PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIAQUESTIONS
1. Who was the only bachelor president to occupy the White House? 2. Who was the heaviest president, who weighed between 300 and 340 lbs.? 3. Who was the lightest president, who weighed about 100 lbs.? 4. Who, at the age of 69, was the oldest person elected president? 5. Who, at the age of 43, was the youngest person elected president? 6. Which three presidents died on July 4? 7. Which two presidents died on the same day, July 4, 1826? 8. Which president was born on July 4? 9. William H. Harrison, the 9th president, was the grandfather of what other president? 10. John Adams, the 2nd president, was the father of what other president? 11. Who was the first president to appear on television? 12. What only person became president without having been elected vice-president or president? 13. Which president fathered 15 children? 14. Which four presidents’ faces are on Mt. Rushmore? 15. Where is the White House located? 16. There are four major cities that are named for
presidents?
ANSWERS
1. James Buchanan. 2. William Taft. 3. James Madison. 4. Ronald Reagan. 5. John F. Kennedy 6. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson an James Monroe 7. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson 8. Calvin Coolidge 9. Benjamin Harrison 10. John Quincy Adams 11. Franklin D. Roosevelt 12. Gerald Ford (Ford was appointed vice-president when Nixon’s first vice-president, Spiro Agnew, resigned and later appointed president when Richard Nixon resigned). 13. John Tyler 14. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. 15. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. 16. Lincoln (Nebraska), Jefferson City (Missouri), Jackson (Mississippi), and Madison (Wisconsin).
Who was president during the following years: 1789-1797 George Washington. 1797-1801 John Adams. 1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson. 1809-1817 James Madison. 1817-1825 James Monroe. 1825-1829 John Quincy Adams. 1829-1837 Andrew Jackson. 1837-1841 Martin Van Buren. 1841-1841 William H. Harrison (died in office). 1841-1845 John Tyler. 1845-1849 James K. Polk. 1849-1850 Zachary Taylor (died in office). 1850-1853 Millard Fillmore. 1853-1857 Franklin Pierce. 1857-1861 James Buchanan. 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln (assassinated). 1865-1869 Andrew Johnson. 1869-1877 Ulysses S. Grant. 1877-1881 Rutherford B. Hayes. 1881-1881 James A. Garfield (assassinated). 1881-1885 Chester A. Arthur. 1885-1889 Grover Cleveland. 1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison. 1893-1897 Grover Cleveland. 1897-1901 William McKinley (assassinated). 1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt. 1909-1913 William H. Taft. 1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson. 1921-1923 Warren G. Harding (died in office). 1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge. 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover. 1933-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt (died in office). 1945-1953 Harry S. Truman. 1953-1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1961-1963 John F. Kennedy (assassinated). 1963-1969 Lyndon B. Johnson. 1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon (resigned). 1974-1977 Gerald R. Ford. 1977-1981 James Carter. 1981-1989 Ronald Reagan. 1989-1993 George Bush. 1993-2000 William Clinton. 2000-2008 George W. Bush. 2009- Barack H. Obama.
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