Quiz Time: Volume 2

Each month, The POTUS Notice features a pop quiz and chance to be randomly selected as a winner. You don’t even need to know the right answer to qualify. Prizes have included: trading cards, stickers, temporary tattoos, presidential socks, zines, and more.

Here’s a compilation of questions from the past year. (You can find the first batch of questions here.) Scroll down to see the supporting doodles, if applicable.

I want to know how many you get right. Drop a note in the comments below.

• James Monroe met his wife while best man at whose wedding?

  Elbridge Gerry. (The guy “gerrymandering” was named after.)

• Who was walked down the aisle on her wedding day by a sitting president? (NOTE: the guy she was marrying wasn’t president … yet.)

  Eleanor Roosevelt was walked down the aisle to Franklin D. Roosevelt by her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt.

• Which presidential campaign promised “peace pot promiscuity”?

  Nobody’s. Because that would be nutty. However, Richard Nixon’s campaign hired a plane to fly above the Democratic National Convention, dragging a “PEACE POT PROMISCUITY VOTE McGOVERN” banner behind it.

• Which president gets credit for the popularity of waffles in the U.S.?

  Thomas Jefferson

• Black coffee and cigars were prescribed to cure who of what?

  Theodore Roosevelt of asthma.

  (Find more weird cures here.)

• Which future president claimed his mom was dooming him to "perpetual celibacy"?

  John Quincy Adams complained to his mom about her impossible “requisites” for a wife: “I would certainly be doomed to perpetual celibacy.”

• Which president paid someone $150 to fight in the Civil War on his behalf?

  Grover Cleveland.

  (He had to support his mom and sisters.)

• Julia Child was 6' 2" and too tall to join the military. Name one of the presidents she would have seen eye-to-eye with (if she wasn't wearing heels).

  I’ve seen conflicting info out there. Chester Arthur, Franklin Roosevelt, and George H.W. Bush were all 6’ 2” according to one source. George Washington and Barack Obama were also acceptable answers (both 6’ 1.5”).

• Which state boasts the most vice presidential graves?

  New York (10 graves)

• Which future first lady was lost by her dad ... when he dropped her off at a hotel so he could drink, race, and gamble unencombered?

  Frances Cleveland

  (For more parenting hacks, click here.)

• Which president's granddaughter became a princess?

  Ulysses S. Grant.

  (For more, click here.)

• Name one of the five presidents born in August.

  Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Bill Clinton, Benjamin Harrison, and Lyndon B. Johnson

  (Click here for more about these guys.)

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Confession:

I planted this question planning to post a brilliant follow up blog clearly explaining gerrymandering and showcasing the obvious solution. Instead, I ended up with this mess and understand it less than ever.

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How’d you do? Comment below to share your score.

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