POTUS Legacy Quiz

The commission’s name was derived from its chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren. Future president Gerald Ford was also a member of the commission.

Completed in 1884, the Washington Monument stands at 555-feet tall and is made from granite, marble, and bluestone gneiss.

Taft long sought to be appointed to the Supreme Court. On June 30, 1921, President Harding nominated him for Chief Justice. By a vote of 61-4, Taft was approved by the Senate on the same day.

Mount Rushmore, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, was completed in 1941. Theodore Roosevelt is the fourth president carved into the cliffside.

Operated by the National Archives and Records Administration in Hyde Park, NY, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated on June 30, 1941.

Roosevelt won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war.

Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts.”

Founded in 1819, the University of Virginia is the only institution of higher learning founded by a president.

Monrovia, Liberia is named for James Monroe, a prominent supporter for the colonization of Liberia with emancipated slaves.

After the British burned the Library of Congress along with the rest of Washington during the War of 1812, Jefferson sold his personal library of 6,487 books to Congress for $23,950.