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.
Send
us your answers and we'll
publish the answers and winners'
names.
The
FOOD Museum's
Presidential Food Game Show
by Gulliver Hughes
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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
Answers:
from top: C, B, A,
C, B, D, C, D, B, C, A,
A, C, D, D, B, D
