U.S. Presidential Trivia

Hello, I hope you enjoy your visit to our site. If you have comments you can send them to me at . I created this site because I enjoy history and find the U.S. Presidents fascinating. I have read at least one book on all of the decease presidents. I have formatted my notes as bullet point to make them easy to read.

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 - Timeline for U.S. Presidents. It includes key dates for all of the presidents. It is a work in progress and should be done soon.

On the left you will find links to facts and trivia about the US Presidents. On the right is a list of topics about US Presidents.

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

Inaugurations

Presidents who served in the Armed Forces.

First Ladies of the United States.

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."
Other web sources about the Presidents:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/Presidents

http://www.presidents.website/

Topics

NEW Facts about the Inaugurations

Nicknames for the Presidents

First Ladies

Presidents who died in office

Assassinations and Assassination Attempts

Vice Presidents who became Presidents

Presidential Salaries

Oldest living Presidents

Presidents' Military Service

Preidential Timeline of Key Dates

Books about U.S. President

Pets of the Presidents

Chronlogical (by Year) Order
Of the Presidents.

Sources:

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

In addition to these books, I have also read and have used information from those listed on my Books About Presidents page.

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U.S. Presidential Trivia