Presidents Quiz – May 2020

For 2020-21, the Presidents groupings are as follows:

  • El/Mid: Group B #16-#33 (#16-#24 in the first round, #25-#33 in the second round)
  • Jr/Sr: Group B #16-#33 in the first round, Group C #28-#45 in the second round

The themes are all divisions will be Occupations and Posts, and Jr/Sr also plays Immigration.

Identify the president from each clue.
Presidents Group B
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
24. Grover Cleveland
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin Roosevelt
33. Harry Truman

#16-#33

  1. I appointed Theodore Roosevelt to the position of Civil Service Commissioner.

  2. I was a lawyer who served in the legislature of my home state in the North. I also served as governor. I was from the state political party as my predecessor.

  3. I gained national fame in a losing effort to defeat incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas.

  4. I named James G. Blaine as my secretary of state and Robert Lincoln as my secretary of war.

  5. The first annual Academy Awards were presented by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

 
Identify the president from each clue.
Presidents Group C
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin Roosevelt
33. Harry Truman
34. Dwight Eisenhower
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon Johnson
37. Richard Nixon
38. Gerald Ford
39. Jimmy Carter
40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H. W. Bush
42. Bill Clinton
43. George W. Bush
44. Barack Obama
45. Donald Trump

#28-#45

  1. My predecessor and I couldn’t be more different. Not only were we from different parties, he had been a college professor, and I had been a newspaper publisher.

  2. The Simpson-Mazzoli Act granted amnesty to more than 3 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. while I was president.

  3. I am the only president who was born in my native state. My father was not born in the United States.

  4. I married Edith Bolling Galt in a private ceremony while I was president.

  5. The Immigration and Nationality Act overhauled the U.S. immigration system while I was president. It ended national origin quotas.

 

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