Presidential Trivia

We've promised this for a while, but here are some questions and answers. I've added some space between the last question and the first answer so you can block your screen and give yourself an honest quiz. But first, if you didn't hear last week's show, we interviewed Scott Collis and you can hear that show (as well as our prior ones) at http://www.GoingBeyondRadio.com/JeffBushman

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Questions:

1. From April 13, 1945 until January 20, 1949,who was the VP of the U.S.?

2. We know about the father-son presidents - Bush and Adams. Who were the only presidents who were grandfather and grandson?

3. Who was the only incumbent president to run for re-election and to come in 3rd in the voting? Bonus question - what year was this in?

4. What was Harry Truman's middle name?

5. What was the first name of our president between March (that's when we used to inaugurate presidents), 1913 and March 1921?

OK, here come the answers. COVER UP THE ANSWERS BELOW UNTIL YOU WANT TO CHECK YOUR ANSWERS





Answers: 1. We didn't have a VP. Until the 1960s, there was no constitutional provision for choosing a vice president when the sitting VP took the presidency on a presidential death, as Harry Truman did on April 12, 1945.

2. William Henry and Benjamin Harrison. The latter served between Grover Cleveland's 2 non-consecutive terms

3.William Howard Taft in 1912. Wilson was first, Teddy Roosevelt in an attempted comeback was 2nd, and Taft didn't do too well.

4. Harry didn't have a middle name. His parents only gave him an initial: S

5. Yes, I know you figured out that the president was Wilson, but Woodrow was his middle (and his mom's maiden) name. His actual first name was Thomas.

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