Step 1 : Introduction to the question "3. President Bill Clinton was given a middle name shared by the surname of an early U.S. president. What name is that?"
...1. Washington 2. Jackson 3. Adams 4. Jefferson President Bill Clinton, the 42nd U.S. president, was born William Jefferson Blythe III. His biological father, for whom he was named, was killed in an auto accident shortly before Bill Clinton was born. Clinton subsequently adopted the surname of his stepfather, while keeping his original first and middle names. Jefferson was a popular name through the 19th century in the states of the former Louisiana Purchase, as Thomas Jefferson was president when that large tract from the Mississippi to the Pacific became territory of the U.S.
