HAIL TO THE CHIEF
HOW TO PLAY
Shuffle the question-and-answer cards before beginning. Place cards face up (picture of White House showing) in a stack in the center of players. Decide who will go first and move clockwise to the next player who will take the top card from the stack and read the question to the first player. If the first player answers the question correctly, record the number of points indicated on the card on the score pad for that player. Play continues to the next player. The game ends when a player has reached a score of 21.
OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME
This game is designed to test each player on his or her knowledge of our forty-four presidents. HAIL TO THE CHIEF is not a game of chance but is a trivia game of interesting facts about our presidents. The objective of the game is to continue educating our fellow citizens (young and old) about United States presidents, the office of the presidency and general historic events concerning the Chief Executives. The game should be a fun learning experience for everyone who participates. The winner of the game is determined by successfully answering questions about the history of our country and the men who have occupied the highest office in the United States government. The first player to accumulate 21 points is the game’s winner.
The score of 21 is in recognition of the “Presidential Salute” which was formally established as 21 guns in 1842. The 21-gun salute is a ceremonial military honor performed when 21 rounds are fired by a battery of artillery pieces. The time interval between rounds in a cannon salute to the president is three seconds. Today, a 21-gun salute is rendered on the arrival and departure of the President of the United States and is fired in concordance with four ruffles and flourishes, which is immediately followed by “Hail to the Chief.” The actual gun salute begins with the first ruffle and flourish and concludes after “Hail to the Chief” has ended. A 21-gun salute is also rendered to former U.S. presidents, foreign heads of state, as well as to presidents-elect. It is also fired at noon on the day of the funeral of a president, former president, or president-elect with guns fired in one-minute intervals. The 21-gun salute is our nation's highest honor.
POINT SYSTEM
1 Point is in honor of President George Washington. George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States under the Constitution on April 30, 1789 at Federal Hall in New York City. As of 2008, George Washington is the only president to receive 100% of the electoral votes—unanimously elected in 1789 and again in the 1792 election. As Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, General Washington led American forces to victory over the Kingdom of Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War. George Washington is known as the “Father of His Country.”
2 Points are in honor of President John Adams. John Adams was inaugurated as our second president on March 4, 1797, and served one term. A Federalist, John Adams was the first presidential candidate to win a contested presidential election by defeating Democratic-Republican presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson in the 1796 presidential election by three electoral votes. A graduate of Harvard College, John Adams was the first lawyer to be elected president. He is regarded as one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States.
3 Points are in honor of President Thomas Jefferson. Not only does Thomas Jefferson hold the distinction of being the first president elected by the House of Representatives, but he was also the first Chief Executive inaugurated in Washington, D.C. Sworn into office on March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson was the first of four members of the Democratic-Republican Party to be elected President of the United States. The defining moment of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency was his expansion of executive power to acquire the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States. Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
4 Points are in honor of President James Madison. James Madison served two terms as the fourth president of the United States from March 4, 1809, to March 3, 1817. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1789, James Madison was the first president to have been a member of the United States Congress. On June 18, 1812, President Madison signed the nation’s first declaration of war in the Green Room of the White House–a declaration of war that would have the United States of America fighting a “second war of independence" against the British Empire. A Founding Father of the United States, James Madison is known as both the “Father of the Constitution” and the “Father of the Bill of Rights.”
5 Points are in honor of President James Monroe. James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States and was in office from March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1825. Despite a serious recession in 1819, James Monroe’s presidency became known as “The Era of Good Feelings" because there was peace at home and abroad. In the election of 1820, President Monroe was elected to a second term with all but one electoral vote. As a Founding Father of the United States, James Monroe had a long and distinguished public career as a soldier, diplomat, governor, senator, and cabinet official before being elected to the presidency in 1816. James Monroe’s nickname was “The Last Cocked Hat.”
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