Sunday, February 18, 2007

Presidents' Day Quiz

Here’s a quiz for President’s Day. Name the Forty Three presidents. I have given you a hint for each, and even left a couple of landmarks to help you get the right order. Drag your cursor over the blank space to show the name if you get stuck.

1 WASHINGTON       First President

2 ADAMS                Father of 6th Presdident

3 JEFFERSON          Louisana Purchase

4 MADISON           War with England

5 MONROE            Doctrine

6 J.Q. ADAMS       Son of 2nd President

7 JACKSON           Stonewall

8 VAN BUREN      Self educated

9 HARRISON      41 days in office

10 TYLER          Tippicanoe, #10 Too

11 POLK           Gold Rush days

12 TAYLOR      Died in office

13 FILLMORE   Last of 4 Whig pres.

14 PIERCE       Gadsden purchase

15 BUCHANAN Only Bachelor

16 LINCOLN     Emancipated slaves

17 JOHNSON    Was impeached

18 GRANT       Civil war general

19 HAYES       “Stole” election 1876

20 GARFIELD  Assassinated

21 ARTHUR    Took over for #20

22 CLEVELAND Non-consecutive terms

23 HARRISON       Same name as #9

24 CLEVELAND     Same as #22

25 McKINLEY       Assassinated

26 ROOSEVELT    Bully Rough Rider

27 TAFT             Weighed 350 pounds

28 WILSON        World War I

29 HARDING      VP when #28 died

30 COOLIDGE     Silent Cal

31 HOOVER        Depression started

32 ROOSEVELT   Elected four times

33 TRUMAN       Fired Gen MacArthur

34 EISENHOWER      WWII general

35 KENNEDY           Assassinated

36 JOHNSON         VP when #35 died

37 NIXON              Resigned

38 FORD               Appointed President

39 CARTER            Peanut farmer

40 REAGAN          Movie actor

41 BUSH            Father of President

42 CLINTON         Impeached

43 BUSH             Son of #41

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was fun only got about half of them , thanks!

Anonymous said...

Oh my, I have lived during 12 of them.... guess Im getting a bit older. Sandra