CapeCod.com's Tough Trivia: Presidential Edition
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The Kennedy Compound is located in which Barnstable village?
Cotuit
Centerville
Hyannis Port
Osterville
The Gray Gables Railroad Station in Bourne was built for which President?
James Garfield
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
Mulberry Cottage is one of the oldest homes on Cape Cod. It was built in 1640 and is located in Barnstable. Which of the following Presidents is NOT related to original owner Samuel Hinckley?
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
This President was the first to visit Martha’s Vineyard while in office.
Ulysses S. Grant
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Rutherford B. Hayes
The First Trans-Atlantic wireless message was sent from the Marconi Station in Wellfleet. The message was a correspondence between the King of England and this president.
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Theodore Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
After World War I, with it losing tremendous amounts of money, the Cape Cod Canal closed when the Belmont Company refused to take back control of the waterway. This future president helped facilitate the purchase of the Canal by the United States government.
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover
The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown was officially dedicated by which president?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
President Grover Cleveland has which of these named after him on Cape Cod?
Bridge
Rotary
Lighthouse
Golf Course
This president visited Nantucket with the First Lady to visit their daughter who lived in Siasconset.
Ulysses S. Grant
Chester A. Arthur
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
In 1961 John F. Kennedy signed a bill creating the Cape Cod National Seashore. Which of the following is NOT true about the Seashore?
Chatham is part of it
It is twice as big in size as Nickerson State Park
Over 1,000 shipwrecks have taken place in the sea running along the forty mile of the Seashore's coastline.
The Pilgrims first landed on its grounds.
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