Answer Key to Presidents Quiz #2


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

The answer is A.
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins.

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

The answer is A.
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Robert C. Weaver.

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

The answer is D.
(George Washington).

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

The answer is c.
John Adams was defeated by his Vice President Thomas Jefferson.

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

The answer is b.
Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia.

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

The answer is c.
(James A. Garfield).

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

The answer is d.
Grover Cleveland hanged people as a county sheriff.

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

The answer is b.
(Grover Cleveland).

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

The answer is a.
(William Howard Taft).

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

The answer is c.
Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by his father John Calvin Coolidge.

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

The answer is d
(Richard Nixon).

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

The answer is b
(Gerald Ford).

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

The answer is d
(Ronald Reagan).

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

The answer is c
(Woodrow Wilson).

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

The answer is d
(George W. Bush).
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

The answer is a
(Harry S Truman).

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

The answer is d.
No President was an only child (as of January 1, 2015).

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

The answer is b.
Bill Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, and Barack Obama were raised with half-siblings only (as of January 1, 2015).

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

The answer is d
(James Buchanan).

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

The answer is c
(Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson).

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

The answer is c
(Ronald Reagan ).

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

The answer is (b).
John Tyler fathered 15 children.

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

The answer is (a).
John Adams and George H.W. Bush were the fathers of John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush, respectively.

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

The answer is a.
William Henry Harrison was the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison.

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

The answer is (b).
Zachary Taylor was the father-in-law to Jefferson Davis.

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