John Adams Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
On what date was John Adams born?
A: October 30, 1735.
On what date did John Adams begin presiding over the
Senate?
A: April 21 is the date on which Adams began.
What did John’s father want John to be?
A: A minister.
John Adams was the second president of the United States
having previously served as the first what?
A: Vice president of the United States (1789-1797).
John Adams was a statesman, diplomat, and a leading
advocate of what?
A: American independence from Great Britain.
John Adams was the primary advocate in the Congress for
what?
A: Drafting the Declaration of Independence.
John Adams was opposed to and never owned a what?
A: Slave.
After the Boston Massacre, what did John Adams do?
A: He provided a principled, controversial, and successful
legal defense of the
accused British soldiers.
As a lawyer and public figure in Boston John Adams played a
leading role in persuading Congress to do what?
A: Declare independence.
While president, Adams encountered attacks by his own
Federalist Party led by what bitter enemy?
A: Alexander Hamilton.
Adams assisted who in drafting the Declaration of
Independence in 1776?
A: Thomas Jefferson.
As a diplomat in Europe, Adams helped negotiate the what?
A: Peace treaty with Great Britain.
John Adams was responsible for obtaining vital governmental
loans from whom?
A: Amsterdam bankers.
Adams was a political theorist and historian and in 1780
was largely responsible for writing what?
A: The Massachusetts Constitution.
John Adams was as a good judge of character, and in 1775,
he nominated who to be to be commander-in-chief?
A: George Washington.
John Adams was a direct descendent of what group?
A: The founding generation of Puritans, who came to America in the 1630s.
John Adams nominated who to be Chief Justice of the United
States.
A: John Marshall.
Adams' served how many terms as George Washington's vice
president?
A: Two.
In 1758, after earning an A.M. from Harvard, Adams was
admitted to what?
A: The bar.
What group ferociously attacked Adams during his one term
as president?
A: The Jeffersonian
Republicans.
In 1800, who defeated Adams in his bid for re-election?
A: Thomas Jefferson.
Adams and his wife founded a family line of
politicians,
diplomats, and historians, now referred to as the what?
A: Adams political family.
John was the father of what President of the United States?
A: John Quincy Adams.
Adams was the first president to live where?
A: In the White House.
Other than being John Adam’s wife, how was his wife Abigail
related to him?
A: Third cousin.
Adams was the eldest of how many sons?
A: Three.
Who was John’s wife’s father?
A: Congregational minister, Rev. William Smith, at Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Where was John Adams born?
A: In what is now Quincy, Massachusetts.
Where did Massachusetts send Adams in 1774 and from 1775 to
1777?
A: To the first and second Continental Congresses.
John Adams's birthplace is now part of what?
A: Adams National Historical Park.
John Adams felt strongly that he had a responsibility to
live up to his what?
A: Family heritage.
At what age did John Adams go to Harvard College?
A: Sixteen, in 1751.
After graduating in 1755 Adams taught school for a few
years in what city?
A: Worcester, Massachusetts.
On October 25, 1764, five days before his 29th birthday,
what did John Adams do?
A: Married Abigail Smith.
What were the names of John and Abigail’s children?
A: Abigail, John Quincy Adams, Susanna, Charles, Thomas Boylston, and Elizabeth
(stillborn 1777).
Adams first rose to prominence as an opponent of the what?
A: Stamp Act 1765.
