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Duplicate of Presidential Trivia
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Trivia to test your understanding on the history of the presidential elections in the United States.
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How many Secretary of States have been elected to the Presidency?
7
3
9
5
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How many of the nation's presidents have been Republican?
23
19
21
13
3
The first president to campaign in sight of the Pacific Ocean in 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
Millard Fillmore
Andrew Johnson
James Garfield
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The first "Dark Horse" to win a presidential election?
John Adams
William J. Clinton
James K. Polk
John Tyler
5
The only election in American history that featured a unanimous vote in the electoral college.
1792
1800
1788
1796
6
The shortest president ever elected, this president stood 5'4 and weighed but 100 pounds.
Martin Van Buren
James Madison
William Howard Taft
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The first president born in the "west", being "west" of the Mississippi?
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
John F. Kennedy
Herbert Hoover
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My surprising victory in 1900 and his lacksadsical non-campainging style inspired the Wiz of Oz
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
Chester A. Arthur
Theodore Roosevelt
9
The youngest person ever elected president at aged 43...
Bill Clinton
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
10
How many presidents were signers of the Declaration of Independence?
1
4
2
3
11
The first president to campaign by phone
James Garfield
Theodore Roosevelt
Chester A. Arthur
William McKinley
12
The last president elected who owned slaves?
Andrew Jackson
James Madison
George Washington
Zachary Taylor
13
The only president to serve as the chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Chester A. Arthur
Richard Nixon
William Howard Taft
John F. Kennedy
14
The candidate who was accused of "stealing" campaign dollars to buy a dog...and gained in polls
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
William Howard Taft
Jimmy Carter
15
How many Senators have moved from the Senate directly to the White House
3
9
5
1
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This election was settled by the "hanging Chad"?
1992
1988
2000
2008
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How many presidents were generals?
12
4
16
8
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Won a surprising victory despite torrid allegations about his fathering a child out of wedlock
Benjamin Harrison
Millard Fillmore
James Buchannan
Grover Cleveland
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I won as a result of my performance in the first televised debate in American history...
George Washington
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
John Kennedy
20
I was shot while campaigning for President in Mikwaukee...and proceeded to talk for 45 more min
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
21
Who is the first president elected to have been born in the United States?
Chester A. Arthur
Martin Van Buren
William H. Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
22
Facing the rigors of campaigning I gained a lot of weight and took up golf to keep it off...
Barack Obama
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
W.H. Taft
23
The only president to have ever served as a fashion model?
Gerald Ford
Theodore Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
William Howard Taft
24
The first president to use modern campaign techniques, with bands, buttons, and food!
John Quincy Adams
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
James Monroe
25
This president's epitaph never mentioned being president, he instead mentioned writing this...
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
26
Who is the only person to hold the presidency to never have been elected to either the P or VP?
Theodore Roosevelt
Gerald R. Ford
Warren G. Harding
James Carter
27
Prior to 2016, arguably the most contentious election in history pitted these two friends...
Carter and Nixon
Nixon and Kennedy
Monroe and Madison
Adams and Jefferson
28
The first president to live in the executive mansion--got lost on way for 4 hours...
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
29
The two elections in American history that were decided in the House of Representatives?
1872 and 1888
1800 and 1900
1824 an 1872
1800 and 1824
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The only president elect to have won a Pulitzer prize in literature?
Richard Nixon
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Benjamin Franklin
31
The first president to appear in a campaign ad on the radio?
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Harry S. Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32
I delivered the shortest inaugural address in American history...
Calvin Coolidge
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
33
I delivered the longest inaugural address in American history
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
34
The first president to ride to a campaign event in a rail car?
James Garfield
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
35
Who is the only president to have been born outside the continental United States?
William Howard Taft
Barack Obama
Alexander Hamilton
Grover Cleveland
36
Who was the first president to take his inauguration in pants, not breeches?
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
James Monroe
37
As a former actor, I had a complete control over the media...most of the time!
Calvin Coolidge
Ronald Reagan
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
38
Outside of George Washington the only person ever to run for president without opposition?
James Carter
James Madison
James Buchannan
James Monroe
39
Who was the first president to live in the White House after it's name change in 1903?
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
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The only president to be elected four times
Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
George Washington
