Presidential Trivia Answers

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(1) QUESTION: Which President(s) was a cheerleader in high school or college?

ANSWER: Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt and George W. Bush.  Eisenhower was a cheerleader because he’d injured his knee playing football.

(2) QUESTION: Which president refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday, thus leaving us (as some claim) without a President for a day?

ANSWER: Zachary Taylor. Presidential terms then began and ended at noon on March 4, once every four years. In 1849, March 4 fell on a Sunday. Taylor didn’t want to be inaugurated on the Sabbath, so his swearing-in was pushed back until Monday, March 5. Was the United States without a President for 24 hours? Some claim that Senate president pro tempore David Atchison became “President of the U.S. for a day” because of the lag. The logic is questionable. James Polk’s presidential term might have ended at noon on Sunday, March 4, but so did Atchison’s Senate term. Moreover, it’s not clear that the oath is necessary for a person to *be* President. It may only be necessary before he tries to exercise presidential powers. Either way, Atchison himself never made the claim that he’d been acting President. He did, however, like to joke that his was “the honestest administration this country ever had.”  ;)

(3) QUESTION: Who was the first President to ride in a helicopter?

ANSWER: Dwight D. Eisenhower.  He rode it to Camp David in a test of White House evacuation procedures.