American Presidents
Are you a Lincoln lover or a Fillmore fan? Maybe an Eisenhower expert? Or a Coolidge connoisseur? Hopefully your memory isn't too Hayes-y for these questions.
What building whose construction started in 1792 was once described by one of its residents as “…big enough for two emperors, one pope and the grand lama…”?
Why was Elm Street in the news in 1963? Clue — November.
What twentieth-century American president was so obsessed with secrecy that he often wrote “burn this” on personal letters?
Who was the first presidential jogger?
Which 1980s US president survived an assassination attempt?
President Kennedy was shot in Dallas in what type of car?
Who took part in the first televised debate between two presidential candidates?
Which president was the first to visit China?
Who was the first president to wear long trousers rather than knee breeches to his inauguration?
Who was Franklin D Roosevelt’s secretary of state from 1933 to 1944?
What were the Four Freedoms outlined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his State of the Union message to Congress in January 1941?
What engraved gift did President Lyndon Johnson give to friends and acquaintances to make sure they thought of him “first thing in the morning and the last at night”?
Ronald Reagan used a famous line from one of his movies as the title of his 1965 autobiography, What’s the line?
Who was the smallest U.S. President?
What were the names of Abe Lincoln’s four sons?
What was reputedly President Reagan’s favorite TV show in the late 1980s?
In which city was John F Kennedy assassinated?
Which politician stated, “Read my lips: no new taxes?”
Who was the only U.S. president not to use the word “I” in his inaugural address?
Who was the first American President to resign from office?
John F. Kennedy was one of how many children?
Which multi-millionaire was born the same day TV pioneer John Logie Baird died?
Who was younger when they became President, Clinton or Kennedy?
Both President John Tyler Jr. and his father, John Tyler Sr. served as governor of what state?
Who gave Chelsea Clinton her cat, Socks?
What president’s mug graces a $100,000 bill?
Who was the most recent Democrat before Clinton to be reelected for a second term as US President?
What southern city did Andrew Jackson name for one on the Nile River?
What was Ronald Reagan’s middle name?
What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids?
Who was the first American congressman to don a uniform following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
What famous couple appeared in the 1958 television play A Turkey for the president?
Who advised Bill Clinton to be wise but brief in his Sidwell Friends high school graduation speech?
What president’s real campaign footage appeared in Clint Eastwood’s movie In The Line of Fire?
What was John Adams the 2nd of?
What is the minimum age set in the Constitution for the president of the United States.
Which hospital was Ronald Reagan taken to after the 1981 attempt on his life?
A museum in whose memory can be visited at Hyannis?
In 1868 impeachment proceedings were initiated against President Andrew Johnson for his opposition to black rights and Congress’ Reconstruction efforts. By what margin did he escape conviction?
Which politician stated, “Read my lips: no new taxes?”
Which politician said, “You let a bully come into your front yard, and the next day he’ll be on your porch?”
Whose 1800 presidential campaign did the Hartford Courant offer a formal apology for opposing, in 1993?
Who was President Ronald Reagan quoting when he said “I forgot to duck” after he was shot by John W. Hinckley Jr. in 1981?
Who was Herbert Hoover’s Vice President?
What U.S. president had the shortest life?
How many U.S. presidents had full beards?
What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day baseballs?
Who were the nationalists who tried to assassinate Truman in 1950?
Which hospital was Ronald Reagan taken to after the 1981 attempt on his life?
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