Title: Presidents Quiz
Description: Short & Sweet
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 06:47 PM (GMT)
Don't Google.
0) Which president communicated with his wife in Chinese to keep their conversations private?
Herbert Hoover - duckpin
1) Name at least three US Presidents that never attended college
There were nine. They are: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland and Harry S Truman. - Delmore got it with Jackson, Washinton and Lincoln
2) Which president was the first Eagle Scout?
Gerald Ford - duckpin
3) Which president did Richard Nixon say he would have play shortstop on the all-presidential baseball team because he was short?
James Madison - duckpin
4) Who was the first president to earn a PhD?
Woodrow Wilson - duckpin
5) When she heard this president had died Dorothy Parker quipped “How could they tell?”
Calvin Coolidge - delmore
6) Who is the only president for whom English was not his first language?
Martin Van Buren - Fritter
7) Which president died soon after eating a massive bowl of cherries and cold milk, sparking a national aversion to the combination that lasted for decades?
Zachary Taylor - duckpin
8) This president enjoyed showing visitors his ranch in an amphibious car. He kept the amphibious part a secret and would pretend to lose control of the vehicle and drive into a lake. He took great delight in seeing who bailed out the car and who stayed. This prank ended up seriously injuring an elderly relative.
Lyndon B Johnson - duckpin
9) There was only one clean-shaven president between Andrew Johnson and Woodrow Wilson. Name him.
William McKinley - Sven Hassle Schmuck
10) Who was the only president who was ever divorced?
Ronald Reagan - delmore
11) Which president swam nude every morning in the Potomac river, regardless of the weather?
John Quincy Adams - duckpin
12) Which president holds a patent for a boat-lifting device?
Abe Lincoln - SonofAlways
13) This president sired an illegitimate son and also paid a replacement soldier $150 to take his place in the Civil War
Grover Cleveland - duckpin
14) This president impressed the ladies with a fancy trick: He could write Greek with his left hand and Latin with the right....at the same time.
James Garfield - delmore
15) Which president was a degenerate gambler and once lost a priceless china set during a poker match in the White House?
Warren G Harding - duckpin, sorta, I think
SCORES
duckpin - 9
delmore - 4
sonofalways - 1
sven h.s - 1
fritter - 1
delmore - November 5, 2009 06:59 PM (GMT)
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:01 PM (GMT)
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:02 PM (GMT)
delmore - November 5, 2009 07:02 PM (GMT)
10. Ronald Reagan, to Jane Wyman
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:02 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (delmore @ Nov 5 2009, 12:59 PM) |
| 5. Calvin Coolidge |
CORRECT. I also learned today that he liked having his head massaged with vasiline and rode a mechanical bull
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:03 PM (GMT)
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:03 PM (GMT)
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:04 PM (GMT)
delmore - November 5, 2009 07:04 PM (GMT)
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:05 PM (GMT)
Duckpin - 13 & 3 are correct, 15 & 7 are not :applaud:
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:05 PM (GMT)
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:05 PM (GMT)
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:06 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (delmore @ Nov 5 2009, 01:02 PM) |
| 10. Ronald Reagan, to Jane Wyman |
Correct, and nice work on the name. If it comes down to a tie, I'll remember that :)
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:06 PM (GMT)
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:07 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (duckpin236 @ Nov 5 2009, 01:04 PM) |
| 8 - Johnson |
please be more specific
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:07 PM (GMT)
1 - Truman, Jackson, Buchanan
Sven Hassel Schmuck - November 5, 2009 07:07 PM (GMT)
5/Coolidge
10 Reagan
9 Mckinley
1/Adams, jefferson, Madison
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:08 PM (GMT)
all other guesses not yet mentioned are incorrect
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:08 PM (GMT)
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:10 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sven Hassel Schmuck @ Nov 5 2009, 01:07 PM) |
5/Coolidge
10 Reagan
9 Mckinley
1/Adams, jefferson, Madison |
delmore beat you to the punch on 5 & 10
9 is right :)
1 - close but no cigar
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:10 PM (GMT)
delmore - November 5, 2009 07:11 PM (GMT)
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:11 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (duckpin236 @ Nov 5 2009, 01:07 PM) |
| 1 - Truman, Jackson, Buchanan |
close, but no cigar
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:12 PM (GMT)
delmore - November 5, 2009 07:12 PM (GMT)
1. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:14 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (duckpin236 @ Nov 5 2009, 01:12 PM) |
| 4 - Wilson |
:thumbsup:
Fritter - November 5, 2009 07:14 PM (GMT)
11. Teddy Roosevelt, must be.
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:14 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (delmore @ Nov 5 2009, 01:12 PM) |
| 1. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson |
Nice!
There were nine. They are: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland and Harry S Truman.
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:15 PM (GMT)
Truman, Jackson, Jefferson
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:16 PM (GMT)
all guesses not yet specifically addressed or put into the answers section in the original post are incorrect :rollover:
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:17 PM (GMT)
delmore - November 5, 2009 07:18 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (duckpin236 @ Nov 5 2009, 03:08 PM) |
| Lyndon Johnson...sorry |
That sounds like Johnson. There's something about the rascal that I like, despite the Vietnam tragedy and his lies about it. I read a book of his recorded phone conversations - a brilliant mind is revealed. Much more than Nixon, whose brilliance I could never perceive, esp. in his tape transcripts.
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:19 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (duckpin236 @ Nov 5 2009, 01:17 PM) |
| 14 -Jefferson |
Jefferson is still incorrect ;)
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:19 PM (GMT)
delmore - November 5, 2009 07:19 PM (GMT)
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:22 PM (GMT)
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:23 PM (GMT)
taft and obama are wrong
I'll drop some hints in a few minutes.
biggestlibraryyet - November 5, 2009 07:24 PM (GMT)
I am deleting the you only get one wrong guess rule since so few people are participating
duckpin236 - November 5, 2009 07:24 PM (GMT)