# Trivia question: U.S. Presidents **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 28, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396 "2012-05-28T23:53:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/121 "2012-06-26T20:06:52Z")
If **Elendil** doesn’t mind, I have my own: Which POTUS began the tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/122 "2012-06-26T20:14:32Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > If **Elendil** doesn’t mind, I have my own: > > Which POTUS began the tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey? Clinton? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/123 "2012-06-26T20:16:43Z")
I have one too: Which president, when courting his second wife, was reported by a major metropolitan newspaper to have “spent the evening entering Mrs. ”? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/124 "2012-06-26T20:26:11Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I have one too: > > Which president, when courting his second wife, was reported by a major metropolitan newspaper to have “spent the evening entering Mrs. ”? Wilson ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/125 "2012-06-26T20:27:31Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > {Spoiler}Wilson{/Spoiler} **Damn!** That was **fast!** :eek: A tip o’the hat t’you, lad! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/126 "2012-06-26T20:27:42Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Clinton? :dubious: Not “Bubba” ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/127 "2012-06-26T20:28:55Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **Damn!** That was **fast!** :eek: > > A tip o’the hat t’you, lad! 🙂 This lad thanks you. 😉 ---
**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:** [June 27, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/128 "2012-06-27T01:56:44Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Hmmmmmmmm. I’d guess either John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, or Henry Lee, the delegate from Virginia? 😕 Nope. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/129 "2012-06-30T02:54:58Z")
No other guesses? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/130 "2012-06-30T04:24:04Z")
My “turkey pardon” question is also unguessed. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/131 "2012-06-30T05:30:38Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > My “turkey pardon” question is also unguessed. George H.W. Bush I’ll take a guess at **Elendil’s Heir** - Cornwallis? And toss out an easy one: Shortest president? 5’ 4" ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/132 "2012-06-30T05:52:27Z")
Coriolanus-It wasn’t Bush 41. Madison was 5’4. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/133 "2012-06-30T22:48:33Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > No other guesses? Benjamin Franklin? Thomas Jefferson? Nathaniel Greene? Benedict Arnold? 😕 ---
**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:** [July 1, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/134 "2012-07-01T00:46:39Z")
No as to each. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > - Why do we now have so few letters from George to Martha Washington? > > - Who nominated Washington to be commanding general of the Continental Army? > > - What is the only inanimate object ever to be pardoned by a President? > > - Where did Harry Truman speak, as scheduled, right after the failed assassination attempt against him at Blair House? > > - What Theodore Roosevelt pal later became a nemesis of another President? Martha Washington burned most of her letters from her husband. John Adams nominated Washington. Abraham Lincoln pardoned “the doll Jack,” a plaything of his son’s dressed as a soldier, for sleeping on duty. Truman went to speak at Arlington National Cemetery. Henry Cabot Lodge, a good friend of T.R.'s, bitterly opposed Woodrow Wilson over U.S. membership in the League of Nations. Here are some more: - To what synagogue did President Washington write a famous letter? - Who is the only woman to have sworn in a President? - Which President annoyed the Queen Mother? - What President got locked out of the White House while walking his dog? - Which President was memorably warned not to appoint a prominent Pennsylvania politician to his Cabinet? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/135 "2012-07-01T01:01:57Z")
#2-Judge Sarah Hughes swore in LBJ in Dallas. (the skater was named in her honor) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/136 "2012-07-01T11:55:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > John Adams nominated Washington. That would have been my next guess, honest! 🙂 The only reason I didn’t mention him before was because Why, I asked myself, would the gentleman from Massachusetts nominate a former militia captain from Virginia who had something less than a stellar record as a soldier? > [@](#): > > Henry Cabot Lodge, a good friend of T.R.'s, bitterly opposed Woodrow Wilson over U.S. membership in the League of Nations. This I should have guessed, only I wasn’t aware that TR and HCL were such bosom buddies. > [@](#): > > Which President annoyed the Queen Mother? I’ll guess Jimmy Carter, over some diplomatic gaffe or other. > [@](#): > > What President got locked out of the White House while walking his dog? Guessing: Truman, who was fond of his brisk constitutionals? > [@](#): > > Which President was memorably warned not to appoint a prominent Pennsylvania politician to his Cabinet? Guessing again: Lincoln, in re … Stanton? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/137 "2012-07-05T07:07:06Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I’ll guess Jimmy Carter, over some diplomatic gaffe or other. Ha! I was right; the answer is in Trivia Dominoes thread. Good ol’ Jimbo kissed the QM. I _knew_ I’d read something like that not too long ago! ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396/138 "2012-07-05T12:21:27Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > - What President got locked out of the White House while walking his dog? Gerald Ford [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-question-u-s-presidents/623396.md?page=6)