Chapter 14: The Presidency

Question 1

Which two presidents were grandfather and grandson?

Answer 1

William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison

Question 2

Which two presidents were cousins?

Answer 2

Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt

Question 3

Which two presidents share a last name but no relation?

Answer 3

Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson

Question 4

Which president had the shortest term?

Answer 4

William Harrison (March 4 - April 4, 1881)

Question 5

Which president had the longest term?

Answer 5

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1932,1936,1940,1944)

Question 6

Who was the youngest president?

Answer 6

Theodore Roosevelt (42)

Question 7

Who was the oldest president?

Answer 7

Ronald Reagan (77)

Question 8

Who was the tallest president?

Answer 8

Abraham Lincoln (6’4”)

Question 9

Who was the shortest president?

Answer 9

James Maddison (5’4”)

Question 10

Who was the largest president?

Answer 10

William Howard Taft (320lbs)

Question 11

Who are the four presidents on Mount Rushmore?

Answer 11

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

Question 12

Where is the Crazy Horse Memorial Located (State)?

Answer 12

South Dakota

Question 13

What president is buried in Washington D.C.?

Answer 13

Woodrow Willson

Question 14

Which presidents are buried in Arlington national cemetery?

Answer 14

John F. Kennedy and William Howard Taft

Question 15

Who are the four presidents that were assassinated?

Answer 15

Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John Kennedy.

Question 16

Which president elect survived an attempted assassination in Miami, FL?

Answer 16

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 17

Which presidents have won the Nobel peace prize?

Answer 17

Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Willson, Jimmy Carter, Barrack Obama.

Question 18

What are the four state capitals named after presidents?

Answer 18

Lincoln, Nebraska
Maddison, Wisconsin
Jackson, Mississippi
Jefferson City, Missouri

Question 19

Who were the two press items that were impeached?

Answer 19

Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton

Question 20

Who was the only president to resign?

Answer 20

Richard Nixon

Question 21

Who were the three presidents that died on the Fourth of July?

Answer 21

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe

Question 22

Who was the only Roman Catholic president?

Answer 22

John F. Kennedy

Question 23

Who was the first Roman Catholic Vice President?

Answer 23

Joe Biden

Question 24

_____ was the first president to invite the pope to the White House.

Answer 24

Jimmy Carter

Question 25

Who was the first president to be sworn in on an airplane and by a woman?

Answer 25

Lyndon Johnson

Question 26

Which president served as Chief Justice and president?

Answer 26

William Howard Taft

Question 27

Who was the only president who served nonconsecutive terms?

Answer 27

Grover Cleveland

Question 28

Who was the first president to graduate from a Catholic university?

Answer 28

Bill Clinton

Question 29

Who was the only non-married president?

Answer 29

James Buchanan

Question 30

Who are the only two president sit have phD’s?

Answer 30

Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman

Question 31

Who was the first president to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court?

Answer 31

Lyndon Johnson

Question 32

These two presidents’ fathers also served as President.

Answer 32

John Adams and John Quincy Adams

George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush

Question 33

Which presidents have appointed women to the Supreme Court?

Answer 33

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Barrack Obama

Question 34

Who are the 5 presidents that have recovered the highest number of electoral votes?

Answer 34

Franklin Roosevelt 
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Dwight Eisenhower 
Bill Clinton

Question 35

Who is the oldest former president?

Answer 35

Gerald Ford