8th Grade Social Studies
Blizzard Bag #2
Presidential Trivia
1. Which president was the only president who wasn’t elected to the presidency or vice-presidency?
a. Gerald Ford
b. Chester A. Arthur
c. James Polk
2. At what school did Woodrow Wilson hold the title President Wilson?
a. Princeton University
b. George Washington University
c. Colby College
3. What award did John F. Kennedy receive for his book, Profiles in Courage?
a. National Book Award
b. Nobel Prize for Literature
c. Pulitzer Prize
4. Who, besides John F. Kennedy, is the only other president to be buried at Arlington National
Cemetery?
a. Ulysses S. Grant
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. William Howard Taft
5. How old was Andrew Johnson when he was taught to read?
a. 17
b. 3
c. 22
6. How did Grover Cleveland avoid military service?
a. Purchased a substitute to
b. Pretended he had an injury
c. Hid at a distant relative’s
serve for him in the Civil
house
War
7. What was “James Madison’s War”?
a. Spanish-American War
b. War of 1812
c. Civil War
8. Which future president served as a general in the War of 1812?
a. James Monroe
b. William Henry Harrison
c. James Madison
9. In what war did George Bush serve?
a. Vietnam War
b. Korean War
c. World War II
10. What region of the country was Calvin Coolidge from?
a. New England
b. the South
c. Midwest
11. How was President John Adams related to Samuel Adams?
a. Distant cousins
b. Sam was his nephew
c. Sam was his brother-in-law
12. In what state was Theodore Roosevelt born and buried?
a. Massachusetts
b. Ohio
c. New York
13. Which Whig president had 15 children?
a. John Tyler
b. Zachary Taylor
c. Millard Fillimore
14. Which mid-19th century president authorized Matthew C. Perry’s trip to Japan in an attempt to open
trade with the country?
a. Millard Fillmore
b. Calvin Coolidge
c. Grover Cleveland
15. Who was president at the same time Adolf Hitler came to power?
a. Herbert Hoover
b. Dwight D. Eisenhower
c. Harry Truman
16. How many other president’s lived or are buried in the same state as James Polk?
a. 5
b. 2
c. None
17. Which president served in the House of Representatives from 1831-1848, making him the only
president to hold office in the House after his presidential term expired?
a. James Madison
b. Andrew Jackson
c. John Quincy Adams
18. Who was the first president to visit all fifty states?
a. Richard Nixon
b. Jimmy Carter
c. John F. Kennedy
19. Which future president led the D-Day invasion?
a. Dwight D. Eisenhower
b. William Howard Taft
c. Woodrow Wilson
20. What topic did Andrew Jackson address in a letter to his wife dated September 18, 1816?
a. His efforts to make a treaty b. Troubled in his presidency
c. His mother
with the Cherokee Nation
21. Who was the last president to be born in a log cabin?
a. Rutherford Hayes
b. James Garfield
c. Abraham Lincoln
22. Who appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court?
a. Bill Clinton
b. Jimmy Carter
c. Ronald Reagan
23. How many terms did Bill Clinton serve as the governor of Arkansas?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 5
24. What president was elected to four terms?
a. Woodrow Wilson
b. Franklin Roosevelt
c. George Washington
25. Who was president during the panic of 1837?
a. Martin Van Buren
b. William Henry Harrison
c. Andrew Jackson
26. Which president was the first president since 1932 to lose his bid for reelection?
a. Jimmy Carter
b. William McKinley
c. Benjamin Harrison
27. Who was in office when the Confederate States of America declared their independence?
a. James Buchanan
b. Abraham Lincoln
c. Andrew Johnson
28. What slogan did Warren G. Harding campaign on?
a. Return to normalcy
b. It’s the economy, stupid!
c. A thousand points of light
29. What city is now the home of the Ulysses S. Grant national Historic Museum?
a. St. Louis, MO
b. Cleveland, OH
c. Albany, NY
30. Who was the first president to be born outside the thirteen colonies?
a. James Polk
b. Andrew Jackson
c. Abraham Lincoln