Presidential Trivia Answers (June 28 & 29)

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(1) QUESTION: Which President once said, “Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.”

ANSWER: Calvin Coolidge. The attached picture is of Coolidge with one of his white collies, Rob Roy.

(2) QUESTION: Which President ate jellybeans in an effort to stop smoking? (It worked.)

ANSWER: Ronald Reagan, of course.

(3) QUESTION: How many Presidents were formerly Governors? I am counting states, not territories.

ANSWER: Seventeen.

• George Bush -- Texas

• Bill Clinton -- Arkansas

• Ronald Reagan -- California

• Jimmy Carter -- Georgia

• FDR -- New York

• Calvin Coolidge -- Massachusetts

• Woodrow Wilson -- New Jersey

• Teddy Roosevelt -- New York

• William McKinley -- Ohio

• Grover Cleveland -- New York

• Rutherford B. Hayes -- Ohio

• Andrew Johnson -- Tennessee

• James Polk -- Tennessee

• John Tyler -- Virginia

• Martin Van Buren -- New York

• James Monroe -- Virginia

• Thomas Jefferson -- Virginia