Trivia question: U.S. Presidents

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If Elendil doesn’t mind, I have my own:

Which POTUS began the tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey?

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Clinton? :dubious:

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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. ”?

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Wilson

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Damn! That was fast! :eek:

A tip o’the hat t’you, lad! :slight_smile:

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Not “Bubba”

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This lad thanks you. :wink:

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Nope.

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No other guesses?

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My “turkey pardon” question is also unguessed.

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George H.W. Bush

I’ll take a guess at Elendil’s Heir - Cornwallis?

And toss out an easy one: Shortest president? 5’ 4"

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Coriolanus-It wasn’t Bush 41. Madison was 5’4.

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Benjamin Franklin? Thomas Jefferson? Nathaniel Greene? Benedict Arnold? :confused:

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No as to each.

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?

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#2-Judge Sarah Hughes swore in LBJ in Dallas. (the skater was named in her honor)

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That would have been my next guess, honest! :slight_smile: 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?

This I should have guessed, only I wasn’t aware that TR and HCL were such bosom buddies.

I’ll guess Jimmy Carter, over some diplomatic gaffe or other.

Guessing: Truman, who was fond of his brisk constitutionals?

Guessing again: Lincoln, in re … Stanton? :dubious:

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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!

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Gerald Ford