The Ben Shapiro Show
Do you know more presidential trivia than Ben Shapiro?! | Vol 2
Mon, 17 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: What are the categories for the presidential trivia?
And the categories are Fast Facts, Presidential Deaths, The White House, First Ladies, Scandals, and Founding Fathers.
Okay, why don't we start with Scandals, since that's what people want to get to first, probably.
Chapter 2: Which presidents were involved in scandals?
Scandals for $200, Phil. This president admitted to having an affair during his second term as president.
Well, I mean, you can say that there's actually two presidents who did this, but it's actually Bill Clinton here. Who is Bill Clinton? Who is Bill Clinton.
And that is correct.
The other person I was thinking of, it would be Grover Cleveland. Grover Cleveland famously had an affair, and that actually was during his second term, I believe, that he admitted it. Okay, scandals for $400.
President Joe Biden left billions of dollars in military equipment after... I think my legs might be broken.
Does somebody want to take the category? We could be your Jeopardy hosts.
Sure, why don't you do that?
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Chapter 3: Why did President Joe Biden leave military equipment behind?
President Joe Biden left billions of dollars in military equipment after withdrawing troops from this country.
Where is Afghanistan?
And that is correct. We're starting out easy here, Ben.
I'm figuring. Yeah, these ones are easy. Okay, scandals for 600.
This president created a mild scandal in the British press when he kissed Queen Elizabeth on the lips.
Who is Donald Trump?
Let's try that again.
Do you know? I'll give you a hint.
Okay.
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Chapter 4: Which presidents died on July 4th?
No, it's broccoli.
Oh, okay. Wow, I did not know that. These are definitely minor scandals, too. When I'm thinking of scandals, I'm like Teapot Dome, and you're like, remember that time that Jimmy Carter kissed Queen Elizabeth on the lips? Okay, scandals for a thousand.
Well, maybe I should have made the next one.
Yeah, no, Teapot Dome, this is Warren G. Harding.
Yep.
Who is Warranty Harding?
Kwasik.
Okay, next category. The one that I'm going to totally bomb, by the way, is First Ladies. I'm totally going to bomb next. I don't care about it. That is not a real category of human. First Ladies. We all pretend the First Lady matters and not so much. Let's do Presidential Deaths. We'll go dark here. Sponsored by Policy Genius.
This president, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, died on July 4th in 1826.
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Chapter 5: How did President William Henry Harrison die?
Okay.
All right, next.
This president died one month into his term. He gave such a long inaugural address in freezing temperatures that he caught a cold and then got pneumonia. Who is President William Henry Harrison?
Ding, ding, ding, ding.
Yeah. By the way, he was he was super old at the age of 68. And apparently he tried to keep warm by drinking a lot. He was very famous for winning that election based on basically having giant voter events where they handed out free beer.
Nice. That is smart.
Yeah. OK. Presidential death for 600.
Along with Thomas Jefferson, these two presidents also died on Independence Day. Who is John Adams?
I told you you were skipping ahead.
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All right, let's do...
There were this many principal founding fathers, Ben.
The question doesn't say Ben. This many principal founding fathers? Like signatories to the Declaration of Independence are we talking here?
So I would say like core founding fathers, the main guys.
There are a lot of main guys. That's 100% subjective.
I guess I defined it. So moving on.
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Chapter 7: How many principal founding fathers were there?
Well, if you had not given me the date, then I would have been screwed on that one. But who is Warren G. Harding? Question it. Okay, again, for 1,000.
Upon graduating from Harvard, John Adams became a teacher who taught this subject.
Um, hmm.
What is philosophy? No, what is feminism? No, I'm kidding.
What is lesbian dance theory? Yeah. What is grammar? What is grammar? Makes sense. He was extremely meticulous in his writing. Okay, we can do the White House.
This president never lived in the White House as it was built after he died.
Who is George Washington?
400.
It cost this amount of money to visit the White House.
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Chapter 8: Who was the founding father that did not attend college?
$132.
I'll count that as right.
Over $100. We're doing prices right here now.
Yeah, that's right.
The White House for $1,000.
The White House was designed by this Irish-American architect after he won the design competition in 1792. Yeah, I'm not gonna know this one. This is hard. I know, some of these were very hard.
Who was it?
Who is James Hoban?
Yeah, I wouldn't have gotten that one. My architecture knowledge is limited. Okay, the only categories left are, what, First Ladies and Fast Facts?
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