US President Trivia Questions and Answers
What U.S. president's State of the Union address lasted a record 81
minutes?
A: Bill Clinton's.
What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
A: Bill Clinton.
Who was the first African American President?
A: Barack Obama
What 1970's president openly discussed his
battle with
hemorrhoids?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What U.S. president had the shortest life?
A: John F. Kennedy.
What former president was on an African
hunting trip when his enemy
J. P. Morgan quipped: "Let every
lion do his duty"?
A: Theodore Roosevelt.
What conspirator in the
Lincoln assassination was pardoned for
saving the lives of prison guards during a
yellow fever epidemic?
A: Dr. Samuel Mudd.
What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of
history you can't get out"?
A: Richard Nixon.
Who was the first president to utter "We shall overcome"
before a joint session of Congress?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
What future president was the only U.S. senator from a Confederate
state to remain in Congress after secession?
A: Andrew Jackson.
What president's mug graces a $100,000 bill?
A: Woodrow Wilson.
What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic
Church after an infection following spinal surgery in
1954?
A: John F. Kennedy.
What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to
command a military unit during his term in office?
A: The war of 1812.
What document did President
Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed
under his head upon his burial?
A: The U.S.
Constitution.
Who was the first daughter of a U.S. president to pose nude for a
Playboy video?
A: Patti Davis.
How many U.S. states are named after a president?
A: One.
Who is the only president to have survived two assassination
attempts by women?
A: Gerald Ford.
What portly U.S. president was the first to be a
golf nut?
A: William Howard Taft.
What future president's Texas classmates ran a shot of a jackass
under his yearbook photo?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson's.
What day does the U.S. president traditionally deliver a weekly
radio address?
A: Saturday.
What horse-loving future president cheated on an
eye exam to join
the cavalry reserves in the 1930's?
A: Ronald Reagan.
What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day
baseballs?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What card game did Dwight D. Eisenhower play fanatically while
planning for D-Day?
A: Bridge.
What White House lawyer first revealed the existence of an
"enemies list" and "hush money" at the Watergate
hearings?
A: John Dean.
What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
What U.S. president installed
solar panels on the White House roof?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What First Lady of the 1980s was shocked to find "a tremendous
rat" swimming with her in the White House Pool?
A: Barbara Bush.
What future anchor was the only female reporter to tag along with
Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China?
A: Barbara Walters.
Who revealed that the U.S. had a
hydrogen bomb in his last State of
the Union speech?
A: Harry S. Truman
