Election Watch 2008

September Trivia

Q 1. Who ran for President with the campaign slogan "Vote Yourself a Farm"? A: Abraham Lincoln
B: Grover Cleveland
C: Thomas Jefferson
D: James Blaine

Q 2. How many future U.S. Presidents signed the Declaration of Independence?

A: Two
B: Four
C: Six
D: None

Q 3. Who was the only U.S. President to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

A: Franklin Pierce
B: Rutherford B. Hayes
C: William McKinley
D: William Howard Taft

Q 4. Who ran for President with the campaign slogan "In your heart you know he's right"?

A: Jimmy Carter
B: Richard Nixon
C: Franklin D. Roosevelt
D: Barry Goldwater

Q 5. Which U.S. President had a pet mockingbird named "Dick"?

A: Thomas Jefferson
B: Millard Fillmore
C: Dwight Eisenhower
D: Richard Nixon

Q 6. Who was the first President to travel abroad?

A: John Q. Adams
B: Teddy Roosevelt
C: Chester Arthur
D: Herbert Hoover

Q 7. Who was the first U.S. President to be born an American Citizen?

A: James Monroe
B: Andrew Jackson
C: William Henry Harrison
D: Martin Van Buren

Q 8. Which President started the tradition of the Presidential "first pitch" of baseball season?

A: William Taft
B: Benjamin Harrison
C: Teddy Roosevelt
D: Woodrow Wilson

Q 9. Who was the only President to serve who was not elected by U.S. voters either as President or Vice President?

A: James Buchanan
B: Gerald Ford
C: Franklin Pierce
D: Harry Truman

Q 10. Who was the first President to visit all 50 states?

A: John F. Kennedy
B: Dwight D. Eisenhower
C: Richard Nixon
D: Harry Truman

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Answers

Answer 1. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran for President with the campaign slogan "Vote Yourself a Farm", referring to the Republican party's promise to support legislation granting free homesteads to settlers of the Western frontier. Four years later, during the Civil War, he ran for re-election with the slogan "Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream".

Answer 2. Only two future U.S. Presidents signed the Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

Answer 3. William Howard Taft was the only President of the United States to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In fact, Taft never really wanted to be President. He preferred law to politics and always aspired to serve on the Supreme Court. But his wife -- who wanted to be first lady -- had other ambitions for him. After four uncomfortable years as President, Taft left the White House and became a Professor of Law at Yale. In 1920, Taft finally realized his true dream when President Harding made him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a position which he held until just before his death in 1930.

Answer 4. In the 1964 Presidential campaign, Barry Goldwater used the slogan "In your heart you know he's right". Goldwater had taken a lot of heat from his opponent and the media who labeled him an extremist. This slogan was intended to convince voters that the "extremist" label was unwarranted and that his views were not that different from their own. It was, apparently, unsuccessful as Goldwater carried only 38.5 percent of the vote, losing to Lyndon B. Johnson in a landslide.

Answer 5. Thomas Jefferson had a pet mockingbird named "Dick" which he kept in the White House study. The bird often rode on Jefferson's shoulder and was trained to take small bites of food held between Jefferson's lips at mealtime.

Answer 6. Teddy Roosevelt - he visited the Panama Canal in 1906.

Answer 7. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) was born in New York on December 5, 1782, making him the first President born after the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Answer 8. William Taft started the tradition on April 4, 1910, during an opening day game between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.

Answer 9. Gerald Ford. In 1973 then-President Richard Nixon appointed Ford Vice President after former Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. When Nixon resigned from the White House on August 9, 1974, Ford became President.

Answer 10. Richard Nixon was the first President to visit all 50 states.

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