U.S. Presidents Study Guide

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Theodore Roosevelt 125 John Fitzgerald Kennedy 98 Richard Nixon 93 Woodrow Wilson 92 Abraham Lincoln 89 Dwight David Eisenhower 89 Harry S. Truman 89 Lyndon Baines Johnson 89 Ronald Reagan 78 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 76 Herbert Hoover 74 Gerald Ford 73 Thomas Jefferson 72 Ulysses S. Grant 68 Jimmy Carter 66 Andrew Jackson 59 George Washington 59 William Howard Taft 56 John Adams 54 Grover Cleveland 50 Martin Van Buren 50 Calvin Coolidge 44 William McKinley 43 Warren G. Harding 41 Bill Clinton 40 James Madison 37 Andrew Johnson 36 William Henry Harrison 35 James Buchanan 35 John Quincy Adams 34 Benjamin Harrison 28 Zachary Taylor 27 George Herbert Walker Bush 26 Aaron Burr 24 Spiro Agnew 22 John Tyler 21 Rutherford B. Hayes 21 Franklin Pierce 21 James Monroe 20 James Garfield 20 Nelson Rockefeller 19 George Bush 18 James K. Polk 17 Walter Mondale 16 Hubert Humphrey 16 Chester Arthur 13 Dan Quayle 12 Virginia 10 Millard Fillmore 10 Barack Obama 10 George W. Bush 9 Chester A. Arthur 9 Hannibal Hamlin 9 H. Ross Perot 9 Ohio 8 Margaret Truman 8 John Adams & John Quincy Adams 8 Alben Barkley 8

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Theodore Roosevelt 125x 9.1% stumper $639 avg J:54 DJ:67 FJ:4

J $100 1989 Geronimo rode in this president's 1905 inaugural parade, & so did the Rough Riders

J $600 2009 Got hitched in 1905:Elefrank

DJ $3,000 DD 2016 1 of the 2 20th century VPs who had been governor of New York

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 98x 9.9% stumper $503 avg J:46 DJ:45 FJ:7

J $200 2003 He was the author of "Profiles in Courage"

J $500 DD 1999 "As We Remember Joe"

J $900 DD 1989 His parade featured many types of missiles & a PT boat

Abraham Lincoln 89x 12.9% stumper $445 avg J:46 DJ:39 FJ:4

J $200 2012 1863

J $600 2024 John Bell beat John Breckinridge by 156 to win Virginia in 1860; not so surprisingly, this guy got only 1.1% of the state's vote

DJ $1,000 1989 Nancy Hanks was his mother's maiden name

Harry S. Truman 89x 9.6% stumper $576 avg J:41 DJ:42 FJ:6

J $100 1996 "Give 'Em Hell Harry"

J $600 2015 While playing the piano at a Missouri fair, he said, "When I played this, Stalin signed the Potsdam Agreement"

J $1,000 2009 Signs the U.N. charter in San Francisco

Lyndon Baines Johnson 89x 12.2% stumper $565 avg J:45 DJ:37 FJ:7

J $400 2009 He drove around his Texas ranch in a convertible & stopped to have the Secret Service refill his scotch & soda

J $600 2004 The 13th & 14th Amendments were ratified during his term

J $1,000 2009 This future president disgraced himself as Lincoln's VP with a drunken speech on inauguration day

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 76x 7.4% stumper $497 avg J:29 DJ:39 FJ:8

J $100 1996 In 1944 Helen Keller campaigned for this president's fourth term

J $800 2007 Harvard University(class of 1904)

J $1,000 2021 All together, shout it now: "Happy days Are Here Again"

Herbert Hoover 74x 20.0% stumper $793 avg J:33 DJ:37 FJ:4

J $100 1990 His children, Herbert Jr. & Allan, were born in London, where he owned a mining company

J $500 1997 He was born to a blacksmith's wife August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa

J $1,000 2015 had previously served as Secretary of Commerce

Thomas Jefferson 72x 13.0% stumper $594 avg J:25 DJ:44 FJ:3

DJ $400 2013 Chronologically, he was the first who fits the category

J $800 2009 The wine tab for this Virginian president for one year in office was $7,597

J $1,000 2009 Napoleon crowned himself emperor

Jimmy Carter 66x 6.6% stumper $416 avg J:40 DJ:21 FJ:5

J $400 2019 He had a dog named Grits he liked to skritch

J $600 2009 Meets with Yitzhak Rabin & wife; meets with Anwar Sadat & wife

DJ $1,000 DD 2002 He was a cross-country runner at the U.S. Naval Academy

William Howard Taft 56x 30.2% stumper $751 avg J:27 DJ:26 FJ:3

J $200 2004 Howard

J $500 DD 2016 His earlier career included stints as U.S. Solicitor General & judge of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court

DJ $1,000 1997 The Cincinnati home of this President & Chief Justice is now a national historic site

John Adams 54x 24.1% stumper $683 avg J:28 DJ:26

J $100 1993 He wrote to his wife Abigail, "I must not write a word to you about politics"

J $500 1997 This first president from Massachusetts was called "The Colossus of Independence"

J $1,000 2025 Blew it with the Alien & Sedition Acts, dealt with the XYZ Affair

Martin Van Buren 50x 17.8% stumper $882 avg J:22 DJ:23 FJ:5

DJ $200 1992 Within weeks of his inauguration, the panic of 1837 struck, prompting some to call him "Martin Van Ruin"

DJ $600 1987 Given his name, it seems logical this 8th president belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church

J $1,000 2025 ...be born a U.S. citizen, though oddly, he was also the first to have English as his second language

Calvin Coolidge 44x 14.0% stumper $681 avg J:23 DJ:20 FJ:1

J $100 1985 First president to address congress in a radio broadcast, though we remember him as "silent"

DJ $600 1996 Though generally "silent", he was chosen to give the humorous speech at his college graduation

J $1,000 2010 Add the hair and mustache, make the coat purple, & this Vermont man, sworn into office by his dad, president or prince?

William McKinley 43x 24.4% stumper $973 avg J:14 DJ:27 FJ:2

DJ $400 2001 His passing came in Buffalo, New York from gunshot wounds

J $500 1997 In 1897 he said, "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed"

J $1,000 2006 Canton, Ohio

Warren G. Harding 41x 30.0% stumper $1,002 avg J:16 DJ:24 FJ:1

J $300 1998 His administration created a tempest in a teapot--whoops! Make that Teapot Dome

J $500 2001 He died of a stroke on August 2, 1923, right after his wife read an article about him, "A Calm View of a Calm Man"

DJ $900 DD 2006 He was editor & owner of the Marion, Ohio Star newspaper

James Madison 37x 32.4% stumper $912 avg J:17 DJ:17 FJ:3

J $200 2001 While Secretary of State from 1801 to 1809, he was president from 1809 to 1817

J $600 2007 In 1815 he had Congress authorize fighting with Algiers

J $1,000 2022 The War of 1812 was called this president's war

Andrew Johnson 36x 20.0% stumper $820 avg J:15 DJ:20 FJ:1

J $200 2025 In 1875 he became the 1st ex-prez to serve in the Senate but unlike another pres. of the same name didn't become "master of" it

J $500 DD 2016 He was the first vice president to assume the presidency upon the assassination of a president

J $1,000 2025 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina

William Henry Harrison 35x 12.1% stumper $718 avg J:16 DJ:17 FJ:2

J $200 2000 Henry

J $600 2011 WHH

J $1,000 2008 This aide-de-camp to "Mad" Anthony Wayne went on to become the first U.S. president to die in office

James Buchanan 35x 20.6% stumper $859 avg J:14 DJ:20 FJ:1

DJ $400 2007 "Bachelor President"

DJ $600 1996 When elected president in 1856, he had just served 3 years as minister to Great Britain

J $1,000 2007 His memoirs of his "Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion" were published in 1866

John Quincy Adams 34x 26.5% stumper $903 avg J:12 DJ:22

J $200 2006 JQA

J $500 2000 Abigail Smith

DJ $1,000 2000 This future president must have made Dad proud with 1804's "Letters on Silesia"

Benjamin Harrison 28x 10.7% stumper $739 avg J:11 DJ:17

J $200 2025 (Grover presents the clue.) You can say I am cute & very fuzzy, just like this rival who both beat Cleveland & lost to him; he was the last president to sport a full beard

J $500 1987 "Son of His Grandfather", who was also a president

J $1,000 2004 W is the first candidate since this man in 1888 to win the electoral vote & presidency while losing the popular vote

Zachary Taylor 27x 18.5% stumper $904 avg J:9 DJ:18

DJ $400 1992 After a June 1991 autopsy, coroners concluded that this president did not die by poisoning

J $600 2008 He was "Old Rough and Ready", a hero of the Mexican War

DJ $1,000 2001 War of 1812, Second Seminole War, Black Hawk War, Mexican War

George Herbert Walker Bush 26x 16.7% stumper $750 avg J:13 DJ:11 FJ:2

DJ $400 2011 While still vice president, he wrote the 1987 autobiography "Looking Forward"

J $800 2004 In the early '40s he was among the youngest pilots in the U.S. Navy

DJ $1,600 2002 He was the first baseman & captain of Yale's 1948 baseball team

Aaron Burr 24x 19.0% stumper $652 avg J:5 DJ:16 FJ:3

J $300 2000 Cyrus Griffin, the last president, went on to be one of the judges at this man's treason trial

DJ $800 2024 Hisloss in the 1800 election came about by a vote in the House of Representatives, not in the Electoral College

DJ $1,200 2004 ...Alexander Hamilton died

Spiro Agnew 22x $924 avg J:5 DJ:16 FJ:1

DJ $200 1995 After resigning in 1973, he opened Pathlite, Inc., a consulting firm

J $600 2016 In 1981 he was ordered to pay Maryland $250,000 to compensate for bribes taken while governor & vice president

DJ $1,800 DD 2014 November 9, 1918in Baltimore, Maryland

John Tyler 21x 26.3% stumper $1,037 avg J:5 DJ:14 FJ:2

DJ $200 1998 HENRY JOLT

J $500 DD 2000 He served as vice president for only a month before succeeding to the presidency

J $1,000 2006 He was the first vice president to become president upon the death of a president

Rutherford B. Hayes 21x 28.6% stumper $924 avg J:7 DJ:14

J $400 1998 RBH

DJ $600 1992 His father died before he was born so he was raised by an uncle, Sardis Birchard

J $1,000 2016 In 1879 he signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court

Franklin Pierce 21x 20.0% stumper $1,155 avg J:8 DJ:12 FJ:1

J $400 1992 "Handsome Frank"

DJ $600 1995 Nicknamed "Handsome Frank", he was the only president to affirm, not swear to, the oath of office

DJ $1,000 1997 On March 4, 1853 this president gave his inauguration address from memory without notes

James Garfield 20x 35.0% stumper $910 avg J:10 DJ:10

J $400 1986 He lingered for over 2 months before dying after Charles Guiteau shot him in 1881

J $600 2015 Abram

DJ $1,000 1998 This man with a reddish-brown mustache & beard served only 199 days of his term

Nelson Rockefeller 19x 11.8% stumper $812 avg J:2 DJ:15 FJ:2

DJ $200 1986 Vice president who was named after Rhode Island senator Nelson Aldrich, his grandfather

DJ $600 1995 Only 2 men have been appointed VP under the 25th Amendment: Gerald Ford & this New York governor

DJ $1,200 2011 This vice president had the same July 8 birthday as his very wealthy grandfather

George Bush 18x 11.1% stumper $506 avg J:5 DJ:13

DJ $200 1997 During the 1988 primary campaign, he quipped, "What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?"

DJ $600 2001 June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts

DJ $1,000 1984 V.P. who also served as ambassador to U.N. & director of the C.I.A.

James K. Polk 17x 52.9% stumper $882 avg J:7 DJ:10

DJ $200 1992 This president's name is believed to be a contraction of "Pollok", the ancestral name in Britain

DJ $800 1997 In 1849, less than a week before his death, this first "dark horse" president was baptized

J $1,000 2019 Zachary Taylor succeeded him, the first president who chose not to seek re-election after one term

Walter Mondale 16x 35.7% stumper $807 avg J:4 DJ:10 FJ:2

DJ $200 1995 This Carter VP's wife was nicknamed "Joan of Art" for her interest in that subject

J $500 2000 In 1976 Bob Dole & this running mate of Jimmy Carter met in the first televised vice-presidential debate

J $1,000 2016 The second vice president from his state, he was born in Ceylon...Ceylon, Minnesota, that is

Hubert Humphrey 16x 12.5% stumper $569 avg J:5 DJ:11

DJ $200 1989 He & his future running mate Lyndon Johnson began their Senate careers at the same time

J $600 DD 2019 He taught at the University of Minnesota in the early 1940s & then served as mayor of Minneapolis

DJ $1,800 DD 1995 In 1968 he won the Democratic presidential nomination without entering a single primary

Chester Arthur 13x 38.5% stumper $862 avg J:4 DJ:9

J $300 1997 His sister Mary Arthur McElroy acted as his White House hostess

J $500 1988 Among the White House renovations he made was cleaning out Garfield's cabinet

J $1,000 2015 Alan

Millard Fillmore 10x $1,189 avg J:2 DJ:7 FJ:1

DJ $400 1989 His mother was the former Phoebe Millard

J $500 1995 He appointed an entirely new cabinet on succeeding to the office after Zachary Taylor's death

J $1,000 2015 A book about this 13th chief executive is subtitled "The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President"

Chester A. Arthur 9x 11.1% stumper $756 avg J:6 DJ:3

J $200 1998 CAA

J $600 2018 The "A." was for Alan

DJ $1,000 1997 He was the last of 3 men to serve as president in 1881

Margaret Truman 8x 12.5% stumper $775 avg J:2 DJ:6

J $300 2001 (Hi, I'm Marvin Hamlisch, here at the Hollywood Bowl.)No mystery here, while her father was president, this soprano sang in concert at the Bowl

J $500 1986 While President Truman often called wife Bess "The Boss", he called her "The Boss's Boss"

DJ $1,000 1992 This murder mystery author's first name of Mary; Margaret is her middle name

John Adams & John Quincy Adams 8x $1,650 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:2

DJ $200 2000 The only 2 presidents who shared both a first name & a last name

DJ $800 1997 They're the 2 presidents born in Braintree, Massachusetts

DJ $1,200 2009 The 2 who are buried at the First Unitarian Church in Quincy, Massachusetts

Alben Barkley 8x 50.0% stumper $1,488 avg J:1 DJ:7

DJ $600 1995 The term "veep", denoting the vice president, was coined by the grandson of this Truman VP

J $1,000 2012 This Kentuckian was 71 when he became Truman's vice president in 1949, the oldest VP in history

DJ $800 1995 This running mate of Harry Truman was the 1st vice president to sit on the National Security Council

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New York 7x 25.0% stumper $900 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:3

DJ $200 1985 The 1st presidential mansion was located in this city

DJ $1,000 1994 Martin Van Buren was this state's attorney general from 1815 to 1819

FJ 2012 More VPs have been from this state than any other, including 2 20th century VPs who were its governor

Adlai Stevenson 7x 16.7% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $600 1997 His vice presidential candidates were John J. Sparkman in 1952 & Estes Kefauver in 1956

DJ $1,600 2023 Early contenders for the Democratic nom in 1960 before JFK got the nod included Hubert Humphrey & this man who'd run against Eisenhower

FJ 2003 The last major party Presidential candidate to lose twice to the same individual

Barry Goldwater 7x 14.3% stumper $1,057 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $200 2004 A button warned: this man "in 64 hot-water in 65"

J $600 DD 2007 This candidate played on his name with buttons that said Au H2O

DJ $1,600 2023 "In your heart, you know he's right" (a Republican, 1964)

Dick Cheney 6x 33.3% stumper $733 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $200 2012 Recent holder of the office seen here

J $800 2014 Like his boss, this VP started at Yale; unlike his boss, he didn't finish there, graduating from the University of Wyoming in 1965

DJ $1,600 2004 January 30, 1941:Lincoln, Nebraska

William Jennings Bryan 5x 66.7% stumper $1,933 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $800 2004 He was called the poor man's candidate in 1896; a campaign button quoted his "Cross of Gold" speech

DJ $2,000 2023 "Let the people rule" (a turn-of-the-20th century Democrat)

FJ 2024 The running mates of this candidate included John Kern, Arthur Sewall & Adlai Stevenson I

Richard M. Nixon 5x $467 avg J:3 FJ:2

J $100 1998 Milhous

J $1,000 DD 2003 He's the only vice president who became president not immediately after his vice presidency

FJ 1998 He was the last man elected president who had served as a U.S. senator

Amy Carter 5x 20.0% stumper $480 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2009 She illustrated dad Jimmy's 1995 children's book "The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer"

DJ $600 1992 This little Southern girl sold lemonade to reporters during her father's 1976 campaign

DJ $1,000 DD 1992 She was born Oct. 19, 1967, 15 years after her next youngest sibling

Al Smith 5x 50.0% stumper $850 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 1998 Important songs in this Democrat's 1928 campaign included "Better Times With Al" & "The Sidewalks Of New York"

DJ $600 1998 Babe Ruth & Gene Tunney were among the champions for this New York governor who ran in 1928

DJ $1,600 2016 In 1928 this New York governor used "The Sidewalks Of New York" in a losing contest against Hoover

a log cabin 5x 20.0% stumper $400 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2007 The rustic James A. Garfield was born in one of these rustic structures

J $1,000 2007 The Whigs used this structure as a symbol in William Henry Harrison's 1840 campaign

DJ $200 1990 Andrew Jackson & James Garfield were the first & last presidents to be born in this type of dwelling

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Warren Harding 4x 25.0% stumper $1,300 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $600 2004 Gamaliel

DJ $3,000 DD 2007 As a teenager in the 1880s, he played the helicon in the Marion People's Band in Marion, Ohio

J $800 2010 First Teapot Dome, & now Daugherty, his A.G., was on trial for shady dealings; he kept feeling that the end was near

the Republican Party 4x $250 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2015 Grant, Garfield & McKinley were 3 presidents belonging to this party

DJ $200 1986 All presidents who sported beards in office belonged to this party

DJ $200 1985 Political party of the 20th, 30th & 40th presidents

Henry Wallace 4x 100.0% stumper $867 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $800 1999 He was FDR's Secretary of Agriculture before becoming his vice president in 1941

J $1,000 2006 ...served from 1941 to 1945

FJ 1992 He served FDR as Commerce Secretary, Agriculture Secretary, and Vice President

4 4x $700 avg J:2 FJ:2

J $600 DD 1989 During the 1970s we had a total of this many different vice presidents

FJ 1987 Number of Vice Presidents of the last 50 years who later became President

FJ 1985 Since Hoover, number of presidents known to have faced unsuccessful assassination attempts

(Elbridge) Gerry 4x $850 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $800 2014 In 1814 this VP from Mass. for whom a political term is named died in office having served less than 2 years

DJ $1,000 1994 A term for rearranging election districts for political gain is derived from his name

J $800 2012 More famous today for his weird redistricting plans, he was vice president from 1813 to 1814

the Whigs 4x $725 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1990 After this party didn't want him anymore, Fillmore hooked up with the Know-Nothings

DJ $800 1997 Prior to becoming a Republican in the 1850s, Schuyler Colfax belonged to this party

DJ $1,200 2007 William Henry Harrison,1840

(Thomas) Dewey 4x $1,400 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $1,000 2013 Thisprosecutor & governor first got the GOP nomination in 1944

FJ 1998 He's the only GOP presidential nominee to lose 2 presidential elections

DJ $1,200 2013 I stayed on as gov. of N.Y. & turned down an offer to be Chief Justice of the U.S.; I also learned not to believe newspapers

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Veep 3 the Texas Rangers 3 the Navy 3 Speaker of the House 3 Princeton 3 Patti Davis 3 Mexico 3 Maine 3 John McCain 3 Ireland 3 Horace Greeley 3 Herbert Clark Hoover 3 Geraldine Ferraro 3 Gerald R. Ford 3 Eugene Debs 3 Edith 3 Connecticut 3 Chester Alan Arthur 3 Camp David 3 Buffalo 3 Betty Ford 3 Battlestar Galactica 3 3 3 24 3 Wendell Willkie 2 Washington Irving 2 Warren Gamaliel Harding 2 Tricia Nixon 2 The White House 2 the Whig Party 2 the Prohibition Party 2 the Philippines 2 the Kennedys 2 the House of Representatives 2 the Federalist Party 2 the Democratic Party 2 Tad 2 Slavery 2 Sherwood Forest 2 Ronald Wilson Reagan 2 Robert Dole 2 Richard Milhous Nixon 2 Quakers 2 Philadelphia 2 Pat Nixon 2 New York City 2 Mount Vernon 2 Morgan Freeman 2 Monrovia 2 Millie 2 Millard Fillmore or John Tyler 2 Medicare 2 Massachusetts 2 Martin Sheen 2 Martha Washington 2 Mamie Eisenhower 2 M-I-L-H-O-U-S 2 Libra 2 left-handed 2 Lady Bird Johnson 2 John Hancock 2 John C. Calhoun 2 John Anderson 2 Jenna Bush 2 jelly beans 2 Jeb Bush 2 James Polk 2 James Madison & James Monroe 2 James Knox Polk 2 James Earl Carter 2 Jacqueline Kennedy 2 Iowa 2 House of Cards 2 Grant's pants 2 Gerry Ford 2 George Wallace 2 George Shultz 2 George Dallas 2 Ford's swords 2 Fala 2 Episcopalian 2 Elizabeth Dole 2 Christine Todd Whitman 2 China 2 Chester's jesters 2 Cancer 2 Bush's tushes 2 broccoli 2 Barbara Bush 2 Arlington National Cemetery 2 Argentina 2 Aquarius 2 Alice 2 Alf Landon 2 Air Force One 2 a bull moose 2 1964 2 1952 2 (Baby) Ruth 2 $200,000 2 "His Accidency" 2 "Hail to the Chief" 2 the War of 1812 2 U.S. Senator from Texas 2

World War I

3 answers | 183 clues

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Woodrow Wilson 92x 18.4% stumper $845 avg J:30 DJ:57 FJ:5

J $100 1997 In December 1918 he sailed to France to attend the Versailles peace conference

J $500 1992 He was nicknamed "Professor"

DJ $1,200 2006 He was the head of Princeton University

Dwight David Eisenhower 89x 12.6% stumper $636 avg J:46 DJ:41 FJ:2

J $100 2001 As a child, he was known as "Little Ike"; he later dropped the "Little"

J $500 2000 He sent U.S. soldiers into Little Rock, Ark. to enforce a court order mandating school desegregation

DJ $1,000 2000 This president declared that "Any invasion of Formosa would have to run over the 7th Fleet"

Worth Knowing (1)

David Eisenhower 2

Modern (post-1990)

12 answers | 162 clues

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Gerald Ford 73x 19.4% stumper $669 avg J:29 DJ:38 FJ:6

J $300 1996 He called himself "Jinx of the Links"

J $600 2023 A place where a river is shallow enough to be crossed by wading

J $1,000 DD 2006 ...the last U.S. citizens were airlifted out of Saigon as it fell

Bill Clinton 40x 7.5% stumper $558 avg J:31 DJ:9

J $100 2000 This president appointed the first female attorney general

J $500 2000 William Jefferson Blythe III

J $1,000 2002 "The Final Days" (2001)

Barack Obama 10x 20.0% stumper $320 avg J:7 DJ:3

J $200 2021 Honolulu

DJ $800 2017 Of the 8 presidents born west of the Mississippi River, the one born farthest west

J $200 2016 Nelson Mandela

George W. Bush 9x 12.5% stumper $600 avg J:5 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $200 2023 Barack Obama

J $600 2026 Liberal columnist Molly Ivins nicknamed him "Shrub"; he called himself "The Decider"

DJ $2,000 2011 "I know Congress had to... invite me & it could've been a close vote. So, Mr. VP, I appreciate you being here to break the tie"

H. Ross Perot 9x 22.2% stumper $844 avg J:4 DJ:5

DJ $200 1999 The formation of new political organizations has been the hallmark of his presidential bids:(in 1992 & 1996)

J $600 2005 In early October 1992 he was spending $2 million a day, most of it his own money

DJ $1,600 2017 He ran twice as a third party candidate in the 1990s, the second time as the Reform Party's standard bearer

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Caroline Kennedy 5x $420 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2004 In 2002 she edited a new book of essays: "Profiles in Courage for Our Time"

J $600 2005 A Columbia Law School graduate, she married museum designer Edwin Schlossberg in 1986

J $300 2000 This first daughter had a dog named Pushinka given to her by Khrushchev & a pony named Macaroni

George Clinton 4x 25.0% stumper $1,250 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 2001 Member of Parliament seen here

DJ $1,600 2017 This former New York governor was funky enough to be veep under 2 presidents, Jefferson & Madison

J $800 2017 "Atomic Dog" & "Nubian Nut" are solo hits by this giant of funk music

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Stanford 3 impeachment 3 Socks 2 Hillary Rodham Clinton 2 Chelsea Clinton 2

Cold War

2 answers | 99 clues

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Richard Nixon 93x 11.6% stumper $621 avg J:44 DJ:42 FJ:7

J $100 1994 In a 1977 TV interview, he denied having committed any impeachable offense

J $600 2025 1913, in Yorba Linda, California

J $1,000 2021 Yorba Linda

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Al Gore 6x 16.7% stumper $700 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $200 2003 In 1993 he headed the National Performance Review, which suggested ways to reduce the costs of government

DJ $600 1994 This 45th vice president is only the second to hail from Tennessee

DJ $1,400 DD 2022 "You win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category... take it from me. Every vote counts"

Medieval

3 answers | 92 clues

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Ronald Reagan 78x 11.8% stumper $583 avg J:41 DJ:35 FJ:2

J $200 2019 In 1998 Congress wished him a happy 87th birthday by renaming Washington National Airport in his honor

DJ $800 2012 He attended the Illinois college called Eureka, which is also the motto of California, the state he governed

DJ $1,200 2007 Secretary of Education William Bennett, Secretary of State George Shultz

Dan Quayle 12x 8.3% stumper $683 avg J:2 DJ:10

DJ $200 1996 A post-election poll indicated that his being on the 1988 ticket cost Bush 4% of the vote

DJ $800 2009 He lost to the son of his former boss for the 2000 GOP nomination

DJ $1,200 2006 JDQ

Worth Knowing (1)

Joe Biden 2

Revolutionary Era

3 answers | 81 clues

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Andrew Jackson 59x 20.0% stumper $916 avg J:14 DJ:41 FJ:4

J $400 2010 Actor Samuel L. & country singer Alan

J $500 1998 Charlton Heston played this president in 2 films: "The Buccaneer" & "The President's Lady"

DJ $1,600 2013 Government funds were removed from the Bank of the United States & Texas declared its independence

James Monroe 20x 31.6% stumper $1,079 avg J:5 DJ:14 FJ:1

J $100 2001 While Secretary of State from 1811 to 1817, he might have been asked, "What's up, doctrine?"

J $600 2019 Deep in the red after years of public service, this 5th president got the government to pay off at least a portion

DJ $1,000 1994 He was president during "The Era of Good Feelings", which lasted from about 1817-1825

Worth Knowing (1)

the Declaration of Independence 2

Ancient

3 answers | 79 clues

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Ulysses S. Grant 68x 26.6% stumper $628 avg J:36 DJ:28 FJ:4

J $100 2001 U.S. Military Academy,1843

J $500 1998 In 1861 he was appointed a colonel in the 21st Illinois Volunteers

J $1,000 2003 Before the Civil War, he worked in real estate & at a leather store in Galena, Illinois

Hannibal Hamlin 9x 44.4% stumper $1,467 avg J:2 DJ:7

J $1,000 2014 This VP under Lincoln was born in Paris--Paris, Maine

J $1,000 2003 1861-1865

DJ $1,000 1995 Lincoln's first vice president, he died on July 4, 1891 in Bangor, Maine

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Michael Douglas 2

Civil War

6 answers | 74 clues

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Grover Cleveland 50x 29.5% stumper $766 avg J:20 DJ:24 FJ:6

J $300 1994 This 22nd & 24th president wrote several books, including "Fishing and Shooting Sketches"

DJ $800 1993 Between his terms as president he lived on Madison Ave. in New York & took the train to his job at a law firm

DJ $1,000 1992 The music for his 1886 White House wedding was provided by John Philip Sousa & the Marine Band

Ohio 8x 12.5% stumper $1,367 avg J:2 DJ:6

DJ $400 1993 The 18th, 19th & 20th presidents, Grant, Hayes & Garfield, were all born in this state

DJ $800 2023 In the Civil War William McKinley served in a regiment from this state, commanded by Rutherford B. Hayes

J $1,000 2017 In Marion in this state you can stand on the front porch for which Warren Harding's laid-back 1920 campaign is named

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John Nance Garner 7x 57.1% stumper $1,086 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $800 1991 As VP during FDR's first two terms, he helped put through the New Deal program

J $1,000 2005 Vice president from 1933 to 1941, he's best remembered for his acerbic quips about the job's worthlessness

DJ $1,000 1994 He challenged FDR for the presidential nomination in 1940, while serving as FDR's vice president

Jefferson Davis 5x $300 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $100 1987 In 1835, Zachary Taylor's daughter married this future president of the Confederacy

DJ $200 1998 President Lincoln's beard was fuller than that of this Confederate counterpart

J $400 2008 Zachary Taylor disapproved of his daughter Sarah's 1835 marriage to this future Confederate president

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Robert Todd Lincoln 2 James A. Garfield 2

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George Washington 59x 15.5% stumper $376 avg J:24 DJ:34 FJ:1

J $100 2001 1732-1799

J $500 1989 He was the only president inaugurated in two different cities

DJ $1,000 1999 "The Atlas of America"

Virginia 10x $490 avg J:4 DJ:6

J $200 1997 On December 28, 1856, Woodrow Wilson became the eighth president born in this state

J $600 2011 Like Patrick Henry before him, Tyler was governor of this state

DJ $1,000 1989 John Tyler & his father, who was also named John, both served as governor of this state

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