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U.S. Presidential Trivia

Changes: May 15, 2012

Hello, I hope you enjoy the new look to our site. If you have comments you can send them to me at wenzloff@yahoo.com. I created this site because I enjoy history and find the U.S. Presidents fascinating.

I am adding more facts to various Presidents and First Ladies. I also have been working on a site about Lewis and Clark. It is just in its beginning phases. I hope to have it done for the next school year.

New - Presidents who served in the Armed Forces. List branch of service and wars.

New - Presidential Pets - Learn of the common and not so common animals owned by the presidents. Which president had grizzly bears and who had cows grazing on the White House lawn. (Most of this information can be found in the separate presidential pages, but due to interest I added a page devoted to pets. Also, I found some new information to add to the pet topic.

On the left you will find links to facts and trivia about the US Presidents. Also, visit our new pages on First Ladies of the United States.

I have added quick facts to all most every page and am currently working on pages with more information on Assassinations and Assassination Attempts. I have completed four files and have 4 to go.

Jim

The Presidential Oath of Office

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Qualifications for the Presidency of the United States
Constitution: Article II, Section I, Paragraph 5:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen years a Resident within the United States.

Nicknames of the Presidents - A list of common and uncommon nicknames to refer to our Presidents.

Presidents who Died in Office

Vice Presidents who became President

Assassinations and Assassination Attempts -New

Presidential Salaries

Oldest Presidents Living and deceased as of 12/29/2006

Books and videos on the Presidents - New

Presidential Pets

Lesson Ideas:

• Who Am I? Have students prepare a list of clues based on the facts they find on one president. They should list the clues from the hardest to guess to the easiest. They should read the list to the class. (Perhaps have two teams.) They want to stump the class as long as possible. Give points for the number of clues they gave before the other team guess who they were.
  
  
• Read some of the trivia and facts to the class. Assign each student or pair of students one president. Go to the library or the internet and have your students find other interesting facts on their assigned President. Have them make a campaign add and bumper sticker for their President. They could create digital posters on glogster.edu.
  
  
• Have the students prepare and give one minute speeches about their President. Have the students present it in the first person. "I was the 16th President of the United States. etc."

Topics

First Ladies

Presidents who died in office

Assassinations and Assassination Attempts

Vice Presidents who became Presidents

Presidential Salaries

Oldest living Presidents

Presidents' Military Service

Books about U.S. President

Pets of the Presidents

The Presidents of the United States. 22 September 2004: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

Davis, Gibbs and Ilus. David A. Johnson. Wackiest White House Pets. New York: Scholastic Press, October 2004

James, Barber and Amy Pastan. Smithsonian Presidents and First Ladies. New York: DK Publishing, 2002

Kane, Joseph Natan. Facts about the Presidents from Washington to Johnson. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1964.

McCullough, Noah, The Essential Book of Presidential Trivia. Random House, USA, 2006

Pine, Joslyn, Presidential Wit and Wisdom: Memorable Quotes from George Washington to Barack Obama . Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, 2009

Huffington Post web site.

Lang, Stephen, The Complete Book of Presidential Trivia, Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, 2011

O'Reilly, Bill, and Dugard, Martin, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2011

St. George, Judith In the Line of Fire: Presidents' Lives at Stake , Scholastic Inc. New York, 2001

I have set a goal of reading a book about all of the deceased presidents. I share the ones that I have read as well as my current reading. You can view the books on my book page. I am open to suggestions of books to read. (jim@anewadventure.org.)

What I am currently reading:

Gurzman, Kevin R.,James Madison and the Making of America, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2012

This page was last updated on Tuesday, May 15, 2012

For comments or corrections email jim@anewadventure.org.