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The White House is an enduring symbol of our nation’s leadership. It is also the most recognized structure in America. Some interesting White House Trivia There are 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 6 levels in the Residence. There are also 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators. At various times in history, the White House has been known as the "President's Palace," the "President's House," and the "Executive Mansion." President Theodore Roosevelt officially gave the White House its current name in 1901. Total cost of the original structure was $232,372 The White House kitchen is able to serve dinner to as many as 140 guests and hors d'oeuvres to more than 1,000. The White House requires 570 gallons of paint to cover its outside surface. Running water was piped into the residence in 1833, a central heating system was installed in 1837, and electricity lit up the home beginning in 1891. Today, the home’s square footage is about 55,000. It features six levels, eight staircases, three elevators, 28 fireplaces and 132 rooms, including 35 bathrooms. The White House fence encloses 18 acres of land. The grounds and garden crew consist of 13 full-time staff members. The property features a tennis court, a bowling alley, a movie theater, a beauty salon, a physician’s office, a florist’s shop, a swimming pool and a golf putting green.
Although your early history teacher probably didn't cover some of this material, no worries... you can still be happy because we have included links on this page to all necessary information to answer these questions. Have fun!!!
Choose which statements are FALSE or INCORRECT. Use those answers to calculate the correct latitude and longitude to find this cache.
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7 - Starting out in radio and small role acting, Ronald Reagan won a seven-year contract with Warner Brothers in 1937, and became a famous movie and television actor
5 - Despite not learning to read until he ten years of age, Woodrow Wilson was an excellent scholar and became the first president with a Ph.D.
6 - William Taft was the 27th President and then held the position of seventh Chief Justice of the United State
3 - Ulysses S Grant was considered to be a great military hero of the Civil War as he led the North to victory over the Confederate South
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1 - John Quincy Adams owned a pet alligator which he kept in the East Room of the White House.
2 - Bill Clinton had a pet hog named Razorback when he was governor of Arkansas
4 - Warren Harding was a talented cornet player, performing in a variety of bands
5 - A famous quote from Woodrow Wilson is "Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting"
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2 - The family of Calvin Coolidge had two pet raccoons, named Rebecca and Reuben, occasionally they would run around inside White House!
8 - Rutherford Hayes began the tradition of the Easter egg roll on the grounds of The White House
6 - The first President to live in the White House was John Adams.
9 - Thomas Jefferson was a skilled writer and he could speak seven different languages fluently
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9 - Rutherford Hayes was the first President to take the oath in the White House
5 - Richard Nixon was elected for two terms and served for 5 years until he announced his resignation on August 8, 1974.
4 -Some of George Washington's favorite dishes were cream of peanut soup, mashed sweet potatoes with coconut, and string beans with mushrooms.
7 - Woodrow Wilson issued a declaration of a national Mother's Day and that it would occur on the third Sunday in May every year
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2 - Andrew Johnson was the first Vice President ever to replace an assassinated president
3 - William Taft was a large man, he was 6 feet 2 inches and at his heaviest weighed 332 pounds, because of his size he was given the nickname of “Big Bill”
8 - Chester Alan Arthur’s wife, Dolly, began the tradition of pardoning the White House Thanksgiving Turkey
4 - When Bill Clinton was young he was given the nickname of ‘Bubba.
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1 - George Bush served as governor of Texas from 1995-2000
7 - The voice of Benjamin Harrison was recorded on wax phonograph cylinder in 1989
6 - George Washington started school when he was 6 years old. He left school at 15 to become a surveyor because his mother couldn't afford to send him to college.
5 - James Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States
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2 - John Quincy Adams was the first president to have his photograph taken
6 - James Knox Polk is the only president who also held the position, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
1 - In 1958, Dwight D Eisenhower asked Congress to establish the CIA
8 - Franklin Pierce was the first president to introduce a Christmas tree within the White House
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1 - Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only Presidents to be impeached
6 - John Adams and rival Thomas Jefferson died within a few hours of each other on the same day
0 - Just after six months into George W. Bush's presidency the 9/11 terrorist attacks took place on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon.
5 - Ulysses S. Grant was born in Greenwich, Connecticut
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0 - Herbert Hoover was once quoted as saying "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit global warming."
1 - Trump does not smoke nor drink. The death of a sibling, his older brother Red Jr., urged Donald toward these decisions
2 - 69 days after Ronald Reagan became president an assassination attempt was made on his life, a shot punctured his lung and he suffered internal bleeding. At the time he light-heartedly said, "I forgot to duck."
7 - On the same the year that James Monroe became president, the White House was painted white for the first time
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7 - When George H.W. Bush was eighteen he joined the Navy in the role of naval aviator, before reaching his nineteenth birthday he had become the youngest US navy pilot.
4 - James Monroe died on July 4, 1831 in New York
3 - Franklin Pierce owned a Siberian Husky named Adok, a gift from the northern tribe
0 - Barack Obama had a good education, and was a skillful basketball player, because of this he was given the nickname "O' Bomber" at high school.
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8 - Bill Clinton is a talented musician and plays the saxophone.
5 - John F Kennedy had one leg longer than the other and wore corrective shoes.
1 - Warren Harding gambled the White House silver, he lost the game, and the silver!
2 - On December 21, 1970, singer Elvis Presley met Richard Nixon at the White House. Together they exchanged presents, Nixon gave Elvis an honorary BNDD badge (Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) that Elvis had requested and Elvis gave Nixon a rare WWII .45-caliber Colt revolver gun.
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0 - William Harrison was a military hero and was given the nickname of "Old Tippecanoe" owing to his personal victory at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
3 - Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb is the second largest monument in the western hemisphere
9 - Trump has been married three times and has six children
5 - John Quincy Adams was the son of the second president John Adams, and was inaugurated eighteen months before his fathers death
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1 - Ronald Reagan was married a total of three times to Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman and Nancy Reagan
2 - James Madison was president during the War of 1812, between the United States and Great Britain.
4 - Between his two wives John Tyler fathered 15 children!
6 - Herbert Hoover was the first US president to have a telephone place directly on his desk
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5 - The Second World War was taking place during the presidency of Harry S Truman, and he made the authoritative decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan
0 - The presidency of James Garfield lasted for just 200 days, from March 4th until September 19th when he died as the result of an assassination attempt
1 - Ronald Reagan was also known to some as the "Jelly Bean Man" because of his love of them! 3.5 tons of Jelly Bellie beans were dispatched to the White House for his 1981 presidential celebrations.
8 - At the end of Jimmy Carter presidency 52 Americans were captured and held hostage in Tehran for 404 days.
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3 - John F Kennedy was the first Boy Scout to become President!
9 - Andrew Johnson was buried with his body wrapped in the U.S. flag and his well-worn copy of the Constitution as a pillow
6 - When Ulysses S Grant was inaugurated his parents did not attend, despite the fact that he was the first President whose parents were both alive to see it
2 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to have his own automobile
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5 - Calvin Coolidge was president during the period between the two world wars
8 - James Garfield had various jobs throughout his lifetime including a Preacher, Teacher, and Lawyer
2 - The tradition of the annual White House Thanksgiving dinner was introduced for the first time by James Knox Polk's wife Sarah
4 - James Monroe is the only person who has served the post of Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of State, both at the same time
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1 - Harry Truman was a talented piano player and a one time thought about a career in music
7 - At 70 years old, Trump is the oldest person ever to assume the presidency.
9 - Warren Harding had a pet dog named 'Laddie Boy', he was an Airedale and each day collected and delivered the president's newspaper, he even had his own chair for cabinet meetings!
5 - Calvin Coolidge's Chief of Staff L. McGarry was famous for beginning the White House tradition of “Big Block of Cheese” day.
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8 - Dwight D Eisenhower was the first president of all 50 states of America
1 - Grover Cleveland is the only president whose wedding ceremony was held in the White House.
7 - John F Kennedy was the youngest man elected as president and after just serving two years in office he became the 6th US president to be assassinated.
6 - The portrait of Grover Cleveland appeared on the $1,000 bill until it was discontinued in 1945
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5 - Theodore Roosevelt was interested in protecting the environment; he allocated 200 million acres to be preserved as national forests
0 - Dwight Eisenhower was the only US President who served in both World War I and World War II and the first president who was also a qualified licensed pilot
9 - Warren Harding was a gambler and hosted weekly poker games at the White House
2 - Gerald Ford's daughter Susan held her senior prom in the Blue room of the White House.
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1 - James Buchanan had a pet crow named Spero that he cared for and fed
2 -Harry Truman was a talented piano player and a one time thought about a career in music but he decided on politics instead
4 - On Jan 9, 1959 Dwight D. Eisenhower was quoted as saying "America is best described by one word, freedom."
8 - Theodore Roosevelt had two pets a guinea pig; who he named Father O'Grady and a snake called Emily Spinach!
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3 - Abraham Lincoln was the second American President to wear a beard!
4 - John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the only two founding Fathers that signed the Declaration of Independence and then went on to become President of America
6 - To date, Benjamin Harrison is the only US president who was grandson of another president.
2 - During his presidency, Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke which left him partly paralyzed and almost blind
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7 - John Tyler was playing a game of marbles when he was given the information that he had become president.
8 - Grover Cleveland's wife Frances was the youngest ever First Lady at age 21
9 - Andrew Johnson, was one of only two presidents who did not own pets, however, he found a family of white cats at the White House that he cared for and fed
3 - In 1895 Grover Cleveland became the first US president to be filmed. The moving image clip showed him signing a new bill into law
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5 - James Buchanan is the only bachelor ever to serve as President in the White House
0 - Zachary Taylor had an elderly warhorse which he named Whitey, he kept it on the on the lawns of the White House
7 - James Garfield became the first president who was left handed. He could write fluent Greek with one hand and French with the other
1 - Chester Alan Arthur wasn't elected to be President, he succeeded to office after the assassination of James Garfield in 1881
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6 - James Madison had a scar on his nose which was caused by frostbite! This happened when he was out campaigning in extremely cold weather in 1788
0 - Jimmy Carter was required to read 300 pages a day so at the White House he learned how to speed read, he could then read 2,000 words a minute and recount with 95 percent understanding.
9 - He wrote the draft copy of the Declaration of Independence, which was edited by the committee. 75% of the text remained unedited this means that Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence
4 - During the presidency of Richard Nixon the 26th Amendment was passed, raising the age of voting from 18 to 21
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8 - Millard Fillmore had his own merry-go-round in the White House
2 - Grover Cleveland was 47 when he took his first term as president in 1885.
9 - James Buchanan had an unusual eyesight problem, one eye was nearsighted and the other eye was farsighted.
1 - Warren Harding earned his Bachelor of Science degree when he was 17 years of age.
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7 - When he was 57, George Washington had all his teeth pulled. From then on, he wore ivory false teeth set in a silver plate.
0 - Statue of Liberty was dedicated by Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886. Originally the statue was known as "Lady Liberty"
3 - Nixon was a Quaker, he was one of two presidents who was a member of this religious movement, President Herbert Hoover was the other.
5 - John Adams and rival Thomas Jefferson died within a few hours of each other on the same day
Calculations for LAT/LONG FINAL
H8+E5-C3-K11= A
C3 -E5 + V22 - H8= B
N14-X24-S19-B2= C
G7+V22-W23= D
J10+R18-P16+1= E
L12-Y25+H8= F
U21+F6-B2-3= G
D4*I9 = H
B2+A1= I
M13+X24= J
D4 - F6= K
N14 -X24= L
M13 - G7+1= M
S19 +R18-3= N
A1 - T20-5= O
We have a nice Prize for the FTF
NOTE: All of the above information can be found on the cache pages which make up our POTUS Power Trail and are listed below.
POTUS Bookmark List.
1 - George Washington - GC75K2Q
2 - John Adams - GC75K31
3 - Thomas Jefferson - GC75K3D
4 - James Madison - GC75K41
5 - James Monroe - GC75MDB
6 - John Quincy Adams - GC75MNP
7 - Andrew Jackson - GC75MPH
8 - Martin Van Buren - GC75MPX
9 - William Harrison - GC75MVR
10 - John Tyler - GC75MDB
11 - James K. Polk - GC75MY9
12 - Zachary Taylor - GC75MYK
13 - Millard Fillmore - GC75MYT
14 - Franklin Pierce - GC76ACR
15 - James Buchanan - GC76AD1
16 - Abraham Lincoln - GC76AD6
17 - Andrew Johnson - GC76AD8
18 - Ulysses S. Grant - GC76ADB
19 - Rutherford Hayes - GC76ADG
20 - James Garfield - GC76ADH
21 - Chester Arthur - GC76ADM
22 - Grover Cleveland - GC76ADN
23 - Benjamin Harrison - GC76ADP
24 - Grover Cleveland - GC76ADW
25 - William McKinley - GC76AE0
26 - Theodore Roosevelt - GC76AE9
27 - William Howard Taft - GC76AEH
28 - Woodrow Wilson - GC76AEP
29 - Warren Harding - GC76AER
30 - Calvin Coolidge - GC76AET
31 - Herbert Hoover - GC76AEZ
32 - Franklin Roosevelt - GC76AF2
33 - Harry Truman - GC76AF9
34 - Dwight D. Eisenhower - GC76AFE
35 - John F. Kennedy - GC76AFF
36 - Lyndon B. Johnson - GC7AD3P
37 - Richard M. Nixon - GC7AD3V
38 - Gerald Ford - GC7AD46
39 - James E. Carter, Jr. - GC7AD3Z
40 - Ronald W. Reagan - GC7AD48
41 - George H.W. Bush - GC7AD49
42 - William J. Clinton - GC7AD4B
43 - George W. Bush - GC7AD4F
44 - Barack H. Obama - GC7AD4G
45 - Donald J. Trump - GC7AD4K
We hope you have enjoyed learning a some fun and interesting things about our Presidents, and the White House they lived in. We are blessed here in America for the freedom and liberty we all share. It's not a requirment for loging this cache, but we would love to see your patriotic spirit when you sign the log and upload a picture to the White House gallery.
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