Calvin Coolidge Trivia Quiz

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.

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.

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.

Answer: Amherst

Coolidge attended Amherst from 1891 to 1895.

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.

Answer: Massachusetts

Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1920.

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.

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.

Answer: Frank Lowden (Gov.-Illinois)

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

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.

Answer: Japan invades Manchuria

Japan invaded Manchuria on September 18, 1931. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 22, 1927. Woodrow Wilson died on February 3, 1924 and Scopes Evolution Trial took place from July 10-21, 1925.

Answer: Norway

The fifteen nations that signed the Pact in 1928 were the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

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.

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.

Answer: True

Calvin Coolidge died January 5, 1933. If he had run and been re-elected in 1928, he would have had to serve till March 4, 1933. He would have died with two months left in his term.