President Warren G. Harding Trivia Questions With Answers
Who was the 29th President of the United States?
A: Warren G. Harding.
During what period was Warren Harding the President of the
U.S.?
A: March 4, 1921 – August 2,
1923
Who was Warren's vice president?
A: Calvin Coolidge.
Warren Harding was preceded by whom?
A: Woodrow Wilson.
Who succeeded Harding as President?
A: Calvin Coolidge.
What was Hardings birth name?
A: Warren Gamaliel Harding.
On what date was Warren born?
A: November 2, 1865.
Where was Warren G. Harding born?
A: Blooming Grove, Ohio, U.S.
Harding died on what date?
A: August 2, 1923.
Warren Harding rewarded friends and contributors, known as
the "Ohio Gang", with what?
A: Powerful government positions.
Multiple cases of what were exposed during his presidency?
A: Corruption.
Domestically, Harding signed the first federal program for
what?
A: Child welfare.
Harding dealt with striking mining and railroad workers in
part by supporting what?
A: An 8-hour work day.
In foreign affairs, Harding spurned the League of Nations
and negotiated peace treaties with what countries?
A: Germany and Austria.
His greatest foreign policy achievement came in the what?
A: The Washington Naval Conference of 1921–22.
What happened in August 1923?
A: Harding suddenly collapsed and died in
California.
As a young child, what was Warrens' nickname?
A: Winnie.
Harding was the oldest of how many children?
A: Eight.
Who were Harding's parents?
A: Dr. George Tryon Harding, Sr. and Phoebe Elizabeth (Dickerson) Harding.
In 1878, Warrens brother Charles and sister Persilla died
from what?
A: Presumably from typhoid fever.
Harding studied the printing and newspaper trade as a
college student at what college?
A: Ohio Central College in Iberia.
Where did he work at same time?
A: The Union Register in Mount Gilead.
What did Harding become in college?
A: An accomplished public speaker.
In what year did Warren graduate?
A: In 1882 at the age of 17 with a Bachelor of
Science degree.
As a youngster, Warren had become an accomplished what?
A: Cornet player.
He played in various bands, and in 1884 Harding gained
popular recognition in Marion when his Citizens' Cornet Band won what?
A: The third-place $200 prize at the highly competitive Ohio State Band Festival
in Findlay.
What did the winnings pay for?
A: For the band's snappy dress uniforms, which Warren had bought on credit.
In 1900, Warren' political opponent J.F. McNeal, with Amos
Kling's help, secretly bought up $20,000 in what?
A: Loans owed by Harding.
On July 8, 1891 who did Warren Harding marry?
A: Florence Kling DeWolfe, the daughter of his nemesis Amos Hall Kling.
Florence Kling DeWolfe was a divorcee, with a young son,
and how much older than Harding?
A: 5 years.
In 1912, incumbent President William Howard Taft chose
Harding, a talented speaker, to give what speech?
A: Taft's nominating speech.
Where did Warren served from 1915 until his inauguration as
President in 1921?
A: In the Senate.
That makes him the first sitting senator to be what?
A: Elected President of the United States;
John F. Kennedy and
Barack Obama
followed in this pattern.