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Presidents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Father of His Country. American Cincinnatus. American Fabius | George Washington |
| The Colossus of Independence. Old Rotundity. Old Sink or Swim | John Adams |
| The Apostle of Democracy. The Sage of Monticello. The Man of the People | Thomas Jefferson |
| Father of the Constitution. Little Jemmy. His Little Majesty | James Madison (At 5'4" he is the shortest president) |
| The Era of Good Feelings President. The Last Cocked Hat | James Monroe |
| Old Man Eloquent. The Abolitionist. The only American President to be elected to the House of Representatives after his Presidency. | John Quincy Adams |
| Old Hickory. The Hero of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson |
| Old Kinderhook. First language was Dutch, not English. | Martin Van Buren |
| Old Tippecanoe. Washington of the West. Died within a month of being president. | William Henry Harrison |
| His Accidency. Only President elected tothe Confederate Congress; but died before his term began. | John Tyler |
| Young Hickory. The Napoleon of the Stump | James K. Polk |
| Old Rough and Ready | Zachary Taylor |
| American Louis Philippe | Millard Fillmore |
| Handsome Frank | Franklin Pierce |
| Old Public Functionary. Bachelor President | James Buchanan |
| The Great Emancipator. The Rail-Splitter. First president to be assassinated. Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater | Abraham Lincoln |
| Tennessee Tailor. First President to be tried for impeachment. Impeachment failed by 1 vote. | Andrew Johnson |
| Unconditional Surrender | Ulysses Grant |
| Rutherfraud or His Fraudulency | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Boatman Jim. Second president to be assassinated. Shot by Charles Guiteau; died 3 months later. | James Garfield |
| Chet. Gentleman Boss | Chester A. Arthur |
| Uncle Jumbo. His Obstinacy. Only president to serve two non-consecutive terms | Grover Cleveland |
| Human Iceberg. Little Ben. Grandson of William Henry Harrison | Benjamin Harrison |
| The Napoleon of Protection. 3rd President to be assassinated. Shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition | William McKinley |
| The Lion. TR. The Hero of San Juan. Trustbuster | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Big Chief. Big Lub. Only president to serve on the Supreme Court; he was the Chief Justice during the 1920s | William Howard Taft |
| The Phrasemaker. The Schoolmaster. | Woodrow Wilson |
| Wobbly Warren. Died of a cerebral hemorrhage. His presidency was plagued by the Teapot Dome Scandal; though he had no direct knowledge of it. | Warren G. Harding |
| Cautious Cal. Silent Cal | Calvin Coolidge |
| The Great Engineer. The Great Humanitarian. The Chief | Herbert Hoover |
| FDR. Only president elected 4 times. Died at the beginning of his 4th term. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Give 'Em Hell Harry | Harry Truman |
| Ike. Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during WW2 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Jack. JFK. 4th President to be assassinated. According to the Warren Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the shooting; but many doubts linger | John F. Kennedy |
| Landslide. LBJ. | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Tricky Dicky. Only president to resign from office. | Richard Nixon |
| Jerry. Mr. Nice Guy. Only person to never have been elected Vice-President or President. | Gerald Ford |
| The Peanut Farmer | Jimmy Carter |
| Dutch. Great Communicator. The Gipper, The Teflon President. Shot by John Hinckley Jr. but survived | Ronald Reagan |
| Poppy. 41 | George H.W. Bush |
| Bubba. Slick Willie. Comeback Kid. Big Dog. Second president tried for impeachment but was not convicted. | Bill Clinton |
| Dubya. 43 | George W. Bush |
| No Drama | Barack Obama |
| Whiskey Rebellion occurred during his presidency. | George Washington |
| His cabinet included Hamilton at Treasury Secretary and Jefferson as Secretary of State. His VP was John Adams | George Washington |
| This president's home was Mount Vernon | George Washington |
| The Quasi-War with France occurred during his presidency | John Adams |
| State that gave birth to the most presidents | Virginia (8) |
| 1st president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject. | Martin Van Buren |
| This president's home was Monticello | Thomas Jefferson |
| This president's home was Sagamore Hill | Theodore Roosevelt |
| While Illinois may be the Land of Lincoln, Lincoln was born in this state | Kentucky |
| Although incorrect, local belief claims that his man was President for one day | David Rice Atchison |
| First president born in Hawaii | Barack Obama |
| His presidency saw the 9/11 attacks, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2008 Recession | George W. Bush |
| His presidency saw the passing of the Affordable Care Act, the Stimulus, Dodd-Frank Act. | Barack Obama |
| This president appointed Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. A third appointment, Merrick Garland, is in limbo | Barack Obama |
| This president appointed Samuel Alito and the current Chief Justice, John Roberts. | George W. Bush |
| This president appointed Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court. Scalia passed away in early 2016 | Ronald Reagan |
| The Watergate Scandal occurred during his presidency; forcing him to resign on August 8th, 1974 | Richard Milhous Nixon |
| Namesake curse that plagued any president elected in a year ending in zero | Tecumseh's Curse (Did not affect Presidents Reagan (1980) or George W. Bush (2000).) |
| His presidency saw the dot.com boom, the Bosnia and Kosovo Wars. He was tried for impeachment for the crime of perjury but as acquitted. | Bill Clinton |
| Iran-Contra Scandal occurred during the Great Communicator's presidency | Ronald Reagan |
| "Read My Lips: No New Taxes" came back to haunt this man's promise when taxes increased during this Presidency | George Herbert Walker Bush |
| Gulf Storm (the 1st Iraq War) occurred during his presidency | George Herbert Walker Bush |
| This president, stood near the Berlin Wall and proclaimed to the world, "Mr. Gorbachev 'Tear Down This Wall'" | Ronald Reagan |
| "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" was a quote from his 1st inauguration , in hopes to calm people's fears about the Great Depression | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "December 7th, 1941, a day which while live in infamy" were his words when asking Congress for a declaration of war against Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" came from his first inauguration speech on January 20th, 1961 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| President whose domestic programs were called the Great Society. Included the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the creation of Medicaid and Medicare | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| President who escalated the Vietnam War in the 1960s; starting with the Golf of Tonkin Resolution | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| "That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth." were the closing remarks to his rather short Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincoln |
| This president was shot by Charles Guiteau, who was upset he was not given political office from this man. This president died a few months later due to infection from the gunshot | James Garfield |
| This anarchist, Leon Czologz, shot this man at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo, NY in 1901. This president's death gave way to President Theodore Roosevelt | William McKinley |
| He was the youngest man ever to be President (he inherited the office though) | Theodore Roosevelt |
| He was the youngest man ELECTED President | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| This president's legacy has been dubbed Camelot | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| The failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis were key points of this man's presidency | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| In a rather surprise move, he appointed his brother, Robert, to be his Attorney General | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| His vice-president was Dick Cheney | George W. Bush |
| His vice-president was Al Gore | Bill Clinton |
| His vice-president was Dan Quayle | George H.W. Bush |
| His vice-president was George H.W. Bush | Ronald Reagan |
| His vice-president was Richard M. Nixon | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| This man had three different vice-presidents: John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace and Harry S Truman | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| This former president of Princeton and NJ governor said it would be the great irony of his presidency dealt with foreign, rather than domestic, issues. He was proven right because of World War I. | Woodrow Wilson |
| His progressive presidency saw the passing of the 16th Amendment (Income Tax) and the creation of the Federal Reserve System | Woodrow Wilson |
| His progressive presidency saw the passing of the 17th Amendment (Direct Election of US Senators) | Woodrow Wilson |
| This president fought and won his battle against the 2nd National Bank of the United States | Andrew Jackson |
| President on the Two Dollar Bill | Thomas Jefferson |
| President who was affected by the Whiskey Ring and Credit Mobilier scandals | Ulysses S. Grant |
| President whose legacy was tarnished by the Teapot Dome Scandal, which came to light after his death in office | Warren G. Harding |
| This man was the governor of Massachusetts and Harding's VP before becoming president in 1923. He was the only president born on the Fourth of July | Calvin Coolidge |
| Before President Obama visited Cuba in 2016; he was the last sitting US President to visit the island; doing so in 1928 | Calvin Coolidge |
| President who signed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into law in 1970 | Richard M. Nixon |
| His National Security Adviser and Secretary of State was Henry Kissinger; he drafted the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 which ended the US role in Vietnam | Richard M. Nixon |
| Dubbed His Accidency upon taking over the presidency after the death of William Henry Harrison. He later joined the Confederacy Congress at the start of the Civil War | John Tyler |
| President who removed Union forces out of the South; ending Reconstruction in 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation was signed by this president in 1883 | Chester A. Arthur |
| "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far!" was a favorite quote by this President, known by such nicknames as TR, The Lion and the Trustbuster | Theodore Roosevelt |
| This President pushed for the creation of the Panama Canal in 1903 | Theodore Roosevelt |
| This president sent the Great White Fleet around the world in 1907; showing off American naval might | Theodore Roosevelt |
| This president won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905 for helping to end the Russo-Japanese War in Portsmouth, New Hampshire | Theodore Roosevelt |
| This president was the handpicked successor to Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was disappointed with this man and ran against him and Woodrow Wilson in 1912 | William Howard Taft |
| This president later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; a job he cherished much more than the Presidency | William Howard Taft |
| His presidency saw the Louisiana Purchase, the Barbary Wars against Tripoli and the Embargo Act against England | Thomas Jefferson |
| His presidency was marked by the War of 1812 (1812-1814) | James Madison |
| This president's namesake doctrine warn European nations to not interfere in the Western Hemisphere | James Monroe (Monroe Doctrine) |
| While president for only one term, it was most significant. The US gained the Oregon Territory and defeated Mexico in war. The US received the entire American southwest from Mexico as a result. | James Knox Polk |
| President who previously defeated Tecumseh at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. Died a month into office | William Henry Harrison |
| The oldest man ever elected president at age 69 (re-elected at age 73) | Ronald Reagan |
| His presidency was highlighted by stagflation and the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Famous for giving his 'Malaise speech' to the public, though the word malaise was never uttered | Jimmy Carter |
| This president was in charge of the Food Administration during World War I. Later, he was Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge | Herbert C. Hoover |
| Due to this president never having been married, some believe he was the first gay president, due to his close relationship with Rufus King. He is most remember for his failure to prevent the Southern states from seceding in 1860-1861 | James Buchanan |
| This president was known as a doughboy; a Northern with pro-Southern views. He is often forgotten in modern times. He was nicknamed Handsome Frank | Franklin Pierce |
| This general was of the Mexican War. He died from a stomach illness; one that could have been caused by eating raw fruit and drinking iced milk. Millard Fillmore took over as President | Zachary Taylor |
| Originally the VP for Zachary Taylor, his presidency is most noted for the Great Compromise of 1850; which admitted California as a free state and the creation of the Fugitive Slave Act | Millard Fillmore |
| This man was shot while giving a speech in Milwaukee in 1912. He had previously served 8 years as president and was running for a third term. Despite being shot, he still gave his speech to the audience. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| His presidency saw the Korean War, the use of the atomic bomb on Japan and the start of the Cold War. | Harry S Truman |
| This man's domestic policies were known as the Square Deal | Theodore Roosevelt |
| His many Great Depression programs were called the New Deal | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| This man's domestic policies were known as the Fair Deal | Harry S Truman |
| He was the first American president to visit Hiroshima; visiting there in May of 2016 | Barack Obama |
| His presidency saw the creation of the Interstate Highway System | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Some of this man's New Deal programs and legislation included Social Security, the Wagner Act, Glass-Steagall Act and the Tennessee Valley Authority | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| He appointed Frances Perkins as his Secretary of Labor; the first woman ever appointed to a presidential cabinet | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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