The First Presidents
Presidents No One Remembers
American Empire Builders
The 50's, 60's and 70's
Trump
Mt. Rushmore
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Some consider this man, who was elected President of the United States in Congress Assembled in 1781, to have been our first president.
Who was John Hanson?
100
He was known as Tippecanoe, but died one month after he took the oath of office in 1841.
Who was William Henry Harrison?
100
Jefferson bought this huge territory from Napoleon in 1803 for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
This plain talking haberdasher had a daughter who sang as a soprano while he accompanied her on the piano.
Who was Harry Truman?
100
The "Art of the Deal" was about his Atlantic City real transactions with this former talk show host.
Who is Merv Griffin?
100
The four presidents depicted at Mt. Rushmore.
Who are Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln?
200
The only non-Virginian among our first five, he was the man behind the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Adams?
200
Not only was he president of the U.S., he also served as Governor of the Philippines, Governor of Cuba, and Tenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1921?
Who is William Howard Taft?
200
This president wanted the United States to acquire Texas, California and the southwestern states so he had General Zachary Taylor start the Mexican American War in 1846.
Who was James K. Polk?
200
He led "the Crusade in Europe", liked to play golf, and came from Kansas.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
200
Being divorced and a womanizer ended this republican candidate's presidential aspirations in 1964.
Who was Nelson Rockefeller.
200
This film had James Mason and Martin Landau chasing Cary Grant and Eve Marie Saint across Jefferson's face.
What is North by Northwest?
300
Her husband was the driving force behind the adoption of the U.S. Consitution in 1789 but she is most remembered by the ice cream named after her.
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He was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms, in 1885 and 1893 (and my grandfather told me he and his classmates would sing Christmas carols to him after the president had retired to Princeton New Jersey).
Who was Grover Cleveland?
300
He never became U.S. president but he was twice elected president of the Republic of Texas prior to its becoming part of the United States.
Who was Sam Houston?
300
Gloria Swanson was his father's mistress, but he would not have become president but for Richard Daley's control of the Chicago political machine.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
300
Eisenhower was criticized for playing it too much, Obama for playing it at all, but Trump does it all the time.
What is golf?
300
This president was added last.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
He fathered at least one child by Sally Hemings, who was one of his slaves.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
Daily Double.
They were the two presidents preceding Lincoln, both of whom were indecisive enablers of Southern plans for the expansion of slavery.
Who were Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan?
400
President McKinley's push for this war led the United States to acquire a colony in the Philippines.
What is the Spanish American War?
400
He commanded a nuclear submarine, but had difficulties meeting the demands of the presidency, serving only one term.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
400
He shares this medical condition with the two Adamses, as well as Van Buren, Garfield, Eisenhower and Ford.
What is baldness or alopecia?
400
He was the principal sculptor of Mt. Rushmore.
Who was Gutzon Borglum?
500
He was the fifth, with his presidency labelled "The Era of Good Feeling".
Who was James Monroe?
500
Bill Graham, the music producer, opened two famous 60's music halls (one in San Francisco, the other in New York City) bearing the name of this Buffalo native who succeeded Zachary Taylor in 1850.
Who was Millard Fillmore?
500
His aim was not to acquire territory but to have the major powers of the world accept his ideas in order to "make the world safe for democracy".
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
500
He is the only president who was never elected to national office.
Who was Jerry Ford?
500
He was born in this part of New York City.
What is Jamaica, Queens?
500
The sculptor's death in 1941 ended to plan to have these historic documents moved to a Hall of Records to be placed to the right of Lincoln on the mountain.
What are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States?