President Trivia 1
Which President had an alligator as a pet?
a. James Madison
b. Quincy Adams
c. John Tyler
d. Andrew Johnson
b. Quincy Adams (Adams kept his unusual pet in the East Room of the White House.)
The term "First Lady" was first used in reference to which Presidential wife?
a. Dolley Madison
b. Lucy Ware Webb Hayes
c. Priscilla Cooper Tyler
d. Jane Appleton Pierce
a. Dolley Madison (This term was first used in 1849 by Zachary Taylor at the state funeral of Dolley Madison. The term was later popularized in 1877 when the title was given to Lucy Ware Webb Hayes.)
Who said, "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers"?
a. Thomas Woodrow Wilson
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. George Washington
d. Ulysses S. Grant
a. Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Only one Vice-President served a President due to a resignation. Who was he?
a. Gerald Ford
b. Calvin Coolidge
c. Chester A. Arthur
d. Lyndon B. Johnson
a. Gerald Ford (Ford was appointed vice-president when Spiro Agnew resigned. He was the first person ever to be appointed to the vice presidency. He later became president when Richard Nixon resigned his office on August 9, 1974.)
Who was the first President to be born a U.S. citizen?
a. Andrew Jackson
b. William Harrison
c. John Adams
d. Martin Van Buren
d. Martin Van Buren (President Van Buren was born December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York. He was the first president to be born an American citizen. He was also the first president to have Dutch, rather than English, as his first language.)
Which President served the shortest term?
a. William Harrison
b. Zachary Taylor
c. James Garfield
d. Richard Nixon
a. William Harrison (President Harrison died on April 4,1841 of pneumonia, after only 30 days in office.)
How many presidents were assassinated in office?
a. 5
b. 4
c. 7
b. 4 (Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy were all assassinated while in office.)
Who is credited for this famous quote: "A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which his is kept out."
a. Ronald Reagan
b. Theodore Roosevelt
c. Harry S. Truman
d. Grover Cleveland
d. Grover Cleveland
Which President served two non-consecutive terms?
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. Ulysses S. Grant
c. James Madison
d. Grover Cleveland
d. Grover Cleveland (President Cleveland served his first term from 1885-89 and his second term from 1893-97, following President Benjamin Harrison's stint in office.)
Besides President Clinton, who was the only other President to be impeached?
a. Richard Nixon
b. Lyndon Johnson
c. Andrew Johnson
d. Harry S. Truman
c. Andrew Johnson
Who was the oldest President to be elected before Biden?
a. Zachary Taylor
b. William Harrison
c. Ronald Reagan
d. Gerald Ford
c. Ronald Reagan (President Reagan was 69, only a few days short of his 70th birthday at inauguration.)
How many Presidents had unsuccessful assassination attempts on their lives?
a. 6
b. 5
c. 10
d. 8
a. 6 (Presidents Jackson, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Truman, Ford, Reagan all had unsuccessful attempts on their lives.)
Which president had the most children?
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. Benjamin Harrison
c. John Tyler
d. Rutherford B. Hayes
c. John Tyler (President Tyler had fifteen children from two separate marriages, fathering his last child when he was 70 years old, just two years before his death.)
George Bush said that this President was "known to receive guests in his bathrobe and slippers."
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. John Adams
c. James Madison
d. Martin Van Buren
a. Thomas Jefferson(President Bush made this comment at a ceremony commemorating the 265th birthday of President Jefferson.)
Which President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
a. Ronald Reagan
b. Theodore Roosevelt
c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
d. William McKinley
b. Theodore Roosevelt (President Roosevelt was given the prize in 1906 for arbitrating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.)
Who was the youngest President to be elected?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. William Clinton
c. James K. Polk
d. Grover Cleveland
a. John F. Kennedy (President Kennedy was 43 years old at his inauguration, making him the youngest elected president; however, Theodore Roosevelt was actually the youngest to become president (42) when he succeeded President McKinley who had been assassinated.)
Which President was born on July 4?
a. John Quincy Adams
b. Gerald Ford
c. Lyndon B. Johnson
d. Calvin Coolidge
d. Calvin Coolidge (President Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872.)
Who was the only unmarried president?
a. Thomas Woodrow Wilson
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. James Polk
d. James Buchanan
d. James Buchanan (After a broken engagement and the subsequent death of his former fiancee, Buchanan vowed to never marry.)
Which First Lady had the very first bathtub with running water installed in the White House?
a. Emily Ellison Taylor
b. Abigail Fillmore
c. Jane Appleton Pierce
d. Priscilla Cooper Tyler
b. Abigail Fillmore(First Lady Fillmore had the bathtub installed during her husband's 1850-53 term in office.)
. Which President’s face is not on Mount Rushmore?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Andrew Jackson
D) Andrew Jackson
Who was the shortest President?
a. Benjamin Harrison
b. Martin Van Buren
c. James Madison
d. John Quincy Adams
c. James Madison (President Madison was 5'4" making him the shortest president in history. Benjamin Harrison and Martin Van Buren followed closely at 5'6".)
What was George Washington's Presidential salary?
a. $15,000
b. $25,000
c. $50,000
d. $40,000
b. $25,000 (President Washington received $25,000 a year for his duties compared at the current presidential salary of $400,000.)
. What U.S. President signed the law making Thanksgiving a national holiday?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) George Washington
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) James Madison
A) Abraham Lincoln
Who was the first President to wear trousers instead of knee breeches?
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. James Monroe
c. James Madison
d. John Q. Adams
c. James Madison
Which president had pet elephants?
a. Millard Fillmore
b. James Buchanan
c. Martin Van Buren
d. John Quincy Adams
b. James Buchanan (President Buchanan received a herd of elephants as a gift from the King of Siam. He also had a pair of bald eagles and a dog.)