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President’s Day Trivia 2009

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Happy President’s Day, fellow citizen, and welcome to our 2nd annual trove o’ trivia about the USA’s Chief Cheeses. Here we go…

1) To  indulge his  obsession with oblique-angled equilateral parallelograms, Dwight Eisenhower had the Oval Office re-shaped into a rhombus.

2) As president, Ronald Reagan performed all his own stunts.

3) John Quincy Adams enjoyed nude swims in the Potomac River. Since he was so often seen naked by passersby his presidency was the first to be referred to as ”The Executive Branch.” 

4) Few people realize that Thomas Jefferson’s nickname was ‘Weezy.

5) While in college, our heaviest president, William Howard Taft, majored in pie eating. He was also known to keep small hams in his pants to avoid those “long walks to the kitchen.”

To read our 2008 President’s Day Trivia, click here.