Trivia Flashcards
What president weighed 332 pounds and got stuck in the White House bathtub the first time he used it?
Taft
What president’s name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili?
Obama
Who was the first VP chosen under terms of the 25th Amendment
Ford
Who was the first president to be a Rhodes Scholar?
Clinton
What president ordered contempt proceedings against John L. Lewis when mine leader, defying a government injunction, called members of the United Mine Workers?
Truman
Who was the president during the invasion of Panama and the Persian Gulf War?
H.W. Bush
Who said, “it is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business”?
Hoover
Who was VP under McKinley?
T. Roosevelt
What president was shot twice in the chest point blank range?
McKinley
What president averaged 9 hours of sleep a night and took afternoon naps from 2 to 4 hours?
Coolidge
Who was the only president to be elected for 4 terms?
F. Roosevelt
Who was the president when the 18th Amendment “Prohibition” was ratified?
Wilson
What president established the Peace Corps?
Kennedy
What president sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to ensure the integration of Central High School?
Eisenhower
What president did Leon Czolgosz shot?
McKinley
What president owned the last presidential cow?
Taft
Who was the first president born in a hospital?
Carter
What president proclaimed a “War on Poverty”?
Johnson
What president ordered seizure of the railroads by the government to forestall a nationwide strike?
Truman
Who was the last president born in the 19th century?
Eisenhower
Who was president when a force of anti-Castro Cubans, trained by CIA, staged an unsuccessful attempt to establish a beach head at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba?
Kennedy
While he was dying, what president whispered his favorite hymn “Nearer my God to Thee”?
McKinley
What president signed a bill creating the Department of Education?
Carter
What president began his presidential campaign in 2007, and in 2008, after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton?
Obama
What president had two pet racoons?
Coolidge
What president inaugurated the custom of the president throwing out the first ball to start the baseball season?
Taft
Who is the only president who had his wife run in the presidential primary?
Clinton
Who was the first president whose parents were divorced?
Ford
What president approved the “Star-spangled Banner” as out national anthem?
Hoover
After, what president was the “teddy bear” named”?
T. Roosevelt
What president used his nickname, “Jimmy” when he signed treaties?
Carter
Who was the only president to serve in both World Wars?
Eisenhower
Who was president when the Social Security Act was passed?
F. Roosevelt
What president was born William J. Blythe, III?
Clinton
What president has a photographic memory?
T. Roosevelt
Who was the first president to have been an Eagle Scout?
Ford
Whose wife suffered an epileptic seizure during his second inaugural ball?
McKinley
Who was known for wanting to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral?
T. Roosevelt
Who was the first president that was a millionaire?
Hoover
Who is the only president to serve as a President and Chief Justice of the U.S.?
Taft
Who was the last president to be shot?
Reagan?
What president signed legislation establishing Medicare and the Department of Housing and Urban Development?
Johnson
What president had America’s longest period of economic growth in peacetime?
Clinton
What president’s wife was responsible for the planting of the Japanese cherry trees in Washington?
Taft
Who was the president when 100 Americans were killed as a German submarine torpedoes the British liner “Lusitania”?
Wilson
Who was the first president to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
T. Roosevelt
What president was married to the great-granddaughter of Pocahontas, seven times removed?
Wilson
Who was president during the 9/11 attacks on NYC and Pentagon?
G.W. Bush
What president’s high officials were linked to the “Teapot Dome” after his death?
Harding
What president kept a jar of jelly beans in his desk?
Reagan
Who was the president when John H. Glenn, Jr. became the first American to orbit the earth?
Kennedy
What president delivered the first of 30 “Fireside Chats”?
F. Roosevelt
What president is credited with formally concluding WWI?
Harding
Whose wife is Claudia “Lady Bird” Alta Taylor?
Johnson
What president passed laws b/c of 2007-2009 recession such as American Recovery and Reinv Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief 2010
Obama
What president launched the “New Deal” relief measures, reviving the banking industry?
F. Roosevelt
What president and his wife were models before their marriage?
Ford
Who is the only president to have been divorced?
Reagan
What president’s goal was to return the country to “normalcy” but scandals during his administration were numerous?
Harding
Whose second presidency was marred by several scandals, not least the Lewinsky Affair, which was about sex with a white house intern?
Clinton
Who was the only president to be sworn into office by his father, a justice of the peace and notary public?
Coolidge
In 1955, what president wrote his biography, Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history?
Kennedy
What president popularized the phrase, “if you can’t stand the heat then stay out of the kitchen”?
Truman
Who was a “Folksy” President who promised and enactment of programs for social reform so the country would experience “A Great Society”?
Johnson
John Hinckley wanted to impress Jodie Foster so he tried to assassinate what president?
Reagan
This “silent” President lucked out, the stock market didn’t crash until eight months after he left office.
Coolidge
Who was the only president to resign his office?
Nixon
Who was the first president to be born west of the Mississippi?
Hoover
What president was the first to own a radio?
Harding
What president was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald?
Kennedy
What president was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.?
Ford
Hole bunch of acts is 2010’s
Obama
Who dropped a reelection bid, because of his unpopular involvement in the Vietnam War?
Johnson
What president resigned from the CIA when Jimmy Carter was elected president in 1976?
H.W. Bush
Who was the first president to have his inauguration heard on the radio and the first president to make a radio broadcast?
Coolidge
What president was general partner of the Texas Ranger baseball team?
W. Bush
What president was the first to donate his salary to charity?
Hoover
Who was the oldest president to be elected president?
Reagan
Who was VP under JFK?
Johnson
What president is credited for establishing the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare?
Eisenhower
What president was affected by soaring oil prices, high inflation, and the Iran hostage crisis?
Carter
What president was famous for “bugging” the Democratic Campaign Headquarters located at the Watergate Hotel?
Nixon
Who was the president for the War against the Taliban in Afghanistan and the War in Iraq?
GW Bush
What president took criticism from many when he fired Douglas MacArthur?
Truman
What president did NOT promise “a chicken in every pot”?
Hoover
Who was the president when the US battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor?
McKinley
Who was the president when the 21st Amendment, ending prohibition, was ratified?
F. Roosevelt
What president was a famous movie and television star?
Reagan
What president became famous for prosecuting Alger Hiss?
Nixon
What president granted Nixon an “absolute pardon” for all federal crimes he may have committed or taken part in while president?
Ford
What president was the first to ride to his inauguration in an automobile?
Harding
Who was the president when the space shuttle Challenger blew up and seven astronauts lost their lives?
Reagan
Who was president during Operation Desert Shield?
HW Bush
What president’s campaign was known as “Whistlestop”?
F. Roosevelt
What president was the youngest to die?
Kennedy
What president ordered US air and sea forces to aid South Korean troops in resisting the Communist forces of NK which has invaded SK the day before?
Truman
Who was the president when the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote?
Wilson
What president was a skilled chef and was famous for his vegetable soup, steaks, and cornmeal pancakes?
Eisenhower
What president studied nuclear physics at Annapolis?
Carter
Who was the president when the tanker Exxon Valdez leaked in the largest oil spill?
HW Bush
