Life Before Presidency
Which president was a movie star before office?
Ronald Reagen
Who was president when the 9/11 attacks occured?
George W. Bush
What does H and W stand for in George H. W. Bush?
Herbert Walker
Under whose Presidency did the US embrace a new series of harsh penalties and laws against violent crimes?
Bill Clinton
Which president got stuck in a bathtub?
William Howard Taft
Which president was a peanut farmer prior to being president?
Jimmy Carter
Name the 2 presidents in office during WW2.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
What president are Mike and Ikes named after?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Whose presidency saw the creation of the Federal Trade Commission?
Woodrow Wilson
Which president survived an assassination attempt 69 days into his term?
Ronald Reagan
Who built his own house at Monticello?
Thomas Jefferson
Name 3 of the 5 presidents who were in office during the Vietnam War.
Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
What was the white house called before 1901?
The President's Palace
Which president purchased the land that’s now southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico?
Franklin Pierce
Which president was the shortest (5’4’’) and weighed 100 pounds?
James Madison
Which president considered becoming a professional saxophone player before turning to politics?
Bill Clinton
Which president watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from his family farm as a child?
John Quincy Adams
Which president has a middle initial that literally stands for nothing?
Harry S. Truman
Who settled peace between Egypt and Israel?
Jimmy Carter
Author Washington Irving described which president as “a withered little apple-john?”
James Madison
Which president worked as a model for Cosmopolitan magazine in the 1940s?
Gerald R Ford
How many presidents have had at least some military experience?
29
The term “O.K.” is derived from which president’s nickname?
Martin Van Buren (Old Kinderhook)
Which president signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in the first known legislative effort to prevent monopolies?
Benjamin Harrison
Alexander Graham Bell tried desperately to help save the life of which president who’d been shot?
James Garfield