Q 01/05

Which number president of the United States was Lyndon B. Johnson?

A) 37th

B) 39th

C) 38th

D) 36th

Answer · why

D) 36th

He served from November 1963 to January 1969, between Kennedy and Nixon.

Q 02/05

Near which Texas town was Johnson born in 1908?

A) Kerrville

B) San Marcos

C) Fredericksburg

D) Stonewall

Answer · why

D) Stonewall

He was buried in 1973 in the family cemetery near the same farmhouse on the Pedernales River.

Q 03/05

In which town did Johnson spend nine months teaching Mexican-American children in a segregated school?

A) Brownsville

B) El Paso

C) Cotulla

D) Laredo

Answer · why

C) Cotulla

He never forgot their faces, he said in 1965, and the pain of knowing college was closed to nearly all of them.

Q 04/05

What subject did Johnson teach at Sam Houston High School in Houston?

A) American history

B) Mathematics

C) Chemistry

D) Public speaking

Answer · why

D) Public speaking

He had graduated in 1930 with a Bachelor of Science in history and a high school teaching certificate.

Q 05/05

What was the maiden name of Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson?

A) Taylor

B) Hughes

C) Rayburn

D) Baines

Answer · why

A) Taylor

She came from Karnack, Texas, and Johnson proposed on their very first date in 1934.