Quiz #2 on the U.S. Presidents
From an article by Richard Lederer in July/August 2008 AARP Bulletin


Take the following quiz on facts about the U.S. Presidents.
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1. Who was the first President to appoint a woman to his cabinet?
    (a) Franklin D. Roosevelt
    (b) John F. Kennedy
    (c) Barack Obama
    (d) Bill Clinton

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2. Who was the first President to appoint an African American to his cabinet?
    (a) Lyndon B. Johnson
    (b) John F. Kennedy
    (c) Barack Obama
    (d) Bill Clinton

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3. Who was the only President who did not live in Washington, D.C.?
    (a) John Quincy Adams
    (b) Thomas Jefferson
    (c) John Adams
    (d) George Washington

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4. Who was the only President who was defeated by his Vice President?
    (a) Rutherford B. Hayes
    (b) William Howard Taft
    (c) John Adams
    (d) None

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5. Who was the only President who founded a university?
    (a) George Washington
    (b) Thomas Jefferson
    (c) James Madison
    (d) Andrew Jackson

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6. Who was the only President who could write with both hands at the same time in two different langauges?
    (a) Thomas Jefferson
    (b) Bill Clinton
    (c) James A. Garfield
    (d) John F. Kennedy

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7. Who was the only President to hang people?
    (a) George Washington
    (b) Harry S Truman
    (c) John Tyler
    (d) Grover Cleveland

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8. Who was the only President to serve two nonconsecutive terms?
    (a) John Adams
    (b) Grover Cleveland
    (c) George Bush
    (d) Franklin D. Roosevelt

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9. Who was the only President to later serve as Supreme Court Chief Justice?
    (a) William Howard Taft
    (b) Thomas Jefferson
    (c) James Madison
    (d) Calvin Coolidge

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10. Who was the only President to be sworn into office by his father?
    (a) James A. Garfield
    (b) John Quincy Adams
    (c) Calvin Coolidge
    (d) Franklin D. Roosevelt

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11. Who was the only President to resign from the Presidency?
    (a) George Washington
    (b) Chester Arthur
    (c) Bill Clinton
    (d) Richard Nixon

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12. Who was the only President to serve as both Vice President and President without being elected to either office?
    (a) Lyndon B. Johnson
    (b) Gerald Ford
    (c) Herbert Hoover
    (d) Chester Arthur

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13. Who was the only President to survive a bullet wound while in office?
    (a) John F. Kennedy
    (b) Zachary Taylor
    (c) Abraham Lincoln
    (d) Ronald Reagan

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14. Who was the only President to earn a Ph.D?
    (a) John F. Kennedy
    (b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
    (c) Woodrow Wilson
    (d) Herbert Hoover

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15. Who was the only President to earn an MBA degree?
    (a) Richard Nixon
    (b) Bill Clinton
    (c) Ronald Reagan
    (d) George W. Bush

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16. Who was the only President who served in the 20th Century and didn't graduate from college?
    (a) Harry S Truman
    (b) Theodore Roosevelt
    (c) George W. Bush
    (d) Lyndon B. Johnson

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17. Which President was an only child?
    (a) Gerald Ford
    (b) Abraham Lincoln
    (c) Franklin D. Roosevelt
    (d) None

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18. Which Presidents were raised with half-siblings only?
    (a) Bill Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon
    (b) Bill Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, and Barack Obama
    (c) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, and Barack Obama
    (d) Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, and Barack Obama

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19. Who was the only bachelor President?
    (a) There were none
    (b) William McKinley
    (c) Franklin Pierce
    (d) James Buchanan

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20. Which Presidents got married while they were President?
    (a) Grover Cleveland and Chester Arthur
    (b) Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge
    (c) Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson
    (d) Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson

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21. Which President was divorced?
    (a) Chester Arthur
    (b) Gerald Ford
    (c) Ronald Reagan
    (d) Benjamin Harrison

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22. Which President fathered the most children?
    (a) Warren G. Harding
    (b) John Tyler
    (c) Bill Clinton
    (d) Calvin Coolidge

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23. Which Presidents fathered another President?
    (a) John Adams and George H.W. Bush
    (b) John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt
    (c) William Henry Harrison and George H.W. Bush
    (d) William Henry Harrison and Theodore Roosevelt

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24. Which President was the grandfather of another President?
    (a) William Henry Harrison
    (b) Theodore Roosevelt
    (c) George H.W. Bush
    (d) John Adams

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25. Which President was the father-in-law to a Confederate President?
    (a) James K. Polk
    (b) Zachary Taylor
    (c) John Tyler
    (d) Millard Fillmore

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