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Trivia Questions About US Presidents
Who called Eisenhower,
Hoover and
Truman in the early morning hours
of November 23, 1963?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
Who told Jimmy Carter in a debate: "There is no Soviet
domination of Eastern Europe"?
A: Gerald Ford.
Who was the 19th President of the United States?
A: Rutherford B. Hayes.
Buchanan, appointed by
Andrew Jackson, served as Minister to what
country from 1832 to 1833?
A: Russia.
Whose 1800 presidential campaign did the Hartford Courant offer a
formal apology for opposing, in
1993?
A: Thomas Jefferson's.
What presidential candidate did
Ronald Reagan support when voting
for the first
time?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
How many siblings did James Buchanan have?
A: He had six sisters and four brothers.
Kitty Kelly wrote an Unauthorized Biography about which First Lady?
A: Nancy Regan.
Which First Lady was born Mamie Doud?
A: Maime Eisenhower.
In the 60s what was the first name of
John F. Kennedy's wife?
A: Jackie.
When did Rutherford Hayes serve as President of the United States?
A: March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881
Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a glowing biography, The Life of
Franklin Pierce, in support of what?
A: Pierce's 1852 presidential campaign.
Whose assassination was Sam Seymour the last living witness to,
until his death in 1956?
A: Abraham Lincoln's.
Zachary Taylor’s handwriting was once described as what??
A: "That of a near illiterate".
What name did romantic George Bush paint on his bomber during World
War II?
A: Barbara.
Where was JFK when he said the U.S. "never had to put up a
wall to keep our people in"?
A: West Berlin.
Who was the 17th President of the United States?
A: Andrew Johnson.
What three words did George Bush say before "no new
taxes" in 1988?
A: Read my lips.
Who did Abraham Lincoln promote to major general of volunteers
after he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
A: Ulysses S. Grant.
Whose 1823 doctrine said the Western Hemisphere was not open to
colonization or aggression by European nations?
A: James Monroe's.
Who was the 15th President of the United States?
A: James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson became Governor of
Tennessee for four years, and was elected by the legislature to the Senate when?
A: 1857.
What card game did Dwight D. Eisenhower play fanatically while
planning for D-Day?
A: Bridge.
James Garfield entered
politics as a
Republican, after campaigning for what?
A: The party's anti-slavery platform in
Ohio.
What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of
war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
Buchanan was a dedicated Federalist, initially opposing what war because he believed it was an unnecessary conflict?
A: War of 1812.
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 US President preceded
Benjamin Harrison?
A: Grover Cleveland.
Harrison was defeated by Cleveland in his bid for re-election in 1892, due to what?
A: The growing unpopularity of the high tariffs and high federal spending.
Where was Millard Fillmore born?
A: In a log cabin in Moravia, Cayuga County, in the Finger Lakes region of
New York State.
In 1828, Millard was elected to the what?
A: New York State Assembly.
Who was Fillmore’s Secretary of State?
A: Daniel Webster.
Who was the 12th President of the United States?
A: Zachary Taylor.
During the War of 1812, Taylor successfully defended what Fort in
Indiana Territory from an Indian attack?
A: Fort Harrison.
In December 1847, where did Taylor receive a hero's welcome, setting the stage for the 1848 presidential election?
A: in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
James Garfield is the only President of the United States to have been a what?
A: Clergyman.
Garfield also served as an elder in what Church?
A: Church of Christ.
James Garfield did not consider himself an abolitionist, but he was opposed to what?
A: Slavery.
Who was the 14th President of the United States?
A: Franklin Pierce.
Franklin Pierce was the first president to ever give his inaugural address from what?
A: Memory.
Andrew Johnson is considered among the worst American presidents for his opposition to what?
A: Federally guaranteed rights for African Americans.
Who did Rutherford Hayes date during his time in Cincinnati?
A: His future wife, Lucy Webb.
When did Rutherford and Lucy become engaged?
A: In 1851.
When did Rutherford marry Lucy?
A: On December 30, 1852, at the house of Lucy's mother.
What is the name of the 20th President of the United States?
A: James A. Garfield.
What was James Garfield’s birth name?
A: James Abram Garfield.
When was James Garfield born?
A: November 19, 1831.
Who was the 21st President of the United States?
Chester A. Arthur
Chester A. Arthur was the president of the US for what time period?
A: September 19, 1881 – March 4, 1885
Who preceded Arthur as president?
A: James A. Garfield.
What was Chester’s birth name?
A: Chester Alan Arthur.
Who succeeded Chester A. Arthur as President of the US?
A: Grover Cleveland.
Arthur was the fifth of how many children?
A: Nine.
Where was his father born?
A: Just outside the village of Cullybackey, County Antrim, Ireland.
