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Presidential Potpourri

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Presidential Potpourri game quiz
"This quiz contains interesting questions about American presidents that have not previously been asked."

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1. Who was the first U.S. President to have a telephone installed in the White House?
    James Garfield
    Grover Cleveland
    Chester Arthur
    Rutherford Hayes


2. Who was the first president to walk into the room now known as the "Oval Office"?
    John Adams
    Grover Cleveland
    Theodore Roosevelt
    William Howard Taft


3. With whom does Al Gore share the distinction of having lost the presidency despite having won the popular vote?

    Grover Cleveland
    Andrew Jackson
    All of these men
    Samuel J. Tilden


4. What two US presidents signed the Constitution?
    George Washington and James Monroe
    George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
    George Washington and James Madison
    Thomas Jefferson and John Adams


5. Which one of the following statements is true?
    No president signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
    John Adams was the only president to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
    George Washington was the only president to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
    Thomas Jefferson was the only president to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.


6. Thurgood Marshall was the first black man appointed to the United States Supreme Court. What president appointed him to that position?
    James Earl Carter
    Lyndon Johnson
    Ronald Reagan
    Richard Nixon


7. George Washington was a member of what political party when he took office in 1789?
    None of these parties
    Democratic Republican
    Union
    Federalist


8. How many members of the Whig party were elected to the office of the presidency?
    One
    Two
    Three
    Four


9. Which of the following presidents was an ordained minister?
    James Garfield
    James Earl Carter
    William Henry Harrison
    James Buchanan


10. What US president once paid a membership fee to the Ku Klux Klan?
    James Earl Carter
    Ulysses S. Grant
    Harry S. Truman
    Lyndon Johnson


11. Who was the first president since Lincoln to lose a child while in office?
    Ulysses S. Grant
    John F. Kennedy
    Calvin Coolidge
    Grover Cleveland


12. What future president married 16 year old Eliza McCardle?
    Andrew Jackson
    William Howard Taft
    John Quincy Adams
    Andrew Johnson


13. Who appointed a former National Football League Rookie of the Year to the US Supreme Court?
    John F. Kennedy
    Richard Nixon
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Ronald Reagan


14. The first President of the United States, George Washington, was inaugurated on April 30, 1789. In what year did Great Britain officially recognize the independence of the American colonies?
    1776
    1785
    1791
    1783


15. A horse took a ride in the White House elevator while this president was in office?
    John F. Kennedy
    Theodore Roosevelt
    William Howard Taft
    Ulysses S. Grant


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