US Presidents
How many future U. S. Presidents signed the Declaration of Independence?
2 (Jefferson & Adams)
10
John Tyler
How many of Franklin Pierce's nine vetoes were overridden by Congress?
5
Who was the first president to never marry?
Buchanan
30
Calvin Coolidge
Who was the first president born in a hospital?
Carter
21
Chester A. Arthur
Who vetoed 584 bills during presidency?
Cleveland
Who was the first U.S. President to be married in the White House?
Cleveland
What presidential candidate played a saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show during his campaign?
Clinton
Who is the only U. S. President born on July 4?
Coolidge
34
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What was John Adams' political party?
Federalist
32
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which U. S. President purchased Alaska from Russia?
Johnson
Who was the first President to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court?
Johnson
Who was the first President to be impeached?
Johnson
35
John F. Kennedy
6
John Quincy Adams
What U.S. President won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage?
Kennedy
Walt Whitman's poem "Oh Captain, My Captain" was written about which President?
Lincoln
Who is the only president to hold a patent?
Lincoln
Who ran for President with the campaign slogan "Vote Yourself a Farm"?
Lincoln
Who was the first President with a beard?
Lincoln
Who was the first president to use the telegraph?
Lincoln
36
Lyndon B. Johnson
Which president is known as the Father of the Constitution?
Madison
Who was the shortest President?
Madison
8
Martin Van Buren
Who was the first president to campaign by telephone?
McKinley
13
Millard Fillmore
What was Calvin Coolidge's nickname?
Silent Cal
Who was the only U. S. President to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Taft
Who was rumored to have been poisoned by pro-slavery southerners?
Taylor
Who is the only U.S. president not buried under the American flag?
Tyler
18
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the first U.S. President to be born an American citizen?
Van Buren
Who was the first president to speak English as a second language?
Van Buren
How many Presidents have died on the Fourth of July?
3 (Adams, Jefferson, Monroe)
16
Abraham Lincoln
Who took the oath of office on a law book?
Adams
Who was the first President to live in the White House?
Adams
Which American inventor tried to help doctors remove the bullet from James A. Garfield's abdomen after he was shot?
Alexander Graham Bell
7
Andrew Jackson
17
Andrew Johnson
Who burned all their papers before their death?
Arthur
23
Benjamin Harrison
42
Bill Clinton
14
Franklin Pierce
41
George H. W. Bush
43
George W. Bush
1
George Washington
38
Gerald Ford
Which President signed the Civil Rights Act that extended the rights of emancipated slaves?
Grant
What crisis struck during Herbert Hoover's presidency?
Great Depression
22
Grover Cleveland
24
Grover Cleveland (2)
What U.S. President had a nervous breakdown at the age of 24 and spent time in a sanitarium?
Harding
33
Harry Truman
31
Herbert Hoover
What president had a sport named after him?
Hoover
Who was the first president to have a telephone on his desk?
Hoover
What was Benjamin Harrison's presidential nickname?
Human Iceberg
What Act did Andrew Jackson sign in 1830?
Indian Removal Act
Who was the only U.S. president to pay off the national debt?
Jackson
15
James Buchanan
20
James Garfield
11
James K. Polk
4
James Madison
5
James Monroe
What U.S. President had a pet mockingbird named "Dick"?
Jefferson
Which of the following Presidents vetoed the least number of bills during his time in office?
Jefferson
39
Jimmy Carter
What U.S. President won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002?
Jimmy Carter
2
John Adams
What rumor did Chester A. Arthur's political enemies start?
Not born in US
What does the "S" in Ulysses S. Grant stand for?
Nothing
By how many votes did Andrew Johnson avoid conviction in the Senate?
One
What kind of pet did William McKinley keep in the White House?
Parrot
What illness left Franklin D. Roosevelt paralyzed from the waist down?
Polio
Who was the first President elected who had previously been divorced?
Reagan
37
Richard Nixon
40
Ronald Reagan
Who was the first President to appear on TV?
Roosevelt
Who was the first President to have a state car custom built to Secret Service standards?
Roosevelt
Who was the first President to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Roosevelt
Who was the youngest U. S. President?
Roosevelt
What was the nickname of the cavalry regiment Theodore Roosevelt commanded during the Spanish-American War?
Rough Riders
19
Rutherford B. Hayes
26
Theodore Roosevelt
3
Thomas Jefferson
29
Warren G. Harding
Who was the only President elected unanimously by the Electoral College?
Washington
9
William Henry Harrison
27
William Howard Taft
25
William McKinley
Who is the only U. S. President with a PHD?
Wilson
What did Rutherford B. Hayes have to agree to do in order to win the 1876 presidential election?
Withdraw from the south
28
Woodrow Wilson
12
Zachary Taylor
