Presidential Trivia Answers

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(1) QUESTION: Which President wore a ring with a lock of Lincoln's hair in it when he was inaugurated?

ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt. He’d received the ring from John Hay, who had worked for Lincoln.

(2) QUESTION: Which President was arrested for speeding down a Washington street?

ANSWER: Ulysses S. Grant. He was speeding in his horse and buggy! Apparently, the police officer did not recognize him right away, but apologized once he realized whom he’d pulled over. In the end, the horse and buggy were impounded, and Grant had to pay a fine.

(3) QUESTION: Soon after meeting his future wife, one President announced to her: “Someday I’m going to marry you.” She laughed him off. Which President?

ANSWER: Richard Nixon. The Richard Nixon Foundation explains: “When Dick Nixon and Pat Ryan met at a community theater play rehearsal on January 18, 1938, he found that he ‘could not take my eyes away from her.’ He drove her and a friend home that night and asked her for a date. She turned him down with a curt, “I’m busy.” But he continued to pursue her, and when he announced, ‘Someday I’m going to marry you,’ she laughed at him.”