Q 01/05

Calvin Coolidge's presidency is identified with which boom era?

A) The Gilded Age

B) The Roaring Twenties

C) The Progressive Era

D) The Era of Good Feelings

Answer · why

B) The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties: Coolidge left office in March 1929 still popular, with the boom intact. The stock market crashed that October, and the Depressio...

Q 02/05

What nickname did Coolidge earn on Washington's dinner-party circuit?

A) Silent Cal

B) Sober Cal

C) Old Granite

D) Stern Cal

Answer · why

A) Silent Cal

Silent Cal earned the name by saying little at Washington dinners. Yet much of the reputation was cultivated, and as president he held press conferenc...

Q 03/05

Coolidge is the only US president born on which holiday?

A) Thanksgiving

B) Independence Day

C) Christmas Day

D) New Year's Day

Answer · why

B) Independence Day

Independence Day: three presidents, Adams, Jefferson and Monroe, died on the Fourth of July, but Coolidge, born in 1872, is the only one whose life be...

Q 04/05

Massachusetts made Coolidge's career, but which state was his birthplace?

A) Maine

B) New Hampshire

C) Vermont

D) Connecticut

Answer · why

C) Vermont

Vermont: he was born in the hamlet of Plymouth Notch, where the family kept the general store, and he is buried there rather than in the state he gove...

Q 05/05

Where did Coolidge study, graduating cum laude?

A) Dartmouth College

B) Harvard College

C) Williams College

D) Amherst College

Answer · why

D) Amherst College

Amherst College gave him more than a degree: fellow graduates such as the Boston merchant Frank Stearns organised and publicised his rise through Mass...