George W. Bush Trivia Questions and Answers
Who was the 43rd President of the United States?
A: George W. Bush.
What time period was he in office as President of the
United States?
A: January 20, 2001 – January 20,
2009
Who was his Vice President?
A: Dick Cheney.
Who preceded George as U.S. President?
A: Bill Clinton.
Who was Bush succeeded by?
A: Barack Obama.
On what date was George Bush born?
A: On July 6, 1946.
Where was he born?
A: At Grace-New Haven Hospital in New Haven,
Connecticut.
Who is his father?
A: George Herbert Walker Bush.
Who is his mother?
A: Barbara Pierce.
Where was George raised?
A: In Midland and Houston, Texas with four siblings.
What are the names of his siblings?
A: Jeb, Neil, Marvin and Dorothy.
Another younger sister, Robin, died from leukemia at what
age?
A: Three.
Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a what?
A: U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
George’s father, George H. W. Bush was
Ronald Reagan's
what?
A: Vice President from 1981 to
1989.
His father was also what?
A: The 41st U.S. President from 1989 to
1993.
In Houston, he went to what school?
A: The Kinkaid School, a prep school in Houston for two years.
Bush finished high school at what school?
A: The Phillips Academy, a boarding school in Andover,
Massachusetts.
Bush attended what school from
1964 to
1968?
A: Yale University.
He graduated with a B.A. degree in what?
A: History.
Beginning in the fall of 1973, Bush attended what school?
A: The Harvard Business School.
At Harvard, he earned what degree?
A: An M.B.A. degree.
He is the only U.S. President to have earned a what?
A: An M.B.A.
In May 1968, Bush was commissioned into what?
A: The Texas Air National Guard.
Bush was suspended from flying for failure to what?
A: Take a scheduled physical exam.
Bush was honorably discharged from the Air Force Reserve on
what date?
A: November 21, 1974.
At a backyard barbecue in
1977, friends introduced him to
whom?
A: Laura Lane Welch, a school teacher and librarian.
Bush proposed to her after how long of a courtship?
A: Three months.
When did they get married?
A: November 5, 1977.
Where did they settle?
A: In Midland, Texas.
Bush left his family's Episcopal Church to join what?
A: His wife's United Methodist Church.
On November 25, 1981, Laura Bush gave birth to what?
A: Fraternal twin daughters, Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush.
Prior to his marriage, Bush had multiple episodes of what?
A: Alcohol abuse.
Bush has been an avid what throughout his adult life?
A: Reader, preferring biographies and histories.
During his time as president, Bush read how many Lincoln
biographies?
A: 14.
During the last three years of his presidency, he
reportedly read how many books?
A: 186.
Since leaving the White House, Bush has also taken up what?
A: Oil painting.
Bush welcomed his first granddaughter, Margaret Laura
"Mila" Hager on what date?
A: April 14, 2013, when his daughter Jenna Bush gave birth.
In 1978, Bush ran for what?
A: The House of Representatives from Texas's 19th congressional district.
Bush lost the election by how many votes?
A: 6,000.
Bush moved his family to Washington, D.C. in
1988 to work
on what?
A: His father's campaign for the U.S. presidency.
Bush declared his candidacy for the
1994 what?
A: Texas gubernatorial election.
His campaign focused on what four themes?
A: Welfare reform, tort reform, crime reduction, and education improvement.