Some Facts About U.S. Presidents Quiz

Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes

Located in Fremont, Ohio. Hayes had many such 'firsts'--first to use a typewriter in the White House, first to use a telephone in the White House, and he started the White House Easter Egg roll tradition.

Answer: Andrew Johnson

While still a youth Johnson ran away from his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, and settled in Greeneville. He was put on the Republican ticket in 1864 because Lincoln wanted a Southerner as his running mate to balance the ticket. 96 years later, John F. Kennedy also put a Johnson from the South on the ticket to give geographical balance, with eerily similar results as both Johnson's became President after assassinations.

Answer: William Howard Taft

Taft is the only person to serve as both President and chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was also the first President to throw out a baseball at a season opener, starting a longstanding tradition.

Answer: Benjamin Harrison

Harrison is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana, along with 3 Vice-Presidents, 15 Indiana Governors and Senators, and John Dillinger. Harrison's Presidency is perhaps best known for being the one in which the most new States, 6, were admitted to the U.S.

Answer: James Madison

Jefferson's grave is near Charlottesville, Virginia.

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson and his Vice-Presidential running mate, Burr, tied in the Electoral College because of the failure of the founding fathers to anticipate the use of political parties. The constitutional glitch was corrected before the next election.

Answer: James Madison

The War of 1812 was so unpopular in the New England states that there was serious talk there about seceding. This talk died out, along with the Federalist Party itself, when the war ended.

Answer: John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams is the other President, besides Jefferson, to be elected by the House, after the Electoral College failed to give a majority to anyone. Andrew Jackson made the 'corrupt bargain' charge, but it is doubtful a man of Adams' character would stoop to this level.

Answer: James K. Polk

Polk was one of the hardest-working Presidents ever, although the wisdom and morality of his war against Mexico is dubious and caused much dissension in the country at the time, not to mention generating much animosity in Mexico againt the U.S. Exhausted by the end of his term, Polk died a few months after leaving office.

Answer: Calvin Coolidge

A simple grave in a quiet village, an appropriate setting for this quiet man. Coolidge was so famous for saying little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get the president to say more than two words. When she told the president of her wager, he replied, "You lose." Another time, someone asked him, "Mr. President, how many people do you have working for you in the federal government?" Coolidge replied, "Oh, about half of them." Hope you enjoyed the quiz.