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Have Fun Answering Questions
About U.S. Presidents and Washington, DC.
”Test Your I.Q. Re DC”
The Hometown of Veteran Professional Speaker
John Jay Daly Who Offers Two Formats For Talk On Wacky Washington
Plus Other Topics.
- What architect designed our national capital? ______________________________
- Name his principal assistant? ________________________
What was his race? __________
- On what location is it modeled? ________ In what year did DC officially begin? _________
- Why does DC have so many traffic circles? ______________________________________
- From what states was District of Columbia formed? ___________________. When? ____.
- Is DC still composed of land ceded by those states? ______If not, why? ____________
- Why was this site chosen to be our capital? ___________________________________
- What’s difference in meaning when word is spelled “capital” vs. when it’s spelled “capitol”? When spelled with “a” it means: __________spelled with “o” it means: _______________
- Name some of the 4 places where Congress met before DC? _______________________
- Does US Capitol face toward or away from the White House? ________________________
- When light inside Capitol dome is on, what does it signify? ___________________________
- What does it mean when US flag flies atop White House? _________________________
- Can DC citizens ever vote? ____
If yes, in when: ______________________________
- What form of representation in Congress do DC citizens have? ______________________.
- When will DC be granted statehood (trick question to set up witty answer by JJD) _________________
- How long is a US Senator permitted to speak on the Senate floor? _____________________
- How many years is a US Senator’s term ? _____ How long for House members? _____years.
- How many members are in the US Senate? ____
How many members in the House? ________
- If both Prez & VP die in office, who first succeeds them? ________Then who? __________
- Approximately how many thousand government workers are employed on Capitol Hill ______.
- In approximately what year did the US Supreme Court get its own building? ________.
- What US President lived on present site of the high court? ________Why?_________________
- What’s DC’s most popular tourist attraction? _____________Second most? _________________
- Name DC’s two major tourist attractions that opened n 2004? ___________________________
- How many years did the Englishman James Smithson (who founded Smithsonian) spend in US? _______
- The main building of the Library of Congress honors what Pres? _______Why? ______________
- What US Presidents do the other two buildings of the Library honor? __________ & _________.
- How many columns ring the main part of the Lincoln Memorial? ____ Why? _________________.
- What metal caps the top of Washington Monument? _______
How tall is structure? ____-feet
- Who was only U.S. President NEVER to live in White House __________.
Which President lived across PA. Ave. for most of one term ________why?__________________________________
- Which President only lived one month in the White House? _____________Why? ____________
- Which US President moved from 3BR apartment in DC directly into the White House? _________
- Besides Lincoln, which US President was assassinated in DC? _____________In what year? ____
- Which two Presidents have been shot at in DC, but not killed? ____________________________
- Besides JFK, what US President is buried in Arlington Cemetery? _________________________
What other distinctions does he hold: (a) ____________________(b) ____________________
- Which President lived in DC after leaving office & is buried in DC? _______Where?__________
- In space at right, list the first or maiden name of Widow of the Unknown Soldier? ____________
- Speaking of burials, Washington is interred at Mt. Vernon, Lincoln in Illinois, FDR in Hyde Park, etc. Yet several ex-Presidents are not buried within continental US. Name some: ________________
- Why is DC building architecture unique among US cities? _______________________________
- What’s special about the “traffic signals” on Pennsylvania Ave? __________________________
- Name the most expensive building on earth? _______________What is next most? ___________
- How many separate police forces provide security within borders of Washington DC? __________
- What DC Mayor boasted:
“We’ve got low crime rate -- if you don’t count the murders!” ___________________
- What percentage of all civilian Federal employees work within 25 miles of the White House? ___ %.
- If you rec’d a dollar a minute, how long before you rec’d a million? ___________ A billion? _____.
(We won’t even try to figure out how long before you got a trillion, i.e. a thousand billion, yet that
figure is bandied about with easy casualness. on Capitol Hill. And millions are confused w/ billions.)
- Name newest Cabinet-level Federal Agency? __________Guess how many agencies were combined to make it? ____List a few: ________________________________________
- How close to the White House did Confederates came to capturing Washington? ______miles
- How many Confederate Memorials are prominently displayed in Washington, DC? _____________
- In what year was THE most important Presidential election held in US: ____. Why?____________
- What is the formal name of the bridge connecting Arlington, VA w/ DC? _________________
_____________________________Guess what appropriately witty nickname JJD had dubbed it:
- Who wrote our national anthem: ______________
Why is it so hard to sing? __________________
©2005 by John Jay Daly of Daly Communications
Chevy Chase, MD. Phone: 301-951-9110.
Email: Speaker@johnjaydaly.com
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