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Quiz about Which US Presidents Did Not Graduate College
Quiz about Which US Presidents Did Not Graduate College

Which US Presidents Did Not Graduate College Quiz


Not every U.S. president was a college graduate. The correct answers in this quiz include presidents who attended college but did not graduate.

A collection quiz by bernie73. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
bernie73
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3 mins
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425,292
Updated
Aug 23 26
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Choose the 12 US presidents that DID NOT graduate from college, even if they attended briefly.
There are 12 correct entries. Get 4 incorrect and the game ends.
Benjamin Harrison Franklin D Roosevelt Rutherford B Hayes Abraham Lincoln Andrew Jackson Chester A Arthur John Quincy Adams Theodore Roosevelt James Buchanan Zachary Taylor Franklin Pierce John Tyler Ulysses S Grant Millard Fillmore George Washington James Monroe William H Harrison James A Garfield James Madison Andrew Johnson William McKinley John Adams Martin Van Buren Warren G Harding William H Taft Grover Cleveland James K Polk Herbert Hoover Woodrow Wilson Harry S Truman Calvin Coolidge

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
Answer:

Here's the list. Please note that colleges and universities are referenced by their modern names.

George Washington attended local schools in Virginia and earned a surveyor's license.

John Adams graduated from Harvard University with a degree in 1755.

Thomas Jefferson graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1762 and received an honorary degree later. He was admitted to the bar in 1767.

James Madison graduated from Princeton University in 1771.

James Monroe attended the College of William and Mary before enlisting in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

John Quincy Adams graduated from Harvard University in 1787.

Andrew Jackson attended local schools before being admitted to the bar in 1787.

Martin Van Buren attended local schools before being admitted to the bar in 1803.

William H. Harrison attended Hampden-Sydney College but left before graduating.

John Tyler was an 1807 graduate of the College of William and Mary.

James K. Polk graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818.

Zachary Taylor attended local schools before being commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1808.

Millard Fillmore attended local schools before being admitted to the bar in 1823.

Franklin Pierce graduated from Bowdoin College in 1824.

James Buchanan graduated from Dickinson College in 1809.

Abraham Lincoln attended local schools and became licensed to practice law in 1836.

Andrew Johnson had little formal education and was taught reading, writing, and arithmetic by his wife after their marriage in 1827 while working as a tailor.

Ulysses S. Grant was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1843.

Rutherford B. Hayes graduated from Kenyon College in 1842.

James A. Garfield graduated from Williams College in 1856.

Chester A. Arthur graduated from Union College in 1848.

Grover Cleveland attended local schools before being admitted to the bar in 1859.

Benjamin Harrison graduated from Miami University in 1852.

William McKinley attended college briefly before studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1867.

Theodore Roosevelt graduated from Harvard University in 1880.

William H. Taft graduated from Yale University in 1878.

Woodrow Wilson graduated from Princeton University in 1879.

Warren G. Harding graduated from Ohio Central College in 1882.

Calvin Coolidge graduated from Amherst College in 1895.

Herbert Hoover graduated from Stanford University in 1895.

Franklin D. Roosevelt graduated from Harvard University in 1903.

Harry S. Truman attended local schools. He attended college but did not graduate.

Dwight D. Eisenhower graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1915.

John F. Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1940.

Lyndon B. Johnson graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1930.

Richard M. Nixon graduated from Whittier College in 1934.

Gerald R. Ford graduated from the University of Michigan in 1935.

James E. Carter graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946.

Ronald Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932.

George H. W. Bush graduated from Yale University in 1948.

William J. Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in 1968.

George W. Bush graduated from Yale University in 1968.

Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983.

Donald J. Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.

Joseph Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965.
Source: Author bernie73

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