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Presidential Potpourri Trivia Quiz

This quiz contains interesting questions about American presidents that have not previously been asked.

A multiple-choice quiz by mikej941. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
mikej941

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
188,920

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
6 / 15

Plays
2124

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: jxhsutt (7/15), Guest 24 (6/15), Guest 174 (6/15).

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Question 1 of 15

1. Who was the first U.S. President to have a telephone installed in the White House? Hint

James Garfield

Grover Cleveland

Chester Arthur

Rutherford Hayes

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Question 2 of 15

2. Who was the first president to walk into the room now known as the "Oval Office"?
Hint

John Adams

Grover Cleveland

Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

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Question 3 of 15

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

Hint

Andrew Jackson

Grover Cleveland

Samuel J. Tilden

All of these men

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Question 4 of 15

4. What two US presidents signed the Constitution?
Hint

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson

George Washington and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

George Washington and James Monroe

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Question 5 of 15

5. Which one of the following statements is true? Hint

George Washington was the only president to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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.

Thomas Jefferson was the only president to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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Question 6 of 15

6. Thurgood Marshall was the first black man appointed to the United States Supreme Court. What president appointed him to that position? Hint

Lyndon Johnson

Ronald Reagan

James Earl Carter

Richard Nixon

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Question 7 of 15

7. George Washington was a member of what political party when he took office in 1789?
Hint

Union

None of these parties

Democratic Republican

Federalist

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Question 8 of 15

8. How many members of the Whig party were elected to the office of the presidency?
Hint

Two

Three

One

Four

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Question 9 of 15

9. Which of the following presidents was an ordained minister? Hint

James Buchanan

William Henry Harrison

James Garfield

James Earl Carter

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Question 10 of 15

10. What US president once paid a membership fee to the Ku Klux Klan?
Hint

Harry S. Truman

Lyndon Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant

James Earl Carter

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Question 11 of 15

11. Who was the first president since Lincoln to lose a child while in office? Hint

John F. Kennedy

Calvin Coolidge

Grover Cleveland

Ulysses S. Grant

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Question 12 of 15

12. What future president married 16 year old Eliza McCardle?
Hint

William Howard Taft

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Johnson

John Quincy Adams

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Question 13 of 15

13. Who appointed a former National Football League Rookie of the Year to the US Supreme Court?
Hint

Dwight Eisenhower

Ronald Reagan

Richard Nixon

John F. Kennedy

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? Hint

1785

1776

1783

1791

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Question 15 of 15

15. A horse took a ride in the White House elevator while this president was in office? Hint

John F. Kennedy

Ulysses S. Grant

William Howard Taft

Theodore Roosevelt

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who was the first U.S. President to have a telephone installed in the White House?

Answer: Rutherford Hayes

Rutherford Hayes had the first telephone installed in the White House in 1879. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.

2. Who was the first president to walk into the room now known as the "Oval Office"?

Answer: William Howard Taft

The first Person to walk into the Oval Office was William Howard Taft. The Oval Office is contained in the West Wing, which was built by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902. President Roosevelt's office in the West Wing was rectangular. Taft relocated his office and changed its shape to oval.

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

Answer: All of these men

Four presidential candidates have lost the presidency despite winning the popular vote: Jackson, Tilden, Cleveland and Gore. Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the 1824 election to John Quincy Adams. Samuel Tilden won the popular vote but lost the 1876 election to Rutherford Hayes. Grover Cleveland won the popular vote, but lost the 1888 election to Benjamin Harrison. Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush. Florida votes were a point of contention in both the 1876 Presidential election and the 2000 Presidential election.

4. What two US presidents signed the Constitution?

Answer: George Washington and James Madison

The only presidents to sign the Constitution were George Washington and James Madison. The only two presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence were Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

5. Which one of the following statements is true?

Answer: No president signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were the only two presidents who signed the Declaration of Independence. George Washington and James Madison are the only two presidents who signed the Constitution. No president signed both documents.

6. Thurgood Marshall was the first black man appointed to the United States Supreme Court. What president appointed him to that position?

Answer: Lyndon Johnson

Thurgood Marshall served on the U.S. Supreme Court for 24 years. He retired in June of 1991, and died in January 1993.

7. George Washington was a member of what political party when he took office in 1789?

Answer: None of these parties

When George Washington took office in 1789, there were no political parties in the United States. The party system in the United States made its appearance during Washington's first term.

8. How many members of the Whig party were elected to the office of the presidency?

Answer: Two

Four American presidents were members of the Whig political party. They were William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. However, only two of these men (William H Harrison and Zachary Taylor) were actually elected to the presidency. John Tyler assumed the presidency after Harrison died in office, whereas Fillmore assumed the presidency after Taylor died in office. Neither Tyler nor Fillmore served a second term.

9. Which of the following presidents was an ordained minister?

Answer: James Garfield

According to the official White House website, whitehouse.gov, "James Garfield was the only preacher to ever become president. He was an ordained minister who used his speaking ability to preach and teach."

10. What US president once paid a membership fee to the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer: Harry S. Truman

Truman's membership in this racial supremacist organization was short-lived. Truman initially joined the KKK in the 1920's in order to gain their assistance in his first political race for county judgeship in Missouri. Truman is reported to have left the KKK over their anti-Catholic stance. Many of the men in Truman's WWI regiment had been Catholics.

11. Who was the first president since Lincoln to lose a child while in office?

Answer: Calvin Coolidge

Sixteen-year old Calvin Coolidge, Jr. died in July 1924 from blood poisoning. He developed a blister on his foot after playing tennis, and the blister became infected. He died several days later.

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12. What future president married 16 year old Eliza McCardle?

Answer: Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson married 16 year old Eliza in 1827. Due to poor health related to tuberculosis, she was not able to serve as first lady. Her daughter Martha largely performed that duty for her. Eliza encouraged her husband's political ambitions, but never enjoyed being in the public spotlight.

13. Who appointed a former National Football League Rookie of the Year to the US Supreme Court?

Answer: John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy appointed Byron White to the Supreme Court in 1962. Byron While had been NFL Rookie of the year in 1938.

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?

Answer: 1783

Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the American colonies with the "Peace of Paris" which was signed on September 3, 1783.

15. A horse took a ride in the White House elevator while this president was in office?

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Archie Roosevelt's favorite pet was his pony named, "Algonquin." When Archie became bedridden with the measles, his brothers arranged for Algonquin to visit him in his second floor bedroom. The brothers brought Algonquin to Archie via the White House elevator.

Source: Author mikej941

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