Leading the free world is a hard job! From those who shattered glass ceilings to leaders who served as war heroes to those who resigned in disgrace, there is a lot more to every single one of the United States presidents than most realize (and than many of us learn in school). From the American Revolution to today, get patriotic with these presidential trivia questions and answers, which may stump even the biggest history buffs!
Enjoy reading through this fun list of Q&As as you celebrate Presidents Day on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023.
Presidential Trivia Questions and Answers
Question: Which of the first 12 presidents was the first to not own slaves?
Answer: John Adams
Question: Which president was the last to own slaves?
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant
Question: Who is the oldest living president?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Question: What president lived the longest?
Answer: Jimmy Carter
Question: Who was the first president to die in office?
Answer: William Henry Harrison
Question: Which president warned against political parties, long-term foreign alliances and strict geographical divides in his farewell address?
Answer: George Washington
Question: Which president banned alcohol from the White House at the behest of his first lady?
Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes
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Question: Which president survived an assassination attempt 69 days into his term?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: Which president organized the Citizens Cornet Band to play at political rallies for both parties?
Answer: Warren G. Harding
Question: Which president posed with a newspaper that declared his opponent the winner of their election?
Answer: Harry S. Truman
Question: Which president purchased the land that’s now southern Arizona and part of southern New Mexico?
Answer: Franklin Pierce
Question: Which president was described as “so honest that if you turned his soul inside out there would not be a spot on it?”
Answer: James Monroe
Question: Which president served as vice president for his political nemesis?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson (for John Adams)
Question: Author Washington Irving described which president as “a withered little apple-john?”
Answer: James Madison
Question: Which president served two non-consecutive terms?
Answer: Grover Cleveland
Question: Which president used slave labor to build his Hermitage residence near Nashville?
Answer: Andrew Jackson
Question: Author Patricia Reilly Giff’s series of children’s novels take place in an elementary school named after which president?
Answer: James K. Polk
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Question: Which president also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Answer: William Howard Taft
Question: Which president signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in the first known legislative effort to prevent monopolies?
Answer: Benjamin Harrison
Question: Who is the only president to be born on July 4?
Answer: Calvin Coolidge
Question: Which president succeeded the first president to ever resign from office?
Answer: Gerald R. Ford
Question: Who was the first Roman Catholic president?
Answer: John F. Kennedy
Question: Which vice president challenged who would later be their runningmate over his stance on school segregation?
Answer: Kamala Harris
Question: Which president was known as a “little magician?”
Answer: Martin Van Buren
Question: Which president was elected to his second term after suffering a heart attack?
Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Question: Which president was the fourth to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: Which president watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from his familyfarm as a child?
Answer: John Quincy Adams
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Question: Which president is the first to have a rescue dog while in office?
Answer: Joe Biden
Question: Which president won re-election with the widest popular vote margin in history?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson
Question: Alexander Graham Bell tried desperately to help save the life of which president who’d been shot?
Answer: James Garfield
Question: Though his opponent won the popular vote, the Supreme Court eventually declared which president the victor of the Electoral College in 2000?
Answer: George W. Bush
Question: Which president began his second inaugural address with the words, “With malice toward none; with charity for all?”
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Question: Whose presidency saw the creation of the Federal Trade Commission?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson
Question: Which president introduced the Social Security program?
Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Question: Which president’s appeal was attributed to both his military record and his ownership of 100 slaves?
Answer: Zachary Taylor
Question: Which president was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action in World War II?
Answer: George H. W. Bush
Question: Which president got stuck in a bathtub?
Answer: William Howard Taft
Question: Germany declared war on France just one week before which president planned to celebrate his 40th birthday in London?
Answer: Herbert Hoover
Question: Which president ended the draft?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: Which president has a middle initial that literally stands for nothing?
Answer: Harry S. Truman
Question: Which president founded the University of Virginia?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Question: Who was the first vice president to succeed the presidency upon death of their predecessor?
Answer: John Tyler
Question: Who was the first president to be born in the United States?
Answer: Martin Van Buren
Question: Who was the first president to campaign by telephone?
Answer: William McKinley
Question: Which president considered becoming a professional saxophone player before turning to politics?
Answer: Bill Clinton
Question: Which president was injured in the Revolutionary War?
Answer: James Monroe
Question: Which president oversaw the move of the United States embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?
Answer: Donald Trump
Question: Who was the first president to live in the White House?
Answer: John Adams
Question: Which president worked as a model for Cosmopolitan magazine in the 1940s?
Answer: Gerald R. Ford
Question: The term “O.K.” is derived from which president’s nickname?
Answer: Martin Van Buren (Old Kinderhook)
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