American political dynasty.
The Bush Family
President Lincoln was 1 of 3 assassination targets inside his administration on the night he was killed. What positions did the other 2 targets hold in his Cabinet?
Vice President (Andrew Johnson) & Secretary of State (William H Seward)
Who is the only president to have never appeared on a presidential ticket?
Gerald Ford
Although not entirely certain, it is believed that the farthest west that George Washington set foot in the United States was near the convergence of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, which is near these 2 towns in Ohio and West Virginia. Can you name them?
Gallipolis, OH & Point Pleasant, WV
3 Presidents have won a Grammy Award. Can you name them?
Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton (2X) & Barack Obama
This president used his home in Hyde Park, NY as a retreat during times of personal and political crisis.
Franklin D Roosevelt
After the British burned the Capitol Building in the War of 1812, the current site of this US government building was used as a temporary Capitol called the “Old Brick Capitol”.
The US Supreme Court