Q 01/05

What did Roosevelt renounce after winning the 1904 election?

A) Foreign wars

B) Another term

C) Tariff reform

D) Patronage jobs

Answer · why

B) Another term

Another term: he counted the years served after his predecessor's murder as his first, came to regret the promise, kept it in 1908, then ran again in ...

Q 02/05

Roosevelt became president at 42, the youngest ever, but who is the youngest ever elected?

A) Bill Clinton

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Barack Obama

D) Ulysses S. Grant

Answer · why

B) John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy was 43 when he won in 1960; Roosevelt was never elected at 42 but was sworn in after his predecessor was killed, which is why the two ...

Q 03/05

Roosevelt became president after the assassination of which predecessor?

A) William McKinley

B) James Garfield

C) Grover Cleveland

D) Benjamin Harrison

Answer · why

A) William McKinley

William McKinley died eight days after being shot in Buffalo, and the country's top Republican boss groaned that 'that damned cowboy' was now presiden...

Q 04/05

Which chronic illness plagued Roosevelt as a sickly child?

A) Asthma

B) Epilepsy

C) Polio

D) Tuberculosis

Answer · why

A) Asthma

Asthma: as a teenager he resolved to 'make his body' with weights and gymnastics, built a rugged physique, and ever after preached what he called the ...

Q 05/05

Of which natural wonder did Roosevelt tell a crowd in 1903, 'You cannot improve on it'?

A) Yosemite Valley

B) Niagara Falls

C) Grand Canyon

D) Yellowstone

Answer · why

C) Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon: he begged Arizonans to keep it as it was, and when Congress fought his efforts to make it a national park he protected it himself as a n...