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  • What?   No Guts, no Glory people?

    I began this yesterday on Facebook.  I will repeat them here:     Here are Tuesday  President's Week  trivia questions.

    It is less than a week before Presidents Day. Which means that I present my usual Presidential Trivia, which you can expect several questions a day from now until next Monday. Here are today's. Give your answers:
    1. Name the 4 Presidents who were assassinated.
    Lincoln,  Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy.   (and some rumors say that Harding may have been poisoned...by his wife no less.)
     
    2. Name the two Presidents who died the very same day the very same year.
    John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.   Both died on July 4, 1826,   exactly 50 years to the day after the official dating of the Declaration of Independence
     
    3. A. Hillary Clinton, had she been elected, at 5'5" would actually have only been the second shortest POTUS we would have had. Who was the shortest?
    James Madison at  5'4".    Next were Benjamin Harrison and Martin Van Buren, both at 5'6"
     
    B. Who was our tallest President?
    Abraham Lincoln  6'4"    Then LBJ  at  6'3.5".  Then Trump at 6'3".
     
    4. The 25th Amendment has actually been invoked twice. Who were the two President's for whom the VP had to take over for briefly?
    Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.   Both were for less than a day due to being placed under anesthesia due to medical procedures....like a colonoscopy for Bush.  I did NOT find that the 25th Amendment was invoked after Reagan was shot. 
     
    5. There have actually been 5 Presidents who attained the Presidency despite losing the national popular vote. Name them.
     John Quincy Adams  lost by about  38,000 votes
    Benjamin Harrison  lost by about 90,000
    Rutherford B. Hayes  lost by about 252,000
    George W. Bush  lost by about 543,000
    Donald Trump lost by about 2,868,000

  • Here are today, Wednesday's President's Week trivia:

    Today's Presidents Week Trivia:
     
    1. Who was the youngest President when he took office?
    Teddy Roosevelt  Age 42.   Next were JFK  43, Clinton and Grant  46, Obama 47
     
    2. Who is the oldest President when he took office?
    Biden  78   Next were Trump  70, Reagan 69, WH Harrison 68
     
    3. Which Potus died at the youngest age?
    Kennedy  age  46.   Next was Garfield  49,  Polk  53, Lincoln 56
     
    4. Which Potus lived the longest?
    Jimmy Carter   96 and counting.   Next were GHW Bush  94, then  Ford and Reagan  93
     
    5. What was the longest space in years between the death of 2 Presidents? Name them.
    About  27 years passed between the death of George Washington in 1799  and then  Adams and Jefferson on the same day, July 4, 1826.    The next longest gap was between the deaths of LBJ and Nixon, 21 years apart. 

  • Day 3    Presidents Week  Trivia.

    Here is today's Potus Trivia.    Today....all about Military Service:

    1. Which President held/holds  the highest military rank  ever?

    2.  Which President, of those that served,   held the lowest Military Rank?

    3. Which President  served in active military service  AFTER  his term of office?

    4. Which is the only President to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor?

    5.  Which  2 Presidents  were  POWs  at some point?

    6. What  2 Presidents assumed active "battlefield command"   while they were Commander-in Chief? 

  • Today's President's Week Trivia.....Education:
     
    1. Name all those colleges in Ohio that were attended by a President. Hint: 6 schools
     
    2. Who was the only President to have a PhD.?
     
    3. Who is the only President to attend medical school? (but did not finish)
     
    4. Who is the only President with an MBA?
     
    5. Which Presidents graduated from the US Military Academy/West Point?
     
    6. Which President graduated from the US Naval Academy?
     
    7. Which 2 Presidents....like Elle Woods, have a law degree from Harvard?

  • Here is today's Potus Trivia.    Today....all about Military Service:

    1. Which President held/holds  the highest military rank  ever?

    George Washington.....held/holds  the rank:   General of the Armies of the United States.  It is the highest rank that was ever, or ever will be granted to an American Military person.  Basically the only  "6 star"  General ever issued.      

    Eisenhower  was a  5 star General.    Grant was a  4 star General.  

    Other Generals:    Jackson, WH Harrison, Taylor, Hayes, Garfield;  Taft   were  2 star Generals.   Peirce, Arthur,  Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison were 1 star.

    2.  Which President, of those that served,   held the lowest Military Rank?

    James Buchanan.   He was just a private during the War of 1812.    the lowest rank of all who served.    And he was the ONLY President who did serve that did not attain officer rank: Lt. or above

    (though note, I think 13 Potuses  did not perform any military service)

    3. Which President  served in active military service  AFTER  his term of office?

    Millard Fillmore.    Fillmore mustered up a company from Western NY during the Civil War and led them with the rank of Colonel

    4. Which is the only President to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor?

    Teddy Roosevelt, for his San Juan Hill event. 

    5.  Which  2 Presidents  were  POWs  at some point?

    George Washington during the French and Indian War  (which he basically, personally started by the way).  Held for a period by the French

         and Andrew Jackson, during the Revolutionary War, held by (and brutalized) by the British

    6. What  2 Presidents assumed active "battlefield command"   while they were Commander-in Chief? 

    George Washington during the "Whiskey Rebellion";   and James Madison supposedly during the British sack of Washington DC in the War of 1812

  • Today's Presidential Trivia:
     
    1. Who is the only President to have been an Eagle Scout?
     
    2. Who is the only President not to have identified himself as a Christian?
     
    3. Name the State Capitals that have been named for a President?
     
    4. What President has had a foreign Capital named after him?
     
    5. Name the 3 Presidents who had neither natural nor adoptive children. (step-children do not count)
     
    6. In today's money, name the top 5 wealthiest Presidents we have ever had.
  • Today's President's Week Trivia.....Education:
     
    1. Name all those colleges in Ohio that were attended by a President. Hint: 6 schools
    Hiram:   Garfield;     Kenyon:   Hayes;   Miami Oh:  Benjamin Harrison;  Mt. Union:  McKinley;  Ohio Central College nka  Muskingam:  Harding;  Univ. of Cincinnati (Law):  Taft
     
    2. Who was the only President to have a PhD.?
    Woodrow Wilson  from Johns Hopkins
     
    3. Who is the only President to attend medical school? (but did not finish)
    William Henry Harrison  attend Penn med school
     
    4. Who is the only President with an MBA?
    George W. Bush  Harvard
     
    5. Which Presidents graduated from the US Military Academy/West Point?
    Grant and Eisenhower
     
    6. Which President graduated from the US Naval Academy?
    Carter
     
    7. Which 2 Presidents....like Elle Woods, have a law degree from Harvard?
    Hayes   and Obama
  • 1. Who is the only President to have been an Eagle Scout?
    Gerald Ford
     
     
    2. Who is the only President not to have identified himself as a Christian?
    Abraham Lincoln
     
    3. Name the State Capitals that have been named for a President?
    Jackson MS,  Jefferson City  Mo.,  Madison Wisc.;  Lincoln Neb. 
     
    4. What President has had a foreign Capital named after him?
    James Monroe:   Monrovia, Capital of Liberia
     
    5. Name the 3 Presidents who had neither natural nor adoptive children. (step-children do not count)
    Washington  (had stepchildren that he treated as his own...but he never adopted them).   Polk.    Buchanan (our only gay President)
     
    6. In today's money, name the top 5 wealthiest Presidents we have ever had.
    All estimated of course, adjusted in today's dollars :
    Trump   4.5 billion  ....though that may prove to unravel, but if true, his net worth would be more than all other Presidents combine. 
    Washington  587  million
    Jefferson 236 million
    Teddy Roosevelt 139 million
    Jackson  132 million
     
    Extra note:    all these guys had estimate net worths of under  1 million....again, in today's dollars
     

  • Who:  Gives a fuck.?

    "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.
  • DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan

    Who:  Gives a fuck.?

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    Who:  Gives a fuck.?

    Trump does.  He wants to know if there any questions here that apply to him.   And, there are:

    Who is the only President to be impeached twice?  Who is the only President that led an insurrection that resulted in the death of 5 people.  And, maybe, before too long:  who is the only President to be indicted criminally after he left office. 

    Note though....that has happened to a couple of VPs:   Aaron Burr and Spiro Agnew.

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