US President Quiz

[scbelle]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

Woodrow Wilson.

Which President was presented with the first National Thanksgiving Turkey (although, despite popular myth, he did not pardon the turkey)?

I'm thinking Truman. It was 1947 when the NTF started giving an annual turkey to the First Family.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by scbelle

I'm thinking Truman. It was 1947 when the NTF started giving an annual turkey to the First Family.

That's the correct answer, as far as I know.

[epchick]

Super easy question:

Who was the first president to live in the White House?

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by epchick

Super easy question:

Who was the first president to live in the White House?

John Adams

Who was the first President to be photographed?

[sceniczip]

John Q. Adams?

[Thetagirl218]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

John Adams

Who was the first President to be photographed?

While Wiki and others say J Q Adams.....I am going with the White House on this one...

Polk

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

While Wiki and others say J Q Adams.....I am going with the White House on this one...

Polk

Polk is correct, as far as I know. I know some sites say John Q. Adams, but, as you said, I'll go with the White House site.

[sceniczip]

Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

While Wiki and others say J Q Adams.....I am going with the White House on this one...

Polk

yea I found like three different answers so I just took the most popular one lol. But I wasn't at all sure.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

That's incorrect (at least according to the source I used).

Your source may have noted whichThursday in November Thanksgiving is to be noted, but Lincoln declared the first national Thanksgiving:

From NPS (so this is public domain):

BLESSINGS OF FRUITFUL FIELDS

Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the settlers at Plymouth in the Massachusetts colony in 1621 under the leadership of Governor William Bradford. Washington and Madison each issued a Thanksgiving proclamation once during their Presidencies. It was not until 1863, however, when Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation that the holiday was established as a national annual event, occurring on the last Thursday of November. The first observance of the national holiday came one week after the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg. The language of the proclamation is beautiful and marked by a rare felicity of expression.

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the everwatchful providence of almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and provoke their aggressions, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Stated States to be affixed.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION, OCTOBER 3, 1863.

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creat...hes/thanks.htm

http://www.classicallibrary.org/linc...anksgiving.htm

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Your source may have noted whichThursday in November Thanksgiving is to be noted, but Lincoln declared the first national Thanksgiving:

I think you misread - I said first National Thanksgiving Turkey, not first National Thanksgiving holiday...

Originally Posted by sceniczip

yea I found like three different answers so I just took the most popular one lol. But I wasn't at all sure.

That's what I thought originally as well; Adams was a pretty darn good guess anyways.

[Thetagirl218]

Ok, since I got the last one.....I will go ahead and ask one....

When and by whom was the title of "First Lady" given?

[honeychile]

*blushes at her earlier mistake*


First Lady was first used for the niece of President Buchanan, a Miss Lane, but I forget her first name. Dolley Madison was called First Lady at her funeral, and other wives of the Presidents picked other titles for themselves. Mrs. Lincoln wanted to be called "Madame President" - it fell on deaf ears.

But President Hayes actually made the title popular for his wife, Lucy.

[Thetagirl218]

Originally Posted by honeychile

*blushes at her earlier mistake*


First Lady was first used for the niece of President Buchanan, a Miss Lane, but I forget her first name. Dolley Madison was called First Lady at her funeral, and other wives of the Presidents picked other titles for themselves. Mrs. Lincoln wanted to be called "Madame President" - it fell on deaf ears.

But President Hayes actually made the title popular for his wife, Lucy.

Yea!! You got it!!! I wasn't trying to pick on you, its just reminded me of this bit of trivia!!! I love this game!!!

Your turn honey!!!!

[honeychile]

^^Thanks!

In one of the dirtier campaigns, the Republicans used

"Ma! Ma! Where's my Pa?
Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha!"

to slander which Democratic candidate (who won)?

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by honeychile

^^Thanks!

In one of the dirtier campaigns, the Republicans used

"Ma! Ma! Where's my Pa?
Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha!"

to slander which Democratic candidate (who won)?

My guess is that it was Jimmy Carter being slandered, and I think he won.