Quizing Teddy Roosevelt

Question 1

Bob Wrenn was a great tennis player, served with TR on the Rough Riders in 1898, and later had this role in WWI.

Accepted Answer

Air Force Pilot

Question 2

TR was devastated when his son, ____, was killed while fighting in WWI. His two other sons were badly wounded as well.

Accepted Answer

Quentin

Question 3

At 13 years old he remembered, “I had no idea how beautiful the world was until I got those _____."

Accepted Answer

Spectacles

Question 4

The Roosevelt Corollary, and his actions in the realm of foreign policy were all based on this general philosophy.

Accepted Answer

Big Stick Diplomacy

Question 5

TR and this man were the architects of the National Forest Service. He and TR considered themselves Conservationists.

Accepted Answer

Gifford Pinchot

Question 6

To put his plan of taking over construction of the Panama Canal into place, he did this with two French diplomats.

Accepted Answer

Went skinny dipping

Question 7

TR believed in this system out West (at least in the early stages of development), as homesteaders streamed across.

Accepted Answer

Vigilance Committees

Question 8

After TR was shot in the chest giving a speech in Mke, while running for President for the Progressive Party, he ___.

Accepted Answer

Finished the Speech

Question 9

TR was born on October 7, 1858 of four brothers. He would pray for the Union, idolizing the heroic soldiers of this war.

Accepted Answer

Civil War

Question 10

The most tragic day in TR's life was February 14, 1884. His wife and mother died that day. After, he escaped to ______.

Accepted Answer

South Dakota

Question 11

TR was accompanied by Holt Collier who was known to have killed more bears than this famous American outdoorsman.

Accepted Answer

Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone

Question 12

TR believed in rigorous physical exercise, thus nicknamed his daily advisory meetings the ______ cabinet.

Accepted Answer

Tennis

Question 13

After 1912, TR traversed the Amazon where “seringueiros,” whose main economy was ____, saved him from fever/shipwreck.

Accepted Answer

Harvesting rubber

Question 14

“Death had to take him sleeping,” Vice President Thomas Marshall said at the time of his death in 1919 at the age of 60.

Accepted Answer

If he wasn't sleeping, there would have been a fight.

Question 15

This once hated, then turned celebrity Chief was present at TR's 1905 Inauguration Parade.

Accepted Answer

Geronimo

Question 16

TR loved nature from his childhood. He had 1,000 (alive and dead) items in his collection that he called the Roosevelt

Accepted Answer

Museum of Natural History

Question 17

In attempting to cure TR's asthma, he endured all of the following EXCEPT this treatment.

Accepted Answer

Holding breath underwater for long periods of time.

Question 18

TR used this law to declare the Grand Canyon a national monument in 1908.

Accepted Answer

National Antiquities Act

Question 19

TR's future wife (1880) Alice Lee was the first female student admitted to Harvard's main campus.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

In his time at Harvard, strangely enough, Roosevelt did not stand out at in two areas of his later success. These were

Accepted Answer

Public speaking and writing

Question 21

In TR's time as President, he had done all of the following EXCEPT this. Environmental policy was his cornerstone!

Accepted Answer

150 National Forests, Ended Climate Change by Himself

Question 22

TR became a NY assemblyman in 1881, and through the urging of this union man, signed a Cigar Making ban into place.

Accepted Answer

Samuel Gompers

Question 23

TR designated this island in 1903 as the nation's first wildlife refuge for protecting the nesting of these birds.

Accepted Answer

Pelicans

Question 24

As President of the NYC Board of Police Commissioners, TR attempted to close the _____ on Sundays. NOT a popular move.

Accepted Answer

Saloons

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