Presidential Trivia

[HappyWarrior]

No wait, it was Ford right?

[GPORTER]

Benjamin, duh! :-p

Correct.

[J. J.]

No wait, it was Ford right?

No.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Was it Clinton?

[J. J.]

Was it Clinton?

No.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Lyndon Johnson

[J. J.]

Lyndon Johnson

No.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

What president served on his local public school board?

Carter?

I have a question though it isn't that difficult: Who was the only Democratic nominee between the elections of Franklin Pearce and FDR to win over 50% of the vote in a presidential election?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Tilden

[J. J.]

What president served on his local public school board?

Carter?

I have a question though it isn't that difficult: Who was the only Democratic nominee between the elections of Franklin Pearce and FDR to win over 50% of the vote in a presidential election?

Finally!  Jimmy Carter is correct.

Samuel Tilden.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Yeah Tilden. That wasn't difficult.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Which President has owned a Guinea Pig while in the White House?

[J. J.]

Which President has owned a Guinea Pig while in the White House?

My instinct was Theodore Roosevelt and I check.  My instinct was right.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

[GPORTER]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

What two Presidents saw far sighted in one eye and near sighted in another eye?

[minionofmidas]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

[GPORTER]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

Carter?

[minionofmidas]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

Carter?

If he saw combat (I'd have to check, but he is of course of a generation where it's more likely than not) that would make three (Kennedy also saw combat). Certainly not the correct answer to the question, though. The answer to the question is actually Bush 41.

EDIT: Carter did not see combat.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

Carter?

Wrong, the correct answer, given by Lewis, is George HW Bush.

[J. J.]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

Eisenhower was only brigadier general (one star) when the WWII (the American involvement) started and had been promoted to that rank less than three months before.

[DWPerry]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

JFK

[minionofmidas]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

Eisenhower was only brigadier general (one star) when the WWII (the American involvement) started and had been promoted to that rank less than three months before.

But he had it, right? (Okay, so yeah, you might have seen actual combat with that rank in some branches of the army in WWII. Eisenhower didn't, though.)

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Just to clear things up: the last President to see military combat was George HW Bush.

[J. J.]

Who was the last President to serve in the military and see actual combat?

Eisenhower.

Wrong on at least three counts.

-Eisenhower never was engaged in actual combat - by the time a war came around, he was already one of the US' highest ranking generals.
-At least two of his successors did see combat in WWII.

Eisenhower was only brigadier general (one star) when the WWII (the American involvement) started and had been promoted to that rank less than three months before.

But he had it, right? (Okay, so yeah, you might have seen actual combat with that rank in some branches of the army in WWII. Eisenhower didn't, though.)

Yes, the answer was GHW Bush.

Eisenhower was a trainer during WWI and didn't see combat during either war.

I just wanted to point out that Eisenhower was not a senior general at the start of WWII; he actually started 1941 at a Lieutenant Colonel.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

How many Presidents have not had a formal education?