Here’s a really, really tough history quiz. VICE PRESIDENTS. After each President’s name are the initials of his Vice President. See how many you can name.
Scoring: If you name any more than the vice-presidents who became presidents, give yourself an A+. If you take the quiz at all. give yourself an A, unless you are a history major. We hold folks who hold BA degrees in history to a higher standard. But no one who has read this far gets less than a B.
Let‘s go…
George Washington‘s Vice President was John Adams.
Adams Vice President was Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson‘s first VP was Aaron Burr
Jefferson‘s second VP was George Clinton
Madison‘s first VP was George Clinton (same guy)
Madison‘s second VP was Eldridge Gerry (Think Gerrymandering)
Monroe‘s VP was Daniel Tompkins
John Q, Adams VP was John Calhoun
Jackson‘s first VP was the same John Calhoun
Jackson‘s second VP was next Pres: Martin Van Buren.
Van Buren’s VP was Richard Johnson
Harrison’s VP for 41 days was John Tyler
Tyler’s VP was None (Gotcha)
Polk’s VP was George Dallas
Taylor’s VP was next Pres, Millard Fillmore
Fillmore had no VP
Pierce’s VP was William King
Buchanan’s VP was John Breckenridge
Lincoln’s VP was Andrew Johnson
Johnson had no VP
Grant’s first VP was Schyler Colfax
Grant’s second VP was Henry Wilson
Hayes’ VP was William Wheeler
Garfield’s VP was next Pres: Chester Arthur
Arthur had no VP
Cleveland’s VP was Thomas Hendricks
Harrison’s VP was Levi Morton
McKinley’s first VP was Garret Hobart
McKinley’s second VP was next Pres: Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt’s VP was Charles Fairbanks
Taft’s VP was James Sherman
Wilson’s VP was Thomas Marshall
Harding’s VP became next Pres: Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge’s VP was Charles Dawes
Hoover’s VP was Charles Curtis
Roosevelt’s first was John Garner
Roosevelt’s second was Henry Wallace
Roosevelt’s third became next Pres: Harry Truman
Truman’s VP was Alben Barkley
Eisenhower’s VP was Richard Nixon
Kennedy’s VP was Lyndon Johnson
Johnson’s VP was Hubert Humphrey
Nixon’s first VP resigned: Spiro Agnew
Nixon appointed VP Gerald Ford
Ford appointed VP Nelson Rockefeller
Carter’s VP was Walter Mondale
Reagan’s VP was next Pres: George H. Bush
Bush’s VP was Dan Quayle
Clinton’s VP was Al Gore
George W. Bush’s VP is Dick Cheyney
7 comments:
interesting how many I didn't know... probably get a B on this one :) Sandra
chuck I failed pretty bad on this.
Excuse me old chap, but this is a bit difficult for me, I had big problems with the Presidents! Hugs. Terry x http://journals.aol.co.uk/tellsg/bowl-of-cherries
Twenty-one! (Math major) The initials helped a lot. The ones I missed I had mostly never even heard of before. I guess some VPs were just not memorable.
~~Silk
http://SilkenDrum.blogspot.com/
Hey, I did better than I expected. Got somewhere between 15 & 20 (didn't keep count) right. Guess the fact that I love history had something to do with it. Yes, some VP's are very forgettable! Annie
ok stupid question???? why did some not have VP? I failed this one bad real bad lol
Deb
See question in comment below. Some presidents did not have vice presidents because they had been the vice president themselves...and had taken over when the president died. Befo xdsare WWII there was no provision for appointing a vice president when the office was vacant. By the time
Spiro Agnew resigned the VP job, there was a law that said Congress cculd appoint a VP. They appointed Ford, a congressman. When Nixon resigned, Ford became president without ever having been elected.
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