US Presidents
How many pardons did President Clinton give on his last day in office?
140
How many future U. S. Presidents signed the Declaration of Independence?
2
How many U. S. Presidents have been assassinated?
4 (Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James Garfield in 1881, William McKinley in 1901, and John F Kennedy in 1963)
What is the largest number of bills a single President ever vetoed during his time in office?
635
Where was William McKinley assassinated?
Buffalo, New York
Who is the only U. S. President born on July 4?
Calvin Coolidge
Who was the oldest candidate to become President?
Donald Trump (70 yrs 7 mo; Ronald Reagan was 73 beginning his SECOND term, only 69 when he first became President)
Who was the first President to appear on TV?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was the first President to have a state car custom built to Secret Service standards.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was the only President to serve more than two terms?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What U.S. President won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage?
John F. Kennedy
Who was the first President to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court?
Lyndon B. Johnson (Thurgood Marshall as first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court)
Who was the first U.S. President to be born an American citizen?
Martin Van Buren
Which President signed the Civil Rights Act that extended the rights of emancipated slaves?
Ulysses S. Grant
Why was Donald Trump given a medical deferment during the Vietnam War?
heel spurs
According to Bill Clinton, abortion should be "safe, legal, and _____."
rare
How many Presidents have died on the Fourth of July?
3 (John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1826, and James Monroe in 1831)
Who was the first President with a beard?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the first president to use the telegraph?
Abraham Lincoln
Who ran for President with the campaign slogan "Vote Yourself a Farm"?
Abraham Lincoln (1860)
Who was the tallest President?
Abraham Lincoln (6ft 3 3/4 in)
Who was the first president born outside of the original thirteen colonies?
Abraham Lincoln (Hodgenville, Kentucky)
Who is the only president to hold a patent?
Abraham Lincoln (flotation device for movement of boats in shallow water)
Walt Whitman's poem "Oh Captain, My Captain" was written about which President?
Abraham Lincoln (written 1865)
Which U. S. President purchased Alaska from Russia?
Andrew Johnson
Who was the first President to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
Who was the first President born outside the contiguous United States?
Barack Obama (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Who ran for President with the campaign slogan "In your heart you know he's right"?
Barry Goldwater
What presidential candidate played a saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show during his campaign?
Bill Clinton
Who was the only President elected unanimously by the Electoral College?
George Washington
Which U. S. President did NOT earn a college degree?
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Filmore, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley, and Harry S Truman
Which four presidents are on Mount Rushmore?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
Who was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms?
Grover Cleveland
Who was the first U.S. President to be married in the White House?
Grover Cleveland (1886)
What president had a sport named after him?
Herbert Hoover (Hooverball)
Who was the shortest President?
James Madison (5ft 4in)
What U.S. President won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002?
Jimmy Carter (for "decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development")
Who was the first President to live in the White House?
John Adams
Who was the first President elected who had previously been divorced?
Ronald Reagan
Who was the youngest U. S. President?
Theodore Roosevelt (42 yrs and 10 mos old)
Who was the first President to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Theodore Roosevelt (successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize)
What U.S. President had a pet mockingbird named "Dick"?
Thomas Jefferson
Which of the following Presidents vetoed the least number of bills during his time in office?
Thomas Jefferson
What name was given to the commission that was established to investigate John F. Kennedy's assassination?
Warren Commission
What U.S. President had a nervous breakdown at the age of 24 and spent time in a sanitarium?
Warren G. Harding (1889)
Who was the only U. S. President to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
William Howard Taft
Who is the only U. S. President with a PHD?
Woodrow Wilson
