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U.S. Presidential Mixture Trivia Quiz

These are interesting, yet very difficult facts about our Presidents. Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by Lost_Player. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Lost_Player

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
48,685

Updated
Dec 22 24

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
14 / 25

Plays
960

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Question 1 of 25

1. Who was the only President who was also the Speaker of the House of Representatives? Hint

James K. Polk

Martin Van Buren

George Washington

James Monroe

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Question 2 of 25

2. Which President took a cold foot bath every morning for 60 years? Hint

Thomas Jefferson

Jimmy Carter

Herbert Hoover

Andrew Jackson

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Question 3 of 25

3. Who was the first President to serve in the U.S. Navy as either an enlisted member or officer? Hint

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Theodore Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

John F. Kennedy

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Question 4 of 25

4. Who was the first President to be born in a hospital? Hint

Calvin Coolidge

Jimmy Carter

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Question 5 of 25

5. Which President's favorite sport was fox hunting? Hint

James Buchanan

George Washington

Theodore Roosevelt

Andrew Johnson

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Question 6 of 25

6. Three Whigs have served as President of the United States. Which one of the following Presidents was not originally elected as a Whig? Hint

Millard Fillmore

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

Zachary Taylor

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Question 7 of 25

7. Who was the first President whose mother was eligible to vote for him? Hint

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Warren G. Harding

Herbert Hoover

Harry S Truman

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Question 8 of 25

8. Which President was shot on Good Friday? Hint

John F. Kennedy

William McKinley

Abraham Lincoln

Benjamin Harrison

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Question 9 of 25

9. Who was the first President to visit all 50 states? Hint

Lyndon B. Johnson

Ronald Reagon

Richard M. Nixon

Gerald Ford

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Question 10 of 25

10. Which President owned a pet alligator which he kept in the East Room of the White House? Hint

James Buchanan

Franklin Pierce

John Quincy Adams

Theodore Roosevelt

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Question 11 of 25

11. Which of these Presidents did not make an Inaugural Address? Hint

Chester A. Arthur

Benjamin Harrison

George Washington

Franklin Pierce

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Question 12 of 25

12. Who was the only President to also serve as Chief Justice in the Supreme Court? Hint

William Howard Taft

Grover Cleveland

James A. Garfield

Millard Fillmore

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Question 13 of 25

13. Who is the first left-handed President to serve two terms? Hint

George W. Bush

William Henry Harrison

Ronald Reagan

Thomas Jefferson

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Question 14 of 25

14. Who was the first President to use the telephone while in office? Hint

Grover Cleveland

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes

Chester A. Arthur

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Question 15 of 25

15. Which U.S. president's body was exhumed because some thought that his death was caused by murder instead of natural causes? Hint

Zachary Taylor

Franklin Pierce

John Tyler

Martin Van Buren

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Question 16 of 25

16. Who is the only President to serve in both World Wars? Hint

Woodrow Wilson

Harry S Truman

Herbert Hoover

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Question 17 of 25

17. Which President was once engaged to the daughter of a Texas Ku Klux Klan leader? Hint

Calvin Coolidge

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard M. Nixon

Theodore Roosevelt

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Question 18 of 25

18. Who was the first U.S. Congressman to become President? Hint

James Madison

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

Andrew Jackson

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Question 19 of 25

19. Who is the only President who made his own clothes? Hint

James K. Polk

Andrew Johnson

John Adams

William Henry Harrison

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Question 20 of 25

20. Who was the first President to ride in an automobile? Hint

Theodore Roosevelt

Grover Cleveland

William Howard Taft

William McKinley

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Question 21 of 25

21. Which President smoked ten to twenty cigars a day? Hint

Ulysses S. Grant

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

William Howard Taft

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Question 22 of 25

22. Who was the only President to serve in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812? Hint

Andrew Jackson

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

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Question 23 of 25

23. Who was the first President born after the Declaration of Independence was signed? Hint

John Quincy Adams

William Henry Harrison

Martin Van Buren

Andrew Jackson

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Question 24 of 25

24. Who was the first President to send a trans-Atlantic telegram? Hint

Franklin Pierce

Millard Fillmore

James Buchanan

Zachary Taylor

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Question 25 of 25

25. Out of all the Presidents, who had the biggest feet? Hint

Warren G. Harding

William Howard Taft

Abraham Lincoln

James A. Garfield

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who was the only President who was also the Speaker of the House of Representatives?

Answer: James K. Polk

2. Which President took a cold foot bath every morning for 60 years?

Answer: Thomas Jefferson

3. Who was the first President to serve in the U.S. Navy as either an enlisted member or officer?

Answer: John F. Kennedy

4. Who was the first President to be born in a hospital?

Answer: Jimmy Carter

5. Which President's favorite sport was fox hunting?

Answer: George Washington

6. Three Whigs have served as President of the United States. Which one of the following Presidents was not originally elected as a Whig?

Answer: John Tyler

John Tyler did not serve as a Whig. He was a Democrat.

7. Who was the first President whose mother was eligible to vote for him?

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. Which President was shot on Good Friday?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed on Good Friday at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

9. Who was the first President to visit all 50 states?

Answer: Richard M. Nixon

10. Which President owned a pet alligator which he kept in the East Room of the White House?

Answer: John Quincy Adams

11. Which of these Presidents did not make an Inaugural Address?

Answer: Chester A. Arthur

12. Who was the only President to also serve as Chief Justice in the Supreme Court?

Answer: William Howard Taft

Taft never wanted to be President, he just wanted to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. But his wife wanted to be the first lady and she convinced him to run for President and he did so and won.

13. Who is the first left-handed President to serve two terms?

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan was the first President to be left-handed and serve 2 terms, though early on his life, his teachers forced him to write right-handed.

14. Who was the first President to use the telephone while in office?

Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes was the first President to use the telephone while in office. The telephone was installed in the White House in 1879.

15. Which U.S. president's body was exhumed because some thought that his death was caused by murder instead of natural causes?

Answer: Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor's body was exhumed because some thought that he was poisoned somehow and that is how he died.

16. Who is the only President to serve in both World Wars?

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Believe it or not, Dwight Eisenhower served in both World War I and World War II.

17. Which President was once engaged to the daughter of a Texas Ku Klux Klan leader?

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Yup, Lyndon Johnson was engaged to the daughter of a Ku Klux Klan leader. He broke it off when he heard what her father had said about him. 'I won't have my daughter marrying into that no-account Johnson family. I've known that bunch all my life, one generation after another of shiftless dirt farmers and grubby politicians. Always sticking together and leeching into one another so the minute one starts to make it, the others drag him down. None of them will ever amount to a damn.'

18. Who was the first U.S. Congressman to become President?

Answer: James Madison

19. Who is the only President who made his own clothes?

Answer: Andrew Johnson

Yes, Andrew Johnson made his own clothes as well as his own cabinets.

20. Who was the first President to ride in an automobile?

Answer: William McKinley

21. Which President smoked ten to twenty cigars a day?

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

Yup, Grant smoked ten to twenty cigars a day and eventually got throat cancer and died.

22. Who was the only President to serve in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812?

Answer: Andrew Jackson

Interestingly enough, Jackson served in both wars. He was only 13 when serving in the Revolutionary War and he was held as a prisoner by the British.

23. Who was the first President born after the Declaration of Independence was signed?

Answer: Martin Van Buren

24. Who was the first President to send a trans-Atlantic telegram?

Answer: James Buchanan

25. Out of all the Presidents, who had the biggest feet?

Answer: Warren G. Harding

Yup, Harding had a size fourteen shoe. Lincoln was the tallest and Taft was the heaviest, but Harding had the biggest feet.

Source: Author Lost_Player

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