Ordinal Officeholders
The 2nd President.
Who is John Adams?
President Ronald Reagan nominated this Justice to be the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
Thomas Jefferson founded this institution of higher learning after he left office.
What is the University of Virginia?
This presidential candidate collected 19% of the vote as a third party candidate in 1992, helping Bill Clinton win the election with only 43% of the popular vote. He didn't do quite as well in 1996.
Who is Ross Perot?
Ronald Reagan was shot in an assassination attempt outside of this DC location, also known for regularly hosting the White House Correspondents' dinner.
What is the Washington Hilton?
The 16th President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In this landmark legal case, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a president's communications are not entitled to unbridled executive privilege.
What is United States v. Nixon?
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is located at this flagship university.
What is the University of Texas at Austin?
James Buchanan consistently ranks the worst president of all time on this public affairs broadcasting channel's Survey of Presidential rankings.
What is C-SPAN?
This president had the shortest tenure in office after giving the longest inauguration address.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
The 41st President.
Who is George H. W. Bush?
The Senate Judiciary committee presidents over the confirmation hearings of a president's judicial nominees. Name either of the presidents who in their Congressional days chaired this powerful committee.
Who is Joe Biden? (or Martin Van Buren -- if you got this one you get +200 because that's some serious trivia)
This president began his college essay: "The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several."
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Vice President Dan Quayle certainly didn't do himself any favors when he misspelled this word in front of a classroom of sixth graders during an election year.
What is potato?
In 1893, this president arranged for doctors to secretly surgically remove a cancerous tumor from his mouth. In order to avoid public scrutiny, the procedure occurred on his friend's yacht.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
The 33rd President.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The only president to serve a full term in office without making any appointments to the Supreme Court.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
President Ronald Reagan attended this Illinois college, the smallest college or university to produce a future president.
What is Eureka College?
A bona fide trailblazer, she was the first woman to run for the Democratic Party Presidential Nomination as well as the first Black major-party candidate to run for President.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
Gerald Ford survived two failed assassination attempts in the same month during September of 1975. One of his would-be assassins was a disciple of this California cult leader and convicted murderer who became infamous for his crimes.
Who is Charles Manson?
The 4th President.
Who is James Madison?
Members of the Supreme Court are given the title of "Justice." If President Joe Biden were to appoint the governor of this state to the Court, his title would be Justice Justice.
What is West Virginia?
The Woodrow Wilson school was the graduate school for international affairs and public policy at this university – until it was renamed this past year.
What is Princeton?
Feminist Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to become a presidential nominee in 1872 as a member of the Equal Rights Party and chose this formerly enslaved abolitionist leader as her runningmate without so much as consulting him.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
After President William McKinley was shot and killed in 1901, Congress directed the Secret Service to thereafter protect and defend the President of the United States. But the Secret Service was originally founded in 1865 to defend against the proliferation of _this_ then-common problem, which they are still in charge of today.
What is counterfeit money?