Presidents
Quiz
Results
and Answers
Thank you for your entries.
Best answers were from Mick and Pat with
17 right, and Mike with 16. Teresa/Panikos
also scored well. And the answers were
1. Adams*
– Adam’s ale is water
2. Bush*
– ‘a good wine needs no bush’
3. Jackson
– the Jackson Five
4. Bush*
– ‘to beat about the bush’
5. Carter
– someone who draws a cart
6. Harrison*
– Harris tweed
7. Fillmore
– the fuel tank
8. Ford
– the first mass produced car
9. Adams*
– Charles Ad(d)ams, creator of The Addams Family
10. Garfield
– the cartoon cat
11. Hoover
– vacuum cleaner
12. Coolidge
– Coolidge tube used for taking X-rays
13. Madison
– Madison Avenue, centre of New York advertising industry
14. Kennedy
– administration dubbed ‘Camelot’ by journalist Theodore White
15. Arthur
– King Arthur’s court
16. Lincoln
– Lincoln green
17. Monroe
– Marilyn Monroe
18. Pierce
– point taken?
19. Hayes
– ‘haze’
20. Roosevelt*
– ‘rose svelte’
21. Polk
– polka
22. Taylor
– ‘tailor’
23. Truman
– ‘true man’
24. Tyler
– Wat Tyler, leader of the 14th century Peasants’ Revolt
25. Washington
– Washington, D. C.
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Note:
there are two Adams, John Adams (1789-97) and John Quincy Adams
(1825-29), and two Bush, George Bush (1989-93) and George W. Bush (2001- ). There were also two Harrison and two
Roosevelt, but I’ve only used one of each.