Baris Inan (The Beacon)
By Baris Inan
US Presidential Trivia
(Baris Inan, Electrical Engineering, University of Portland)
(October 17, 2012)
Match each question to the correct US president
Questions:
- Which president holds a patent?
- Which president received the first Medicare card?
- Which president had a telephone number 1?
- Which president got never married?
- Which president served two nonconsecutive terms?
- Which president claimed to read and write in six different languages?
- Which president was an engineer?
- Which president was the shortest?
- Which president served in office for only one month?
- Which president was first to ride in an airplane?
- Which president was never elected?
- Which president drank one gallon of coffee per day?
- Which president was elected four consecutive terms?
- Which president changed pants several times daily?
- Which president publicly refused eating broccoli?
- Which president won an election after the first TV broadcast presidential debate?
- Which president was in office when the first US satellite was successfully launched in orbit?
- Which president was first to speak over radio?
- Which president was elected youngest?
- Which president was elected oldest?
- Which president resigned?
- Which president was first to use electricity in the White House?
- Which president had the word "university" inscribed on his tombstone?
- Which president worked as a railroad timekeeper?
- Which president fathered twins?
- Which president received a speeding ticket on horseback?
- Which president ate his meals from a golden plate?
- Which president was first to ride a train?
- Which president named his son George Washington?
- Which president was first to have his inauguration reported by telegraph?
- Which president had the largest number of children?
- Which president was a swimming coach?
- Which president was in office when Neil Armstrong successfully landed on the moon?
- Which president was first to use a computer?
- Which president was also a pilot?
- Which president was in office when America had two presidents serving at the same time?
- Which president was first to have his son serve as president?
- Which president slept the most?
- Which president were a writer and historian?
- Which president gambled and lost the White House china?
- Which president killed a man in a duel?
- Which president ran unopposed for two terms?
- Which president was an actor?
- Which president was not nominated by their party for a second term?
- Which president was last to wear knee breeches?
- Which president took office in a square year?
- Which president was featured on the $500 bill?
- Which president was Roman Catholic?
- Which president was a carpenter?
- Which president worked as a cloth maker?
- Which president worked as an elevator operator?
- Which president played the saxophone?
- Which president worked a tailor?
- Which president served as chief justice of the Supreme Court?
- Which president took office in a palindrome year?
- Which president had a wife who requested the removal of all yellow things from the White House?
- Which president served aboard a nuclear submarine?
- Which president was first to hold a press conference?
- Which president was born on an island?
- Which president lived the longest?
- Which president was a peanut farmer?
- Which president's wife lived the longest?
- Which president was the first baby boomer generation president?
- Which president was in office when the White House got its first car?
- Which president's inauguration was first to be televised nationally?
Answers:
- Abraham Lincoln 2. Harry S. Truman 3. Rutherford B. Hayes 4. James Buchanan
5. Grover Cleveland 6. Thomas Jefferson 7. Herbert C. Hoover 8. James Madison
9. William Henry Harrison 10. Theodore Roosevelt 11. Gerald R. Ford 12. Theodore Roosevelt
13. Franklin D. Roosevelt 14. Chester A. Arthur 15. George H. W. Bush 16. John F. Kennedy
17. Dwight D. Eisenhower 18. Warren G. Harding 19. John F. Kennedy 20. Ronald Reagan
21. Richard M. Nixon 22. Benjamin Harrison 23. Thomas Jefferson 24. Harry S. Truman 25. George W. Bush
26. Ulysses S. Grant 27. Martin Van Buren 28. Andrew Jackson 29. John Q. Adams 30. James K. Polk
31. John Tyler 32. Ronald Reagan 33. Richard M. Nixon 34. George H. W. Bush 35. George H. W. Bush
36. Abraham Lincoln 37. John Adams 38. Calvin Coolidge 39. Woodrow Wilson 40. Warren G. Harding
41. Andrew Jackson 42. George Washington 43. Ronald Reagan 44. Franklin Pierce 45. James Monroe
46. Zachary Taylor 47. William McKinley 48. John F. Kennedy 49. James A. Garfield 50. Millard Fillmore
51. Lyndon B. Johnson 52. William J. Clinton 53. Andrew Johnson 54. William H. Taft 55. Chester A.
Arthur 56. William McKinley 57. Jimmy Carter 58. Woodrow Wilson 59. Barack Obama 60. Gerald R. Ford
61. Jimmy Carter 62. Harry S. Truman 63. William J. Clinton 64. William H. Taft 65. Harry S. Truman
