Presidential Scrimmage Flashcards
Who was the 1st US president to be born in a hospital?
Jimmy Carter
Who is the 1st president to be voted for by women?
Warren G. Harding
What instrument did Thomas Jefferson play?
Violin
Who became the First Lady to also be the mother of a president?
Abigail Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams.
Who was the 1st president to appear on color in the television?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who was the only U.S. president to have a patent on an invention?
Abraham Lincoln
What does the president swear to uphold while taking the oath of office?
Preserve, Protect, and Defend
Who is the only U.S. President in the 20th century not to appoint a chief justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court?
Jimmy Carter.
Who was the first President to resign from office?
Richard Nixon
Who was the first Vice President of the United States?
John Adams
Who was President during most of the 1980’s?
Ronald Reagan
Who needed crutches to stand when he took the oath of office?
Franklin D. Roosevelt because he
polio, a disease that left his legs paralyzed.
Which President established the National Weather Service in 1870?
Ulysses, S. Grant
Which President purchased Alaska from Russia in 18677
Andrew Johnson
When was the first televised debate between two presidential candidates?
Richard M. Nixon /€ John
F Kennedy debates during the 1960 campaign.
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?
25th Amendment
What is the salary of the President?
$400,000 per year.
Where does the vice president live? And what is the house often called?
The vice president lives on
the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory. This ls why people often calt it the Admiral’s House
Who was the 1st president to have electricity in the White House during their term?
The country’s
23rd president Benjamin Harrison
Which President was inaugurated 100 years after the first President?
Benjamin Harrison
Who was the president when the White House got its 1st car?
William
Mckinley
If you are born in Washington, DC, can you still become president?
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.
How long after leaving office do former presidents get protection from the U.S. Secret Service?
For
their lifetime
What is George W. Bush’s middle name?
The “W” stands for Walker.
How come the middle names are listed for every U.S. President except Harry S. Truman? What does
the “S” stand for?
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.
What president became a U.S. Senator after he left office?
Andrew Johnson.
Has a president ever been married in the White House?
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.
What 4 state capitals are named after U.S. presidents?
There are four U.S, capitals named after
presidents: Jackson, Mississippi, Lincoln, Nebraska, Jefferson City, Missouri, and Madison,
Wisconsin.
Which President said he saw a U.FO. when he was governor of Georgia?
Jimmy Carter
Which President died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence?
John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson-July 4th 1826-died within hours of each other
Who was the only President to not have been married?
James Buchanan
Name the President who fathered 15 children
John Tyler
Which President served the shortest term of only 1 month and was the first President to die in office?
William Henry Harrison
Which president has their portrait on a twenty dollar bill and was the founder of the Democratic Party?
Andrew Jackson
Who was the first African American President?
Barrack Obama
Who was the oldest President?
Ronald Reagan
Who was our first presidential election in 1920 in which women could first vote?
Warren Harding
Who was our president when the first man landed on the moon?
Richard Nixon
What happens on Inauguration Day?
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.
Who was the first baby born to a presidents wife in the White House?
Esther Cleveland, second daughter of Grover and Frances Cleveland.
Who was our first women Vice President?
Kamala Devi Harris
Who is the 46th president of the United States?
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
