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Fun Trivia: B : Before They Were President

Special Sub-Topic: Hail to the School of the Chief


Which of these former presidents was the first to go to college?

    John Adams. Adams went to Harvard while Washington, Jackson nor Van Buren attended college.

Founded in 1693, which school in Virginia did Thomas Jefferson attend?
    College of William & Mary. At just 16, Jefferson enrolled at William & Mary and attended from 1760-1762.

True or False: John Quincy Adams attended Harvard like his father John Adams did before him?
    T. Except for Washington, at the time of J.Q. Adams' inauguration, all of the former presidents were still alive.

Which president during the Mexican-American War attended the University of North Carolina?
    James K. Polk. Polk was also president during the California gold rush and helped settle the Northwest boundary of the United States.

True or False: Both Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower attended the United States Military Academy?
    T. Grant completed his memoirs with the help of Mark Twain and Eisenhower was President of Columbia University.

Besides attending Yale, who was the first president to have a presidential car?
    William H. Taft. Hayes, T. Roosevelt and FDR all attended Harvard.

Which west coast school did Herbert Hoover attend?
    Stanford. Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi river.

True or False: Besides attending Harvard, John F. Kennedy also attended the United States Naval Academy?
    F. Jimmy Carter attended the U.S. Naval Academy.

Which two schools did Gerald Ford attend?
    Michigan and Yale. Ford played football at the University of Michigan, was an assistant football coach at Yale, and turned down offers to play for the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers.

True or False: Bill Clinton attended Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale?
    F. Clinton attended Oxford, Georgetown, and Yale.


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