Presidential Firsts and Onlys

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

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

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 Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson

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? John Kennedy Franklin Roosevelt Lyndon Johnson Jimmy Carter

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? John Q. Adams Ulysses S. Grant William Henry Harrison Gerald R. Ford

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

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? Gerald Ford Franklin Roosevelt Herbert Hoover 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? Chester Arthur Andrew Johnson Richard Nixon Calvin Coolidge

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

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)