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    George Washington's Monumental Trivia Challenge
    George Washington's Monumental Trivia Challenge
    George Washington's Monumental Trivia Challenge
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    George Washington's Monumental Trivia Challenge

    By Jonathan Ozanne

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    A massive trivia book with only ten fewer questions than the Washington monument is feet tall! This book provides a grand trivia tour of the American presidents from Washington through Obama. It features 545 multiple choice trivia questions (and answers) about the 44 U.S. presidents. The 545 questions fit into categories as follows: 15 exciting questions to start the book; 7 questions about presidential birthdays; 97 questions covering every presidential election through the 2012 election; 23 questions about presidential programs; 21 questions about books and movies by or about presidents; 11 questions on presidential scandals; 15 questions on presidential pets; 22 questions about who was president when; 31 questions about presidential nicknames; 297 biographical questions (generally 5 to 10 questions about each president); and 6 questions about ex-presidents. In many cases the answers go into greater detail about a particular question. The answers are backed by an extensive bibliography. The questions are non-partisan with generally good things to say about any given president.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan Ozanne
    Release dateJun 10, 2015
    ISBN9781513094090
    George Washington's Monumental Trivia Challenge

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      George Washington's Monumental Trivia Challenge - Jonathan Ozanne

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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      The author is grateful for the encouragement he has received from his family and friends while writing this book.

      The author also wishes to thank Dr. Mark Joy, Dr. David Lorenzo, and Dr. Timothy Bratton, three fine professors who taught the author history and political science at the University of Jamestown, Jamestown, North Dakota

      INTRODUCTION

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      Welcome to a challenging quiz about the Presidents of the United States!  George Washington’s Monumental Presidential Trivia Challenge is a fun trivia challenge that teaches history! 

      There are a few different ways to use this book.  First it can be taken and graded like a school exam.  It can be a personal challenge to see how many questions you get right even if you have to guess on one or two or twenty questions.  You can write in the book or you can use your own paper to keep the book in nicer condition.  Another way the book can be used is as a party game where one person reads different questions to the group.  This can be done as a formal game with keeping score of correct answers and it can be done informally with only the most interesting questions being read aloud.  Also rather than competitively, a group could try to answer the questions cooperatively and see how well the group does. 

      To maximize the fun, here is another suggestion.  If you are working on this book on your own, it may take more than one sitting to complete it.  It might be more enjoyable to answer 5 or 10 questions each day.  It will make the book last longer and give it an added freshness.  It is ok when taking the presidential trivia challenge to take a few days (or more) to answer all the questions.  Just be careful that you do not peek at the answers to questions you have not attempted yet.

      A word about scoring.  Trivia questions by their nature are either easy or difficult.  Often either you know the answer or you do not.  Some questions in this book have clues in the question and in the answer choices that may help you to reason out the correct answer.  Some questions are more helpful than others, for example the true/false questions are not likely to offer much deductive help.  The main purpose of this book is to be fun, entertaining, and informative.  The secondary purpose is to be competitive.  If you have the fortitude to voluntarily take a five-hundred plus question quiz on the U.S. presidents, I congratulate you on your commitment to lifelong learning and your interest in American history.  Generally getting more than 50% of the questions correct is a good score.  So do not get discouraged if you get some wrong answers.  Sometimes you learn more from a wrong answer than a correct answer.  Whatever your age, and regardless of what score you get,  I hope this book is fun and inspires you to learn more about the presidents of the U.S.A.!  Good luck!

      PRESIDENTIAL INTRODUCTION

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      Action movies like The Spy Who Loved Me start with peril and excitement.  Why should a book of presidential trivia be any different?  Presidential close calls starts now!  

      1. True or False?  After being ambushed in a battle fought during  the French and Indian War, George Washington, then an officer in the Virginia Militia, discovered three bullet holes in his uniform but none of the bullets had wounded him?

      According to Constitutional Convention Delegate James Wilson of Pennsylvania, the most difficult debate at the convention was the debate on how the president should be elected.  (The answer to question 1 is on the next page)

      1.  True.  The general description is very true.  Although different accounts vary in exactly how many bullet holes Washington’s uniform suffered.  The British Army Expedition that the Virginia Militia was a part of was ambushed while traveling to attack the French Fort of Duquesne (near present-day Pittsburgh) and Washington was fortunate to walk away from the battle unscathed.

      2.  What did James Madison do as a university student during the American War of Independence?

      A.  Burn his draft card that required him to join the British Navy

      B.  Hide in the swamp with a rifle (but then he got cold and went home)

      C.  Break into the local armory and steal weapons from the British Army and give those weapons to American forces.

      2.  C.  Madison broke into a local armory and stole weapons which he gave to the local American forces.

      3.  True or False?  Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential rail car could survive being bombed on a bridge, the bridge blowing up and the rail car being dropped into the river or lake below even if the water was deep?

      3.  True.  Franklin Roosevelt’s train car was designed to survive both attempts to blow it up and attempts to drown the occupants.  The car was heavily armored and had a watertight compartment that could be quickly sealed.

      4.  True or False?  Before becoming president, Andrew Jackson fought a duel with a man over the man’s slander of Jackson’s wife, Rachel.  The slander accused Rachel of bigamy because her divorce from her first husband had not been finalized (unknown to her) before she married Andrew Jackson.  Jackson survived a gunshot wound to the chest.  His opponent did not.

      4.  True.  Andrew Jackson was tough and he had a temper.  The duel that he fought over his wife’s honor illustrates that clearly.

      5.  What future president saw the most front-line combat during the Civil War?  (In other words he was fighting the battle rather than directing the battle)

      A.  Ulysses Grant

      B.  James Garfield

      C.  Rutherford Hayes

      5.  C.  This is a slightly tricky question as Grant, Garfield and Hayes all saw battlefield combat in the Civil War.  Grant and Garfield were promoted faster and so saw less direct combat than Hayes.  Rutherford Hayes was wounded five times as he worked his way up the ranks.  Hayes participated in over 50 major battles. 

      6.  True or False? While campaigning for president in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest just before he was to give a speech in Milwaukee.  Despite being in pain and bleeding a bit, Roosevelt gave the speech before seeking medical attention?

      6.  True.  Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest.  His life was saved by his glasses case and a folded copy of his speech.  Those two items greatly slowed the bullet before it hit Roosevelt.  It still struck him hard enough that he suffered a rib injury that forced him to take some time away from campaigning.  Taft and Wilson both took a two-week break from the campaign trail to give Roosevelt some time to heal.

      7.  What happened when an assassin attempted to kill President Andrew Jackson?

      A.  The assassin missed and Jackson’s bodyguard shot the assassin.

      B.  The assassin hit but the shot was deflected off Jackson’s tobacco tin.  The assassin was later arrested.

      C.  The assassin’s guns misfired and Jackson beat the assassin with his cane.

      7.  C.  It was a wet day and that may have contributed to the misfires, or the assassin may not have loaded enough powder into his two pistols, both of which failed to fire.  Andrew Jackson, not being one to back down from a fight would have severely beaten his assailant had bystanders not intervened.  The man who tried to shoot Jackson was mentally ill.

      8.  Which president received a commendation for rescuing crew members after his PT-109 boat was rammed by a destroyer and sank during World War II?

      A.  John Kennedy

      B.  Lyndon Johnson

      C.  Richard Nixon

      8.  A.  John Kennedy received a commendation for rescuing crew members after his PT-109 boat was rammed by a destroyer.

      9.  True or False?  Franklin Roosevelt was nearly assassinated in 1933 while he was president-elect and although the assassin missed Roosevelt, the mayor of Chicago was fatally wounded?

      9.  True.  The assassin’s aim failed him.  Some accounts have it that his seat wobbled just as he began shooting and his aim was ruined.  Other accounts have that people in the crowd saw the gun and immediately attacked him disrupting his aim.  His shots missed Roosevelt but hit the mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak.  Cermak later died of his wounds.  Like many incidents involving presidents, conspiracy theories abound that Cermak was the intended target the whole time.  (The author is unpersuaded by such theories).

      10.  True or False?  George H.W. Bush was shot down in the Pacific while flying a combat mission as a

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