Download or read book Presidential Trivia written by Richard Lederer and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidential Trivia: The Feats, Fates, Families, Foibles, and Firsts of Our American Presidents Revised and Updated from the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book—Presidential Trivia. In it you’ll find all the detailsabout the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as: Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first president to be born an American citizen? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but certainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker?
Download or read book The President Did What written by Nancy Ragno and published by Nancy Ragno. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go Behind the Scenes at the White House to Uncover Intriguing (Sometimes Startling) Facts About the U.S. Presidents -- Facts Few Others Know Not just another book about the presidents! THE PRESIDENT DID WHAT? is structured as a trivia quiz (multiple choice) to make it interactive and keep you guessing. But that’s not all. Turn the page to check your answer. Each answer page is fully illustrated and provides additional information about the president in question. (Every president is covered, from George Washington to Barack Obama.) Plus, there’s a complete list of the presidents and their vice-presidents for easy reference. THE PRESIDENT DID WHAT? is really two books in one: (1) an entertaining quiz book of surprising, sometimes quirky, facts about the U.S. presidents; and (2) an illustrated, informative guide that helps you gain an insight into what each president was like, his personality, and why he deserves to be remembered (or not). No more drawing a blank at the mention of such presidents as Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, or Benjamin Harrison. Thanks to THE PRESIDENT DID WHAT? you’ll know details about even the “forgotten presidents,” details history buffs may be unaware of. For example, see the sample questions below. What president . . . ? worked as a model in college and was on the cover of "Cosmopolitan"? invented "Baked Alaska" and "Chicken a la King"? made all his own suits and a suit for the governor of Kentucky? was so cheap he served White House guests ice water in paper cups? allowed his son's two pet alligators to roam loose in the White House? ˃˃˃ Who should read this book? U.S. history buffs ... trivia buffs ... students ... teachers ... those looking for a fun, informative read, and those who enjoy an intellectual challenge. Is this book suitable for children? Yes, for those in the middle grades and higher. As one teacher commented: “This book of presidential trivia was fun to read and would make an excellent addition to a history teacher’s bookshelf or to an elementary teacher’s supplemental material.” ˃˃˃ What's more . . . THE PRESIDENT DID WHAT? is a great party book. It’s a rich source of cocktail-party openers. It’s an ideal book for the coffee table ... bedroom ... bathroom. It’s the perfect book to take on a trip. And ... it makes a great gift!
Download or read book The Essential Book of Presidential Trivia written by Noah McCullough and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I want everyone to know about the history of the United States and about important political events and issues and how they work.” –Noah McCullough, age ten, 2032 presidential hopeful Noah McCullough may just be this country’s youngest presidential historian ever–and in this delightful volume he gives us hours of entertainment with an illustrated tour of America’s forty-three presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush. The political whiz kid famed for his appearances on “The Tonight Show” offers up brief bios and fun facts about our nation’s leaders, as well as trivia questions such as • Which president could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time? • What do the first president born in Connecticut and the last president born in Massachusetts have in common? • Which president was a Pulitzer Prize winner? Confident about your prez-smarts? Take Noah’s Ultimate Presidential Trivia Quiz and see where you stand. Forget your p’s and q’s; know your stars and stripes. If you love your country, you will love The Essential Book of Presidential Trivia.
Download or read book The Most Amazingly Awesome Pub Quiz Book Ever written by Dale Garcia and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Most Amazingly Awesome Pub Quiz Book Ever, you have experience the fun or a pub quiz in your own home, or help get one started at your local bar. George H. W. Bush became a millionaire by what age? While at Oxford Bill Clinton participated in what protests? Barack Obama was a graduate of what university? With answers to many questions like these, The Most Amazingly Awesome Pub Quiz Book Ever will help you take on even the most ardent of trivia enthusiast. With hundreds of questions on absolutely everything, you will always be ready for the ultimate trivia smackdown. It's got everything you need... except the alcohol!
Download or read book U S Presidents written by Ken Jennings and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trivia book combines engaging facts about the American presidents with illustrations and skill-reinforcing quizzes.
Download or read book Presidential Trivia written by Richard Lederer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great American History Quiz written by History Channel (Television network) and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The History Channel.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Presidential Trivia written by J. Stephen Lang and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of this “amusing set of questions and answers about America’s leaders”—their families, hobbies, habits, finances, and much, much more (Publishers Weekly). This entertaining collection of questions and answers about America’s leaders provides hours of brain-teasing fun. A wide range of subjects including famous firsts, hidden vices, family relationships, bad habits, strange pets, and last words is covered. Quick quizzes reveal: the only president to earn a Pulitzer Prize who submitted the first trillion-dollar budget to Congress who kept alligators in the White House who was the first to pay federal income tax on his presidential salary who was the first president—and, in fact, the first American—to have a Medicare card, and much more This updated third edition includes information on both Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Download or read book The Presidential Quiz Book written by Fred L. Worth and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Washington s Monumental Presidential Trivia Challenge written by Jonathan Ozanne and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Presidential Trivia Quiz Book written by William C. MacKay and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia written by Smithsonian Institution and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which president holds the record for the most vetoes? Which president had the largest shoe size? Who was the only president to serve in both World War I and World War II? Who was the tallest president? These questions and many, many more are answered in The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia, which has been fully updated to 2024 to include trivia question and answers about every US president to date. Divided into 11 chapters, The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia looks at every aspect of our heads of state and presidential history: Citizens, Officers, Heroes, and Saviors; Stumping: From Front Porch to Facebook; The Pledge and the Parties; Inside the Oval Office; The Perpetual Podium; Home, Hotel, Parlor, Playground; First Families; Impeachment, Controversy, Shame; Assassination; Death, and National Mourning; Presidents in the Popular Imagination; and The Quotable President. Many of the questions are accompanied with photographs of artifacts from the Smithsonian's collections. The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Trivia is sure to puzzle the trivia buff and presidential expert alike!
Download or read book Secret Lives of the U S Presidents written by Cormac O'Brien and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic compendium of weird, quirky, and politically incorrect presidential trivia is back—now with a chapter about the 45th American president, Donald J. Trump This updated and redesigned edition of Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents features outrageous and uncensored profiles of our commanders in chief—complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright wacko facts. You’ll discover that: • Teddy Roosevelt was blinded in a White House boxing match • John Quincy Adams loved to skinny-dip in the Potomac River • Gerald Ford once worked as a Cosmopolitan magazine cover model • Warren G. Harding gambled with White House china when he ran low on cash • Jimmy Carter reported a UFO sighting in Georgia With chapters on everyone from George Washington to Donald Trump, Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents tackles all the tough questions that other history books are afraid to ask: Which president claimed that God struck down Abraham Lincoln on purpose? How many of these folks were cheating on their spouses? And are there really secret tunnels underneath the White House? American history was never this much fun in school!
Download or read book Ronald Reagan Political Quiz Book written by Jay Borland and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where They Stand written by Robert W. Merry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries. Merry posits that presidents rise and fall based on performance, as judged by the electorate. Thus, he explores the presidency by comparing the judgments of historians with how the voters saw things. Was the president reelected? If so, did his party hold office in the next election? Where They Stand examines the chief executives Merry calls “Men of Destiny,’’ those who set the country toward new directions. There are six of them, including the three nearly always at the top of all academic polls—Lincoln, Washington, and FDR. He describes the “Split-Decision Presidents’’ (including Wilson and Nixon)—successful in their first terms and reelected; less successful in their second terms and succeeded by the opposition party. He describes the “Near Greats’’ (Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, TR, Truman), the “War Presidents’’ (Madison, McKinley, Lyndon Johnson), the flat-out failures (Buchanan, Pierce), and those whose standing has fluctuated (Grant, Cleveland, Eisenhower). This voyage through our history provides a probing and provocative analysis of how presidential politics works and how the country sets its course. Where They Stand invites readers to pitch their opinions against the voters of old, the historians, the pollsters—and against the author himself. In this year of raucous presidential politics, Where They Stand will provide a context for the unfolding campaign drama.
Download or read book U s Presidential Elections Trivia Challenge written by Jonathan Ozanne and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, fact-filled, comprehensive overview of U.S. election history; this book is a compendium of presidential trivia and features more than 1200 multiple choice questions covering every U.S. presidential election from 1789 to the historic 2016 campaign (through August 2016). More than 50 questions of the 1200 are about 2016 including questions about the candidates, the controversies, the historic milestones, and the strategies that each campaign is using. Which candidate has ties to the Scranton Lace Company? Which candidate's grandfather was a saloon-keeper in the Yukon? Which candidate is descended from Welsh coal miners? Which candidate is descended from Scottish farmers? What states will hold the keys to victory in 2016?For the elections from 2012 all the way back to 1789 there are questions about the candidates, the political parties, the issues, and the results of each election. See which prior elections most resemble 2016 and which ones are radically different.There are also a handful of questions about voting for president in America. Who could vote in 1789? When did former slaves get the right to vote? When did women get the right to vote?This book covers well-known facts as well as obscure ones. Which president was elected to the most terms? Which presidents have won over 500 votes in the Electoral College in a single election? Which election was so even than no state was won by more than 15,000 votes? Which state has not been won by the Republican candidate since 1972? Which states have not been won by the Democratic candidate since 1964? Which year did it take over 100 ballots at the convention for a candidate to secure the nomination?Buy this book and challenge your friends to a trivia question contest and see who knows the most about U.S. presidential elections. Buy this book and surprise your friends at the election night party with how much you know about U.S. presidential election history. This book is not connected with any campaign and tries hard to be fair to all past and present candidates for president.
Download or read book The Presidents written by Brian Lamb and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership. Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories -- their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, their moral authority, and more. The crucible of the presidency has forged some of the very best and very worst leaders in our national history, along with everyone in between. Based on interviews conducted over the years with a variety of presidential biographers, this book provides not just a complete ranking of our presidents, but stories and analyses that capture the character of the men who held the office. From Abraham Lincoln's political savvy and rhetorical gifts to James Buchanan's indecisiveness, this book teaches much about what makes a great leader -- and what does not. As America looks ahead to our next election, this book offers perspective and criteria to help us choose our next leader wisely.
