Test: The US Presidents Quiz

Category: History

Description: Identify United States (USA) Presidents based on presidential trivia

Which US President was known as "Old Hickory?"

Ulysses S. Grant Zachary Taylor Andrew Jackson James Garfield

This man was the only president to serve non-consecutive terms and is the first president to live into the 20th century.

Grover Cleveland William McKinley Benjamin Harrison William H. Taft

This president was one of the most influential founding fathers and is considered the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He is a graduate of William & Mary.

George Washington James Monroe Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln

This man was the fifth president of the United States. There is a famous doctrine which carries his name.

James Montroe John Quincy Adams Abraham Lincoln James Buchanan

During a campaign held in the aftermath of World War I, this president promised a return to "normalcy." He was an influential newspaper publisher.

Woodrow Wilson Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Warren G. Harding

This president opposed the expansion of slavery (Emancipation Proclamation) and was assassinated. He defeated the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War.

Chester A. Arthur Rutherford B. Hayes Ulysses S. Grant Abraham Lincoln

Who was the first president of the United States?

George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison

Who was the first US President who was the son of a former US President?

George W. Bush John Quincy Adams Franklin D. Roosevelt Lyndon B. Johnson

This former U.S. president was the last member of the Whig Party to hold a presidential post. He was vice-president when the president died in office, making him the second vice-president to assume the presidency in this manner.

Millard Fillmore Zachary Taylor James Buchanan Franklin Pierce

This president is the principal author of the US Constitution and led the nation into the War of 1812 against Great Britain.

Thomas Jefferson John Adams George Washington James Madison

This former president was the only president who was the grandson of a past president.

Benjamin Harrison George W. Bush Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge

This president's inauguration, address to congress and political speeches were the first of their kind broadcast on radio. He was the 30th President.

Calvin Coolidge Warren G. Harding Herbert Hoover Dwight D. Eisenhower

This man was the oldest to become President until Ronald Reagan in 1981. He was the first US President to die in office, after just thirty-one days on the job, making his presidential term the shortest in history.

Abraham Lincoln William Henry Harrison John Tyler Zachary Taylor

This president was the first vice-president. He was defeated by Thomas Jefferson when he ran for a second term. He was the first president to live in the White House in Washington, D.C.

Thomas Jefferson John Adams James Madison Andrew Jackson

This man was the 8th president of the United States and was nicknamed "Old Kinderhook." He is also the only US President to not speak English as his first language.

Millard Fillmore James Buchanan Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren

This president was given the nickname as "Big Lub" and is the only president to come in 3rd place during re-election. He attended Yale College.

Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson Herbert Hoover

This president was in office during the Great Depression and was unable to stop its progression. Because of this, along with his support of prohibition, he was unable to secure a second term.

Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Calvin Coolidge Harry S. Truman

This president was elected to four terms in office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Franklin D. Roosevelt George Washington Herbert Hoover

This man was the first U.S. vice president to assume the office of president upon the death of the president.

Calvin Coolidge Chester A. Arthur Andrew Johnson John Tyler

This president was a 5-star general and held the nickname of "Ike."

John F. Kennedy Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard Nixon Ulysses S. Grant

This man was the fifteenth president of the United States. He is the only president to never marry.

Franklin Pierce James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln Benjamin Harrison

This president was nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready." He was the first U.S. president never to hold any prior office.

Millard Fillmore Bill Clinton Zachary Taylor Calvin Coolidge

Which president said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." He is a Harvard graduate and was assassinated.

Lyndon B. Johnson Ronald Reagan John F. Kennedy Dwight D. Eisenhower

This president is the only president to have earned a Ph.D. He was in office during World War I.

William Howard Taft Warren G. Harding Woodrow Wilson Harry S. Truman

This man earned his fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

Rutherford B. Hayes Ulysses S. Grant Andrew Johnson Abraham Lincoln

The first president to retire after a single term rather than seek re-election was:

James K. Polk Andrew Jackson Zachary Taylor James Garfield

This president lost the popular vote and is the only president to have an election ultimately decided by congressional commission. The annual tradition of the Easter Egg Roll on the White House Lawn was initiated during his tenure.

Rutherford B. Hayes Chester A. Arthur James Garfield George W. Bush

This president is the only U.S. president born in New Hampshire. He graduated from Bowdoin College, in Maine. He suffered from alcoholism and threw in his support for the Confederacy.

Franklin Pierce Abraham Lincoln James Buchanan Andrew Johnson

This former U.S. president was the first vice-president to succeed to the U.S. presidency upon the assassination of a president.

Andrew Johnson James Garfield William McKinley Zachary Taylor

Which president succeeded to office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt?

Herbert Hoover Lyndon B. Johnson Dwight D. Eisenhower Harry S. Truman

It was said of this president, "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted, and no one ever retired more generally respected." He graduated in 1848 from Union College.

James Garfield Chester A. Arthur Benjamin Harrison Theodore Roosevelt

This man became the youngest President in United States history at the age of 42. He formed the "Bull Moose" party in 1912.

Theodore Roosevelt William McKinley William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson

This man was the 2nd U.S. president to be assassinated. He has the second shortest tenure as president.

Abraham Lincoln Grover Cleveland James A. Garfield Rutherford B. Hayes

This president was the last president elected who was a veteran of the Civil War. He was the 25th president and was assassinated. He attended Albany Law School.

Theodore Roosevelt Grover Cleveland William McKinley William H. Taft

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