From Deseret News archives:

Hail to the chief

In honor of all those past presidents, we've gathered up some facts, figures and trivia

Published: Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005 1:12 p.m. MST
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6. Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

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

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14. We all know who's buried in Grant's tomb. Many presidents were buried on their family estates or at their presidential museums or libraries. Can you name two presidents who were buried in Arlington National Cemetery?

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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