6. Homework Help

6.8. The Answer is "I Don't Know"
 

1. Who wrote a movie script called "Old Ironsides"?

2. Who was the first American president not to wear eyeglasses while in office?

3. Every president has taken dancing lessons. True or False?

4. Who was the first president to campaign using the telephone?

5. He had been arrested a number of times.

6. Whose father gave him a gun when he was 10?

7. Which president(s) do not have a statue erected in their home towns?

8. Which presidents in the 1900s endorsed (a) commercial product(s)?

9. Who was the most popular vice president [vice-president]?

10. Who was the funniest White House lady?

11. Which President was elected on Jan. 7?

12. How many mothers lived to see their sons become presidents?

13.  What President along with his brother Joseph once spent a night in jail as a teenager?

14. Whose mother said to her son when he told her he was running for President, "President of what?"

15. Which president performed the best parlor trick?

16. Which former president refused secret service detail after leaving office?

17. Which U.S. president began the custom of giving Christmas presents to the White House domestic staff? What year did he start the custom? What gift did each receive?

18. Which president was put on a $2 a day allowance by his wife?

19. What president was portrayed as a prisoner counting down that days?

20. What President left the White House saying "I enjoyed every moment of it!"

21. What was Taft's son William's nickname?

22.  Who said "We'll bag the old fox in the morning"?

23. Which president was married in a cemetery?

24. Has any United States President, other than John Quincy Adams, ever argued a case in front of the Supreme Court?

25. Who ate his dinner with gold spoons?

26. Which president was the first to use fireworks at his inauguration?

27. What is the name of the college who has had the distinction of  having both the president and vice-president nominees of a major political party who ran as a team in the same year?

28. This president invented campagin buttons.

29.  His inaugural speech was the first recorded in Morse Code.

30.  He kissed 32 girls at his first inauguration (1 for each state).

31. He likes to sit in the White House office barefoot with his feet in a wastebasket?

32. What were President Hoover's informal advisors called?

33. What President's oath was delayed becuse the oath was misplaced?

34. Who was the first president to give a dog a presidential pardon?

35. On VJ day which future president had his pocket picked at Times Square?

36. I need to give a "toast to the Presidency of the United States" what should be included in a proper toast?

37. Name the U.S. President that owned a Christmas tree farm?

38. Which first lady was addicted to snuff?

39. Who was the oldest person to be nominated for the President of the U.S.?

40.  How many presidents knew how to drive a car?

41. Who inherited the presidency with the United States being the World's biggest debtor?

42.  Which president wrote 37 books?

43.  What president had the most cabinet members who were investigated for wrong doing?

44. Which President was a known cross dresser?

45. Which First lady served her guests topless. (it was a french dress craze)

46. Which U.S. president established a 10 hour work day for  federal employees?

47. One president met his wife in a tap dance class. True or False.

48. Which two presidents (both from southern states) taught dancing?

49. Astrologically speaking, what rising sign governed most of the presidents of the U.S.?

50. Which President juggled as a hobby?

51. Who was the first to meet a Japanese emperor?

52. Who held 3 governmental positions when he was elected president?

53.  Who founded the Daughters of Liberty?

54. Who was the first president to participate in a PGA tour event.

55. Who ordered the flying of the U.S. flag above the White House and over every school in the U.S.?

56. He had a green house added to the White House?

57. Which major party was started in New Hampshire?

58. His slogan was "Let's make American great again."

59. What President was buried in 5 coffins, one inside of another?

60. Which president won the office in the first election in which candidates campaigned openly?

61. What President made a speech at a Nominating Convention?

62  Only president to perform in Las Vegas?

63. Who banned the color yellow from the White House?

64. Who said,"I am only an average man, by George, but I work harder at it than the average man"?

65. Which President said The Arabian Nights was his favorite book?

66. Franklin Roosevelt's two famous trademarks were what?

67. He personally designed the landscaping for the White House?

68. Who was the doctor who attended both President Lincoln and President Garfield when they were shot?

69. Who had the Presidential nickname of Petticoat Pet and and Wobbly Willie?

70. What president was the first to grant a reporter a formal interview?

71. Who was the president to catch 2 thieves in the White House?

72. Which first lady said she never went into the kitchen?

73. Who was the first president to meet a reigning British monarch?

74.  Which president let a convict out of jail so the convict could ride in inauguartion parade?

75. Which President liked to eat "soup and pancakes"?

76. Which president made famous the phrase "Don't quote me"?

77. Which President hosted the first inaugural ball for 400 people?

78. I have heard that all of President Hoover's servants were the exact same height.  Do you know what height this was?

79. Where is the mistake in George Washington's portrait in the East Room?

80. Name two presidents who sang and tapped in staring roles in college (same college, presidents after 1920)

81. Why did skinflint Calvin Coolidge head for the cellar?

82. Who was the first to decorate the White House at Christmas with electric bulbs?

83. Which president is credited with originating modern sqaure dancing? (one of  the 1st 5 presidents)

84. He ruled Thanksgiving Day was unconstitutional?

85. What did alert security agents find in a fountain pen sent to President Hoover?

86. Which president would lock himself in the bathroom to do work?

87. What was the first movie shown in the White House and what president viewed it?

88. "Always take take your job seriously, but never yourself" was the advice of which President?

89. When was the fence installed in front of the White House?

90. How did Edith Wilson's right arm get skinned raw?

91. How many foreign languages did Thomas Jefferson speak?

92. What did opera singer Leontyne Price sing during Pope John Paul's  second White House visit?

93. You mention that Fillmore was related to eleven other presidents and Tyler to two.  To which presidents were each of these men related?

94. How many pounds did William Howard Taft weigh on the day he was inaugurated?

95.   I need to know about the driveway at Andrew Jackson's home, the Hermitage. What shape is it in?

96. When was parachute silk used for curtains?

97. What did Teddy Roosevelt nickname his wife Alice Roosevelt?

98.  Besides Franklin Pierce (the only president from New Hampshire) and Henry Wilson (the only vice-president from New Hampshire) which other men have run for president?

99. Who was the first president to tape-record his press conferences? It was either Harry Truman or Dwight Eisenhower.

100.  Which President insists that an amendment should be added to the Constitution making desecration to the flag illegal?

101. Who was the President that ordered the flying of the U.S. flag above the White House and over every school in the U.S.?