The Presidential Trivia Quiz

[BorderEevilIII]

How well do YOU know our past U.S. Presidents?
I sucked, I got 5/10......... I guess I was NOT good in US History :(

http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_120/Presidential_Trivia.html

[Lynn7]

I got three out of ten!!! I think I did good! LOL!

[ANavissi500]

I got 7 out of ten.

[Lynn7]

Originally posted by ANavissi500
I got 7 out of ten.

wow- i am definitely impressed!!!

[Scarface98.9]

5/10. Bedazzled reminded me of what play was going on while Lincoln was assassinated, so thank you Harold Raimis!

[Morgana]

3 out of 10.

Fuck, I'm surprised they didn't ask whether George Washington's dentures were wooden or ivory/gold. As a former dental technician, I think this is a very important part of American history. Not. ;)

http://www.goodteeth.com/gwteeth.htm

[BubbaStrangelove]

I hit 7 for 10./

Here's the ones I missed:

Although the first telephone message was exchanged between Thomas Watson and Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, it wasn't until 1929 that an American president, Herbert Hoover, had a telephone on his desk. Before then, the telephone was located in a booth outside the executive office.


Zachary Taylor, the 12th president, did not vote for Martin Van Buren, his opponent in the 1848 presidential election. But he didn't vote for himself either, nor for anyone else for that matter. A career military man who never established a permanent address, Zachary Taylor had never voted in his life when he won the office of the presidency.


On March 4, 1921, Warren G. Harding, the 29th president, was the first to ride to his inauguration ceremony in an automobile. He was also the first president to speak on the radio and have a radio in the White House.

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by BubbaStrangelove
I hit 7 for 10./

Dude! Same score, same missed questions.

Get out of my head.

[BubbaStrangelove]

Heh - I'd been more scared if either of us got those right.

[bmain77]

I got 6/10.

Somebody please explain to me how it took until 1929 for a U.S. president to have a phone in his office. That really bothers me for some reason. I mean it's understandable that on Little House on the Praire that little Laura had to visit the bitch Nellie Olsons home to make a phone call, but our president didn't have his own phone until 1929...wtf.

[QUENTIN]

8/10

What I got wrong:

Zachary Taylor, the 12th president, did not vote for Martin Van Buren, his opponent in the 1848 presidential election. But he didn't vote for himself either, nor for anyone else for that matter. A career military man who never established a permanent address, Zachary Taylor had never voted in his life when he won the office of the presidency.

Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president, was the first to receive a raise in salary (the salary of the president is established by Congress). Grant's presidential salary was increased in 1873 to $50,000. Today the president receives a salary of $400,000 plus a $50,000 expense account.

[jeo4]

8/10. Not bad, I suppose. What I missed:

In 1893, during his second term as president, Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president, had the cancerous upper portion of his jaw removed aboard a yacht. The public did not become aware of the operation until many years after Cleveland's death.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, was attending a performance of British playwright Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre* in Washington, D.C., when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.

[BubbaStrangelove]

Originally posted by jeo4
8/10. Not bad, I suppose.



Not bad? You got all the questions I thought were scary. (see response above)

What makes it even more scary is you knew who the first president to have a phone was, but not the play Lincoln was watching.

[Lindsey]

7/10

Sheesh. I thought I could have done better. I am smart though, when it comes to History!