Presidential Trivia

Presidential Trivia

Question: Eight of our Presidents

were born British subjects. Identify five of

these presidents.

Answer:George Washington, John

Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James

Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew

Jackson, and William Henry Harrison.

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Question: Identify the oldest

and youngest elected

presidents.

Answer:

The oldest elected president was

Ronald Reagan (age 69); the youngest

was John Kennedy (age 43).

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Question: Four presidents

were assassinated while in office. Identify these

presidents.

Answer:

Abraham Lincoln, Arthur Garfield,

John McKinley, and John Kennedy

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Question: Identify the three

presidents who died on July 4th.

Answer:

Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe

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Question:Identify the

presidents who are portrayed on U.S.

coins.

Answer:

Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson,

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, John

Kennedy, and Dwight Eisenhower

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Question:Identify the only U.S.

president to never live in the White

House.

Answer:

George Washington

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Question:Who was the

tallest president? Who was the

shortest president?

Answer:

The tallest president was Abraham

Lincoln at 6'4"; at 5'4", James Madison

was the shortest

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Question:Which president was wounded in

the Revolutionary War?

Answer:

James Monroe was wounded during the Revolutionary War

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Question:There are two presidents who

have fathers who were also

president. Identify these two father-son presidents.

Answer:

John Quincy Adams was the son of a former president-

John Adams. George W. Bush is the son of George

H.W. Bush.

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Question:Who was the

president who began the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House?

Answer:

Rutherford B. Hayes held the first Easter egg roll on the White

House lawn.

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Question:Who was the first

president to win the Nobel Peace

Prize?

Answer:

Theodore Roosevelt was the first

American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Question:Who was the first president to have earned a Ph.D? This president

received a degree in political science

in 1886.

Answer:

Woodrow Wilson was the first president to have earned a Ph.D.

He received a degree in political science in 1886.

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Question:Who was the first president born in a

hospital?

Answer:

Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.

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Question:What president was

the first actor elected president?

Answer:

Ronald Reagan was the first actor

elected president. He acted in 53 films

before becoming president