Answers to Trivia Quiz

[82Rigger]

1. Who was the youngest U.S. President (at time of swearing-in)?


Theodore Roosevelt (age 42)


2. Who was the first President who was born a U.S. citizen?


Martin Van Buren (born 1782)


3. Which U.S. President won a Pulitzer Prize?


John F. Kennedy, in 1957, for Profiles in Courage


4. Which U.S. President's campaign slogan was "54-40 OR FIGHT!"?

James Knox Polk


5. Who was the first U.S. President to appear on television?

Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1939, at the New York World's Fair


6. Who was the only U.S. President who never married, and died a bachelor?

James Buchanan


7. Which two U.S. Presidents are winners of the Nobel Peace Prize?

Theodore Roosevelt (1906) for peacemaking in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, and Woodrow Wilson (1919) for The League of Nations.

8. Which U.S. President's daughter had a candy bar named after her?

Ruth Cleveland, daughter of President Grover Cleveland. Urban Legend says this is false, since Ruth Cleveland died in 1904, 17 years before the creation of the Baby Ruth candy bar.
The Curtiss Candy Company says, however, that the candy bar WAS named after Ruth Cleveland, and not George Herman (Babe) Ruth.

9. President Kennedy's daughter Caroline had a pet pony. What was the pony's name?

Macaroni


10. Which U.S. President was so overweight that he got stuck in the White House bathtub and had to be removed by workmen?

William Howard Taft



BONUS:


Who was the first President to be photographed (at any time during his life)?

John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848). He was the sixth U.S. President (1825 - 1829).

The image below (a daguerrotype) was taken in 1843.

[Jerry D]

good quiz

[Keith_Hixson]

The Curtis Candy says: The bar was named after "Baby Ruth Cleveland".
However, the Babe was a well know baseball player at that time.

The Bar wasn't called Babe Ruth but Baby Ruth a slight but important difference.

The Curtis Candy folks knew that there would be an instant name identification by using the name Baby Ruth but didn't want to pay any endorsement fees or royalities to the "Babe" so they came up with this story about "Baby Ruth". So . . .. . . . .

Officially they still claim to this day that the bar was named after President Cleveland's little baby girl, however the truth is they probably chose a name close to the baseball great's name so they could benefit financially, but no one is telling. So, take your choice, but the urban league is probably correct.

Keith

[82Rigger]

Keith,

Hadn't thought about that!

If they named the candy bar Babe Ruth he'd been a-gettin' change for every chocolatey chomp.

Also, the candy bar hit the scene in 1921. Wasn't that about the time the Babe was gettin' real famous?

Good point!

[Keith_Hixson]

An example of Sweet Capitolism.

17 years after the President's Daughter's death. That's a long time to wait for a tribute. Also The Babe was just in his prime.
In 1920 He hit 54 home runs, in 1921 he hit 59 home runs. He was in his prime. Curtis candy knew what they were doing and they got away with it.

Keith

[Jerry D]

Congrats to the Curtis Candy Co for their smart marketing with no rayalty fees to pay