Presidential Facts and Quotes

Question 1

Only son of a former U.S. president to be elected 2 terms.

Answer 1

George W. Bush

Question 2

Considered a speed reader, he has been clocked at 2,000 words a minute with 95% comprehension.

Answer 2

Jimmy Carter

Question 3

His grandfather was also president.

Answer 3

Benjamin Harrison

Question 4

He had the shortest term as president, serving only 1 month (31 days).

Answer 4

William Henry Harrison

Question 5

His picture is on the $20 bill.

Answer 5

Andrew Jackson

Question 6

After his presidency, he was elected as a justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Answer 6

William Howard Taft

Question 7

Only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms.

Answer 7

Grover Cleveland

Question 8

Impeached in 1868.

Answer 8

Andrew Jackson

Question 9

Impeached in 1998.

Answer 9

Bill Clinton

Question 10

Commander of the armies of the North during the Civil War.

Answer 10

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 11

Only bachelor president.

Answer 11

James Buchanan

Question 12

He doubled the geographic size of the U.S. through the Louisiana Purchase.

Answer 12

Thomas Jefferson

Question 13

Blamed for great depression

Answer 13

Herbert Hoover

Question 14

Elected to 4 consecutive terms

Answer 14

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 15

First president to govern all 50 states

Answer 15

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 16

What two presidents died on July 4, 1826, just hours apart?

Answer 16

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Question 17

He was the only unelected vice president and president

Answer 17

Gerald Ford

Question 18

First catholic president

Answer 18

John F. Kennedy

Question 19

First president to resign to avoid impeachment.

Answer 19

Richard Nixon

Question 20

Motto was ‘the buck stops here.’

Answer 20

Harry S. Truman

Question 21

Youngest person to serve as president

Answer 21

Teddy Roosevelt at age 42

Question 22

Youngest person elected president

Answer 22

John F. Kennedy at age 43

Question 23

Oldest man to serve as president

Answer 23

Ronald Reagan, elected at age 69

Question 24

4 assassinated presidents

Answer 24

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

Question 25

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God give us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

Answer 25

Abraham Lincoln

Question 26

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Answer 26

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 27

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Answer 27

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 28

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Answer 28

Harry S. Truman

Question 29

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Answer 29

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 30

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Answer 30

John F. Kennedy

Question 31

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

Answer 31

John F. Kennedy

Question 32

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents….It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community….It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

Answer 32

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 33

Always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don’t win unless you hat them. And then you destroy yourself.

Answer 33

Richard Nixon

Question 34

Well, I’m not a crook.

Answer 34

Richard Nixon

Question 35

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Answer 35

Gerald Ford

Question 36

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Answer 36

Jimmy Carter

Question 37

The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Answer 37

Ronald Reagan

Question 38

Government does not solve problems, it subsidizes them.

Answer 38

Ronald Reagan

Question 39

The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I’ll say no, and they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again. And I’ll say to them, read my lips: no new taxes.

Answer 39

George H.W. Bush

Question 40

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Answer 40

Bill Clinton

Question 41

To those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you, too, can become President of the United States.

Answer 41

George W. Bush