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Who Was The First US President To... Quiz

Who was the first U.S. president to have false teeth? George Washington, of course. How much do you know about other presidential firsts?

A multiple-choice quiz by ashlybug. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
ashlybug
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
106,502
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
14 / 25
Plays
1427
Last 3 plays: BPA1959 (22/25), Guest 168 (21/25), Guest 24 (17/25).
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1. Who was the first US president born in a hospital? Hint


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2. Who was the first Phi Beta Kappa to be president of the United States? Hint


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3. Who was the first US president to be born in a log cabin? Hint


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4. Who was the first US president elected unanimously by the Electoral College? Hint


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5. Who was the first US president to play golf? Hint


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6. Who was the first US president to have worked as a fashion model? Hint


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7. Who was the first Republican president of the United States? Hint


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8. Who was the first US president to appear live on national television? Hint


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9. Who was the first US president to occupy the White House? Hint


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10. Who was the first US president to hold a PhD? Hint


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11. Who was the first US president to be a graduate of Harvard? Hint


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12. Who was the first US president born in the 20th century? Hint


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13. Who was the first US president to command an artillery unit in combat while in office? Hint


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14. Who was the first US president to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? Hint


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15. Who was the first US president to visit all 50 states while in office? Hint


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16. Who was the first US president to speak over the radio? Hint


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17. Who was the first US president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.? Hint


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18. Who was the first US president born on the Fourth of July? Hint


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19. Who was the first US president born on the West Coast? Hint


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20. Who was the first US president to be a West Point graduate? Hint


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21. Who was the first "uneducated" US president, without a formal education? Hint


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22. Who was the first US president born west of the Mississippi? Hint


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23. Who was the first left-handed US president? Hint


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24. Who was the first US president to have cancer surgery? Hint


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25. Who was the first US president to be assassinated? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Who was the first US president born in a hospital?

Answer: Jimmy Carter

 Carter, born in Georgia in 1924, was the first POTUS born in a hospital.
2. Who was the first Phi Beta Kappa to be president of the United States?

Answer: Chester A. Arthur

 Arthur was also the first, and only, president alleged to have been born outside of the United States. Recent research seems to support claims that he was born in Canada, not Vermont.
3. Who was the first US president to be born in a log cabin?

Answer: Andrew Jackson

 Jackson, who was born in 1767, was also the first president not from Virginia or Massachusetts.
4. Who was the first US president elected unanimously by the Electoral College?

Answer: George Washington

 Washington, the only president elected unanimously, received all 69 votes cast in the first presidential election.
5. Who was the first US president to play golf?

Answer: William Taft

 Taft was also the first president to throw out the first pitch of the baseball season. He was also the first president to weigh in at over 300 pounds.
6. Who was the first US president to have worked as a fashion model?

Answer: Gerald Ford

 While studying law at Yale, Ford was photographed by a "Look" magazine photographer modeling ski clothes on the slopes.
7. Who was the first Republican president of the United States?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

 The Republican Party was formed in the early 1850s. Lincoln was its first successful presidential nominee.
8. Who was the first US president to appear live on national television?

Answer: Harry Truman

 FDR had appeared earlier on local television, at the 1939 World's Fair, but Truman was the first to appear on a national television network. Eisenhower was the first to appear in color, in 1955.
9. Who was the first US president to occupy the White House?

Answer: John Adams

 When the Adams family moved into the White House in 1797 it was known simply as the President's House.
10. Who was the first US president to hold a PhD?

Answer: Woodrow Wilson

 Wilson received his PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1885.
11. Who was the first US president to be a graduate of Harvard?

Answer: John Adams

 Harvard has produced more presidents than any other school, and John Adams was the first.
12. Who was the first US president born in the 20th century?

Answer: John F. Kennedy

 Although four subsequent presidents were born earlier in the 20th century than Kennedy, he was the first in office to be born in that century.
13. Who was the first US president to command an artillery unit in combat while in office?

Answer: James Madison

 Madison is the only U.S. president to see combat while in office. During the War of 1812 he briefly took command of an artillery unit trying to stop the British march on Washington.
14. Who was the first US president to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

Answer: William H. Taft

 Taft was president from 1909-1913. He was the Chief Justice from 1921 until his death in 1930. No other man has held both jobs.
15. Who was the first US president to visit all 50 states while in office?

Answer: Richard Nixon

 Nixon was also the first president to resign from office.
16. Who was the first US president to speak over the radio?

Answer: Warren G. Harding

 Harding spoke over the radio at the Minnesota State Fair in 1920.
17. Who was the first US president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

 Jefferson was inaugurated in Washington D.C. on March 4, 1801. He was also allegedly the first president to have illegitimate children.
18. Who was the first US president born on the Fourth of July?

Answer: Calvin Coolidge

 Adams and Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826. Coolidge was born on the Fourth of July in 1872.
19. Who was the first US president born on the West Coast?

Answer: Richard Nixon

 Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California in 1913.
20. Who was the first US president to be a West Point graduate?

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

 Grant graduated near the bottom of his class at West Point.
21. Who was the first "uneducated" US president, without a formal education?

Answer: Andrew Johnson

 Andrew Johnson was a tailor's apprentice in his youth and was illiterate when he got married at eighteen. His wife taught him how to read and write.
22. Who was the first US president born west of the Mississippi?

Answer: Herbert Hoover

 Hoover was born in Iowa in 1874.
23. Who was the first left-handed US president?

Answer: James Garfield

 Garfield, who served for a short period in 1881, could actually write with either hand although he was a lefty.
24. Who was the first US president to have cancer surgery?

Answer: Grover Cleveland

 A part of Cleveland's upper jaw was removed in 1893 after a cancerous growth was discovered on the roof of his mouth. The surgery was kept secret and not revealed until 1917, nine years after Cleveland's death.
25. Who was the first US president to be assassinated?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

 John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln in 1865.
Source: Author ashlybug

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Television   World   Science   US Presidents   U.S. Presidents   Supreme Court   Abraham Lincoln   John F. Kennedy   Presidential Firsts   Andrew Jackson   Thomas Jefferson   George Washington   Electoral College   Andrew Johnson   James Madison   Richard Nixon   John Adams   Ulysses S. Grant   Grover Cleveland  

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