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Presidential trivia part 4


Before getting into this week’s newsletter, let me apologize for the delayed publication of the last newsletter. The delay was due to technical problems. It contained some proposition bet tips for the Super Bowl. Unfortunately, it was sent out on Monday, the day after the game. I do hope you followed my advice in the February 3 newsletter to bet on the Bengals +4.5.

In honor of Presidents Day, this coming Monday, I honor them with this fourth installment of presidential trivia. You may first the first three installments at our list of historical newsletters.

Questions

  1. Who was the first president born in the United States?
  2. Who was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms?
  3. Who served between those two non-consecutive terms?
  4. Three presidents have died on the fourth of July, but who is the only president to be born on the fourth of July?
  5. Which president hated his painted portrait so much that he burned it?
  6. Who was the first president to ride in a car to his inauguration?
  7. Who was the first president to call the presidential residence the White House and what was it called before then?
  8. Which president was wounded in the American Revolution?
  9. Who was the first president to ride on a train?
  10. Who was the first president to not be elected to the office?
  11. Who was the first president to give a speech on television?
  12. Which president was a fashion model for Cosmopolitan magazine?
  13. Which president was known to smoke 20 cigars a day?
  14. Which president lost his sight in one eye while boxing at the White House?
  15. Who was the first president to visit the west coast?

Answers

  1. Martin Van Buren, our 8th president. All previous presidents were born in colonial times.
  2. Grover Cleveland, our 22nd and 24th president.
  3. Benjamin Harrison, our 23rd president.
  4. Calvin Coolidge, our 30th president.
  5. Theodore Roosevelt, our 26th president.
  6. Warren Harding, our 29th president.
  7. Theodore Roosevelt. It was previously called the Executive Mansion or the President’s House.
  8. James Monroe, our 5th president.
  9. Andrew Jackson, our 7th president.
  10. John Tyler, our 10th president, who rose to the presidency after the death of William Henry Harrison.
  11. Harry S Truman, our 33rd president.
  12. Gerald Ford, our 38th president.
  13. Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president. He would later die of throat cancer.
  14. Theodore Roosevelt.
  15. Rutherford B. Hayes, our 19th president.

Sources:

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2021/01/20-questions-u-s-presidential-trivia-quiz/

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Presidents-Coinciding/Presidents-Coinciding/

Written by: Michael Shackleford