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  The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge   popular trivia quiz  
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I have always been fascinated with US president Calvin Coolidge. I hope you have fun with this quiz about him.
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  Calvin Coolidge    
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A quiz on the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge.
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Calvin Coolidge Trivia Questions
1. Calvin Coolidge was born in which year?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: 1872

He was born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. Other distinguished people born that year include one of my favorite authors, Zane Grey, baseball player Wee Willie Keeler, and the influential judge, Learned Hand.

2. What first name was Coolidge given at birth?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: John

Coolidge was born John Calvin Coolidge. He dropped John after graduating from college. Stephen was the first name of Grover Cleveland and Thomas was the first name of Woodrow Wilson.

3. What was Calvin Coolidge's father named?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: John

John was also Calvin Coolidge's actual first name, although he used his middle name in his political career. His father, John Coolidge, purportedly had native American lineage. He also was a politician, serving as both a Vermont state representative and senator.

4. Calvin Coolidge had a younger sister. Her name was what?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Abigail

Abigail Gratia Coolidge died at age 15. Victoria is Coolidge's mother first name. Grace is his wife's first name and Anna is his wife's middle name.

5. To what political party did Coolidge belong?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Republican

Coolidge was a Republican. Charles Dawes was his VP from 1925-1929. Dawes was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.

6. A popular story told about Coolidge was that a hostess once bet someone that she could get Coolidge to say more than two words. What did Coolidge say when the hostess finally talked to him?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: You lose

Coolidge was known for his taciturn nature. However, this story is unlikely to be true, as he would not have behaved so rudely to any woman.

7. In what year was Coolidge elected governor of Massachusetts?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: 1918

His first elected office was city council in Northampton, Ma. Other offices he held were Mass. state senator, Mass. Lieutenant Governor, and V.P. of the United States under Harding.

8. From what university did Coolidge graduate?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Amherst

Coolidge attended Amherst from 1891 to 1895.

9. In what year did Coolidge assume the presidency of the U.S. upon the death of Warren Harding?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: 1923

Harding died in San Francisco. Coolidge's father was justice of the peace of Plymouth Notch, so he administered the oath of office. A second oath was administered later in Washington (to cover the state/federal question.)

10. What religion did Coolidge practice?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Congregationalist

Coolidge was inducted as a member of the First Congregationalist Church in Washington the first Sunday he attended services there after becoming president.

11. Which man did Coolidge appoint to the Supreme Court?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Harlan Stone

Stone was later made Chief Justice by Roosevelt in 1941. Prior to his sitting on the Supreme Court, he was Dean of Law at Columbia.

12. Of what state was Calvin Coolidge governor?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Massachusetts

Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1920.

13. What was Calvin Coolidge's best-known nickname?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Silent Cal

A well-known story recounts how a woman at a dinner party once bet someone that she could make Coolidge speak more than three words that night. His response was apparently "you lose." I am not sure if this is fact or legend, but it does make a good story.

14. Coolidge was nominated for vice-president by the Republican Party in 1920 in what city?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Chicago

The convention that nominated Warren Harding in the famous "Smoked-filled room" was held in June 1920 in Chicago. San Francisco was the site of the 1920 Democractic convention that nominated James Cox and Franklin Roosevelt. New York was the site of the 1924 Republican Convention that nominated Coolidge for his own term as president and Cleveland is where the Democrats met in 1924 to nominate John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan.

15. What scandal plagued the previous administration (under President Harding)?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Teapot Dome

Coolidge fired Harding's attorney general Harry Daugherty over his handling of the scandal. Albert Fall, Harding's Secretary of the Interior, was convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe for bypassing the bidding process for oil extraction.

16. Upon the death of Warren Harding on August 3, 1923, who swore in Coolidge as president?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: his father

Coolidge was vacationing at his father's home in Plymouth Notch, Vermont when he was awoken with the news that President Harding had died in San Francisco. Coolidge's father was a justice of the peace and a notary public so he gave his son the oath of office. A district court judge swore in LBJ upon John Kennedy's assassination and a state supreme court judge swore in Chester Arthur upon the death of James Garfield.

17. Coolidge believed in the economic theory of "laissez faire". What does that mean?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Leave alone

One of my favorite quotes of Coolidge's is "the chief business of the American people is business." He believed in minimal government interference, which is broadly what is meant by "laissez faire".

18. The Republican convention of 1924 first nominated this man for vice-president but he declined.

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Frank Lowden (Gov.-Illinois)

The convention nominated Lowden on the second ballot but he sent word that he declined the nomination.

19. in what year did Calvin Coolidge die?

From Quiz The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Answer: 1933

He died of heart failure two months before Franklin D Roosevelt's inauguration in March 1933. He was only 60 years old.

20. John W. Davis was the Democratic nominee for President in 1924. On what ballot did he get the nomination?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: 103

Al Smith and William McAdoo fought for over 100 ballots to get the nomination but neither man could. Finally, both withdrew and John W. Davis, who at the time was the president of the American Bar Association, was nominated on the 103rd ballot.

21. How many men did Calvin Coolidge appoint to the US Supreme Court?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: 1

Harlan Stone was the only man that Coolidge appointed to the Court. That took place in 1925. In 1941, FDR made Harlan Stone the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

22. In what city did Calvin Coolidge die?

From Quiz Calvin Coolidge

Answer: Northampton, Massachusetts

Coolidge was found dead by his wife at their home in Northampton, Massachusetts on January 5, 1933. He died from a coronary thrombosis.

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