Level 1
Which president made Christmas a national holiday?
Ulysses S. Grant
According to his wishes, this president was buried wrapped in the American flag and his head rested on a copy of the U.S. Constitution. Who is he?
Andrew Johnson
Which president was a Rhodes Scholar?
Bill Clinton
Perhaps due to chronic depression, this president is said to have slept up to 11 hours a day and always took an afternoon nap lasting at least 1-2 hours.
Calvin Coolidge
Which president hated his painted portrait so much that he eventually burned it?
Theodore Roosevelt
Which president was a classically trained pianist and played 4 other instruments?
Richard Nixon
Which president took the oath of office in his own home?
Chester A. Arthur
Which president changed the name of the presidential mountain retreat Shangri-La to Camp David, after his grandson?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which president worked to save football from being banned in the United States?
Theodore Roosevelt
Which president donated all of his presidential salary (and his congressional salary before that) to charity?
John F. Kennedy
Who was the first president to have written a biography of another president?
Herbert Hoover
Sixteen years after leaving office, this president was elected to serve in the Confederate House of Representatives. Who is he?
John Tyler
In 1934, the image of this president was printed on the $100,000 bill, the highest denomination ever issued by the U.S. federal government.
Woodrow Wilson
Who was the first and only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive terms?
Grover Cleveland
Who was the first president to ride in a car to his inauguration?
Warren G. Harding
Which president had turned down offers to play professional football?
Gerald Ford
He was influenced by the ‘Egyptomania’ craze of the 1920s, after which the president named his pet King Tut.
Herbert Hoover
Which president has long been labeled a self-proclaimed lover of pickles based on a quote falsely attributed to him?
Thomas Jefferson
Which president signed the act creating the United States Marine Band?
John Adam
Which president and his wife received a Siamese cat as a gift from the American consul of Bangkok?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Which president was often mocked in the press for his unkempt appearance?
Abraham Lincoln
Which president, along with several members of his cabinet and a few congressmen, pitched in to put out a disastrous fire at the Library of Congress?
Millard Fillmore
Which president served in Congress after his time in office and suffered a fatal stroke on the floor of the House Chamber?
John Quincy Adams
Which president hired Louis C. Tiffany—the first design director of Tiffany and Co.—for a massive renovation of the White House and its private chambers?
Chester A. Arthur
Who was the first-ever president of the United States Of America?
George Washington