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Presidential Succession
and Vice President
Miscellaneous Presidential Roles
Presidential Trivia
Is first in line for the Presidency
Answer: Vice President
After the President Pro-Tempore, these
members are in line to be President
Answer: Cabinet
The Vice President determines this about
the President
Answer: Disability
The Vice Presidential Candidate can be chosen
to do this to the ticket
Answer: Balance
Who determines that the Vice President can take
over the Presidency
Answer: Congress
Makes the President the head of the armed
forces
Answer: Commander in Chief
President is the head of the political party
Answer: Chief of Party
The salary paid to the President every year they
are in office
Answer: $400,000 with $50,000 expense account
“The representative of all the people”
Answer: Chief Citizen
Minimum length of residence in the United
States to become President
Answer: 14 years
The first president to be a Rhodes Scholar
His inaugural address included the line, “the only thing we have to
fear is fear itself”
This President’s wife rescued Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of
George Washington from the White House during the War of
1812
Answer: Madison
This Republican campaigned using the
slogan “Morning in America” during the
1984 election
He was the first candidate to make
successful use of cable channels such as MTV
This was the first year women were allowed to
vote in a presidential election
He was the first to install indoor toilets in the
White House
Answer: Jefferson
This former president went on to be the
president of the National Rifle Association
This former president was a scholarship
football player at the University of Michigan
He was the first president to live in the
White House
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The Presidential
Election
MiscellaneousVice
Presidential Trivia
This state has the first primary of the election
season
Answer: New Hampshire
A closed group of registered voters who
decide delegates or presidential nominees
Answer: Caucus
Other than determining the party nominees, this is
a job of the national conventions
Answer: Create Party Platform
Candidates try to inject themselves into this to
gain the support of younger voters
Answer: Pop Culture
Potential presidential candidates start their race
to the presidency on average this many years
before the election
Answer: 1-4 years
A state that is “too close to call”
Answer: Battleground State
This amendment deals with the electoral
system that we have today
Answer: 12th
An elector that doesn’t vote with their party is
called this
Answer: “Faithless Elector”
The first time a president was elected by the electoral college without winning the popular vote was in this year
Answer: 1824
This reform to the electoral system would take into
account the popular vote within a state without
abolishing the entire system
Answer: District or Proportional Plan
He was the first Vice President to assume the office of president upon the passing of the sitting
president
This is former Vice President Dan Quayle’s
first name
He was the first vice president to have an
actual office in the White House
This vice president had the term
“gerrymandering” named after him
This vice president won the Nobel Peace Prize in
the same year that he and Calvin Coolidge
were elected to office
During the 2000 campaign, his prescription drug plan
was criticized by the Republican National
Committee using an ad that featured the word “RATS”
This candidate used “A time for greatness” and “We can do better” as campaign slogans in
1960
The first televised presidential debate was
held in this city
This former president’s late-20th-century
campaign made wide use of the slogan “It’s the
economy, stupid!”
He was president when the voting age was
changed from 21 to 18.
This former president had the longest
inaugural address in history and died shortly
after it