Mr. President Please Sign With Your Left Hand Quiz

Answer: Harry Truman

Truman became president in the final months of WWII and was involved in the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was elected in his own right in 1948. He was married to Bess Truman who did not enjoy the spotlight very much but lived to be 97 years old.

Answer: Gerald Ford

Ford, who played on the University of Michigan's football team, was also the first Boy Scout Eagle to achieve the office of president. He became vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned and then became president upon Richard Nixon's resignation. He was married to Betty Ford who went on to open a famous addiction treatment center.

Answer: Barack Obama

Obama was born in Hawaii and went on to become a civil-rights lawyer and teacher before being elected to the Illinois State Senate. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. He is married to Michelle Obama, also a lawyer, who is an advocate for healthy eating.

Answer: Ambidexterity

One percent of people are estimated to be fully ambidextrous. These individuals can use both hands equally well but still tend to dominate with one hand for differing tasks. There have been a number of famous people who were ambidextrous including Leonardo da Vinci, Paul McCartney, and Ben Franklin.

Answer: James Garfield

Garfield grew up in Ohio and was a major general in the US Army during the Civil War. His term began in early 1881 and was quickly enveloped in the Star Route Scandal. Several members of his own party were involved in a scheme where United States postal officials received bribes for lucrative contracts. Garfield was shot in the summer of 1881 by a disgruntled office seeker and died in September of blood poisoning in the same village where his wife lay ill of malaria.

Answer: George H W Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served in WWII as one of the youngest aviators of his time, aged eighteen. He later started an oil company in Texas and was a millionaire by the time he was forty years old. During his presidency, he rallied over 400,000 US troops to join forces and vanquish Iraq's army during Operation Desert Storm.

His wife Barbara worked hard during their term to advocate universal literacy.

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan could actually use both hands equally well. He once stated that he started off left handed but 'strict teachers' forced him to use his right hand when he could. During his presidency, his supply-side economic views were dubbed "Reaganomics".

He survived an assassination attempt 69 days into his presidency but recovered quickly. His wife was Nancy, an actress herself, who popularized the 'Just Say No' program against illicit drugs.

Answer: Herbert Hoover

Hoover travelled the world in his role as a mining engineer before he entered politics. He was the head of the United States Food Administration during WWI. When the stock market crashed in 1929, eight months into his administration, he generated many public works projects including the Hoover Dam.

His wife, Lou, was the first of the presidential wives to make national radio broadcasts.

Answer: Bill Clinton

Clinton earned a law degree from Yale and went on to become governor of Arkansas before he was voted in as president. He signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as well as his health reforms. He was impeached in 1998 concerning a sex scandal with a White House aide but was acquitted.

He has filled his time after the presidency with public speaking tours. His wife Hillary, a lawyer herself, announced that she would be in the running for the 2016 presidential vote.

Answer: 10%

Research suggests that people become left-handed through a collaboration of genetics and environment. These individuals, sometimes known as 'southpaws', are generally inclined to involve themselves in arts, music, and sports. They can all give each other a high five (with their left hands) on August 13th which is International Left Handers Day!