From Deseret News archives:
Hail to the chief
In honor of all those past presidents, we've gathered up some facts, figures and trivia
7. Pony Express is started
8. James Naismith invents basketball
9. Matthew Perry opens Japan to trade and contact
10. Martin Luther King is assassinated
11. Utah becomes a state
12. Berlin airlift takes place
a. Calvin Coolidge
b. James Buchanan
c. Grover Cleveland
d. Rutherford B. Hayes
e. Millard Fillmore
f. Harry S Truman
g. Lyndon Johnson
h. Andrew Jackson
i. Benjamin Harrison
j. Ulysses S. Grant
k. Theodore Roosevelt
l. Richard Nixon
a. _______________
b. _______________
One president is buried in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Can you name him?
a. _______________
15. Describe the relationship between the following presidents:
a. John Adams and John Quincy Adams
b. James Madison and Zachary Taylor
c. William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
d. Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
e. George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
Answers to trivia
1. a: Clinton, b: Hayes, c: Garfield, d: Polk, e: Hoover, f: Ford, g: Carter, h: Reagan, i: Harding, j: Arthur
2. 1-c, 2-e, 3-g, 4-a, 5-f, 6-d, 7-b
3. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, George Bush
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- Ranking the bowl games
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279 - Letters: Global warming a lie
219 - TCU to play Boise in Fiesta Bowl
206 - BYU football: Bronco weighs in on Hall
171 - Cougars going back to Vegas
150 - Utah/BYU rivalry can be more civil
143 - George lost in rivalry hatefest
120 - Andersen apologizes for Jordan hoax
118 - Ed Smart 'appalled' at testimony
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