Presidential Final Words Trivia Quiz

Answer: John Tyler

Tyler's coffin was draped with a Confederate flag. His body lay in state at the Confederate Congress in Richmond. Because of his loyalty to the Confederacy, Tyler's death was ignored by the US Government.

Answer: John Adams

Adams didn't know it but Jefferson had died a few hours earlier. Adams died at age 90. He was America's longest-lived president until being surpassed by Ronald Reagan (93) and George H W Bush (94).

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

His last words were spoken to James Amos, TR's former White House valet. Amos came by to visit his former employer. He became alarmed at the former president's weakened condition and stayed with him until his death.

Answer: Rutherford B Hayes

Lucy Hayes was the first "First Lady" to have a college degree. She was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy" because she did not serve alcohol in the White House. The Hayes' were happily married. Lucy died in 1889. Rutherford died four years later. He longed to be with his wife.

Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Edith Wilson became known as the "Secret President" and as the "first woman to run the government" because of her attempts to help her sickly husband.

Answer: He married a woman in the White House who was 32 years older than he was

Cleveland married Francis Folsom while president. She was twenty-eight years younger than he was. He did support a child that he fathered out of wedlock. The opposition during the 1884 campaign mocked Cleveland with the slogan, "MaMa, Where's my Pa?" The candy bar "Baby Ruth" is possibly named after his daughter, although some believe it was named for Babe Ruth. During his second term doctors secretly removed a malignant tumor from his mouth and his left jaw was replaced with a rubber prosthesis.

Answer: Dwight Eisenhower

Eisenhower is buried in his hometown of Abilene, Kansas. He is one of only five men to receive the rank of 5-star General. Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to statehood during his administration.

Answer: JFK

President Kennedy was struck twice, once in the neck and once in the back of the head. He died at around 1:00 PM on that tragic day (November 22, 1963) at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas.

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

John Adams and Charles Carroll were the other two Declaration of Independence signers who were still alive at the time of Jefferson's death. Ironically Adams died a few hours later in Massachusetts.

Answer: George Washington

Washington's doctors probably hastened his death by using, what at the time was an accepted medical practice, "blood letting." The First President was 67-years old at his death.

Answer: William Henry Harrison

Harrison's widow, Anna, never lived in the White House. She was planning on joining him in May, but he died in April. Although she never made it to Washington DC, she was the first widowed "first lady" to receive a pension. President Tyler gave her 25,000 dollars.

Answer: Ulysses S Grant

Grant considered being buried at West Point, but chose not to be because the Academy would not allow his wife to be buried with him. Finally the site in Manhattan was selected. Grant's tomb is the largest mausoleum in North America. Grant reportedly smoked twenty cigars a day at one point in his life

Answer: James A Garfield

The metal detector did not work because the metal springs in the president's bed made his body look bullet-riddled. The doctors could not figure out why. David Gaskill Swaim was Garfield's chief of staff.

Answer: Zachary Taylor

Taylor returned from the groundbreaking ceremony of the Washington Monument on July 4, 1850. It was a hot day so he ate some cold fruit and drank some cold milk. Doctors say that the food had not been refrigerated correctly and that the president caught cholera, which led to his death.

Answer: Warren Harding

Harding's wife was reading the ill president an article from the "Saturday Evening Post" which spoke favorably of Harding's scandal plagued administration. A journalist accused Florence Harding of poisoning the president because of his extramarital affairs. Evidence was never produced and nothing was ever proven