Q 01/05

Pauline Wayne, who lived at the White House during Taft's presidency, was what kind of animal?

A) A cow

B) A sheep

C) A goat

D) A pony

Answer · why

A) A cow

A cow: Pauline Wayne, a gift from a Wisconsin senator, grazed the White House lawn and kept the Tafts in fresh milk; when the presidency ended she was...

Q 02/05

In which city was Taft born in 1857?

A) Cleveland

B) Dayton

C) Cincinnati

D) Columbus

Answer · why

C) Cincinnati

Cincinnati is also where Taft learned the law, studying at its law school while covering the local courts as a reporter for the Cincinnati Commercial.

Q 03/05

Taft's father Alphonso held which two cabinet posts under Ulysses S. Grant?

A) Secretary of the Navy and Interior

B) Secretary of State and Treasury

C) Postmaster General and Agriculture

D) Secretary of War and Attorney General

Answer · why

D) Secretary of War and Attorney General

Secretary of War and Attorney General came less than three months apart: Grant named Alphonso Taft to the War Department in March 1876, then moved him...

Q 04/05

Archibald Butt, the trusted military aide to both Roosevelt and Taft, died in which disaster?

A) The sinking of the Lusitania

B) The Triangle Shirtwaist fire

C) The sinking of the Titanic

D) The San Francisco earthquake

Answer · why

C) The sinking of the Titanic

The sinking of the Titanic killed Major Butt on his way home from a rest in Europe, taken because he felt torn between Taft and Roosevelt as their feu...

Q 05/05

Which secret society, co-founded by his father Alphonso, did Taft join in college?

A) Wolf's Head

B) Book and Snake

C) Scroll and Key

D) Skull and Bones

Answer · why

D) Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones picks just fifteen students a year and meets in a hall known as the Tomb; when its members voted to admit women, a group of alumni wen...