Presidential Scrimmage

Question 1

Who was the 1st US president to be born in a hospital?

Answer 1

Jimmy Carter

Question 2

Who is the 1st president to be voted for by women?

Answer 2

Warren G. Harding

Question 3

What instrument did Thomas Jefferson play?

Answer 3

Violin

Question 4

Who became the First Lady to also be the mother of a president?

Answer 4

Abigail Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams.

Question 5

Who was the 1st president to appear on color in the television?

Answer 5

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Abraham Lincoln

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Preserve, Protect, and Defend

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Jimmy Carter.

Question 9

Who was the first President to resign from office?

Answer 9

Richard Nixon

Question 10

Who was the first Vice President of the United States?

Answer 10

John Adams

Question 11

Who was President during most of the 1980’s?

Answer 11

Ronald Reagan

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Franklin D. Roosevelt because he

polio, a disease that left his legs paralyzed.

Question 13

Which President established the National Weather Service in 1870?

Answer 13

Ulysses, S. Grant

Question 14

Which President purchased Alaska from Russia in 18677

Answer 14

Andrew Johnson

Question 15

When was the first televised debate between two presidential candidates?

Answer 15

Richard M. Nixon /€ John

F Kennedy debates during the 1960 campaign.

Question 16

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

Answer 16

25th Amendment

Question 17

What is the salary of the President?

Answer 17

$400,000 per year.

Question 18

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

Answer 18

The vice president lives on

the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory. This ls why people often calt it the Admiral’s House

Question 19

Who was the 1st president to have electricity in the White House during their term?

Answer 19

The country’s

23rd president Benjamin Harrison

Question 20

Which President was inaugurated 100 years after the first President?

Answer 20

Benjamin Harrison

Question 21

Who was the president when the White House got its 1st car?

Answer 21

William

Mckinley

Question 22

If you are born in Washington, DC, can you still become president?

Answer 22

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 Prestdent; 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 23

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

Answer 23

For

their lifetime

Question 24

What is George W. Bush’s middle name?

Answer 24

The “W” stands for Walker.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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 26

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

Answer 26

Andrew Johnson.

Question 27

Has a president ever been married in the White House?

Answer 27

Yes. Grover Cleveland, the only U.S,
president to serve two non-consecutive terms, married Frances Folsom (1864-1947) in the White
House during his first term, on June 2, 1886.

Question 28

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

Answer 28

There are four U.S, capitals named after
presidents: Jackson, Mississippi, Lincoln, Nebraska, Jefferson City, Missouri, and Madison,
Wisconsin.

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Jimmy Carter

Question 30

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

Answer 30

John Adams and

Thomas Jefferson-July 4th 1826-died within hours of each other

Question 31

Who was the only President to not have been married?

Answer 31

James Buchanan

Question 32

Name the President who fathered 15 children

Answer 32

John Tyler

Question 33

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

Answer 33

William Henry Harrison

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Andrew Jackson

Question 35

Who was the first African American President?

Answer 35

Barrack Obama

Question 36

Who was the oldest President?

Answer 36

Ronald Reagan

Question 37

Who was our first presidential election in 1920 in which women could first vote?

Answer 37

Warren Harding

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Richard Nixon

Question 39

What happens on Inauguration Day?

Answer 39

Inauguration Day has been 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 40

Who was the first baby born to a presidents wife in the White House?

Answer 40

Esther Cleveland, second daughter of Grover and Frances Cleveland.

Question 41

Who was our first women Vice President?

Answer 41

Kamala Devi Harris

Question 42

Who is the 46th president of the United States?

Answer 42

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.