Presidential Firsts and Onlys

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Who was the only president born on July 4? John Adams Calvin Coolidge Millard Fillmore Herbert Hoover

2. President ______________ was a Rhodes Scholar. Answer: (Two Words)

3. Who was the only president to give all his federal pay checks (47 years' worth) to charity? John Kennedy Woodrow Wilson Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover

4. President ___________ was the only president to fire a five-star general. Answer: (Two Words)

5. Who was the first president to appoint an African American as a cabinet member? Franklin Roosevelt Lyndon Johnson Jimmy Carter John Kennedy

6. Who was the first and probably only president for a day? William Harding James Ireland John Engles David Atchinson

7. Who was the only president to be married to a foreign-born first lady? Gerald R. Ford William Henry Harrison John Q. Adams Ulysses S. Grant

8. Who was the first president not to give an inaugural address? Andrew Johnson John Tyler Gerald Ford Lyndon Johnson

9. President ____________ ___________ __________ was the first president of the Boy Scouts. Answer: (Three Words)

10. Who was the president who pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason? Herbert Hoover Gerald Ford Franklin Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt

11. President ___________ _____________ was the only president of our country to serve as a president of a labor union. Answer: (Two Words)

12. President ____________ ______________ was the first recipient of a Medicare Card. Answer: (Two Words)

13. John Tyler was marrried while president in an Episcopal Church but President_______________ _________________ was the only one to be married in the White House. Answer: (Two Words)

14. President __________ _____________ was a nuclear engineer. Answer: (Two Words)

15. Who was the only president to destroy all his personal papers before he died? Richard Nixon Chester Arthur Andrew Johnson Calvin Coolidge

16. Who was the first president not to be born a British Subject? Thomas Jefferson John Adams Martin Van Buren John Quincy Adams

17. President _____________ _____________ was president when the Constitutional amendment granting black men the right to vote was passed. Answer: (Two Words)

18. Who was the last president born in a log cabin? Abraham Lincoln James Garfield Rutherford Hayes Grover Cleveland

19. President _____________ ______________ is the only president buried in Washington D.C.'s National Cathedral. Answer: (Two Words)

20. Our 33rd President of the United States was ___________ ____________. Answer: (Two Words)