Grover Cleveland Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
Who was the 22nd and the 24th
President of the United States?
A: Grover Cleveland.
What was Grover Cleveland’s birth name?
A: Stephen Grover Cleveland.
On what date was Grover born?
A: On March 18, 1837
Where was Grover born?
A: Iin Caldwell, New Jersey.
Who were Grover’s parents?
A: Richard Falley Cleveland and Ann Neal Cleveland.
What was Cleveland's father’s occupation?
A: He was a Presbyterian minister, originally from
Connecticut.
Where was his mother from?
A: She was from Baltimore, the daughter of a bookseller.
Grover was the only US president to serve two what?
A: Nonconsecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897).
He was the winner of the popular vote for president how
many times?
A: Three times, in 1884, 1888, and 1892.
Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon
Democrats who opposed what?
A: High tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business,
farmers, or veterans.
Grover’s crusade for political reform and fiscal
conservatism made him an icon for who?
A: American conservatives of the era.
Cleveland won praise for his what?
A: Honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of
classical liberalism.
President Cleveland relentlessly fought what?
A: Political corruption, patronage and bossism.
As his second term began, disaster hit the nation when the
Panic of 1893 produced a what?
A: Severe national depression, which Cleveland was unable to reverse.
It ruined his Democratic Party, opening the way for a what?
A: A republican landslide in 1894.
It also set the stage for the agrarian and silverite
seizure of the what?
A: The democratic Party in 1896.
Cleveland was the fifth of how many children?
A: Nine.
He was named Stephen Grover in honor of who?
A: The first pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Caldwell, where his
father was pastor at the time.
He became known as what in his adult life?
A: Grover.
Neighbors later described Grover as what?
A: Full of fun and inclined to play pranks.
Grover was also fond of outdoor what?
A: Sports.
Where did Grover receive his elementary education?
A: At the Fayetteville Academy and the Clinton Liberal Academy.
After his father died in 1853, he again left school so as
to do what?
A: Help support his family.
Where was Cleveland's brother William was hired as a
teacher?
A: At the New York Institute for the Blind in
New York City.
William obtained a place for Cleveland as a what?
A: An assistant teacher.
Where did Grover go at the end of 1854?
A: Grover returned home to Holland Patent.
What did Grover decide to do in 1855?
A: He decided to go west.
His first stop was in Buffalo, New York, where his uncle,
Lewis W. Allen gave him a what?
A: A clerical job.
Grover later took a clerkship with the law firm of Rogers,
Bowen, and Rogers, and began to do what?
A: Read the law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.
How long did Cleveland work for the Rogers firm?
A: For three years, then left the firm in 1862 to start his own practice.
In January 1863, Cleveland was appointed what?
A: Assistant district attorney of Erie County.
Cleveland paid George Benninsky, a thirty-two year-old
Polish immigrant, $150 to do what?
A: Serve in his place in the civil war.
