Theodore Roosevelt early years
Theodore Roosevelt was born on
October 27, 1776
October 27, 1838
October 27, 1858
October 27, 1901
October 27, 1858
When he entered Harvard College on September 27, 1876, his father advised Teddy to prioritize: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
First
a. Body, Mind, Soul
b. Mind, Body, Soul
c. Soul, Body, Mind
d. Soul, Mind, Body
e. Wealth, Health, Salvation
"Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally, your studies."
After strenuous walks along the Potomac, the president on occasion would shed all his clothes and take a plunge in the river to cool off.
True
False
True
Dr. Dudley Sargent warned Roosevelt, that failure to lead a sedentary life could have fatal consequences. “Doctor, I’m going to do all the things you tell me not to do,” Roosevelt responded. “If I’ve got to live the sort of life you have described, I don’t care how short it is.” A year after graduation, Roosevelt took time from his honeymoon with Alice to scale:
6,000-foot Mount Washington, New Hampshire
15,000-foot Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps
20,000-foot Denali (Mount McKinley) – Alaska
29,000-foot Mount Everest, Nepal
15,000-foot Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps
He labeled the Rough Rider “far and away the worst President we have ever had” and “the most formidable disaster that has befallen the country since the Civil War.”
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
This can boost injury recovery, accelerate metabolism, and improve sleep and mood.
a. ice baths
b. eating ice cream
c. drinking alcohol
d. eating grains
a. ice baths
Teddy Roosevelt was born into this wealth class
Lower
Middle
Upper
Extreme wealth
Extreme wealth
His father founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York Children's Orthopedic Hospital.
While at Harvard, Roosevelt met his first wife, Alice Lee. After a courtship, the two got engaged with an eye on marriage after graduation. When any man approached her.
a. He would introduce her as his wife
b. He was so secure he would allow any man to dance with her
c. He'd challenge him to a duel
d. He would grasp her hand
c. He'd challenge him to a duel
At one point, he even mailed away for a pair of French dueling pistols in case anyone wished to take him up on the offer.
He won the Nobel Peace Prize for:
Negotiating peace between Ukraine and Russia
Negotiating peace between Isreal and Palestine
Negotiating peace between Russia and Japanese
For attacking Spanish soldiers in Cuba
For attacking Columbian soldiers in Panama
Creating concentration camps in the Philippines
Negotiating peace between Russia and Japanese
Sweden and a few political parties in Norway argued that Roosevelt only focused on war and did not deserve the award.
At the outbreak of World War I, the 58-year-old ex-president was eager to return to the front lines. Roosevelt vehemently lobbied President Woodrow Wilson to send him to ______ at the head of a 200,000-man expeditionary force.
Austria-Hungary
France
Germany
Turkey
France
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Archibald Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Kermit Roosevelt
Ethel Roosevelt Derby
Quentin Roosevelt
Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
How long do you need to stay in an ice bath to receive the benefits?
15-30 seconds
45-60 seconds
2-3 minutes
5-10 minutes
2-3 minutes
Prior to Harvard, Roosevelt was educated
a. At the finest boarding schools in England
b. The finest Presbyterian schools in NYC
c. homeschooled
Roosevelt was homeschooled, mostly by tutors and his parents
Two years into college, his father dies. Roosevelt inherits
a. The family business
b. $30,000 about $1 million in today's
c. $65,000 about $2 million in today's value
d. zero, nothing
c. Roosevelt inherits $65,000 (equivalent to $1,971,069 in 2022), enough wealth on which he could live comfortably for the rest of his life
Roosevelt was the first sitting president to leave the country. He sailed aboard ______ to personally inspect the construction of the Panama Canal, a project that he had championed as president.
S. S. Minnow
USS Louisiana
RMS Titanic
RMS Lusitania
USS Louisiana
William McKinley ended up winning the election in 1900, and Theodore Roosevelt became the 25th Vice President of the United States. A few months later McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt, at the age of __, became the youngest president in U.S history.
35
38
40
42
42
__-year-old Teddy Roosevelt shot and killed a neighbor's dog because it "annoyed him".
20-year-old
30-year-old
40-year-old
50-year-old
20-year-old
The original Food and Drugs Act of ____ was passed by Congress on June 30th and signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, created to prevent the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious food, drugs, medications, and liquors...”
1896
1906
1916
1926
1906
As a youth, his nickname was Teedie because of his frailty. He overcame asthma by
a. Hypnosis
b. Medication
c. Vigorous physical exercise
d. Pray
c. Vigorous physical exercise
On _________ in 1884, Roosevelt’s mother passed away from typhoid fever. One floor above in the same house, his first wife, Alice, died less than 12 hours later from Bright’s disease and complications from giving birth to the couple’s first child just two days before.
Christmas Eve
Columbus Day
St. Valentine’s Day
Easter
St. Valentine’s Day
During his days in the White House, he regularly put up his dukes against former professional boxers and other sparring partners until a punch from a young artillery officer
a. smashed a blood vessel and left him nearly blind in his left eye.
b. on Halloween, ruptured his appendix.
c. knocked out his two front teeth, which he asked her for replacements as a Christmas gift.
a. smashed a blood vessel and left him nearly blind in his left eye.
Roosevelt told _________ he opposed banning monopolies. Instead, he preferred that the federal government "assume power of supervision and regulation over all corporations doing an interstate business."
Congress
Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
William McKinley
Congress
Two girls, one of them a student in a Washington seminary, and the other the daughter of a well-known resident of the city, were riding in the same direction. Roosevelt passed them at a gallop. The out-of-town girl, discovering after he had passed that it was the President, spurred her horse to overtake Mr. Roosevelt for another look at him. Glancing back Roosevelt saw what was happening and, as the girl’s horse came alongside him, he slashed at her horse and instead struck the girl across the arms with his _________.
riding whip
belt
newspaper
freshly made spaghetti noodle
riding whip
Baltimore Sun. This was printed on May 13th, 1912.
One of the first prescriptions to be patented is
Aspirin
Coca-Cola
Tylenol
Methylene blue
Methylene blue 1883
Aspirin 1899
Tylenol 1955
Coca-Cola 1886
Teddy Rosevelt received his law degree from Columbia Law School in
1882
1907
1928
2008
2008
September 25, 2008 (NEW YORK) – President Theodore Roosevelt who attended Columbia Law School but did not complete his degrees, will receive posthumous J.D.s at a reception today.
Roosevelt became the New York City police commissioner in 1895. He was so unpopular he received __ bombs in the mail.
2
4
8
16
2
Roosevelt was one of five presidents—the others being John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy—to have been a club member in:
Freemasons
Council on Foreign Relations
Illuminati
Hasty Pudding Club
Skull and Bones
Hasty Pudding Club
While campaigning with the Bull Moose party, a fanatic attempted to kill Roosevelt by shooting him in the chest, but he recovered and continued his campaign. The bullet was slowed by
a. 50-page copy of his speech
b. The Douay Rheims bible
c. Confronting Imperialism by Mark Twain
d. A leather wallet full of Benjamins
a. 50-page copy of his speech
Teddy Rosevelt supported suffrage for women as a reward for
Serving in the military
Owning property
Marrying into wealth
Raising a large family
Serving in the military
This drug cures, Cyanide poisoning, Malaria, Nail fungus and Alzheimer's
Aspirin
Coca-Cola
Tylenol
Methylene blue
Methylene blue