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Facts about the Presidents Trivia Quiz

A little quiz about Presidents. It shouldn't be too hard if you are good in History.

A multiple-choice quiz by rae1980. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
rae1980

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
15,480

Updated
Mar 02 24

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
4223

Last 3 plays: wellenbrecher (10/10), Guest 174 (4/10), Guest 175 (10/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which President was sworn into office on a plane? Hint

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Richard Nixon

JFK

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who served the longest time as US President? Hint

William H.Taft

William H. Harrison

Grover Cleveland

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who was the first US president to resign? Hint

Ronald Reagan

Jimmy Carter

Gerald Ford

Richard Nixon

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Question 4 of 10

4. What President never married? Hint

James Buchanan

Grover Cleveland

Richard Nixon

Woodrow Wilson

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which of these pairs of Presidents both lived to at least their 90th birthday? Hint

John Adams and Herbert Hoover

Thomas Jefferson and Herbert Hoover

John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson

none of these presidents lived past 90

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which President was the first to speak on national radio? Hint

Calvin Coolidge

Warren G Harding

Theodore Roosevelt

William Taft

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who served the shortest time as President? Hint

Abraham Lincoln

James A. Garfield

John F. Kennedy

William Henry Harrison

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who was the oldest person to be elected US President up to the end of the twentieth century? Hint

Ronald Reagan

Dwight Eisenhower

Gerald Ford

John Adams

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Question 9 of 10

9. Of the following, who was the youngest person to become US president? Hint

James Polk

Ulysses Grant

John F. Kennedy

Theodore Roosevelt

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who was the only President to serve 2 non-consecutive terms? Hint

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Grover Cleveland

Ulysses S. Grant

James Madison

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which President was sworn into office on a plane?

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

2. Who served the longest time as US President?

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

He served for 12 years, 1 month and 8 days.

3. Who was the first US president to resign?

Answer: Richard Nixon

He resigned before he could be impeached. Nixon was the first US president to resign from the office.

4. What President never married?

Answer: James Buchanan

He was the President right before Lincoln.

5. Which of these pairs of Presidents both lived to at least their 90th birthday?

Answer: John Adams and Herbert Hoover

John Adams was born in October 1735 and died on July 4 1826 at the age of 90. Herbert Hoover was born in August 1874 and died in October 1964, also aged 90.

6. Which President was the first to speak on national radio?

Answer: Warren G Harding

Harding made his speech in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 14, 1922. Woodrow Wilson had previously made a speech over the radio in 1919 from a ship to troops aboard other vessels, but it was not broadcast nationally.

7. Who served the shortest time as President?

Answer: William Henry Harrison

He died after serving for one month in 1841, he got sick after giving his long acceptance speech in freezing cold weather.

8. Who was the oldest person to be elected US President up to the end of the twentieth century?

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Reagan was 69 years old. His record was later surpassed by Donald Trump, who was 70 when he became President-elect in 2016.

9. Of the following, who was the youngest person to become US president?

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Kennedy, at 43, was at the the time the youngest to be elected president. Teddy Roosevelt became president at 42, when he took up the post after the assassination of McKinley - the difference being that he was not elected by the people.

10. Who was the only President to serve 2 non-consecutive terms?

Answer: Grover Cleveland

He served the first time from 1885 - 1889 and again from 1893 - 1897.

Source: Author rae1980

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