Presidential Facts

Question 1

When was the first televised debate between two presidential candidates?

Answer 1

Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy debates during the 1960 campaign

Question 2

What does the president swear to uphold while taking the oath of office?

Answer 2

The president swears to “preserve, protect, and defend” the U.S. Constitution

Question 3

What musical instrument did Thomas Jefferson play?

Answer 3

violin

Question 4

Who was our President when the first man landed on the moon?

Answer 4

Richard Nixon

Question 5

What president became a U.S. Senator after he left office?

Answer 5

country’s 17th president, Andrew Johnson

Question 6

Which President said he saw a U.F.O. when he was a governor of Georgia?

Answer 6

Jimmy Carter

Question 7

Which Present was born in Scranton, PA?

Answer 7

Joseph Biden

Question 8

Who was the first Vice President of the United States?

Answer 8

John Adams

Question 9

Who was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital?

Answer 9

James Earl “Jimmy Carter”, 39th president, was born at Wise Clinic in Plains, GA on October 1, 1924.

Question 10

How long after leaving office do former presidents get protection from the U.S. Secret Service?

Answer 10

for their lifetime

Question 11

What is George W. Bush’s middle name?

Answer 11

“W” stands for Walker

Question 12

Name the President who fathered 15 children?

Answer 12

John Tyler

Question 13

What 4 state capitals are named after the U.S. presidents?

Answer 13

Jackson, Misissippi; Lincoln, Nebraska; Jefferson City, Missouri; and Madison, Wisconsin

Question 14

Who was our first woman Vice President?

Answer 14

Kamala Devi Harris

Question 15

What is the salary of the President?

Answer 15

$400,000 per year

Question 16

Which President was inaugurated 100 years after the first President?

Answer 16

Benjamin Harrison

Question 17

Who was the first president to be voted for by the women?

Answer 17

Warren G. Harding

Question 18

Which President established the National Weather Service in 1870?

Answer 18

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 19

Who was the first President to resign from office?

Answer 19

Richard Nixon

Question 20

Who was the first baby born to a president’s wife in the White House?

Answer 20

The first baby born to a First Lady in the White House was Esther Cleveland, second daughter of Grover and Frances Cleveland, in 1893. She was not the first baby born in the White House, however, Thomas Jefferson’s grandson, James Madison Randolph, was born there in 1805.

Question 21

Who was the only President to not have been married?

Answer 21

James Buchanan

Question 22

What Amendment to the Constitution specified that if there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress?

Answer 22

25th Amendment

Question 23

Who became the first First Lady to also be the mother of a President

Answer 23

Abigail Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams

Question 24

Who was President during the most of the 1980’s?

Answer 24

Ronald Regan from January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989

Question 25

Which President purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867?

Answer 25

Andrew Johnson

Question 26

Who is the only U.S. President in the 20th century not to appoint a chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?

Answer 26

Jimmy Carter

Question 27

Who was the first African American President?

Answer 27

Barack Obama

Question 28

Which President served the shortest term of only 1 month and was the first President to die in office?

Answer 28

William Henry Harrison

Question 29

Where does the vice president live? and what is the house often called?

Answer 29

The vice president lives on the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory. This is why people often call it the Admiral’s House.

Question 30

Has a president ever been married in the White House?

Answer 30

Yes, Grover Cleveland, the only U.S. President to serve two non-consecutive terms, married Frances Folsom in the White House during his first term, on June 2, 1886.

Question 31

Who was the first president to appear on color television?

Answer 31

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 32

Who needed crutches to stand when he took the oath of office?

Answer 32

Franklin D. Roosevelt because he had polio, a disease that left his legs paralyzed

Question 33

Who was the only U.S. president to have a patent on an invention? What was the invention?

Answer 33

On May 22, 1849, Abraham Lincoln was granted U.S. Patent No. 6,469 “A Device for Buoying Vessels over Shoals”

Question 34

Who is the 46th President of the United States?

Answer 34

Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Question 35

How come the middle names are listed for every U.S. President except Harry S. Truman? What does the “S” stand for?

Answer 35

Truman was given a middle initial, but no middle name. The S. in Harry S. Truman refers to the names of both of his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young.

Question 36

Which President has their portrait on a twenty dollar bill and was the founder of the Democratic Party?

Answer 36

Andrew Jackson

Question 37

Who was the first president to have electricity in the White House during their term?

Answer 37

23rd president Benjamin Harrison was in office when the White House was first wired for electricity.

Question 38

Which President died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 38

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson - July 4th 1826 - died within hours of each other.

Question 39

Who was the president when the White House got its first car?

Answer 39

In November of 1899, William McKinley became the first president to ride in an automobile, a Locomobile steam carriage driven by its inventor, F.O. Stanley, in Washington, D.C.

Question 40

What happens on Inauguration Day?

Answer 40

Inauguration Day has be held on January 20 and the term of office officially starts at 12:00 noon on that date. Usually, the vice president is sworn in first and the president at exactly 12:00 noon.

Question 41

Who won the first presidential election in 1920 in which women could first vote?

Answer 41

Warren Harding

Question 42

If you are born in Washington, D.C. can you still become president?

Answer 42

Yes, but you must be a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

Question 43

Who was the oldest President?

Answer 43

President Biden because president on Jan. 21, 2021 and he was 78 years old. Should he win his 2nd term, he would be 86.