U.S. President Trivia Questions and Answers
Q: What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
Q: Who was the first U.S. president to adopt the informal version
of his first name?
A: Jimmy Carter.
Q: Who was the first president to appear on a U.S. coin?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
Q: Who said: "I'm the president of the United States, and I'm not
going to eat any more broccoli"?
A: George Bush.
Q: Who told Jimmy Carter in a debate: "There is no Soviet
domination of Eastern Europe"?
A: Gerald Ford.
Q: How many U.S. presidents played a role in
Vietnam's civil war?
A: Five.
Q: Who did Abraham Lincoln promote to major general of volunteers
after he captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
A: Ulysses S. Grant.
Q: 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.
Q: What did Ronald Reagan disclose he was suffering from, in
1994?
A: Alzheimer's
disease.
Q: What former U.S. president showed up on dollar coins in
1971?
A: Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Q: What U.S. president's State of the Union address lasted
a record 81 minutes?
A: Bill Clinton's.
Q: What president was shot at while walking to
California
Governor Jerry Brown's office?
A: Gerald Ford.
Q: What U.S. vice president was once wanted for
murder in
New
Jersey?
A: Aaron Burr.
Q: What inscription on U.S. coins did
Theodore Roosevelt try in
vain to have removed?
A: In God We Trust.
Q: What document did President
Andrew Johnson want a copy of
placed under his head upon his burial?
A: The U.S. Constitution.
Q: Who was the first president to utter "We shall overcome"
before a joint session of Congress?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
Q: 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.
Q: What name did romantic George Bush paint on his bomber during
World War II?
A: Barbara.
Q: Who was the first U.S. vice president named acting president
while his boss was under the knife?
A: George Bush.
Q: What portly U.S. president was the first to be a
golf nut?
A: William Howard Taft.
Q: What U.S. president had the shortest life?
A: John F. Kennedy.
Q: What future president was the only U.S. senator from a
Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession?
A: Andrew Johnson.
Q: What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with
hemorrhoids?
A: Jimmy Carter.
Q: What three words did George Bush say before "no new taxes" in
1988?
A: "Read my lips".
Q: 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.
Q: What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
A: Bill Clinton.