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Presidential trivia answers

04 Sep 2012 3:09 PM | Westbrook Murphy

Presidential Trivia Quiz

Except as noted, each correct answer receives one point.

1. Neither the 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mite Romney nor his VP running mate Paul Ryan is a veteran of the U.S armed forces. In what prior year was the last Republican Presidential ticket that did not include U.S. armed forces veteran? ________
Answer: 1932 - Herbert Hoover; Charles Curtiss
2. Who was the first Vice President to become President?
Answer: John Adams (1897)

3. Who was the first Vice President to succeed to the Presidency because the President died in office? _________________________
Answer: John Tyler (1841). He succeeded Old Tippecanoe, William Henry Harrsion. (Their 1840 campaign slogan was “Tippacanoe and Tyler too.”)
4. How many Presidents previously served as Vice President? _____ *
Answer: 12: John Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, George H.W. Bush
5. How many U.S. Presidents previously had served both as governor of a state and U.S ambassador or counsel to a foreign nation? _____ *
Answer: 4 - Monroe, Jackson, Tyler, Andrew Johnson
6. What was the name of the first Vice President of:
a. Abraham Lincoln? Answer: Hannibal Hamlin
b. Franklin D. Roosevelt? Answer: John Nance Garner
7. Who is the only former U.S. President to have been elected to Congress (either House or Senate)? Answer: John Quincy Adams
8. How many men have served as U.S. President? ________ *
Answer: 43 (Although Obama is known as the 44^th President, that numbering requires counting Grover Cleveland twice as the only U.S. President to be elected to non-consecutive terms.)
9. Which incumbent President announced during the speech accepting his party’s nomination for another term that he was calling Congress back into special session? Answer: Truman. After reciting pledges made that year in the Republican Oarty Platform, Truman told the Democratic Convention:
“My duty as President requires that I use every means within my power to get the laws the people need on matters of such importance and urgency.
“I am therefore calling this Congress back into session July 26th.
“On the 26th day of July, which out in Missouri we call "Turnip Day," I am going to call that Congress back and ask them to pass laws to halt rising prices, to meet the housing crisis--which they are saying they are for in their platform.”
(“On the 25^th of July, plant your turnips, wet or dry” (old Missouri saying). In 1948 July 25^th fell on a Sunday, so President Truman called the special session for July 26).
10. Which President was sworn in by an oath administered by his own father? Coolidge.
11. What was the most recent year in which both the Democratic and Republican parties held their national convention in the same city? Answer: 1972 What was the city: Answer: Miami Beach. The Republican Convention was moved from its previously selected site San Diego to Miami Beach because of a scandal involving ITT Corporation, the owner of Sheraton Hotels, which had a hotel in San Diego.
12. Who is buried in Grant’s tomb? Answer: Ulysses and Julia Grant (Possible bonus point)
How many times did the Republican Party nominate Richard M. Nixon for either President or Vice President? ________* Answer: 5 - 1952, 1956, 1960, 1968, & 1972.
13. Since 1901, how many Vice Presidential candidates have been younger than Paul Ryan? ____________* Answer: 3 - FDR (1920), Nixon (1952), & Quayle (1988)
14. In 2012, how many candidates appeared in the first televised debate for the Republican presidential nomination? ____________*
Answer: 9 - Pawlenty, Hunstsman, Romney, Gingrich, Cain, Paul, Santorum, Perry, & Bachmann
Since 1951, how many times has a Republican presidential candidate who won the general election failed to carry in the electoral college the state where the Republican Convention was held? _________* Answer: 2 - 2000 (G.W. Bush), Philadelphia, PA; 2004 (G.W. Bush) New York, NY.
15. While George Washington is known as “the father of his country,” which President sired the most legitimate children? Answer: Tyler - 17**
16. Who is the only President whose remains are interred in Washington, D.C.?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson’ grave is in the nave of the Washington National Cathedral.
17. Which President appeared before the Continental Congress in Annapolis in 1783 to resign his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army?
Answer: Washington

* Correct answer gets 2 points. If no correct answer, nearest number gets 1 point.

** [From Wikipedia] With his two wives, Tyler fathered more children than any other President in history. His first wife was Letitia Christian Tyler (November 12, 1790 – September 10, 1842), who died in the White House and with whom he sired eight children:

1. Mary Tyler (1815–1847)

2. Robert Tyler (1816–1877)

3. John Tyler, Jr. (1819–1896)

4. Letitia Tyler Semple (1821–1907)

5. Elizabeth Tyler (1823–1850)

6. Anne Contesse Tyler (1825-1825)

7. Alice Tyler (1827–1854)

8. Tazewell Tyler (1830–1874)

Tyler’s second wife was Julia Gardiner Tyler (July 23, 1820 – July 10, 1889), with whom he had seven children:

1. David Gardiner Tyler (1846–1927)

2. John Alexander Tyler (1848–1883)

3. Julia Gardiner Tyler Spencer (1849–1871)

4. Lachlan Tyler (1851–1902)

5. Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853–1935)

6. Robert Fitzwalter Tyler (1856–1927)

7. Pearl Tyler (1860–1947)

As of 2012, two of Tyler’s grandchildren were still alive: Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. (b.1924), and Harrison Ruffin Tyler (b. 1928). Harrison Tyler maintains the family home, "Sherwood Forest” which John Tyler acquired in 1842. Purported at 300 feet to be the longest frame house in the United States, Sherwood Forest sits on a James River plantation, near Charles City, VA.

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