Presidential Trivia Question and Answers
1.
Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer:
George Washington
2.
Which President is known for the Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer:
Abraham Lincoln
3.
Who was the only President to serve more than two terms?
Answer:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4.
Who was the first President to live in the White House?
Answer:
John Adams
5.
Which President issued the Monroe Doctrine?
Answer:
James Monroe
6.
Which President was a general in World War II before taking office?
Answer:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
7.
Who was the first President to be impeached?
Answer:
Andrew Johnson
8.
Which President famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?
Answer:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
9.
Who was known as "The Gipper"?
Answer:
Ronald Reagan
10.
Which President was a founding father and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence?
Answer:
Thomas Jefferson
11.
Which President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Answer:
Lyndon B. Johnson
12.
Who was the first President to be assassinated?
Answer:
Abraham Lincoln
13.
Who was the last President born in the 19th century?
Answer:
Harry S. Truman
14.
Which President is known for the phrase "I am not a crook"?
Answer:
Richard Nixon
15.
Who was in office during the 9/11 attacks?
Answer:
George W. Bush
16.
Which President was a former peanut farmer?
Answer:
Jimmy Carter
17.
Who was the only President to resign from office?
Answer:
Richard Nixon
18.
Which President was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer:
John F. Kennedy
19.
Who was the first Vice President to assume the presidency after the death of a sitting President?
Answer:
John Tyler
20.
Which President introduced Medicare and Medicaid programs?
Answer:
Lyndon B. Johnson
21.
Who was the first African American President?
Answer:
Barack Obama
22.
Which President gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
Answer:
Martin Luther King Jr.
23.
Who was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms?
Answer:
Grover Cleveland
24.
Which President was a former actor before entering politics?
Answer:
Ronald Reagan
25.
Who was President during the War of 1812?
Answer:
James Madison
26.
Which President was involved in the Watergate scandal?
Answer:
Richard Nixon
27.
Who was the first President to use a telephone?
Answer:
William McKinley
28.
Which President was known for his "Square Deal" domestic program?
Answer:
Theodore Roosevelt
29.
Which President famously stated, "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives"?
Answer:
Ronald Reagan
30.
Who was President during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles?
Answer:
Woodrow Wilson
31.
Which President was known as "Old Hickory"?
Answer:
Andrew Jackson
32.
Who was the first President of the United States to travel abroad while in office?
Answer:
Theodore Roosevelt
33.
Which President oversaw the end of the Vietnam War?
Answer:
Gerald Ford
34.
Who was the first President to fly in a helicopter?
Answer:
Lyndon B. Johnson
35.
Who was the only President to be born on the Fourth of July?
Answer:
Calvin Coolidge
36.
Which President famously remarked that "The buck stops here"?
Answer:
Harry S. Truman
37.
Who was the first President of the Continental Congress?
Answer:
John Hancock
38.
Who was President during the expansion of the United States manifest destiny?
Answer:
James K. Polk
39.
Who was the first President to have a Christmas tree in the White House?
Answer:
Franklin Pierce
40.
Which President's New Frontier initiative aimed at social progress and exploration of space?
Answer:
John F. Kennedy
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