Trivia Questions and Answers

[dusty]

I'll take the easy one. Ford and Brady - Michigan.

[The Gipper]

@dusty said:

I'll take the easy one. Ford and Brady - Michigan.

OK, yes, that was an easy once.  Check.  

[The Gipper]

How about this.....can any of you name where any of these people went to college?  Either President or football player? 

[AP1]

Carter - Staubach

Trump - Bednarik 

Hoover - Elway

Harrison - Roethlisberger 

[AP1]

Jefferson - Levy?

[The Gipper]

@ap1 said:

Carter - Staubach

Trump - Bednarik 

Hoover - Elway

Harrison - Roethlisberger 

Check on all of these. 

[The Gipper]

@ap1 said:

Jefferson - Levy?

NO

[The Gipper]

Whittling it down for you.  Here is what is left:

Presidents, alphabetically:

..Bill Clinton..Thomas Jefferson.....John F. Kennedy.....Richard Nixon.....Barack Obama.....James K. Polk....Woodrow Wilson

Football Greats alphabetically

...Lou Creekmur.......Henry Jordan.....Sonny Jurgenson.....Marvy Levy.....Sid Luckman......Art Rooney........Lawrence Taylor

[Ish]

Nixon and Jurgenson are Duke.

Taking wild guesses on Clinton and Creekmur(because I have no idea who that is).

Wilson and Levy because Levy seems like JHU

[The Gipper]

@ish said:

Nixon and Jurgenson are Duke.

Taking wild guesses on Clinton and Creekmur(because I have no idea who that is).

Wilson and Levy because Levy seems like JHU

Check on Duke.  No on the other two.  

[The Gipper]

@the-gipper said:

Whittling it down for you.  Here is what is left:

Presidents, alphabetically:

..Bill Clinton..Thomas Jefferson.....John F. Kennedy.....Richard Nixon.....Barack Obama.....James K. Polk....Woodrow Wilson

Football Greats alphabetically

...Lou Creekmur.......Henry Jordan.....Sonny Jurgenson.....Marvy Levy.....Sid Luckman......Art Rooney........Lawrence Taylor

OK, at the point where hints are appropriate.   Here are the schools left, this should help:

Harvard.    Columbia.  Virginia.  North Carolina.  Georgetown.  William & Mary

[The Gipper]

@the-gipper said:

Here is Today's Trivia Question.

I am giving you 2 lists.   List A  is  US Presidents.   List B are  Football Greats.

Your job is to match which  POTUS and which football player  went to the same college.

Presidents, alphabetically:

Jimmy Carter........Bill Clinton....Gerald Ford.....Benjamin Harrison....Herbert Hoover....Thomas Jefferson.....John F. Kennedy.....Richard Nixon.....Barack Obama.....James K. Polk....Donald Trump.....Woodrow Wilson

Football Greats alphabetically

Chuck Bednarik.....Tom Brady.....Lou Creekmur.....John Elway....Henry Jordan.....Sonny Jurgenson.....Marvy Levy.....Sid Luckman.....Ben Roethlisberger.....Art Rooney.....Roger Staubach.....Lawrence Taylor

Answers:

Jimmy Carter and Roger Staubach,    Navy

Bill Clinton and Art Rooney:   Georgetown

Gerald Ford and Tom Brady:  Michigan

Benjamin Harrison and Ben Roethlisberger:  Miami, Ohio

Thomas Jefferson and Lou Creekmur:   William & Mary

John F. Kennedy and Marv Levy:  Harvard

Richard Nixon and Sonny Jurgenson:  Duke

Barack Obama and Sid Luckman:  Columbia

James K. Polk and Lawrence:  North Carolina

Donald Trump and Chuck Bednarik:  Penn

Woodrow Wilson and Henry Jordan:  Virginia

.....and how about this one for a Bonus:    Joe Biden and Jim Brown:   Syracuse!!   (Biden: Law School).  Undergrad would be Joe Biden and Joe Flacco...Delaware (though I guess we were talking HOFers) 

[The Gipper]

And here you go:    Ohio  colleges attended by Potus guys:

Hiram College:   Garfield

Kenyon:   Hayes

Mt. Union:  McKinley

Ohio Central College, now a part of Muskingam:   Harding

Cincinnati  Law school:   Taft

Miami, Oh.    Benjamin Harrison.         MIami is the only one of these that also had a PFHOFer:   both Paul Brown and Weeb Ewbank (and Ben R. eventually) 

[The Gipper]

And here is something else I suspect that you did not know:     of all of our Presidents...ONLY    6 of them graduated from Law School:

Nixon.   R.B. Hayes.  Obama.  Taft.  Ford.  Clinton.      (if Biden wins he would be 7th) 

You say:  How can that be?  :

Because a number of others attended law school...but did not graduate;   and many, back in the "old days"  did the Apprentice thing:

Presidents who were lawyers but did not attend law school include: John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams; Andrew Jackson;Martin Van Buren; John Tyler; James K. Polk; Millard Fillmore; James Buchanan; Abraham Lincoln; James A. Garfield; Grover Cleveland; Benjamin Harrison; and Calvin Coolidge each of whom achieved their status as a lawyer through independent study. 

Presidents who were admitted to the bar after a combination of law school and independent study include; Franklin Pierce; Chester A. Arthur; William McKinley; and Woodrow Wilson.

[mjp28]

And how many had no college at all?  It's a low number. 

[The Gipper]

@mjp28 said:

And how many had no college at all?  It's a low number. 

Yes, low number.   Here are the ones that did not graduate from any college, but many did attend:

Did not graduate from college[edit]

• George Washington (the death of Washington’s father ended his formal schooling; however, he believed strongly in formal education, and his will left money and/or stocks to support three educational institutions and he received a surveyors certificate from the College of William and Mary)^[1]
• James Monroe (attended the College of William and Mary, but dropped out to fight in the Revolutionary War)
• Andrew Jackson
• Martin Van Buren
• William Henry Harrison (attended college including Med school at Penn, but never received a degree)
• Zachary Taylor
• Millard Fillmore (founded the University at Buffalo)
• Abraham Lincoln (had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind)
• Andrew Johnson (no formal schooling of any kind)
• Grover Cleveland
• William McKinley (attended Allegheny College, but did not graduate; also attended Albany Law School, but also did not graduate)
• Harry S. Truman (went to business college and law school, but did not receive a degree from either)

[mjp28]

You won't see that again but it was a different time back then.  Now college is pretty much a prerequisite to run even statewide, grad school is pretty much needed to run for president.

Overkill or a necessity now?

[The Gipper]

On the other side of the coin:  

Our most "learned" Potus  would be Woodrow Wilson.   He is the only President to ever be a Ph.D.  (Johns Hopkins).  His undergraduate was from Princeton.    He also attended the University of Virginia Law school, but did not graduate. 

Also...the only  Potus with an MBA:   George W. Bush   Harvard.   Kennedy took graduate business courses (but did not degree) at Stanford. 

The only Potus to study medicine:  William Henry Harrison,   as noted above.  Again, did not graduate. 

[mjp28]

I thought Trump had an MBA from Warton?  I thought there might be a few more.

Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Trump attended Fordham University for two years and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He became president of his father's real estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations to building or

Oh only a bachelor's in Economics?

[The Gipper]

@mjp28 said:

You won't see that again but it was a different time back then.  Now college is pretty much a prerequisite to run even statewide, grad school is pretty much needed to run for president.

Overkill or a necessity now?

Trump did not have any grad school.  Nor did Reagan, nor Carter.  Kennedy took grad level courses, but did not degree.  Ike had no Grad school, but did take course in military instruction which today could be considered graduate school.  Truman did not graduate from college.

This just since WWII.