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Quiz about How to Become the President of the United States

How to Become the President of the United States Quiz

This quiz is about how some people became President of the United States.

A multiple-choice quiz by AuroraBoreanaz. Estimated time: 2 mins.

Author
AuroraBoreanaz

Time
2 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
365,038

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
1152

Last 3 plays: Guest 38 (7/10), Guest 131 (7/10), Guest 71 (9/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which of the following became president of the United States without opposition, and was thus elected unanimously? Hint

John F Kennedy

Abraham Lincoln

George Washington

Barack Obama

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Question 2 of 10

2. What man was the first person to become US president without ever having been elected into the office of president and vice president? Hint

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

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Question 3 of 10

3. What man became US president using the slogan "change we can believe in"? Hint

Bill Clinton

George H W Bush

George W Bush

Barack Obama

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which man did NOT initially become president because of the assassination of his predecessor? Hint

Theodore Roosevelt

Andrew Johnson

Chester A. Arthur

Martin Van Buren

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Question 5 of 10

5. Lyndon B. Johnson initially became president after the assassination of what president in 1963? Hint

Ford

Nixon

Kennedy

Carter

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Question 6 of 10

6. Millard Fillmore became president because President Taylor became ill and died while in office.

True

False

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Question 7 of 10

7. Franklin D. Roosevelt became president because President Hoover died in office.

True

False

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which man did NOT become president immediately after serving as vice president? Hint

Thomas Jefferson

George H W Bush

Bill Clinton

John Adams

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which president was elected using the slogan "I like Ike"? Hint

Eisenhower

Taft

Nixon

Truman

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Question 10 of 10

10. George W Bush was the ONLY person to become president after his father had already served as president.

True

False

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which of the following became president of the United States without opposition, and was thus elected unanimously?

Answer: George Washington

George Washington was elected as the first president of the US in 1789. Washington's term as president ended in 1797, two years before his death.

2. What man was the first person to become US president without ever having been elected into the office of president and vice president?

Answer: Gerald Ford

Ford was the House Minority Leader when Vice President Spiro Angnew resigned. Ford became vice president because of the 25th amendment. When Nixon resigned as president, Ford, now vice president, became president. Ford was vice president from 1973 to 1974 and president from 1974 until Carter's inauguration in January of 1977.

3. What man became US president using the slogan "change we can believe in"?

Answer: Barack Obama

Barack Obama was elected as the 44th president in 2008 and took his oath of office in January 2009. He was re-elected in 2012 and was the first person elected into the office of president to be of a noticeable mixed racial background.

4. Which man did NOT initially become president because of the assassination of his predecessor?

Answer: Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren succeeded Andrew Jackson, who died eight years after his time as president. Theodore Roosevelt first became president after the assassination of President McKinley in 1901. Chester A Arthur initially became president in 1881 after the assassination of President Garfield. Andrew Johnson first became president in 1865 after the assassination of President Lincoln.

5. Lyndon B. Johnson initially became president after the assassination of what president in 1963?

Answer: Kennedy

President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX in November of 1963. Lyndon B. Johnson took his oath of office on air force one. Johnson was elected president in 1964 and preached about "a great society" for America.

6. Millard Fillmore became president because President Taylor became ill and died while in office.

Answer: True

Millard Fillmore became president in 1850 and only served one term. President Fillmore began his life working on his father's farm, apprenticed to a cloth maker and later became a lawyer.

7. Franklin D. Roosevelt became president because President Hoover died in office.

Answer: False

Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president and President Hoover died many years later at the age of 90. However, Franklin D. Roosevelt did die in office and his death is how Harry S Truman first became president.

8. Which man did NOT become president immediately after serving as vice president?

Answer: Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton never served as vice president. George H W Bush was vice president to his predecessor, Ronald Reagan. John Adams vice president to George Washington. Thomas Jefferson was vice president to his predecessor, John Adams.

9. Which president was elected using the slogan "I like Ike"?

Answer: Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower was president from 1953 until President Kennedy took office in 1961. Before becoming president, Eisenhower served in the army and was the supreme commander of the troops on D-day. "Ike" was Eisenhower's nickname.

10. George W Bush was the ONLY person to become president after his father had already served as president.

Answer: False

George W Bush was the 43rd president and his father, George H W Bush was the 41st president. However, George W Bush was not the only person to follow in his father's footsteps. The sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was the son of the second president, John Adams.

Source: Author AuroraBoreanaz

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