TAFT’S PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
This assignment will take some work and research! Listed below are 44 questions
about the Presidents of the United States of America. Your task is to find the
answers to the trivia questions. The 44 Presidents will each be used once. This extra
credit assignment must be turned in separately by Friday, September23 and it will
count toward your quarter homework grade.
1. Who was the shortest President? (5’4")
2. Which President was the first to be born as a citizen of the United States?
3. Who was the first President born west of the Mississippi?
4. Who was the first President to marry while in office?
5. Which President suggested a play that was used in a Super Bowl?
6. Who was the only President born in Illinois?
7. Who was the first President of the 48 contiguous states?
8. Which President invented the swivel chair and the dumbwaiter?
9. Who was the last left-handed President?
10. Who is the only President who has the capital of a foreign country named
for him?
11. Who is the only President to kill a man in a duel?
12. Who is the only President buried in Washington, DC?
13. Who is the only bachelor President?
14. Which President’s birth name was Leslie King, Jr.?
15. Which President attended the best college in the world, Miami University?
16. Which President lied by telling the public he was born in a log cabin?
17. Who was the first President to visit the West Coast while in office?
18. Who was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms?
19. Who was the first President of all 50 states?
20. Which President let a convict out of jail so the convict could ride in his
inaugural parade?
21. Which President was known for skinny dipping in the Potomac River?
22. Which President lived across the street for the White House while it was
being remodeled?
23. Who is the only President born in June?
24. Who was the first President not to seek re-election after his first term in
office?
25. Who was the first President that could women could vote for?
26. Who was the only President born on Independence Day?
27. Which President had a daughter who had a candy bar named for her?
28. Which President died from eating cherries (supposedly)?
29. Which President was assassinated by Charles Guiteau?
30. Which President was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz?
31. Who was the only President to be arrested and fined while in office?
32. Which President was the first to appear on TV?
33. Which President was the first to be born outside the original 13 colonies?
34. Which President mentioned another famous President on his deathbed?
35. Who was the last President who was neither a Republican or a Democrat?
36. Who was the only President to own a major league baseball team?
37. Who was the first President to be born in the 20th century?
38. Who was the first President to be a Rhodes Scholar?
39. Who was the first President to be born in a hospital?
40. Which President had the first bath tub installed in the White House (not the
guy who got stuck)?
41. Which President was accused of being born in Canada instead of Vermont?
42. Which President had a wife named "Lady Bird"?
43. Who was the only President who was unanimously elected?
44. Who was the only President to be elected to the Senate after his term in the
White House?
Extra extra credit - Who was President for only one day, and why?