# A Presidential triva question **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 12, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161 "2008-03-12T22:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/21 "2008-03-13T15:56:03Z")
Calvin Coolidge ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/22 "2008-03-13T16:18:11Z")
Good trivia, **Little Nemo**! ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/23 "2008-03-13T16:27:59Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 1. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and… I forget. [/QUOTE] James Monroe ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/24 "2008-03-13T16:31:07Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] Calvin Coolidge [/QUOTE] Silent Cal was born on the 4th of July, but didn’t die on it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/25 "2008-03-13T16:39:37Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Hmmm. I don’t see any commonalities between them other than the obvious: each has lived in the White House, each served after George Washington, etc. But you say no other Presidents belong on the list. Lessee. Could it be that each was born in a state on the outermost edge of the U.S. (adjoining an ocean, a Great Lake, Canada or Mexico)? No… Jackson and Johnson were both born in Tennessee, weren’t they? [/QUOTE] Depending on who you ask, Jackson was born in either North Carolina or South Carolina. (SC has the official claim.) Johnson was born in North Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/26 "2008-03-13T17:34:44Z")
[QUOTE=Maus Magill] Depending on who you ask, Jackson was born in either North Carolina or South Carolina. (SC has the official claim.) Johnson was born in North Carolina. [/QUOTE] Both states on the outermost edge of the U.S. Hmmmm. Maybe I was right too, after all! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/27 "2008-03-13T18:13:29Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] and the last two Vice presidents ELECTED to the presidency were? [/QUOTE] If not directly after the end of their vice-presidential terms, I’m going to go with Bush Senior and Nixon. If directly, I’m going to have to disagree with **Elendil’s Heir** and say that Johnson counts instead of Nixon, not going as far back as Van Buren. (And wouldn’t Teddy Roosevelt count, since he was elected in his own right after McKinley was assassinated?) ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/28 "2008-03-13T18:49:25Z")
Bush I and Van Buren were the last two _sitting_ VPs to be elected POTUS. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/29 "2008-03-13T20:05:52Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] Bush I and Van Buren were the last two _sitting_ VPs to be elected POTUS. [/QUOTE] Thats what I meant…sorry fer not being clear. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/30 "2008-03-14T00:08:15Z")
1. What president was a King? 2. What president’s last surviving child died over 100 years after that president’s term ended? 3. Only one president has a major political subdivision (the equivalent of a state/province/department) \*and \*a city named after him in a country outside the US. Who? 4. Another president just has a city named for him in a country outside the US. Who? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/31 "2008-03-14T01:15:31Z")
1. What president was a King? Err. Leslie Lynch King, Jr., aka Gerald Ford? 1. Another president just has a city named for him in a country outside the US. Who?Monrovia, Liberia was named after James Monroe. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/32 "2008-03-14T01:56:30Z")
Great – but those were the easy ones. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/33 "2008-03-14T02:03:32Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. What president’s last surviving child died over 100 years after that president’s term ended? Was it Cleveland? I think he married late in his life. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/34 "2008-03-14T02:08:46Z")
i thought so to, but his last son died 98 years later by my count. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/35 "2008-03-14T02:11:11Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] 1. What president’s last surviving child died over 100 years after that president’s term ended? [/QUOTE] One of John Tyler’s children made it to the 1940s, but I forget if that child reached that benchmark ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/36 "2008-03-14T02:34:09Z")
Correct. She died 102 years after her father left office; he was 70 when she was born. One more to go. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/37 "2008-03-15T02:21:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Only one president has a major political subdivision (the equivalent of a state/province/department) and a city named after him in a country outside the US. Who? I’m guessing Washington. I know he’s got a lot of admirers in Latin America. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/38 "2008-03-15T02:21:32Z")
Rutherford Birchard Hayes had a department named after him in Paraguay. Also, Theodore Roosevelt had a river named after him in Brazil if I’m remembering right. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-presidential-triva-question/441161/39 "2008-03-16T22:38:25Z")
[QUOTE=Number] Rutherford Birchard Hayes had a department named after him in Paraguay. Also, Theodore Roosevelt had a river named after him in Brazil if I’m remembering right. [/QUOTE] Hayes also has a city named for him: Villa Hayes in the Presidente Hayes department. [See the map](http://geology.com/world/paraguay-map.gif) – Presidente Hayes is the pinkish area in the center, and Villa Hayes is at the southeastern coner of the department (and is its capital). Hayes – who has no honor approaching this in the US – had been asked to arbritrate in the War of the Triple Alliance. It was fought over the Chaco region, claimed by both Bolivia and Paraguay (though God knows why). If you see a map of Paraguay, the country looks like a peanut, and the upper “lobe” of the peanut is the Chaco – everything west of the Rio Paraguay. Hayes found in Paraguay’s favor, doubling the size of the country, and, in honor, the new area was name for him, and the city renamed. AFAIK, Hayes never visited the district and city that bore his name. ---
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