prezquiz021808.answers
On the homepage
Vikings
Out There
Pardon Board
Petters
President's Day quiz answers
Print this story
E-mail this story
Save to del.icio.us
Share on Facebook
Share on DiggMore from Politically Connected
PRESIDENTS' DAY QUIZ ANSWERS
1) 35 is the minimum age for someone to be president.
2) From left to right (physically, not necessarily politically): George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln
3) Bill Clinton, because he was elected twice, the constitutional limit. Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were both elected once.
4) Dwight Eisenhower was president when Hawaii became the 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959.
5) William Howard Taft was president when Arizona became the 48th state on Feb. 14, 1912.
6) Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower were graduates of West Point.
7) Jimmy Carter
8) Harry Truman
9) Woodrow Wilson was president of Princeton University and Dwight Eisenhower was president of Columbia University.
10) Theodore Roosevelt won the 1906 Peace Prize; in 1905, he had mediated peace talks that ended the Russo-Japanese War.
Woodrow Wilson won the prize in 1919. He was the driving force behind the founding of the League of Nations (which the United States did not join) after World War I.
Jimmy Carter, who was president from 1977-1981, won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize; the Nobel Committee cited his mediation of the Camp David Accords during his presidency and his efforts at conflict resolution after he left office.
11) John Quincy Adams
12) When Republican Abraham Lincoln won reelection in 1864 his running mate was Democrat Andrew Johnson, with the pair running as a national unity ticket during the Civil War.
13) Samuel Tilden, in 1876, received 51 percent of the popular vote but Rutherford B. Hayes ultimately won the election with one more electoral vote.
14) When John Adams was elected president in 1796, his cousin Samuel Adams received the fifth-most electoral votes.
15) Franklin Roosevelt, who married Eleanor Roosevelt, a distant cousin. Her father was a brother of Theodore Roosevelt.
16) John Tyler, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. Tyler and Wilson were both widowed while president and remarried while in office; Cleveland married for the first time while he was in office and is the only president to say his vows in the White House.
17) John Tyler had 15 children.
18) Camp David was so named by President Eisenhower in honor of his grandson David Eisenhower.
19) The retreat was originally called Shangri-La, so named by President Franklin Roosevelt.
20) Franklin Roosevelt had an indoor pool installed. It was later filled in and became a press briefing room.
21) Minnesota has 10 electoral votes, one for each member of Congress (two senators, eight representatives).
22) Abraham Lincoln carried Minnesota in 1860, two years after Minnesota became a state.
23) President Benjamin Harrison was renominated at the Republican convention in Minneapolis in 1892. Harrison, who had defeated incumbent Grover Cleveland in 1888, lost a '92 rematch to him.
24) Zachary Taylor, an officer in the U.S. Army, served at Fort Snelling.
25) Orville Freeman placed John F. Kennedy's name into nomination. Freeman's son, Mike, is currently the Hennepin County attorney.
Bonus: In 1936, William Lemke, running as the Union Party candidate, finished third behind winner Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratic incumbent, and Republican challenger Alf Landon.
Sources: whitehouse.gov, archives.gov, U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Elections and other Star Tribune researchRecent Politically Connected stories
Dille to vacate state Senate seat in 2010 - February 17, 2008
Dille to vacate state Senate seat in 2010 - Though popular with voters, state Sen. Steve Dille says he won't fight his own party for endorsement. More
The Whistleblower blog has moved
The Star Tribune is still blowing the whistle, but our look and location have changed. Click here to get to the new blog. If you want the actual URL, it’s www.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower.html. Our blog posts will now be easier to search on the web site, but you’ll need to register to post a comment. In the [...]
Recent posts
 Find Your Next HomeSearch realtor represented & for sale by owner homes in the Twin Cities. Plus, find open house listings. |
Comment on this story | Read all 10 comments | Hide reader comments