Giant Throbbing Presidents Day Fun Quiz!

[furrbear]

They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky. They're altogether ooky, the POTUS Family:

1. When a person said to this president, "I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you," the president replied, "You lose." Who was the pithy POTUS?
A) Lincoln  B) Cleveland  C) Coolidge  D) Truman

2. Four U.S. presidents were shot and killed in office. Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded. What president was shot after he left office?
A) Grant  B) Teddy Roosevelt  C) Adams  D) Taft

3. Who spent every night singing gospel hymns in the White House?
A) Hayes  B) Pierce  C) Wilson  D) Polk

4. Name the president who fathered 15 children:
A) Taylor  B) Tyler  C) Benjamin Harrison  D) W.H. Harrison

5. Name the president who said "I'd like to close Guantanamo" and "No question, Guantanamo sends a signal to some of our friends---provides an excuse, for example, to say, 'The United States is not upholding the values that they’re trying (to) encourage other countries to adhere to.'"
A) Clinton  B) Carter  C) George W. Bush  D) Obama

6. Who was President of the United States for just one day?
A) George Mitchell  B) David Rice Atchison  C) Hubert Humphrey  D) Charles Pinckney

7. Who once chased his Treasury Secretary out of the White House while brandishing a pair of fireplace tongs?
A) Obama  B) Jackson  C) Monroe  D) McKinley

8. Which president was a fifth cousin four times removed of Franklin Pierce, seventh cousin three times removed of Theodore Roosevelt, seventh cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, and eleventh cousin once removed of Gerald Ford?
A) George H.W. Bush  B) Nixon  C) Eisenhower  D) JFK

9.  Who bet a full box of White House china in a poker game and lost?
A) Lyndon Johnson  B) Buchanan  C) Fillmore  D) Harding

10. Who claimed that his secret of longeviity was taking a cold foot bath every morning?
A) J.Q. Adams  B) Jefferson  C) Hoover  D) Madison

Answers: 1. C, 2. B, 3. A, 4. B, 5. C, 6. B, 7. C (But hopefully A soon), 8. A, 9. D, 10. B.

Despite their best efforts, the Republic endures!

Comments

[mister-don.livejournal.com]

I was on some house tour locally last fall when the tour guide out of the blue remarked that Franklin Pierce was the second worst president. I could discern his judgement on who was numer 1 so as I was leaving remarked "Did you know Barbara Bush was a Pierce? He sorta got it from both sides" the guide cracked a big smile.
Actually, Dubya, through one branch of his family, is cousin to Nixon, Ford, FDR, and Edith Roosevelt, Theodore's wife

[budmassey.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Now what is the "missing link" between George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan? Simple. Reagan made a movie with a chimpanzee, and W. is the third cousin, twice removed, to that chimpanzee.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

History widely saves worst for the 13th President, Millard Fillmore.

[hickbear.livejournal.com]

Fillmore? I thought (pre-Duh-bya) that it was James Buchanan?

[hickbear.livejournal.com]

Dang. Missed 3 of 'em - 5 (thought it was Jimmeh), 7 (sounds like something so typcially Jackson) and 10 (since, pre-Ford, Hoover was the longest-lived president).

Dang.

[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

Technically, David Rice Atchison was never the President of the United States. He never rose above the level of Acting President, as he was never formally sworn into office. His term of Acting President was, indeed, for just a single day. :)