Food & US Presidents Contest

Everyone knows George Washington chopped down his family's cherry tree. Or did he? What other food related fact or fiction can you connect with the nation's presidents? We have assembled a Presidential Food History Quiz for you to try. Award yourself the points and see how far you and your friends can get.

The FOOD Museum's
Presidential Food Game Show
by Gulliver Hughes

100 This president reportedly cut down his father's cherry tree.
A. Nixon
B. Taft
C. Washington
D. Monroe

200 This president was a peanut farmer.
A. Tyler
B. Carter
C. Coolidge
D. Jefferson

300 In order to quit smoking, which president (whose ancestors came from an Irish village known as "the place of the small potatoes") ate gumdrops to kick the habit?
A. Reagan
B. FDR
C. Eisenhower
D. Polk

500 Which former Kentucky farmer and Louisiana plantation owner may have died from food poisoning?
A. W. H Harrison
B. Garfield
C. Taylor
D. Madison

1,000 This president was famous for his elaborate dining room and fancy dinner parties.
A. Clinton
B. Jackson
C. Kennedy
D. Arthur

2,000 This president grew up in Europe eating Russian and Dutch food regularly.
A. J. Adams
B. Jefferson
C. McKinley
D. JQ Adams

4,000 A creative battlefield cook, this president was quoted as saying, " an army fights on a full stomach."
A. Grant
B. Garfield
C. Eisenhower
D. Hayes

8,000 This president's personally selected French chef regularly prepared 21 course state dinners.
A. Arthur
B. Washington
C. Jackson
D. Harding

16,000 During whose presidency did Commodore Perry's gifts to Japan include a barrel of Irish potatoes?
A. Bush
B. Polk
C. Wilson
D. Truman

32,000 This president, who was called a "doughface" by his detractors, owned an estate called Wheatland.
A. Cleveland
B. Pierce
C. Buchanan
D. Fillmore

64,000 Which president was a cabbage and potato farmer?
A. Van Buren
B. Carter
C. J Adams
D. TR

125,000 His White House cook over-boiled everything and yet this president never fired her.
A. FDR
B. TR
C. Lincoln
D. LBJ

250,000 As a soldier in the Civil War this president delivered food to the troops through heavy enemy fire.
A. Buchanan
B. Hoover
C. McKinley
D. Cleveland

500,000 This president said, "The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing."
A. Clinton
B. Harding
C. Jefferson
D. Wilson

650,000 Who caught pneumonia while out at a D.C market buying vegetables?
A. Taylor
B. Harrison
C. Cleveland
D. W Harrison

800,000 Which president had a great-grandpa who escaped from pirates taking over his fishing boat, and a father who was a farming failure?
A. Fillmore
B. Johnson
C. Bush
D. Arthur

1,000,000 Who once christened some ground with watermelon juice?
A. Reagan
B. Washington
C. Tyler
D. Lincoln

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